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October 2024

Easton remains in EPC regular season title chase after subduing Liberty Friday night.

October 12, 2024 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski

Cole Orday, Dorian Thomas and Will Day spearheaded ground assault on Liberty to move to 7-1 on the season. BETHLEHEM- With just a couple of more weeks left in the regular season in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, the Easton Red Rovers are proving to be a formidable force in the Northampton division as they won […]

River Valley hangs on against Marion Center!

October 12, 2024 | Greg Ricupero

Heritage Conference Game of the Week Marion Center Stingers (5-2) at River Valley Panthers (6-1) Last Meeting 9/29/23 RV 40 @ MC 16 MC PF20.4 PA 8.9 RV PF38.3 PA 11.6 This was probably the best game I have seen this year. Both teams played well and the game could have went either way. This […]

Penn Valley Remains Winless After Falling to Somerset in Shootout

October 11, 2024 | Kerry Shawley

Penns Valley and Somerset may have come into Friday’s contest with only two wins between them, but they engaged in an entertaining, high scoring shootout that saw Somerset come out on top 56-42. After the opening kickoff, Somerset would embark on a methodical 75-yard, twelve play drive. There was only one pass on the drive. […]

Danville gets Upper-Hand Against Loyalsock Once Again

October 11, 2024 | Mason Eddinger

Entering tonight, just three games are left in the Pennsylvania High School Football Season. The Danville Ironmen entered the game against Loyalsock with an undefeated regular season in mind. After their complete showing, they improved to 8-0. Danville has leaped to perennial power at 3A. Gone are the days of being happy with just a […]

Schuylkill Haven Rolls Past Pine Grove as Winning Streak Continues

October 11, 2024 | Karlee Feger

The Schuylkill Haven Hurricanes made quick work of the Pine Grove Area Cardinals, defeating them 81-6. The backfield trio of Niko Carestia, Niko Castillo, and Colton Reber were responsible for 52 of the Hurricanes’ 81 points. Logan Troup had the lone touchdown for the Cardinals. The Hurricanes put up a huge first quarter, reaching the […]

Northern Cambria Takes Down Conemaugh Township

October 11, 2024 | Baron Dionis

The Northern Cambria Colts use Ty Dumms impressive night to defeat the Conemaugh Township Indians with a final score of 41-22. After a competitive first half, Northern Cambria exploded for four touchdowns in the first 14 minutes of the second half. Three of which came from senior quarterback Ty Dumm, who led the Colts to […]

Butler Taylor Allderdice Highlights

October 11, 2024 | Shane Lux

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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Plum 24 Shaler 7 on 9/13/2024 Gallery

October 8, 2024 | William Spicher

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2024 District 9 Review – 7th Week Action

October 8, 2024 | Phil Myers

Here are the top performers of the week, along with a couple other tidbits: Quarterbacks: Jase Ferguson, Central Clarion, had 6 TD passes for the 3rd week in a row. He threw for 265 yards and he rushed for a 7th TD and he had a pick six for an 8th He now has 125 […]

PIAA Football Referee Interview (Part 5 of a six-part series)

October 8, 2024 | Lindsey Bennett

We sit down with a PIAA Referee from the Northern Tier League and ask questions about some of the stuff that fans may not know, and if someone is interested in being a referee how they would go about doing it. If you have any interest in becoming a referee, please go to […]

District 10 Week 7 Recap

October 7, 2024 | Shane Lux

October 3, 2024 Saegertown 23, Maplewood 0 Aaron Shartle rushed for 106 yards and a touchdown as Saegertown blanked Maplewood Thursday night in Guys Mills. Read the full game story here. Mercyhurst Prep 47, Union City 0 Mercyhurst Prep bounced back following a tough loss to Corry last week with a 47-0 victory over Union […]