District 11
November 2024
Northwestern Lehigh gets out of own way, pulls away from Saucon Valley for District XI Playoff Victory
November 2, 2024 | Torey Petruno
New Tripoli- Northwestern opened this year’s playoff season looking forward to another trip to “The Chap” and another crack at state title, but a relentless Saucon Valley defense and slew of self inflicted mistakes and turnovers provided an early playoff test for the 2023 state runner-ups. The evening’s matchup started with Saucon Valley being forced […]
Lackawanna Trail Dominates In First Round Over Nativity BVM 47-20 (Video Highlights)
November 1, 2024 | Jake Mills
Lackawanna Trail had an impressive showing in the first round of the PIAA D2/D11 1A Subregional Playoffs. The dynamic running back duo of Isaac Ryon and Demitrius Douglas ran for a combined 5 touchdowns along with Tim Richmond and Max Kimmel scoring the other 2. Nativity gave Lackawanna Trail a tough time on defense early […]
Pottsville Slips by Central Catholic 14-7
November 1, 2024 | Cody Brady
Pottsville head coach Mike Brennan was concerned about size up front going into his team’s first round matchup against Central Catholic. As it turned out, the undermanned line held its own and the Crimson Tide outlasted the Vikings in a fast moving contest at J. Birney Crum Stadium Thursday night. Pottsville got the ball first […]
Bethlehem Catholic defeats East Stoudsburg North to move on in playoffs (Photo Gallery Included)
November 1, 2024 | Ryan Scipio
Bethlehem Catholic defeats East Stoudsburg North to move on in playoffs 42-7 It was an unusually warm Halloween night in Bethlehem at BASD Stadium. Bethlehem Catholic won the toss and selected to receive the ball. Becahi decided to start off hot and ended their first drive with a tough 25-yard TD Run by Jeziah Gregory. […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: 32-4 = Some Good Football
October 30, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 25. There were three football games on our schedule this week, plus one auto race. The three games checked off a trio of mini goals for the season. Friday was Pam’s pick, but Guy gave up six of our yoga classes to stay home with a flurry of construction workers so that Pam […]
Liberty Hurricanes get Beete up by impressive Freedom Patriots performance
October 27, 2024 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski
Elite tailback puts on a show with a 359 yard outburst for sixth straight win in the Battle of Bethlehem. BETHLEHEM- It was the Aaron Beete show on Saturday afternoon for the Freedom Patriots before a capacity crowd at Bethlehem School District Stadium, much to the dismay of their cross-city rivals- Liberty Hurricanes. At the […]
Bethlehem Freedom @ Bethlehem Liberty (Photo Gallery)
October 26, 2024 | Ryan Scipio
Freedom – 44 Liberty – 24 https://x.com/ScipScip
Emmaus Stings Parkland in Rout
October 26, 2024 | Cody Brady
“They came out and were fired up and made plays in all three phases of the game,” Emmaus head coach Harold Fairclough commented following his team’s 27-0 victory over bitter rival Parkland. The Green Hornets were buzzing all night long in front of a home crowd on Senior Night. As Parkland took the ball to […]
Schuylkill Haven Mauls Tri-Valley in Week 10 Win
October 26, 2024 | Karlee Feger
Niko Castillo and Niko Carestia celebrate after a score The Schuylkill Haven Hurricanes defeated the Tri-Valley Bulldogs 66-16 in the final week of the regular season. Niko Carestia and Colton Reber had three touchdowns a piece, Leyden Hertz adding two. Shawn Singh and Connor Middleton scored for the Dawgs. The game opened up with the […]
Easton escapes victorious in offensive slugfest against Nazareth to claim EPC Division Crown
October 26, 2024 | Torey Petruno
Easton- In a game full of explosive offensive plays, the Red Rovers, amassing 568 yards on the ground, came up with a few more when it counted to come out on top Friday night. They didn’t waste any time as Sr. running back Dorian Thomas took the first play of the game right up the […]
Nazareth VS Easton (Photo Gallery)
October 26, 2024 | Ryan Scipio
Nazareth – 55 Easton – 63 Easton scores on 4 yard pass @cole_ordway To @juttyjut01 @EastonFootball 42@NAHSBlueEagles 35 3rd qtr 2:06@PaFootballNews Updates brought to you by @SLUHNSportsMed@BPtashinski @ScipScip @PFN_Luxy @PFNDan570FB @CCHastings1863 @FydSports @LindseyB_PFN pic.twitter.com/9IvWTjprnb — Ryan Scipio (@ScipScip) October 26, 2024 https://x.com/ScipScip
Northwestern staves off upset bid by Southern Lehigh Friday night
October 26, 2024 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski
Northwestern Lehigh captures Colonial/Schuylkill League Red Division championship Friday night. CENTER VALLEY- For much of the 2024 football season the powerhouse, that is the Northwestern Lehigh Tigers, have not had to play a full 48 minutes of football in the Colonial/Schuylkill League, as the defense was only allowing four points per game coming into the […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: Add the Subregion Teams
October 23, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 24. Five football games out of a six-sporting event week. Racing on Sunday was the only other sport besides high school football Thursday, Friday, Saturday afternoon, Saturday evening, and Monday. This year three 1A teams from District 2 were combined with the three 1A teams from District 11 for a Subregion come playoff […]
Schuylkill-Colonial Week-9 Recap and League Leaders Heading into Regular Season Finale !
