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October 2024
Soar Like An Eagle: Bishop Shanahan Overcomes Slow Start Stuns Downingtown West
October 11, 2024 | Willie McGonigle
DOWNINGTOWN: In the opening paragraph of his novel A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens wrote “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” For the Bishop Shanahan Eagles offense, it was the opposite, one might have been hard-pressed to find a worse start to a game for a team’s offense […]
Philadelphia City League Weekly Rankings, Recap & Preview
October 11, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Week 7 Rankings: La Salle College St. Joseph’s Prep Imhotep Charter Bonner-Prendie Roman Catholic Malvern Prep Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Germantown Academy Archbishop Ryan Abraham Lincoln Week 7 Recap: Overbrook 24 Vaux 0: Overbrook jumped out early on Vaux behind the dynamic duo of QB Jineer Fogan & WR Khary Bruce. Brook improved to 4-3 […]
Plymouth Whitemarsh Throttles Springfield-Montco 42-0
October 11, 2024 | Michael Pietrangelo
Plymouth Meeting– Last night, on Senior Night, the Colonials showed why they continue to be the standard of the SOL-American. Plymouth Whitemarsh dismantled Springfield-MontCo 42-0 to remain undefeated in conference play and picked up their sixth win overall. For the record, it’s been three years since this colonial team lost a conference game. Last night […]
PFN Football Night Fearless Forecast by PA Weather Plus: Friday, October 11. Oh Yeah! Football weather!
October 11, 2024 | Billy Splain
Football Night Fearless Forecast by PA Weather Plus Main Headlines: A perfect Friday evening for football, very October-like. High pressure overhead will allow for generally sunny conditions and potentially light winds. The coldest temperatures yet of the season with many locations dropping into the 50s during the game. Remember to not forget your cold season […]
West Chester Rustin defeats Great Valley – PHOTO GALLERY
October 11, 2024 | Andy Marchese
West Chester Rustin defeated Great Valley, 49-0, on Thursday, October 10, 2024. See the Extended Gallery HERE.
Pisarcik, Patton Pave Path for Brockway to Down Union-AC Valley
October 11, 2024 | Phil Myers
When you have one of the top passing quarterbacks (Aiden Patton) in the state and you have an all-state wide receiver (Blake Pisarcik), that is a recipe for success. But Brockway’s tough schedule has taken a toll and the offense has struggled at times mainly in the running game. So, with that in mind, Coach […]
Butler Blanks Taylor Allderdice 7-0
October 11, 2024 | Shane Lux
Butler – Nicco Baggeta’s touchdown run in the second quarter proved to be the game-winning score a Butler shutout Taylor Allderdice 7-0. When you think of 21st-century football, 7-0 isn’t precisely a score that comes to mind. But that’s exactly what happened Thursday night at Art Bernardi Stadium. “It’s been a while to get that […]
North Schuylkill overpowers Blue Mountain with Miller Mania (highlights & Pictures)
October 10, 2024 | Matt Herring
Thursday night football. While the Northern lights were lighting up the sky all across PA, the Spartans and Luke Miller were lighting up the scoreboard on their way to a 38-14 win over the Eagles. Miller had three tds on the night. Here’s the highlights by @CCHastings1863, PLENTY of pics by Bill Snook below: The Eagles […]
Protime Predictions – Protime’s Umpire Experience
October 10, 2024 | Phil Myers
Protime has occasionally umpired baseball games over the years and when his daughter-in-law called last week to ask if he would umpire home plate in a women’s softball tournament she was running, he balked at first but then said he’d play ball. He told a catcher that said she’d never caught before that her job […]
Penn State Gears Up for Cross Country Showdown with USC
October 10, 2024 | Mason Eddinger
Photo Credit to Paul Burdick’s Sports Images The trip from the mountains of State College to the beaches of Los Angeles is quite the journey. The 2,571-mile trip from Penn State’s campus to USC’s totals over 37 hours of travel by automobile. Of course, Penn State staff and players will make the trip via airplane, […]
Wolverine Mountain, A Sheffield legacy
October 10, 2024 | Sykotyk
Eleven years ago, it was just a game. One of many for me. But as I drove up to Sheffield, Pennsylvania. I knew it was something special. The small town along the Route 6 corridor was different. Their school was different. And so was where they played. Wolverine Mountain It didn’t always have that name. […]
ProTime’s Pick’em Challenge WEEK 8
October 10, 2024 | Marcus Sic
WEEK EIGHT IS MOVING WEEK FOR THE PROS As we enter week eight of the ProTime Pick’em Challenge, there is a log jam at the top with Matt and the OG, ProTime Phil, tied in first place (107 wins) with a gaggle of pretenders within striking distance. The race to the bottom is also starting […]
Lock Haven falls just short of a miracle, losing to Shepherd 45-38
October 10, 2024 | Ryan States
Photo taken for Lock Haven Athletics Department Shepherdstown, WV.- Lock Haven (2-3) faced their first big road test of the season, traveling down to West Virginia to take on the Shepherd Rams (4-1). And after a wild game full of twists and turns, the Rams held on to defeat the Bald Eagles 45-38. After a […]
PFN Prestents: The STATE of PA Football – The quiet before the storm
October 9, 2024 | Billy Splain
Tonight we’ll narrow down our playoff predictions, we’ll talk referees and rules and then we’ll answer your questions.
