DISTRICT 11 NOTES – WEEK 12

RUNNING BACKS:  Evan Culver of Saucing Valley rushed for 203 yards and scored 5 td’s in their win over Lehighton.  Culver is now Saucon’s single season and career record holder for rushing yards and td’s.  His single season totals of 2,328 yards rushing and 39 td’s are both 2nd highest in the District this year behind Kyle Boney of Emmaus.  His career totals are 4,331 yards and 68 td’s.  Wyatt Clements of Lehighton rushed for 105 yards vs Saucon to finish the year with 1,669 yards rushing and 24 td’s.  Clements joined the “4,000 yard” club for his career and ended with 4,005 yards.  He also scored 65 td’s.  Harry Hall of Northwestern finished the season rushing for 1,649 yards and 23 td’s.  Hall set new career records at Northwestern when he rushed for 5,065 yards on 767 attempts and scored 59 td’s.  His yardage puts him in 10th place all-time in the District for a career.  District leader Kyle Boney of Emmaus finishes his season with 2,452 yards rushing and 41 td’s.  Boney also went over 3,000 yards for his career, ending with 3,068 yards and 51 td’s.  Nysir Minney-Gratz of Easton enters the Thanksgiving morning game vs Phillipsburg with 1,843 yards rushing and 28 td’s.  Mitch Daniel of Notre Dame has rushed for 1,083 yards and has scored 18 td’s.  Daniel has scored 12 rushing td’s, 4 receiving td’s, 1 fumble recovery td and 1 interception return td.  His 18 td’s ties him with Dan Tavani’s junior year for 2nd place for a single season at Notre Dame.  He also has 508 yards receiving on 28 catches.  Teammate Tre Jordan has scored 17 td’s this year while racking up 777 yards rushing.  Jordan has now rushed for 1,824 yards and has scored 39 td’s in his career.  KJ Snerr of Marian Catholic rushed for 190 yards and scored 4 td’s in their win over Tri-Valley.  Alvin Pacheco of Central Catholic rushed for 278 yards and 3 td’s against Southern Lehigh.  Pacheco finished the season with 1,610 yards rushing and scored 26 td’s.  He finishes his career with 2,281 yards rushing and scored a total of 35 td’s.  Gunner Anglovich of Liberty rushed for 293 yards and 3 td’s in their loss to WVW.  Anglovich ends his junior year with 1,450 yards rushing and a total of 21 td’s.  Devante Cross of Parkland went over 1,000 yards rushing for the season and now has 1,067 yards.

QUARTERBACKS:  Tre Jordan of Notre Dame completed 36 passes in 47 attempts for 358 yards in their win over Northwestern.  Jordan completed his first 17 passes in the game before a dropped pass ended the streak.  The 36 completions breaks the District record of 30 that Cole Hildabrandt of Pius X had vs Mount Carmel in 2005.  Cole Ciesnolevicz of Williams Valley had 29 completions in their win over Halifax in 1999.  Jordan went over 3,000 yards passing for the season and leads the District with 3,129 yards.  That puts him in 4th place all-time in the District all-time, just 1 yard behind Wilson’s Tyler Smith.  Jordan also joins Tevon Weber of Salisbury, Travis Stefanik of Nazareth and Blake Levengood of Southern Lehigh for the District lead with 28 td passes each.  Doug Erney of Liberty went over 2,000 yards passing for the second year in a row and finished the season with 2,037 yards and a school record 26 td passes.  Erney ends his career with school records of 6,675 yards passing and 70 td passes.  Devante Cross went over 2,000 yards passing for the season and now has 2,162 yards.  Blake Levengood of Southern Lehigh finished the year with single season school records of 2,417 yards passing and 28 td passes.  Dylan Snyder of Northwestern finished the year throwing for 1,152 yards which is good enough for 4th highest all-time at the school.   Tyler Cann of Lehighton threw for 63 yards against Saucon Valley to come up 7 yards short of 4,000 yards for his career.  Cann threw for 1,643 yards and 19 td passes.  For his career, Cann finished with 3,993 yards passing and 36 td passes.  Junior, Ethan Persa of Central Catholic threw for 1,874 yards this year which is the 8th highest total at the school.  Zach Thatcher of Saucon Valley went over 1,000 yards passing for the season and now has 1,014 yards and 11 td passes.  Thatcher also has rushed for 890 yards and 14 td’s.

RECEIVERS:  Nick Basenese of Notre Dame caught 10 passes last week to tie one school record and break another.  His 10 catches ties the single game record that Rob Harper (1981) and Josh Jurgensen (1999) jointly held.  Basenese now has 72 catches on the year breaking Harper’s record of 62 catches.  His 822 yards is the 4th best all-time at Notre Dame.  Ethan Price of Southern Lehigh finishes his senior year with a District leading 1,281 yards.  Price falls 3 yards short of 2,000 yards for his career but moves into 15th place all-time in the District with 1,997 yards.  Price holds school records for single season td catches with 16 and career td catches with 22.  Teammate Tim Walter will have a chance to break those records next year as he will enter his senior year with 78 catches, 1,307 yards receiving and 17 td catches.  Kenny Yeboah of Parkland now has 55 catches this year for 858 yards and 11 td catches.  His yardage ties the single season school record held by Jaleel Clark (2007).  Yeboah now has 102 career catches for 1,631 yards and 24 td catches.  Yeboah is the 4th Trojan to have 100 career receptions.  He trails only Clint Dotson (104), Jarey Elder (106) and Tim Massaquoi (114).  His 24 td catches moves him ahead of Dotson’s 23 and into second place behind Massaquoi’s 31.

6 (10), 4 (5) Nysir Minney-Gratz (Easton)

243 (9), 232 (7) Brandon Keyes (Pleasant Valley)

230 (10), 224 (9) Bobby Grigas (North Schuylkill)

223 (10) Ian McCole (Shenandoah Valley)