PA Football News Archives

December 2023

Eight WPIAL players and coach named to 2A PA Sportswriters All-State Team

December 28, 2023 | Ethan Spozarski

Donald Barksdale, Dorian McGhee, Taymir O’Neal, Mike Crist, Michael Richardson, Dayshaun Burnett, Anthony Bonner, and Ty Abram are the WPIAL players that have all been named to the PA Sportswriters Class 2A All-State Team. Head Coach Donta Green from Westinghouse was named Coach of the Year. Green led the Bulldogs to back-to-back City League Championships, […]

Fort Cherry leads way with two of four WPIAL players selected to 1A All-State team

December 28, 2023 | Ethan Spozarski

Matt Sieg, Braylon Thomas, Lou Ryan, and Jason Cross from the WPIAL have been named to the PA Sportswriters Class 1A All-State Team. Sieg, QB from Fort Cherry, led the way for the Rangers to win the 1A WPIAL Championship, and just fell short of the State Championship against Steelton-Highspire. This season he passed for […]

Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: 2023 Annual Review

December 28, 2023 | Guy Smith

2023.25. Guy and Pam wish everyone a peaceful holiday season and Happy New Year! We always enjoy feedback from readers at RTRYFBAR@aol.com. It was another great year for Pam and Guy following local football. We both saw 60 or more games this season, with one more still to follow. Although all games we went to […]

Helmkamp signs letter of intent to Army

December 22, 2023 | Brett Gombita

Last Wednesday, Trinity High School Offensive Tackle Braeden Helmkamp signed his letter of intent to continue his athletic career at Army West Point. Helmkamp, a 6’5” senior, is a four year football letterwinner and was a nominee for the Bill Fralic Award. After much thought and consideration I am extremely excited to announce that I […]

Steele signs letter of intent to Bowling Green

December 22, 2023 | Brett Gombita

Last Wednesday, Rico Steele signed his letter of intent to continue his athletic career at Bowling Green State University. Steele is a 6’4”, 300 pound offensive lineman from West Mifflin High School. COMMITTED @BG_Football 🧡🤎‼️@CoachLoefflerBG @CoachGregNosal @CoachBayer_ @RodSteele16 @210ths @Vincenzo_Steele @ShelbyTrainer33 @BlazeSportsPer1 @WPIAL_Insider @PA_TodaySports @wpialsportsnews #AyZiggy pic.twitter.com/jC0ytRONhN — Rico Steele (@RicoSteele_) September 11, 2023 […]

Meehleib signs letter of intent to Bucknell

December 22, 2023 | Brett Gombita

Last Wednesday, Elizabeth Forward High School’s Charlie Meehleib signed his letter of intent to continue his athletic career at Bucknell University. Meehleib, a 6’4”, 245 pound Defensive Lineman was a three-year team captain as a member of the Warriors. Welcome home, DL @CMeehleib! 📏 6’4″ | 245 lbs.🎓 Elizabeth Forward#ACT | #NSD24 pic.twitter.com/8feVI20BZl — Bucknell […]

Two District 2 Football Players Sign Letter of Intent

December 21, 2023 | John Kotsko

Two players in District 2 signed letters of intent to play football. Aiden Black of Delaware Valley signed his letter of intent to attend Stanford University. Aaron Crossley of Wyoming Area signed his letter of intent to attend Lehigh University. #WyomingAreaFootball Congrats to our WA Football RB/LB Aaron Crossley on signing his NLI Scholarship today […]

Pair of Nazareth Blue Eagles sign LOI to become Leopards

December 20, 2023 | Torey Petruno

Early signing day has finally arrived and not one, but TWO Nazareth Blue Eagles have put pen to paper to join the Lafayette football family. Sean Kinney and Mason Kuehner will be continuing their football careers as Leopards in the Patriot League this upcoming fall after stellar careers at Nazareth which culminated in a state […]

Rosahac signs LOI to continue career at Syracuse

December 20, 2023 | Torey Petruno

Noah Rosahac, the Jim Thorpe Olympians’ All-State DT and consensus 3-star recruit, has put pen to paper today and signed on to play at Syracuse. Rosahac, the 6’5″ 270lb defensive lineman from Jim Thorpe will join a resurgent class for The Orange who are looking to return to their past success under new head ball coach […]

Palmerton’s Machalik signs LOI to become a Mountain Hawk

December 20, 2023 | Torey Petruno

Matthew Machalik, the Palmerton Blue Bombers Mr. Everything, signed his LOI today to join a slew of other Pennsylvania talent coming to roost at Lehigh. Aside from Lehigh, he also held offers from Navy and Lafayette. Machalik, the 2023 Colonial League Offensive MVP, led the Blue Bombers to an undefeated (10-0 ) 2023 regular season […]

