DISTRICT 11 NOTES WEEK 3

RUNNINGBACKS:  Antwon Keenan of Bethlehem Catholic scored 5 td’s for the second week in a row and now has 11 on the season.  Keenan rushed for 176 yards and caught 3 passes for 25 yards while teammate Randy Terry III rushed for 137 yards and a score.  Saucon Valley Teammates, Evan Culver and Zach Thatcher rushed for over 200 and 150 yards respectfully for the second week in a row.  Culver had 207 and scored 3 td’s, while Thatcher had 154 and 3 td’s in their win over Southern Lehigh.  Mike Stasko of Palmerton scored 4 td’s while rushing for 134 yards and catching 4 passes for 64 yards.  Stasko now has 548 yards rushing on the season and has scored 10 td’s.  Jamaal Brome of Stroudsburg rushed for a school record 307 yards and 5 td’s in their win over ESS.  Brome now has 702 yards and 10 td’s this season.  Austyn Borre of Pleasant Valley has 49 career td’s.  He is currently tied with Don Diorio (Pius X), Josh Snyder (Northwestern), Eric Fiore (Beca/Whitehall) and Jarel Elder (Parkland) on the all-time list.  Wyatt Clements of Lehighton has 47 career td’s and is currently tied with Duke Lilly (Northern Lehigh), Erik Marsh (Bethlehem Catholic), Darrius Webb (Beca/Freedom), Andre Williams (Parkland), Brad Walter and Sean Hoffman of Wilson. 

QUARTERBACKS:  Tre Jordan of Notre Dame threw for a school record 363 yards in their win over Salisbury.  Jordan threw 4 td passes to 4 different receivers to up his season totals to 825 yards passing (District lead) and 8 td passes.  Ric Schumacher held the old record when he threw for 335 yards in his final game of his career against Williams Valley in 1991.  Tevon Weber of Salisbury leads the District with 9 td passes.  Tyler Cann of Lehighton completed 15 out of 16 passes for 205 yards and 2 td’s and also rushed for 64 yards and 2 scores.  Cann now has 2,796 yards passing in his career, breaking the school record held by Josh Agosto.  Agosto had 2,744 yards from 2008-11.  Over the last couple of weeks Cann moved ahead of the other top 5 members (Terry Woginrich, Dave Warner and Tom Keer).  Travis Stefanik of Nazareth threw for over 200 yards for the third consecutive week.  Stefanik now has 793 yards passing and 7 td passes.  Ethan Kuczynski, a junior from Marian Catholic went over 2,000 yards passing for his career (2,048).

Looking at the career passing charts for District 11:  Tre Jordan is now in 17th place, sandwiched between Travis Edmond of Southern Lehigh and Chris Palubinsky of Shenandoah Valley.  Doug Erney of Liberty is in 21st place, between Michael Bernhard of Allen and Corey Cinicola of Jim Thorpe.  Julian Spigner of Bethlehem Catholic is in 36th place, between Aaron Brown of Dieruff and Josh Hinkle of Dieruff and Central Catholic.  Devante Cross of Parkland is in 44th place between Ricky Muschlitz of Notre Dame and Jim Weidle of Mahanoy Area.  Bobby Grigas of North Schuylkill is just outside the top 50 in 53rd spot.  In the career td passes department, Jordan moved ahead of Dan Kendra III into 8th place all-time with 61.  Spigner has 51 career td passes which puts him in 20th spot, just one behind Phil Stambaugh of Pius X and Dan Harding of Nazareth and 1 ahead of Frank Dangello of Northwestern and Erney of Liberty.  Grigas, who threw 2 td passes last week to give him 44 for his career, jumps ahead of Cross and into a tie for 33rd with Tom Keer of Lehighton and Kyle McFarland of Salisbury.  Cross is tied with Mark Smith of Allen and Nick Todero of Pine Grove for 36th place, all with 43 td passes.

RECEIVERS:  District leader Julian Liaci of Nazareth caught 11 passes for 147 yards last week.  Liaci now has 26 catches in the first 3 games this year.  Kenny Yeboah of Parkland had only 1 catch for 3 yards against Central Catholic last week and no td catches.  How rare is that?  Yeboah has played in 17 varsity games in his career and has caught at least 1 td pass in 13 of them.  Nate Stewart of Bethlehem Catholic now has 138 career catches for 2,356 yards.  The 138 catches ties him for 6th place all-time with Bob Frederick of Allen.  The 2,356 yards places him in 7th place all-time just ahead of Jacob Del Priore of Southern Lehigh.  Ethan Price of Southern Lehigh leads the District with 502 receiving yards and 5 td catches.  Notre Dame has 5 different players with at least 100 yards receiving.

Week 1 Trivia: Ethan Price of Southern Lehigh also broke the District 11 single game receiving yardage record with his 296 yards.  Who held the old District record? Kevin Gulyas (2011 vs Parkland) of Central Catholic and Quintin Lopez (2004 vs Southern Columbia) of Pius X both had 280 yards in a game.