District 11 Notes – Week 10

Gerald Douglas of Stroudsburg had his 5th, 200 yard game in their win over Pleasant Valley.  Douglas leads the District with 1,839 yards rushing.  He also broke Artie Owen’s career school record.  Owens had 3,933 yards from 1969-71 and scored 69 touchdowns.  Douglas now has 4,015 yards and 54 career td’s.  In the same game, Eric Marbury of Pleasant Valley rushed for 123 yards and 4 td’s while filling in for injured Austyn Borre.  Michael McDaniel of Bethlehem Catholic rushed for 237 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Central Catholic.  McDaniel now has 1,220 yards rushing and has scored 23 td’s this year.  McDaniel, also went over 2,500 yards for his career and has scored 53 career td’s.  Mark Weinus of Pine Grove now has 1,297 yards rushing heading into their Eastern Conference playoff game.  Will Casella of Schuylkill Haven came back from an injury to play in his final high school game.  Casella rushed for 87 yards and td to go over 1,000 yards for the third year in a row.  Casella finished his career with 5,214 yards and 66 td’s.  Shane Simpson of Easton leads the District with 33 td’s this year and now has 77 career td’s.  The 77 td’s puts him in 8th place all-time in the District.  Saquon Barkley of Whitehall now has 1,730 yards and 29 td’s.  Barkley broke Nick Kurtz’s single season school record.  Kurtz had 1,662 yards in 1999 while James Freeman had 1,612 yards in 1997.  Christian Gretzinger of Palisades went over 1,000 yards and now has 1,050.  Harry Hall of Northwestern needs 5 more yards to reach 3,000 yards for his career.  Hall now owns spots 2 and 3 on the all-time single season list at Northwestern.  Hall had 1,571 yards last year and currently has 1,398 yards this year.  That’s three yards more then head coach Josh Snyder’s 1,395 yards that he had in 1994.  Shakur Lester scored 39 td’s in his career and joins Percy Alexander (PME), Dave Wilson (BECA), Brad Walters (NL), Al Donadi (Marian), and Robert Delgado (Catty) on the bubble list for the “40 td” club.  Across the river, Leonard Brice of P’Burg also ended his career with 39 td’s.  Wyatt Clements of Lehighton went over 1,000 yards and now has 1,073 yards and has scored 22 td’s this year.   Clements, a junior, has 2,235 career rushing yards and 40 td’s.  Andrew Davidson of Emmaus broke Jamie Germani’s single season school rushing record.  Davidson had his 4th/200 yard game in a row and now has 1,662 yards moving by Germani’s 1,624 yards that he set in 2004.  Davidson also went over 2,000 yards for his career and has scored 36 td’s.  Evan Culver of Saucon Valley rushed for 233 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Palisades.  Culver now has rushed for 1,420 yards and has scored 24 td’s this year.  John Rupinski of North Schuylkill has rushed for 1,446 yards on the season and has scored 20 td’s.  The 1,452  yards is the highest single season total I’ve found so far for North Schuylkill.  John Rosella had 1,438 yards in 1968 and Ethan Motsney had 1,418 yards in 2012.  Rupinski’s 20 td’s ties him with Motstney for third highest for a single season.  That’s one behind Matt Gownley who had 21 in 2012 and two behind John Rosella’s 22 that he had in 1968.  Qmac Quiteh of Pocono Mountain West finished his career with 1,592 yards rushing.  He joins his two older brothers, as all three rushed for over 1,500 yards in their career’s.  Franklyn had 2,853 yards from 2007-08 and Terrence had 1,873 yards from 2008-10.  Matt Miller of Williams Valley now has 1,511 yards rushing and has scored 16 td’s.  The 1,511 yards is third highest at Williams Valley behind Justin Bender’s 1,517 in 2003 and Cole Barnhardt’s 1,680 yards (as a junior) in 2012.