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October 2024
Stung: Oxford Scores with 24 Seconds Left in Game to Down West Chester East in a Thriller
October 5, 2024 | Willie McGonigle
WEST CHESTER: With injuries starting to mount on their team the Oxfords Hornets found themselves needing to make a few personnel changes. One of them was moving Jalen McClain to running back. With his twin brother Joel being sidelined earlier in the game Jalen stepped up hugely, with his team tied with West Chester East […]
Danville finds a way to pull out a victory over Mount Carmel in Heartland Athletic Conference thriller.
October 5, 2024 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski
Bo Sheptock scores three times to keep the Ironmen unbeaten through seven games. DANVILLE- Homecoming is a special time of the football season for high school football teams across the Commonwealth. The Pageantry and all the preparations the entire week has the school abuzz for the most part: Homecoming queen and queen, homecoming dance and […]
Heritage Conference Triple Header-Northern Cambria, Marion Center & Homer Center prevail in week seven clashes!
October 5, 2024 | Greg Ricupero
I made it to three of the six Heritage Conference Football Games last night. Indiana County has six teams and usually three are playing at home. Seven weeks into the season and you can pretty much predict the outcomes. The next three weeks have some big matchups coming up. I started in Kenmore where I […]
Wilkes-Barre Area uses strong second half to defeat Pittston Area
October 5, 2024 | Jared Samuel
It certainly looked to be a good matchup on paper as the Pittston Area Patriots made the short trip down River Street to face the Wilkes-Barre Area Wolfpack. Both teams entered at 2-4, Pittston coming off a tough loss against Crestwood and Wilkes-Barre reeling a bit from a shutout loss to Hazleton. Prior to the […]
Pittston Area at Wilkes-Barre Area — PHOTO GALLERY
October 4, 2024 | Sherryl Samuel
Photos by Sherryl Samuel
Kucharski Leads Valley View to Victory over North Pocono 21-14 (Video Highlights)
October 4, 2024 | Jake Mills
Valley View defeated North Pocono tonight in a Lackawanna Football Conference Division 1 Matchup 21-14. Nick Kucharski had a big game for the Cougars with 2 touchdowns and many big plays on defense. North Pocono was down Freshman standout Running Back Joe Briskie but the Trojans still gave Valley View all it had. Quarterback Chase […]
Connellsville Shuts Down North Star In Non-District Defensive Battle
October 4, 2024 | Baron Dionis
Tonight was all about defense between 2A North Star and 5A Connellsville as the defenses fought, ending in a 17-7 Connellsville victory. Three touchdowns were scored in the contest, all coming in the second quarter. The Cougars got on the board first with a four yard touchdown run from Ethan Smith. Connellsvilles Linkon Keller responded […]
Berwick Earns Second Win in Shutout Victory over Nanticoke
October 4, 2024 | Mason Eddinger
October, already. As the leaves fall and the temperature decreases, High School Football enters its peak month. It’s week 7 already. Teams across the state are crossing their Ts and dotting their Is in anticipation of the playoffs in a few short weeks. The same stands true for Berwick and Nanticoke. Two struggling teams clashed […]
Freedom Comes Up with Five Turnovers in Decisive Victory over Bethlehem Catholic
October 4, 2024 | Cody Brady
Three interceptions, two fumbles and a safety all helped Freedom pull away from Bethlehem Catholic at BASD Stadium on Thursday night. Despite three first half turnovers, the Hawks kept it close until the continued mistakes and a couple of long drives broke it open late. Freedom played keep away nearly all night long, as lengthy […]
Saegertown Blanks Maplewood 23-0
October 4, 2024 | Shane Lux
Guys Mills – Saegertown pitched a shutout as the Panthers won their third straight game, 23-0, over rival Maplewood Thursday night. In a Region 2 battle between rivals, potential playoff seeding was on the line, and the Panthers’ defense limited the Tigers to 215 offensive yards. “Our kids came ready to play tonight,” said Saegertown […]
Bethlehem Catholic Vs Bethlehem Freedom (Photo Gallery)
October 4, 2024 | Ryan Scipio
Bethlehem Catholic Vs Bethlehem Freedom Final Bethlehem Catholic – 3 Bethlehem Freedom – 24 Twitter/X @ScipScip
District 5, District 6, District 8, & District 9 Rankings
October 3, 2024 | Josh Krise
We are passed the halfway point in the high school football season, let’s take a look at the rankings within the districts. These rankings were based off of record, point differential, and strength of schedule District 5 Rankings: North Star (2A) 5-1 Northern Bedford (1A) 5-1 Windber (1A) 4-2 Chestnut Ridge (2A) 4-2 Bedford (2A) […]
