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Billy Splain

Billy Splain
Website owner. My passion is promoting the players, program, communities and high school football in general.
 
 
 
 

Lincoln captures title with win over Northeast (Gallery)

November 11, 2023

Story by Anthony Franklin to follow, Gallery by Roger Barone

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Cathedral Prep speed too much for Hollidaysburg

November 11, 2023

The Ramblers overcame a slow start and two turnovers using blazing speed and a few forced turnovers of their own to trounce Hollidaysburg Saturday night at Mansion Park. Suhtaun Lewis piled up 221 yards and ran for five touchdowns to help lead Cathedral Prep to a 63-35 drubbing of the Tigers. “We can’t turn the […]

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Bald Eagle Area pulls away in the second half, advances to District VI title game

November 11, 2023

Kahale Burns threw for a touchdown, caught a touchdown pass and ran for another and caught 11 passes for 163 yards with two tds to help lead the Eagles to a 49-13 win over Forest Hills to advance to the District VI championship next Saturday against Richland. Carson Nagle threw for 407 yards and 5 […]

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District IV Playoff Previews: Class 2A/3A Semifinals

November 10, 2023

Click for link to: Mount Carmel (9-2) @ Southern Columbia (10-1) – 7:00 pm Line Mountain (9-2) @ Troy (11-0) Friday – 7:00 pm At 9-2, Line Mountain is holding up to preseason expectations. Their only losses came to Danville and Tri-Valley. This is one of the best Eagles teams in a while. Kaiden Maurer […]

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PIAA Class 1A Sub Regional: Lackawanna Trail v Morrisville at Bristol

November 10, 2023

Lackawanna Trail (11-0) @ Morrisville (6-5) (Bristol HS) Friday – 7:00 pm Lion fans are probably asking “who is Morrisville? Where is Morrisville?” Morrisville is probably asking the same of Trail. Well, Morrisville is in southeastern PA. It’s about a 2.5 hour drive, right across the border from Trenton New Jersey. The Bulldogs play a […]

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Camp Hill @ Trinity for the D3 Class 2A Title

November 9, 2023

Camp Hill (6-5) @ Trinity (8-3) – 7:00 pm Let’s get this out of the way: Camp Hill is a very good 6-5 team. Trinity is a very good 8-3 team. Trinity won their mid season meeting 14-13. Camp Hill has two losses by one point, a 7 point loss and losses to Steel High […]

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District 3 Class 3A Semifinals preview

November 9, 2023

West Perry (10-1) @ Lancaster Catholic (9-1) Friday – 7:00 pm The Mustangs are coming into the Semi-Final round off a win over Bermudian Springs. The high flying offense, led by quarterback Marcus Quaker, is averaging a respectable 39 points per game. His 1,500+ yards and 12 tds in the air combined with nearly 1,100 […]

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District 3 Class 4A Playoff Preview. Round 2

November 9, 2023

**ALL GAMES FRIDAY NIGHT** Milton Hershey (6-5) @ Bishop McDevitt (10-0) – 7:00 pm It’s a tall task to beat a team twice in one season. The Crusaders handled the Spartans quite easily earlier this year with a 55-14 win. With players like Stone Saunders, Rico Scott, Nazir Jones-Davis and Maurice Barnes, that task is […]

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District 3 Class 5A Second Round Playoff Preview

November 9, 2023

Hershey (8-3) @ New Oxford (9-1) Friday – 7:00 pm Hershey is coming off a big upset win over Exeter last week. The Trojans have been playing good football and look to extend their success against a tough New Oxford team. Cameron Sweeney continues to lead the Trojans on a winning path. The Colonials are […]

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District 5 Class 1A title game and 2A sub regional preview

November 9, 2023

Windber (8-3) @ Northern Bedford (11-0) (Somerset HS) – 7:00 pm Rematch. The first meeting between these two teams didn’t end well for the Ramblers. Garry Black’s Panthers breezed to a 35-6 win that night. It wasn’t a massive outpouring of offense for NBC, but it was a good night for QB Eion Snider. He […]

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District 3 Playoff Preview, Second Round: Welcome to the show 6A

November 8, 2023

While we waded through a much too large first round of playoffs, some had the weekend off. There were only 2 games played in the western 6A bracket. In District 3 there were four games waiting to be played while in district 7 we awaited 2 matchups.  Welcome to the playoffs Class 6A! Below we […]

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PFN Pennsylvania High School Football Rankings, Playoffs Round 1 Edition

November 7, 2023

I’ll be quick here because: No changes in any top ten. None.  That WILL change this week, and we’ll get to see just how good our rankings team is! Ranking 6A Record Pvs rank 1 St. Joseph’s Prep (12) 9-1 1 2 Central Bucks West (1) 11-0 2 3 PCC (7) 9-1 3 4 Manheim […]

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Keystone Club Top Defensive Performers: 1st Round playoff edition, 2023!

