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October 2023

Cheltenham Makes Playoff Push In Demanding 39-12 Win

October 27, 2023 | Noah Stomsky

And we’re here, already the last week of the regular season. Coming into the game, both Wissahickon and Cheltenham had to win this game. With a win, both teams would most likely secure their chances in the playoffs. Cheltenham sitting just outside at the Eighteenth seed and Wissahickon on the edge at the Fourteenth seed. […]

Downingtown East earn Ches-Mont Championship over Rival Downingtown West

October 27, 2023 | Kameron Hammond

Downingtown East Vs Downingtown West is arguably one of the most thrilling matchups in Pennsylvania, some might even say in the country. The matchup tonight is to determine who will claim the 2023 Ches-Mont Championship title. This is the 21st meeting between the two teams and The Cougars extended their lead in the series 13-8 […]

District 12 Catholic League Week 10 Preview

October 27, 2023 | Anthony Franklin

Philadelphia Catholic League Week 10 Preview CL Red Division Roman Catholic @ St. Joes Prep (10/28 @7pm Upper Dublin HS) Roman enters this CL Red Division game 7-1 outscoring their opponents by a margin of 266-128 and riding a 4-game winning streak. Their lone loss was to Maryland powerhouse Dematha Catholic which was just a […]

Rules of the Game – The Ransom Report – Edition 10

October 27, 2023 | Kevin Ransom

October 27th 2023 EDITION – 10.1 Week 10 of the PIAA Football Season is upon us. This means different things to different people. Some teams are anxious to end a season where they underperformed. Others are attempting to prepare for playoffs. Others are already looking forward to the work they need to put in during […]

ProTime’s Pick’em Challenge Regular Season Finale

October 27, 2023 | Marcus Sic

BATTLE OF UNDEFEATEDS TOP THIS WEEK’S FIELD As the regular season come to a close there are four battles of undefeated teams on this week’s card of the ProTime Pick’em Challenge. These games will decide league championships, seedings for the upcoming District tournaments, they will also decide if the OG of Pennsylvania high school football […]

Mayhem’s Game of the Week- CB East @ CB West (Week 10)

October 26, 2023 | Michael Pietrangelo

The Who: Central Bucks East @ Central Bucks West The What: High School Football The When: Friday, October 27, 2023 Kickoff: 7 pm The Where: War Memorial Field 375 West Court Street Doylestown, Pa 18901 Last 5 meetings: (*Playoffs) 2022-23 CB WEST 42 CB EAST 26 * 2022-23 CB WEST 21 CB EAST 14 2021-22 […]

District 12 Philadelphia Public League Preview

October 26, 2023 | Anthony Franklin

District 12 Philadelphia Public League Playoff Preview: The Philadelphia Public League Playoffs begin this weekend with 3 classification titles up for grabs as the 6A, 5A and 4A titles are all on the table. The league used divisional standings to assign seeding to teams who qualified for the playoffs. In both 6A & 5A […]

Ches-Mont and Pioneer Athletic Conference agree to Football Scheduling Agreement

October 26, 2023 | Billy Splain

Kotsko’s View of the WVC: 2023 Week 10 Regular Season Finale

October 26, 2023 | John Kotsko

Here we go, the end of the regular season. Man, do the years start coming and don’t stop coming. It only feels like yesterday that I started writing my first preview article for the 2023 season and now we’re at the end of the regular season. Time really can pass you by. However, I’m just […]

Protime Predictions – Protime Hearkens Back to the Days of Yore

October 26, 2023 | Phil Myers

On occasion Protime loves to hearken back to the days of yore and wax nostalgic. As Mary Hopkin sang back in 1968, “those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end.” Protime and brothers Protime used to love watching Captain Kangeroo, Tom and Jerry, the Bugs Bunny Show, etc. In fact, Protime still […]

2023 Week 9 District 2 Week In Review

October 26, 2023 | John Kotsko

Towanda 55 Tunkhannock 7 Rylee Vanderpool had two rushing touchdowns for Towanda as they defeated Tunkhannock in a Thursday night matchup. Tahshon Gardner had two touchdowns as well. For the Tigers, quarterback Joey Ross had a 75 yard touchdown run for the Tunkhannock’s only touchdown. Western Wayne 41 Lakeland 14 Wildcats running back Josh […]