October 22, 2024 | Daniel Reed
Photo Credit: Chuck Roth/T102sportsnow.com Its the final week of the regular season this weekend and below you can see who the league leaders are thru week-9 but let’s talk about some of games that had big-time playmakers beginning with the six touchdown performance by Minersville’s Dante Carr(QB), who finished the game with 4 rushing and […]
DXI Week 10 Playoff Scenarios
October 21, 2024 | Cody Brady
Football’s regular season ends in just a week. With that in mind, there is a lot left up in the air across the classifications, from teams needing wins to make the playoffs, to massive potential changes in seeding. Let’s take a look at some scenarios for week 10. What this is: Using DXI’s power ranking formula, […]
Bethlehem Liberty vs Bethlehem Catholic (Photo Gallery)
October 21, 2024 | Ryan Scipio
Bethlehem Liberty – 12 Bethlehem Catholic – 7
Easton comes from behind and wins battle of EPC titans over Freedom
October 19, 2024 | Torey Petruno
Easton- This one definitely lived up to its billing and may be considered the game of the year so far in the EPC. Easton, winners of their last 7 games, rolled in to Bethlehem on undefeated Freedom‘s Senior Night and played the role of spoiler. In a tightly contested matchup, Easton played from behind a […]
Pottsville scores 18 Unanswered to Claim 13th Annual Clash of 61 Game over Blue Mountain !
October 19, 2024 | Daniel Reed
Juju Bainbridge runs 19 yards for the Crimson Tide touchdown to take 21 to 14 lead in the final quarter of play, 9:09 to go. Blue Mountain showed their strength early on holding Pottsville to a punt on the first drive of the game. On the Eagles first possession, Blue Mountain would go 64 yards […]
Easton VS Bethlehem Freedom (Photo Gallery)
October 19, 2024 | Ryan Scipio
Easton Red Rovers VS Bethlehem Freedom Patriots (Photo Gallery) Easton – 25 Freedom – 21 Final Easton Moves to 8-1 with a Showdown at Cottingham with Nazareth 7-2 Bethlehem Freedom Moves to 8-1 and will Faceoff with Bethlehem Liberty 6-2 (plays Saturday @ Becahi) to Finish the season. Another angle of @will06Day interception pic.twitter.com/ywFRNA6vu3 — […]
Jim Thorpe Clinches Playoff Spot After Win Over Bangor 43-27 (Video Highlights)
October 19, 2024 | Jake Mills
Jim Thorpe gets the win on Senior Night 43-27 over Bangor. With this win, Jim Thorpe claims their spot in the PIAA District 11 4A playoff bracket. Jim Thorpe led 13-0 early in the 1st quarter after a Cole Lazorick touchdown run and a successful squib kick that set up Joshua Louk to get himself […]
Northwestern Lehigh Tigers keep rolling with a shutout win at Tamaqua
October 19, 2024 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski
Another impressive showing by the Tigers Friday sets up in what should be a classic contest with rival Southern Lehigh for Colonial League championship. TAMAQUA- Every head coach, or special teams coach, going forward into the rest of the regular season and into the post-season that has to face the freight train that is the […]
Schuylkill Haven Tops Nativity BVM in Nail-Biter
October 19, 2024 | Karlee Feger
Leyden Hertz and his teammates celebrate after he scored the game-tying touchdown The Schuylkill Haven Hurricanes managed to keep their winning streak alive in a close contest as they defeated Nativity BVM, 29-28. Leyden Hertz scored the game-tying touchdown and Hunter Correll made the extra point to secure the Hurricane victory. Sam Walborn had three […]
Schuylkill-Colonial League Season Leaders(Individual and Team) as of Week-8 !!
October 18, 2024 | Daniel Reed
As the season winds down, its no shock who leads the way in the Schuylkill-Colonial League. Matt Bodnar II, a Junior at Notre Dame-Green Pond has thrown for just under 3000 yards thus far, completing 180 of his 257 passes thrown, 30 of which were for touchdowns. Bodnar’s 70% completion rate leads the league as […]
Simulation: PA Classification #1 Ranked Teams vs. Rest of Top 10
October 16, 2024 | Matt Herring
As we near the end of the PA football regular season we thought it would be interesting to simulate possible matchups looming in the district and state playoffs. For this experiment we simulated games using the #1 ranked team in each classification versus the remaining Top 10 teams in their classification. These simulations are based […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: Let’s Play Two
October 16, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 23. It was another busy sports week for us, with seven events on our schedule including four District 11 high school football games, two varsity / two JV. Our other three this week were Wilkes NCAA D3 men’s soccer, Penn State Altoona D3 ice hockey, and a Saturday ace in New York. The […]
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