District 11 Notes Week 6

Shane Simpson rushed for 278 yards and 6 td’s in the win over Whitehall.  Simpson also caught 2 passes for 44 yards and his 7th td of the game.  The 7 td’s breaks the 89 year old record of Jim Hanlon.  Hanlon had 6 td’s in a game in 1925.  Simpson now leads the District with 20 td’s.  His 64 career td’s is one shy of the school record held by Juan Gaddy.  Gaddy scored 65 td’s from 1989-92.  Simpson is tied with Jonathan Linton of Catasauqua and Rashonn Drayton of Central Catholic for 15th all-time in the District.  Simpson also went over 3,000 yards for his career and now sits in 3rd place all-time at Easton with 3,277 yards.  Whitehall’s Saquon Barkley scored 4 td’s in the same game and now has 19 td’s on the season and 51 for his career.  Barkley went over 1,000 yards for the season (1,050) and is now Whitehall’s all-time leading rusher with 2,841 yards.  Nick Kurtz (1996-99) had 2,764 career rushing yards and still holds the District 11 record for a single game, when he rushed for 429 yards vs Freedom in 1999.  Barkley has now scored 4 td’s in each of the even numbered games (2, 4, 6).  Michael McDaniel of Bethlehem Catholic scored 3 td’s in a win over East Stroudsburg North and now has 46 career td’s.  That ties him with Erik Marsh for 4th best all-time at BECA.  Gerald Douglas of Stroudsburg rushed for 242 yards and 5 td’s in a win over Pocono Mountain East.  Douglas moves ahead of Dave Paffenroth on the all-time rushing list at Stroudsburg and into 4th place with 3,309 yards.  His 46 td’s moves him into 3rd place all-time at the school.  Paffenroth had 3,010 yards and 45 career td’s from 1976-78.  East Stroudsburg North had another set of runningbacks rush for over 100 yards in their loss to Bethlehem Catholic.  Thomas Melchiorre ran for 135 yards, while Elijah McBride ran for 127 yards.  Will Casella of Schuylkill Haven went over the 5,000 yards in his career and now has 5,003.  Casella has scored 63 td’s in his career which places him 18th all-time in the District.  Hunter Harner of Tri-Valley rushed for 180 yards last week and 3 td’s to help the Bulldogs upset previously unbeaten Juniata.  Harner now has 2,083 career rushing yards and has scored 31 td’s.  Nate Farber of Northern Lehigh rushed for 253 yards and 2 td’s in a loss to  Catasauqua.  Farber, now sits one yard behind Hunter with 2,082 career yards on the chart.  Evan Culver of Saucon Valley rushed for 251 yards and scored 3 td’s in their win over Pen Argyl.  Harry Hall of Northwestern is now in 3rd place all-time at the school in career rushing yardage.  Hall’s 2,478 yards moves him ahead of Austin Bleam. Bleam had 2,466 yards from 1999-02.  Next up for Hall is current head coach Josh Snyder who rushed for 2,653 yards from 1994-97.  Junior, Wyatt Clements of Lehighton now has 30 career td’s.  Bud Moyer of Tamaqua ran for 218 yards and 4 td’s while teammate Tyler Skripko ran for 139 yards and 2 td’s in their win over Minersville.  They became the first pair of teammates to each have double digit td’s for the season.  Moyer has 10, while Skripko has 11.