Protime’s Pigskin Parlance – Milestones, Record Breakers & Game Shakers – Top Rusher Edition

October 25, 2023 | Phil Myers

Protime’s weekly column that will attempt to get readers up to date on current football facts, stats, and miscellaneous tidbits of information from across the entire state of Pennsylvania. My crack staff of one will peruse some, but not all newspapers and other sources for hopefully what will be up to date scoop on the […]

PFN & @TheFundingZone presents: The STATE of PA Football! Live from Parma Pizza Manchester

October 25, 2023 | Billy Splain

Join host Billy Splain and Guest host Joe Gilloway from Linglestown Gazette Sports as they talk with Gerry Yonchiuk and players from Central York as well as Bud Kyle and players from Eastern York, LIVE from Parma Pizza in Manchester!

ProTime Pick’em Challenge Week 9 Results

October 25, 2023 | Marcus Sic

NINE WEEKS DOWN As we tally up the results of week 9 of the ProTime Pick’em Challenge it has become abundantly clear that Billy the Bossman is going to take the regular season title. With only one week to go in the regular season Billy leads with 81 wins, Alex is second just 2 behind […]

WPIAL Elite Eight: Week Nine Rankings

October 25, 2023 | Andrew Schaffer

6A: 1- Central Catholic (8-1)- @ (6) Gateway 7pm 2- North Allegheny (8-1)- @ (5) Seneca Valley 7pm 3- Mt. Lebanon (5-4)- @ (4) Canon Mac 7pm 4- Canon Mac (5-4)- (3) Mt. Lebanon 7pm 5- Seneca Valley (3-6)- (2) North Allegheny 7pm 5A: 1- Peters Township (9-0)- Bethel Park 7pm 2- Penn Hills (7-2)- […]

Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Whitehall is in D11 Playoffs

October 25, 2023 | Guy Smith

This week we were at four football games out of seven total sporting events. We started Tuesday at the EPC girls’ volleyball semi-finals at Northampton. Thursday was Guy only at Liberty vs. Whitehall as Pam missed her first football game of the year. Friday we were in the rain for a Scranton Prep rout of […]

West Virginia Spotlight: Tygarts Valley 34, Hundred 14 PHOTO GALLERY

October 25, 2023 | Sykotyk

In a rare Tuesday night game, the Hundred Hornets hosted the Tygarts Valley Bulldogs at Cosgray Field. Neither team found the endzone for the first 23 minutes of the game. Before the visitors’ Aiden Phares scored on a 12 yard catch. Giving the Bulldogs a 7-0 halftime lead. In the third quarter, Kaiden Warner would […]

District 9 Review – Week 8

October 24, 2023 | Phil Myers

The games of the week: Central-Martinsburg remained undefeated when they beat Clearfield 27-21 in a battle that came down to the last seconds. Just like they did against Richland the week before, the Bison battled back from a deficit. They tied the game in the 4th only to have Central go up by six late. […]

Hollywood’s Cutting Room Floor-Eastern Pennsylvania Conference Rivalry Week

October 24, 2023 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski

The End of the Line for the EPC North and South As Rivalry Week closes Out the Regular Season Week ten is upon us in Eastern Pennsylvania Conference as we have reached the climatic end and the District XI playoffs will begin a week from Thursday with the 3A classification. But we will discuss that […]

2023 Pennsylvania High School Football PFN Rankings Week 9

October 24, 2023 | Billy Splain

They’re on a roll! Once again not many changes made to the rankings. I’m starting to believe these helmet heads know something about football. They did do a little tweaking based on schedule strength and eye test (we’ve seen probably 90% of these teams live). 6A saw D-East move up a bit to a more […]

Keystone Club Top Special Teams Performers: Week 8, 2023!

October 24, 2023 | Billy Splain

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 Performanced Kickoff returns for […]

Keystone Club Top Defensive Performers: Week 8, 2023!

October 24, 2023 | Billy Splain

Keystone Club Top Offensive Performers: Week 8, 2023!

October 24, 2023 | Billy Splain

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 499 Armond Hill […]