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April 2024

Former St Joes Prep star WR Marvin Harrison drafted 4th overall by Arizona

April 26, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

Marvin Harrison Jr an 6-4 212 WR who starred at St Joes Prep helping the Hawks win the 2019 PIAA 6A state championship before heading to Ohio State where he’d leave with numerous accolades and awards tonight received the call of his young life when Arizona Cardinals ownership and coaching staff called to alert him, […]

Abraham Lincoln HS Junior Athlete Ziyyon Bredell Pledges Commitment to Syracuse

April 24, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

Abraham Lincoln HS in 2023 broke through quite a few barriers during the football season. They started the season with 4 very tough non-league games which all resulted in close narrow defeats to Downington East, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, Roman Catholic & Imhotep Charter. Junior CB Ziiyon Bredell started the season with a great performance […]

Cardinal O’Hara star lineman Nathan Kutufaris picks Duke

April 22, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

Nathan Kutufaris a mammoth 6-6 270lbs offensive tackle at Cardinal O’Hara HS has decided to shut down his recruitment and give his commitment to ACC program Duke University. An all Catholic league selection as a sophomore and junior Nathan also held offers from Air Force, Boston College, Army, Syracuse, Liberty, Navy, Yale, Columbia, Lafayette and […]

Martin Luther King Lineman Danny Pajuste commits to Mount Union

April 22, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

Danny Pajuste is a 6-1 260lb offensive lineman who earned all Public League honors as a senior while helping his fellow MLK Cougar rushers gain over 1500 rushing yards. As a leader on the offensive line Danny helped lead MLK to the Public League Liberty Division championship as well as gave Imhotep Charter a competitive […]

Vikings pull away from Dauphin County in second half for the win. (gallery included)

April 21, 2024 | Billy Splain

It was a soggy field with winds gusting all game long in Phillipsburg on Saturday. The 3-0 MoValley Vikings were looking to stay undefeated as were the 2-0 Dauphin County Comanche. Two teams that met in the GEFA title game two years ago that ended with the Vikings winning the title by a score of […]

Buffaloes defense, turnovers doom Miners. Around the Gefa we go.

April 14, 2024 | Billy Splain

The Buffaloes do score a lot of points, but one of the reasons isn’t quite all on the offense. Last night on a perfect night for football at Claysburg-Kimmel high school the Bedford County defense set the stage for a monster night forcing three fumbles early and getting two safeties as the Buffs smothered the […]

La Salle College Chris Fileppo commits to James Madison

April 4, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

Chris Fileppo after a great junior season at LaSalle saw an uptick in interest from Division programs including nabbing offers from Villanova, Monmouth, Lafayette, New Hampshire and James Madison. Friday evening Chris announced he would be continuing his academic and football careers at James Madison. Chris returns to LaSalle for his senior year looking to […]

Matt Zollers Headed to Missouri

April 4, 2024 | Michael Pietrangelo

Pennsylvania’s Top QB in the class of 2025 Matt Zollers out of Spring-Ford High School has committed to the University of Missouri over Penn State, Georgia, & Pitt “I just felt the most comfortable (at Missouri),” said Zollers. “My number-one priority was finding who I’d connect best with, both players and coaches.” Zollers completed […]

Fran Brown & Syracuse Strike Again

April 3, 2024 | Michael Pietrangelo

Commited 🍊🍊🍊🍊!!! @FranBrownCuse @RossDoug21 @CuseFootball @LaSalleFball @TorreySmithWR @EdOBrienCFB pic.twitter.com/xtvhnVE4Rm — Julian McFadden (@mcfadden_jules) April 3, 2024 Fran Brown’s recruiting impact is heating up for Syracuse football as they received their eleventh verbal commitment from the class of 2025 when LaSalle’s Julian McFadden (5’11” 160 lbs) WR verbally committed to the Orange via his social media […]

GEFA ROB MARRERO MEMORIAL KICKOFF CLASSIC

March 26, 2024 | Guy Smith

So far in 2024 we had been to see auto racing, basketball, track & field, wrestling, ice hockey, softball, rugby, lacrosse, and baseball all at the college level or higher. But until Saturday, March 23, nary a single football game. Now we’ve seen three. For over 50 consecutive years, Guy has been to more auto […]

Malvern Prep’s Chris Lake heads south to Coastal Carolina University

March 20, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

After capturing an Inter-Ac championship while contributing greatly as an all league player Senior LB Chris Lake Monday evening announced he’s accepted an offer to continue his academic and football careers at Sun Belt Conference member Coastal Carolina. As a senior led the team in interceptions with 4 while also notching 3 sacks mixed in […]