Protime’s Pigskin Parlance – 2024 Milestones, Record Breakers & Game Shakers – Edition 7
October 9, 2024 | Phil Myers
Protime’s weekly column 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. His 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 previous […]
Heritage Conference Title Race
October 9, 2024 | Josh Krise
We have already gone through seven weeks of high school football, it’s almost unbelievable how fast the time has gone. What is also almost unbelievable is how competitive the Heritage Conference has been again this year. In 2023, the Heritage Conference had 7 teams in Class 1A and Class 2A playoffs and they may do […]
WPIAL Elite Eight: Week Seven Rankings
October 9, 2024 | Andrew Schaffer
6A: 1- Central Catholic (5-2)- @ (7) Norwin 7pm 2- North Allegheny (6-1)- @ (5) Canon Mac 7pm 3- Seneca Valley (2-4)- (4) Hempfield 7pm 4- Hempfield (3-4)- @ (3) Seneca Valley 7pm 5- Canon Mac (2-5)- (2) North Allegheny 7pm 6- Mt. Lebanon (2-6)- @ Penn Hills 7pm 7- Norwin (2-5)- (1) Central Catholic […]
NLI signing day will be a thing of the past
October 9, 2024 | Billy Splain
It’s a day that has been celebrated by college coaches, high school seniors, moms, dads, hs athletic departments and more. Live streams from college locker rooms, high school gyms, auditoriums, hype videos announcements and more have been the tradition. No more hat dances. No more surprise announcements The NCAA is changing the way high school […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: Back Home and New Territory
October 9, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 22. We only made a pair of games this week. On Thursday we returned to the old stomping ground at the Bethlehem Area School District to see the Freedom Patriots run their record to 7-0, fairly easily defeating previously two-loss Bethlehem Catholic in a city rivalry matchup. On Friday we ended up at […]
Inside DXI Football Power Rankings: Week 7 Edition
October 8, 2024 | Cody Brady
As we move one week closer to the playoffs, let’s take a look at how teams faired this past weekend and how it affects their power rankings numbers and potential seeding. Class AAAAAA The long and short of it in 6A is if your name is Freedom, Easton, or Liberty and you win out, you’re […]
Keystone Club Top Offensive Performers: Week 7, 2024!
October 8, 2024 | 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. RECORD BREAKERS! –Mount Carmel QB Gavin Marshalek […]
Keystone Club Top Defensive Performers: Week 7, 2024!
October 8, 2024 | 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 Defensive Performances Tackles (13 or more) […]
Keystone Club Top Special Teams Performers: Week 7, 2024!
October 8, 2024 | 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 Performances Kickoff returns for […]
Slippery Rock Lands First Commitment of 2025 Class in WR Tyler Heckathorn
October 8, 2024 | Garrett Dollin
SLIPPERY ROCK, PA – Slippery Rock landed their first verbal commitment of the 2025 class Monday evening. Tyler Heckathorn, a wide receiver for Blackhawk High School, announced in a tweet that he would be continuing his football career at Slippery Rock University. After a great talk with @lutzsru and @coach_marella i will be committing to […]
Protime’s Pick’em Challenge: Week 8!
October 8, 2024 | Billy Splain
Wow! Week 8 already! And the Pros have been dominating the Joes! Where ya been Joe Public? It’s a challenge, take down those pros! Please have your picks in by Thursday at noon! Loading…
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