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PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ In Philly Week 1
August 27, 2026 | Willie McGonigle
Growing up, I used to dread August because it always meant summer was coming to a close and school would start soon. But since I started following and covering High School over 20 years ago, I now look forward to August because that means the high school football season is approaching. While many who know […]
2026 PFN Player Profile: Jake Plunkett-QB-Strath Haven
August 27, 2026 | Nicholas Mastripolito
Jake Plunkett Strath Haven Class of 2027 Quarterback Jersey #8 5’11 Twitter/X @jakeplunkett24 Why do you play football? I play because it’s fun It’s game day! What are you looking forward to the most? Kickoff Who is your favorite sports star and WHY? Josh Norman because he’s a beast Do you have a favorite play […]
District 12 Preview
August 27, 2026 | Anthony Franklin
District 12 in 2025 saw 2 programs win state titles with Roman Catholic capturing the 5A title and La Salle capturing the 6A title. This season Roman has been elevated to 6A which means they’ll battle LaSalle and St. Joes Prep for the CL 6A title and a berth in the D12 6A city title […]
2026 Team Preview: The Norte Dame Green Pond Crusaders
August 27, 2026 | Davin Ridall
The Norte Dame Green Pond Crusaders Head Coach: Phil Stambaugh PIAA District 11 Class 3A Colonial-Schuylkill League 2025 Season Record: 12-1 Season Outlook Entering the 2026 season, we’re excited about the experience, leadership, and competitiveness of this football team. We return a large number of starters from a group that finished 12-1, captured the Colonial-Schuylkill […]
2026 Team Preview: The Southern Columbia Tigers
August 27, 2026 | Davin Ridall
The Southern Columbia Tigers Head Coach: Jim Roth PIAA District 4 Class 2A Heartland Athletic Conference 2025 Season Record: 15-1 southern col by PAFootball Newsdotcom Key Starters Lost John Quinton Ethan Makowski Talon Piatt Caius Morrow Nate Gallagher Greg Fulmer Returning Starters Ayden Hockenbroch, QB, 5-11/190, SR Blaise Kissinger, WR/DB, 6-1/195, SR Grady Garcia RB/DB, […]
2026 Team Preview: The Bishop McDevitt Crusaders
August 27, 2026 | Willie McGonigle
The Bishop McDevitt Crusaders Head Coach: Jeff Weachter PIAA District 3 Class 6A Conference: Mid-Penn Conference – Commonwealth 2025 Season Record: 12-3 mcd by PAFootball Newsdotcom Season Outlook: “We are young & inexperienced at line on both sides of the ball. If they play well, we should have a good season.” Jeff Weachter Key […]
2026 Team Preview: The Shamokin Indians
August 27, 2026 | Davin Ridall
The Shamokin Indians Head Coach: Mark Persing PIAA District 4 Class 4A Heartland Athletic Conference 2025 Season Record: 13-1 shamokin by PAFootball Newsdotcom Season Outlook The 2026 Indians are looking to improve upon a phenomenal 2025 campaign. Although it will be difficult to replace the likes of Zakem Clinton, Izak Glover and Chase Anderson, […]
Inside the Colonial League: 2026 Football Preview
August 26, 2026 | John Fox, Dan Di Edwardo
Division 1 Notre Dame-Green Pond Crusaders 2026 Schedule Head Coach: Phil Stambaugh Key players returning: Aaron Gordon, Jonathan Striba, Drew Boyd Outlook: Notre Dame-Green Pond will look to build upon their undefeated regular season, but will have a new face at QB. Jr, Tommy Murphy takes the reigns after learning 2 years under standout QB, […]
WPIAL Elite Eight: Preseason Rankings