State Champions St. Joes Prep & Imhotep well represented on Big 33 Team

February 21, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

After an undefeated 15-0 2023 season culminating in their school’s 2nd state championship in football Imhotep has been rewarded with 5 players earning a Big 33 All-Star Game roster spot. Penn State signee WR Tyseer Denmark, Penn State signee CB Kenneth Woseley Jr, Pittsburgh signee JahSear Whittington and Robert Morris signee David Johnson will all […]

Haverford School’s star lineman Joshua Williams announces his collegiate decision

February 19, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

Joshua Williams is a monmouth offensive lineman who stands out on the field. At 6-4 300lbs he’s hard to miss on the field. Luckily for The Haverford School Fords he has one more season of high school football left before he heads out west to start his college career. Before enrolling at Stanford he has […]

Scott Dennis appointed as Nanticoke head coach

February 17, 2024 | John Kotsko

Scott Dennis was appointed on Thursday night as head coach of the Nanticoke Trojans. Dennis replaces Ron Bruza who resigned in November. The Trojans finished last season 7-5, losing to State Finalist Dallas in the District Semifinals. Dennis served as an assistant coach under Bruza the past two seasons and has also served as head […]

Archbishop Ryan Lineman chooses West Chester University

February 15, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

Nicholas Rogers a 6-5 240 DL at Archbishop Ryan has officially made his college decision and ultimately signed his letter of intent to play locally at West Chester University a division 2 program that competes in the PSAC. Nicholas finished his senior season earning all-league honors after posting 45 tackles, 16 TFLs, 6 sacks, 3 […]

Philadelphia Public League Football Teams shuffle divisions & classifications

February 15, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

The defending Public League Champions Imhotep Panthers will officially move up to the top classification in the state and will now compete in the largest classification 6A. Other 6A teams include Northeast, George Washington, Kensington, South Philadelphia, Central HS, & Abraham Lincoln. The 5A teams include Frankford, Mastery Charter North, Olney, Palumbo & Samuel Fels. […]

Inter-Ac League stars sign letters of intent along the East Coast

February 12, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

The Inter-Ac 2x defending champions Haverford School pair of offensive linemen signed their letter of intents. Noah Andrewson is heading north to FCS program University of Albany which plays in the CAA conference. His teammate Adon Gross is staying closer to home after choosing Division 2 in-state program Kutztown University. Springside Chestnut Hill Academy star […]

State College Sends Two More to the Next Level

February 7, 2024 | Todd Ross

During the second signing day two players were honored for their commitments to play in college. Defense linemen Justin Castro-Dixon and offensive lineman Colin Dardis both were honored. Justin will be headed just about an hour away at Lock Haven University part of the PSAC conference. Colin will be going out of state to Ithaca […]

Hot Takes: PFN News and Notes – Loading up, Scheduling up & Dominating the mats

February 3, 2024 | Matt Herring

Take a trip across the Commonwealth as we recep the latest news and notes in Pennsylvania High School Football Quips Loading Up For 5A Challenge Coming off the heels of the recent PIAA Competition Formula ruling forcing 2A-by-enrollment Aliquippa to 5A for the next two seasons it appears the Quips have help on the […]

Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Senior RB commit to Georgetown University

January 30, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

SCHA Senior RB Jayden Sumpter has found his next home committing to FCS program Georgetown University in the nations capital. Jayden senior season yielded over 1000 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns in just 7 games against a rigorous schedule of Inter-Ac schools, Public League and private schools in New Jersey. Georgetown Hoyas play in the […]

District 1 Final Rankings 2023: Small School

January 30, 2024 | Michael Pietrangelo

The 2023 high school football season ended about a month and a half ago and the District 1 staff here at PFN has been busy compiling stats and developing our power rankings for all six classifications. We broke them down into two groups. Big School-5A & 6A Small School 1A-4A

District 1 Final Rankings 2023: Big School

January 30, 2024 | Michael Pietrangelo

Scranton Knights QB/FS Billy Maloney commits to Seton Hill

January 29, 2024 | Jared Samuel

It was a great year for Scranton Knights QB/FS Billy Maloney. On the offensive side, he rushed for 975 yards with 10 TD’s and had 94 completions for 1293 yards and 11 TD’s. But on the defensive side of the ball, Maloney made his mark–during the regular season, he had 75 tackles and 10 passes […]

District 1 Statistical Leaders: 2023 Defense

January 29, 2024 | Michael Pietrangelo

The 2023 season ended a little over a month and a half ago and the District 1 staff here at PFN has been busy compiling stats. We looked at the following offensive categories: Passing Yards, Rushing Yards, and Receiving Yards. These are the top 5 student-athletes regardless of classification in each of those categories. Congratulations […]

District 1 Statistical Leaders: 2023 Offense