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December 2023

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 […]

District 12 sends its finest to Division 1 programs on early signing day

December 20, 2023 | Anthony Franklin

The Philadelphia Public, Catholic and Inter-Ac schools all had strong seasons and both the Catholic and public league had a state championship win this season. With winning comes player recognition by college scouts and the two state champions lead the way as Imhotep star DL Jahsear Whittington inked his letter of intent with the University […]

State Champions St. Joe’s Prep Seniors Sign Letters of Intent

December 20, 2023 | Anthony Franklin

The St. Joe’s Prep Hawks fresh off their 2nd consecutive PIAA 6A championship have 7 seniors who are signing national letter of intents this morning with Division 1 FBS programs. Led by QB Semaj Jones & WR Elijah Jones who are both signing with Big 12 program University of Cincinnati, WR David Washington Jr. who […]

Jake Hohenshelt Makes his College Decision Official.

December 20, 2023 | Todd Ross

Today Jake Hohenshelt made his Commitment official when he sighed his national letter of intent to the College of Holy Cross. Holy Cross is Located in Massachusetts and plays in the FCS’s Patriot League. I got a chance to talk to Jake and he said this on why Holy Cross”The family atmosphere that they’ve built […]

La Salle College High Lineman Lukas Donahue inks Letter of Intent with Merrimack College

December 20, 2023 | Anthony Franklin

After a successful high school career at La Salle College the end result for Senior OL Lukas Donahue today culminates in him signing a National Letter of Intent with Division 1 FCS program Merrimack College. Merrimack plays in the NEC conference against a host of schools from PA, NY, Massachusetts, New Jersey & Connecticut. Lukas […]

Penn State Lands No. 1 Player in Connecticut

December 20, 2023 | Michael Pietrangelo

Cheshire Academy (Connecticut) 6’4” 220 lbs Tight End 2023 Stats: 48 catches for 754 yards & 8 TDs On3: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Grade: 95 National: 39 Position: 3 State: 1 247: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Grade: 98 National: 27 Position: 1 State: 1 ESPN: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Grade: 83 National: 153 Position: 8 State: 3 Rivals: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Grade: 5.8 National: 189 Position: […]

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 […]

Jersey Shore’s Gravish Tabbed To Be Next Team PA Big 33 Head Coach

December 13, 2023 | Ed Weaver

Jersey Shore head coach Tom Gravish has been tabbed to lead Team Pennsylvania in next year’s Big 33 Football Classic.

Championships at the Chap (An Inside Look)

December 13, 2023 | Phil Myers

For those of you who have hesitated to travel to the new championship site at Mechanicsburg or who have never been to the PA football title games you are definitely losing out on a wonderful experience. This year there was only one contest that came down to the end, but there were memorable performances, players, […]

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 […]

PFN Pennsylvania High School Football Rankings: the Final Edition

December 11, 2023 | Billy Splain

That’s it folks. The games are over. Title wins take their seat at the top! Our staff knocked things around and this is how they see it from 2 down. Congrats to all the ranked teams! Ranking 6A Record Pvs rank 1 St. Joseph’s Prep (12) 13-1 1 2 North Allegheny (7) 13-2 2 3 […]

ProTime’s Pick’em Challenge: The OG Retains his Crown

December 11, 2023 | Marcus Sic

PROTIME PHIL PERFECT AS HE DEFENDS HIS CHAMPIONSHIP It was truly fitting the OG, Protime Phil would go a perfect 6 for 6 on his picks for the state championship weekend, to defend his ProTime Pick’em Challenge Belt. For the season Protime picked 140 winners out of a possible 186 chances. His winning percentage […]

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 "Hollywood" 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 […]