WEEK SEVEN OF PROTIME’S PICK’EM CHALLENGE: CAN THE JOES SLOW THE PROS DOMINANCE
October 3, 2024 | Marcus Sic
Week Seven Starts with Bubble at the Top! As the temperatures begin to drop and the days shorten ProTime’s Pick’em Challenge flips the calendar to October week seven begins with a bubble of Pro pickers sitting at the top, after a couple of sizzling weeks will one of the leader’s bubble burst creating some breathing […]
Protime Predictions – Funny Favorite Team Comments
October 3, 2024 | Phil Myers
Protime has a friend that is a diehard NY Jet football fan. Last year when they failed to make the playoffs, he said that he was going to have the Jets as pallbearers at his funeral so they could let him down one last time. Then the other day when someone was making fun of […]
Mayhem’s Game of the Week: Neshaminy @ Pennridge (Week 7)
October 3, 2024 | Michael Pietrangelo
The Game: Neshaminy Redskins @ Pennridge Rams Saturday, October 5, 2024 Kickoff: 12 PM Helman Field (Pink Out) 1228 N. Fifth Street, Perkasie, PA 18944 Last 3 Meetings: Neshaminy 17 -VS- Pennridge 7 Neshaminy 7 @ Pennridge 6 Pennridge 28 @ Neshaminy 14 Team Details: Neshaminy Redskins Head Coach: Steve Wilmot (10th Season) League: […]
Classic Coaches and Local Legends
October 3, 2024 | Lindsey Bennett
The PA Football News Classic Coaches and Local Legends series highlights people around the state that have impacted their communities through it’s football programs. Take a trip down memory lane with some of the greatest and most memorable people our football communities have to offer in Pennsylvania. […]
Philly City League Week 6 Rankings and Recap
October 2, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Week 6 Recap & Rankings: St. Joes Prep La Salle College Imhotep Charter Bonner-Prendie Roman Catholic Malvern Prep Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Germantown Academy Abraham Lincoln Archbishop Ryan Kipp-Dubois 14 Edison 0: Kipp used a strong defense to will their way to a win behind defensive lineman Andrew Morency’s 3 sack performance. Edison got a […]
Penn State Welcomes in Former Pac-12 UCLA into the BIG 10 this Weekend
October 2, 2024 | Mason Eddinger
From “White-Out Energy” to the Stripe-Out, Penn State plays its 4th consecutive game in Beaver Stadium. One of the four former PAC-12 teams that joined the BIG 10 comes to town this week, UCLA. In their first four games in 2024, Penn State has been one of the best teams in the country defensively. […]
Inside DXI Football Power Rankings: Week 6 Edition
October 2, 2024 | Cody Brady
Ah, those power rankings–those complex math equations that confound us with sometimes unexpected results and provide us our playoff seedings in many of the eastern PIAA districts. What’s it all mean? How will they change moving forward? Who’s in line for the playoffs after six weeks? Why is my team behind that other team that […]
Protime’s Pigskin Parlance – 2024 Milestones, Record Breakers & Game Shakers – Edition 6
October 2, 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 […]
Inside The Huddle: Going Deep Inside The PFN Rankings
October 2, 2024 | Matt Herring
As we hit the home stretch of the PA High School Football regular season schedule it’s the perfect time to take a deep dive on our PA Football News Rankings and sort out which teams are battle-tested while others are just beginning to test the waters in our Top 10’s. There’s numerous undefeated and one […]
Keystone Club Top Defensive Performers: Week 6, 2024!
October 1, 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) […]
Susquenita at Juniata (PHOTO GALLERY)
October 1, 2024 | Tierney Stuempfle
Rainy Friday Night Win for Juniata Juniata hosted Susquenita for this Friday night’s matchup. Both teams struggled with playing against the rainy weather conditions. Running and maintaining control of the ball was very difficult. Regardless, Juniata conquered the first half on their scoring drive. The score at the end of the first half was 42-0, […]
2024 District 9 Review – 6th Week Action
October 1, 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 2nd week in a row in throwing for 246 yards. He had 344 all-purpose yards. He now has 119 career touchdown passes and needs 19 more TD passes to top Matt […]
PIAA Football Referee Interview (Part 4 of a six-part series)
October 1, 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. (Click Link below for the video interview)
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