Emmaus’ Mario Landino offically a Hoosier

December 20, 2023 | Torey Petruno

Mario Landino, Emmaus’ star defensive lineman follows head football coach Curt Cignetti and flips commitment from JMU to Indiana. Up until early December, Landino had firmly been a JMU commit since the end of June. However, with the departure of Cignetti from Harrisonburg, he re-opened his recruitment and quickly found a new home in Bloomington. […]

Tremba signs on to join The Black Knights at Army West Point

December 20, 2023 | Torey Petruno

Parkland running back Trey Tremba signed on the dotted line earlier today to become an official member of the 2024 Army West Point class. Tremba amassed 3,361 rushing yards, 1,232 receiving yards, and 65 Touchdowns during his time at Parkland and was recently named EPC South Offensive Player of the Year and helped lead the […]

Braden Laux signs his letter of intent to Eastern Michigan

December 20, 2023 | Ethan Spozarski

Braden Laux, Belle Vernon QB/TE, has written his letter of intent to play at Eastern Michigan University The QB from Pennsylvania is the newest TE at EMU! Let’s welcome Braden Laux!#ETOUGH ⛓️ #24OURS pic.twitter.com/H6YrVR4u70 — Eastern Michigan Football (@EMUFB) December 20, 2023 Laux had also received offers including Western Kentucky, Marshall, and Maine. “They made […]

North Allegheny’s Sellers and Chmura sign NLI’s

December 20, 2023 | Ethan Spozarski

The defending 6A WPIAL champions have two players who signed their letters of intent today. Both Daniel Sellers and Cameron Chmura will be playing football in college at the D1 level. Sellers signed to the University of Richmond 𝙎𝙄𝙂𝙉𝙀𝘿 ✍️🕷️ Daniel Sellers l (@danielsellers26) DE | 6-3 | 220 Pittsburgh, Pa. | North Allegheny#OneRichmond | […]

Four Central Catholic Vikings sign their letter of intent

December 20, 2023 | Ethan Spozarski

Cental Catholic’s Payton Wehner, Peter Gonzalez, Ty Yuhas, and Anthony Speca signed their NLI’s to play D1 College football today. Wehner signed to Saint Francis University. Wehner had other offers to play at Cal, The Citidel, and Mercyhurst. Wehner finished the season with a 69% completion percentage, 2,940 passing yards, and 36 TDs. Wehner […]

No.1 Player in PA Officially a Nittany Lion

December 20, 2023 | Michael Pietrangelo

The early signing period is here and this morning Swiss Army knife and consensus 4 star athlete Quinton Martin (6’3” 205 lbs) who held 17 power 5 offers inked his national letter of intent to continue his academic and athletic career at Penn State University. Martin’s final decision came down to Penn State and Pitt. […]

Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: 2023 All-Snack Bar Team

December 19, 2023 | Guy Smith

We always enjoy feedback from readers at RTRYFBAR@aol.com. Back by popular demand is our District 11 First Team All Snack Bar for 2023. This column was so very well received in 2021. Since we visited fewer D11 stadiums in 2022, we did a much-truncated version last year, and we were good-naturedly skewered by those looking […]

Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Stairway to Seven

December 12, 2023 | Guy Smith

We always enjoy feedback from readers at RTRYFBAR@aol.com. This past weekend we headed to Cumberland Valley for the six PIAA state championship football games. There was some discussion about whether or not we were going to all six games as usual, or cut back a bit. We are now both in our 60s, and back-to-back-to-back […]

St. Joe’s Prep North Allegheny Highlights

December 11, 2023 | Shane Lux

St. Joe’s Prep vs. North Allegheny

Hawks soar to 6A title

December 10, 2023 | Billy Splain

In 2021 St. Joseph’s Prep, led by a sophomore quarterback names Samaj Jones, got crushed by Mt Lebanon in the title game. The 35-17 score wasn’t indicative of how badly they got beat by the Blue Devils. It was a full, complete beat down. That sophomore lined up for his last game of his career […]

North Allegheny Falls to St. Joe’s Prep in 6A Final

December 10, 2023 | Shane Lux

Mechanicsburg – North Allegheny gave St. Joe’s Prep their best effort, but in the end, the Tigers fell to the Hawks 45-23 in the PIAA 6A final. Making their first state final appearance since 2012, coupled with a WPIAL championship -North Allegheny has a lot to be proud of with their 2023 campaign. In the end, […]

3A – Northwestern Lehigh v. Belle Vernon (PHOTO GALLERY)

December 9, 2023 | Sykotyk

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Northwestern Lehigh Tigers Title Run Comes to an End.

December 9, 2023 | Brian Ptashinski

Defending Champs Belle Vernon Ruin Northwestern Lehigh’s Undefeated Season. MECHANICSBURG- Northwestern Lehigh Tigers ran into a buzz-saw Saturday afternoon at Chapman Field at Cumberland Valley High School in the PIAA State 3A Championship in the form of the Belle Vernon Leopards. The Tigers could only muster 249 yards of total offense and were held to […]