November 7, 2023

Each week we will present the Keystone Club. This Club consists of players meeting the requirements sent to coaches. It is a statewide compilation of top performances for the previous weekend. PLEASE EMAIL billy@pafootballnews.com if you wish someone to be on this list! Entries must be from coach or verified. Top Defensive Performances Tackles (13 or more) […]

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Keystone Club Top Special Teams Performers: 1st Round playoff edition, 2023!

November 7, 2023

Each week we will present the Keystone Club. This Club consists of players meeting the requirements sent to coaches. It is a statewide compilation of top performances for the previous weekend. PLEASE EMAIL billy@pafootballnews.com if you wish someone to be on this list! Entries must be from coach or verified. Top Special Teams Performances Kickoff returns for […]

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Keystone Club Top Offensive Performers: 1st Round playoff edition, 2023!

November 7, 2023

Each week we will present the Keystone Club. This Club consists of players meeting the requirements sent to coaches. It is a statewide compilation of top performances for the previous weekend. PLEASE EMAIL billy@pafootballnews.com if you wish someone to be on this list! Entries must be from coach or verified. Top Offensive Performances RECORDS Blake Pisarcik, First […]

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Tate Sechrist & Elijah Jordan combine for 6 tds, Jersey Shore defense stifles Milton

November 4, 2023

Jersey Shore will face Selinsgrove next week for the District 4 class 4A title in what is sure to be an emotion filled game. After his team handled a depleted Milton squad that was missing 2 starters who were ejected from last weeks game by a final of 54-6, Tom Gravish had nothing but praise […]

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Derek Asche/Jaylen Walker connection leads Lewisburg to hard fought win over Warriors

November 4, 2023

With just under 2 minutes to play and holding a 22-14 play, Lewisburg faced a fourth and one on the Montoursville 4 yard line. Jack Blough came through the middle of the line untouched and quarterback Derek Asche floated a perfect lob to seal the win for the Dragons with a final score of 29-14. […]

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PIAA District 5 Playoff Preview

November 3, 2023

PIAA DISTRICT 5 CLASS 1A PLAYOFF PREVIEW Berlin Brothersvalley v Chestnut Ridge Hard to believe these two didn’t meet in the regular season. With CR in the Heritage and Berlin moving to the ICC we didn’t get that matchup for the first time in a while. So tonight, the records don’t matter between these two […]

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Linglestown Gazette Sports Post Season Preview Show: Live from American Legion post 272, Breaking down DIII and more. Wednesday 11/2 7 pm

November 2, 2023

Join Joe Gilloway and guest hosts Billy Splain from PA Football News and Ben Dupree as they break down the 2023 District 3 brackets as well as the statewide brackets.

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PIAA District 3 Playoff Preview

November 2, 2023

District 3 Class A Steelton-Highspire vs  Halifax The winner will get Belmont Charter out of Philadelphia. The winner of that game gets the winner of the D5 bracket. So here’s the skinny. We all know the Rollers are a perennial powerhouse, returning state champs, have record breaker Alex Erby at qb, brother Andrew on the […]

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The STATE of PA Football: Bracket Breakdown 2023! Live from Magerks in Lionville!

October 31, 2023

Join the PFN staff as they break down the 2023 playoff brackets! We’ll also welcome Coatesville head coach Matt Ortega and Twin Valley head coach Brett Myers along with players from each team.

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2023 Pennsylvania High School Football PFN Rankings Week 10

October 31, 2023

This staff is just nailing these things every week! Not many changes at the top again, but, can they keep their accuracy during the playoffs when it’s win or go home?  Six A stays the same. 5A we dropped Southern Lehigh after that blowout loss to 3A NW Lehigh, 4A saw TJ get dropped to […]

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Keystone Club Top Offensive Performers: Week 9, 2023!

October 31, 2023

Each week we will present the Keystone Club. This Club consists of players meeting the requirements sent to coaches. It is a statewide compilation of top performances for the previous weekend. PLEASE EMAIL billy@pafootballnews.com if you wish someone to be on this list! Entries must be from coach or verified. Top Offensive Performances RECORDS! 54 Matthew Parker […]

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Keystone Club Top Defensive Performers: Week 9, 2023!

October 31, 2023

Each week we will present the Keystone Club. This Club consists of players meeting the requirements sent to coaches. It is a statewide compilation of top performances for the previous weekend. PLEASE EMAIL billy@pafootballnews.com if you wish someone to be on this list! Entries must be from coach or verified. Top Defensive Performances Tackles (13 or more) […]

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Keystone Club Top Special Teams Performers: Week 9, 2023!

October 31, 2023

Each week we will present the Keystone Club. This Club consists of players meeting the requirements sent to coaches. It is a statewide compilation of top performances for the previous weekend. PLEASE EMAIL billy@pafootballnews.com if you wish someone to be on this list! Entries must be from coach or verified. Top Special Teams Performances Kickoff returns for […]

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