August 26, 2026 | Andrew Schaffer
6A: 1- Central Catholic 2- North Allegheny 3- Canon Mac 4- Norwin 5- Mt. Lebanon 6- Hempfield 7- Seneca Valley 5A: 1- Pine Richland 2- Upper St. Clair 3- Peters Township 4- Moon 5- Penn Trafford 6- Thomas Jefferson 7- Bethel Park 8- Gateway 4A: 1- McKeesport 2- New Castle 3- South Fayette […]
2026 Team Preview: The Bishop Guilfoyle Marauders
August 26, 2026 | Willie McGonigle
The Bishop Guilfoyle Marauders Head Coach: Justin Wheeler PIAA District 6 Class 1A Conference: Laurel Highlands League – East 1 2025 Season Record: 13-3 Key Starters lost Jake Kissell, Hayden Hosgood, Tyson Lestochi, Trenton Murphy, Jesse Georgianna, returning starters (name, Position, HT, WT, Class Year Justin Wheeler QB/DB 5’11 189 Junior Rocco Cacciotti OL/DL […]
2026 Team Preview: The Lehighton Indians
August 26, 2026 | Willie McGonigle
The Lehighton Indians Head Coach: Tom McCarroll PIAA District 11 Class 4A Conference: Colonial League – Division A 2025 Season Record: 5-6 Key Starters lost Caden Meek, Blake Roberts, Jayse Lawrence, Hunter Kintz, Makih Breiner, Austin Green returning starters Lukas Croizier, RB/DB, 5-9, 165, Sr Ty Nansteel, TE, 6-2, 195, Jr Marc Macias, OL/DL, […]
2026 Team Preview: Quakertown Panthers
August 26, 2026 | Gardner Buchanan
Quakertown Panthers 6A Classification 2025 Season Record: 4-7 Head Coach: George Banas Key Starters Lost: Brady Martin (QB/S, Kutztown) Jackson Connelly (FB/DE, East Stroudsburg) Jacob Moises (OL/DL, King’s College) Kyler Rosener (RB/LB) Offensive Starters Returning: WR – Ben Hutchison (SR, 6-5, 190) WR/QB – Carter Tucholski (JR, 6-2, 190) TE – Dominic Ferrugio (JR, 6-2, […]
2026 Team Preview: The Jersey Shore Bulldogs
August 25, 2026 | Davin Ridall
The Jersey Shore Bulldogs Head Coach: Tom Gravish PIAA District 4 Class 4A Heartland Athletic Conference 2025 Season Record: 8-4 jersey shore by PAFootball Newsdotcom Season Outlook We are looking forward to a great season! Our team had a really great offseason improving our strength, speed and skill development. We had a great summer […]
2026 Team Preview: The Council Rock South Golden Hawks
August 25, 2026 | Gardner Buchanan
Council Rock South Golden Hawks Head Coach: CJ Szydlik 6A Classification 2025 Season Record: 10-2 Key Starters Lost: WR/LB Nate Szydlik (Slippery Rock) TE Joey Madara OL Kyle Grasso OL/DE Anthony Cimino Returning Offensive Starters: WR Brody Walker (SR, 5-10, 190) FB Chris Guinter (SR, 6-0, 220) OL Logan Smith (JR, 6-3, 210) RB Gavin […]
2026 Team Preview: The Lewisburg Green Dragons
August 24, 2026 | Davin Ridall
The Lewisburg Green Dragons Head Coach: Eric Wicks PIAA District 4 Class 3A Heartland Athletic Conference 2025 Season Record: 2-8 Key Starters Lost Nick Coleman David Bozella Garrett Glather Ethan Long Returning Starters Jaylen Walker Wr/Db 6’2 175 2027 Xavier Carter Qb/Db 6’2 183 2027 Owen Fellon Te/Lb 6’3 205 2028 Dane Shuey OL/Lb 6’1 […]
2026 Team Preview: The Northwestern Lehigh Tigers
August 24, 2026 | Billy Splain
The Northwestern Lehigh Tigers Head Coach: Josh Snyder PIAA District 11 Class 3A Conference: Colonial League – Division A 2025 Season Record: 15-1 2026 Season Outlook: Defense: Tigers return 4 Defensive starters from a year ago. They will rely on being aggressive and use their athleticism to give multiple looks. The defense has a good […]
2026 Team Preview: The Selinsgrove Seals
August 23, 2026 | Davin Ridall
The Selinsgrove Seals Head Coach: Matt Wenrich PIAA District 4 Class 4A Heartland Athletic Conference 2025 Season Record: 1-9 Key Starters Lost Wyatt Teats – RB/LB Brett Rice – WR/CB Jack Peters – OL/DL Logan Dressler – OL/LB Griffin Voss – OL/DL Returning Starters Rocco Amato – QB/LB Owen Hoffman – OL/LB Andrew Gesumaria – […]
Sights and Sounds from the Liberty vs. Delaware Valley Scrimmage
August 23, 2026 | John Fox, Dan Di Edwardo
Taking the field for the first time on the new turf of BASD Stadium, the Liberty Hurricanes and Delaware Valley Warriors had a scrimmage on Saturday morning to prepare for their opening games this coming week. Huge road games await both teams, with Liberty visiting Pennridge and Del Val coming back to BASD Stadium to […]
2026 Team Preview: The CMVT Rams
August 23, 2026 | Davin Ridall
The CMVT Rams Head Coach: Mark Varner PIAA District 4 Class 4A Independent 2025 Season Record: 4-6 Key Starters Lost RB/TE Tyson Brown QB/S Myles Koser WR/CB Axton Koser WR/LB Matthew Allen Returning Starters WR/S Blake Sponenberg OG/NG Jacob Fosse OT/DT Tommy Meadows WR/CB Wyatt Bodnar Key Newcomers WR/CB Cody Zimmerman Season Outlook We expect […]
2026 Team Preview: The Milton Panthers
August 23, 2026 | Davin Ridall
The Milton Panthers Head Coach: Matt Wilson PIAA District 4 Class 4A Heartland Athletic Conference 2025 Season Record: 3-7 Design by PAFootball Newsdotcom Season Outlook We want to build off of last year. We went 3-7, not ideal or what we wanted but we were competitive in most of our games. A lot of […]
2026 Team Preview: The Purchase Line Red Dragon
August 23, 2026 | Willie McGonigle
The Purchase Line Red Dragons Head Coach: Matt Falisec PIAA District 6 Class 1A Conference: Heritage Conference 2025 Season Record: 3-8 Key Starters lost Victor Bartlebaugh Tyson Lear Parker Gomolka Colton Falisec Seth Frantz Ian Layden Dylan Rebovich returning starters (name, Position, HT, WT, Class Year Maddox Frantz – RB/S 5’8″ 160 Nolan Engle […]
2026 Team Preview: The Wyoming Area Warriors
August 23, 2026 | Davin Ridall
The Wyoming Area Warriors Head Coach: Randy Spencer PIAA District 2 Class 3A Wyoming Valley Conference 2025 Season Record: 9-2 wyoming area by PAFootball Newsdotcom Season Outlook Keys for a successful season are the same in all three phases: Stay healthy, develop competitive depth at every position, and great team leadership. Key Starters Lost […]
2026 Team Preview: The Cedar Crest Falcons
August 23, 2026 | Willie McGonigle
The Cedar Crest Falcons Head Coach: Nick Lambros PIAA District 3 Class 6A Conference: Lancaster-Lebanon League – Section 1 2025 Season Record: 5-6 Key Starters lost Jayden Storm OL/DL Jimmy Trump OL/DL Peyton Witmer OL/DL Landyn Kline LB Travis Kemberling WR Luke Oriel WR/DB returning starters (name, Position, HT, WT, Class Year Steven Reyes […]
2026 Team Preview: The Northgate Flames
August 23, 2026 | Peyton Celesti, Willie McGonigle
The Northgate Flames Head Coach: Chris Lucas PIAA District 7 Class 1A Conference: WPIAL 1A Section 3 2025 Season Record: 1-9; 2026 Season Projection: 4-6
2026 Team Preview: The Juniata Valley Hornets
August 23, 2026 | Willie McGonigle
The Juniata Valley Hornets Head Coach: Bill Musser PIAA District 6 Class 1 A Conference: Inter-County Conference – North 2025 Season Record: 8-3 Key Starters lost QB_LB Jett Rand: OLDL Logan Harpster: OG Tyson Adams returning starters (name, Position, HT, WT, Class Year Elah Glenny, WR-S, 5-10 165, 2027, Gavin Smith, WR-LB, 5-11, 170, […]
