District 11 Notes – Week 7

We had 5 players rush for over 200 yards this week with 4 of them recording their first 200 yard game of the season.  Andrew Davidson of Emmaus ran for 315 yards and scored a total of 4 td’s in their close win over Central Catholic.  Davidson broke the single game rushing yardage school record previously held by Joe Williams.  Williams ran for 282 yards and a school record 6 td’s in the first half against Pocono Mountain West in 2010 EC playoff game.  KJ Snerr of Marian Catholic rushed for 266 yards in a win over Schuylkill Haven.  Matt Miller of Williams Valley had 244 yards in a win over Pine Grove.  Austyn Borre of Pleasant Valley had 227 yards racked up when he left the game vs Dieruff in the 3rd quarter.  Borre needed 20 more yards to break his own school record of 246 yards that he set as a freshman also vs Dieruff.  Borre’s replacement, Eric Marbury rushed for 117 yards in their close win over Dieruff.  Borre also went over 3,000 yards for his career and now has 3,157 yards and 46 td’s.  Gerald Douglas of Stroudsburg rushed for 210 yards and 3 td’s in their win over Allen.  That’s the 4th time this year Douglas has gone over the 200 yard mark.  Douglas leads the District with 1,343 yards.  Shane Simpson of Easton scored a td in their win over Parkland and is now tied with Juan Gaddy for the career school record.  Will Casella of Schuylkill Haven also has 65 career td’s which puts the 3 players in 14th place all-time in District 11.  Casella and teammate Ryan Fink each had over 100 yards rushing last week.  Simpson along with Harry Hall of Northwestern and John Rupinski of North Schuylkill all went over 1,000 yards rushing for the season.  Simpson moves into second place all-time at Easton with his 3,408 yards rushing.  Ovid Goulbourne, who rushed for 3,332 yards from 2002-04, drops to third.  Saquon Barkley went over 3,000 yards for his career and scored another 4 td’s in their loss to Freedom.  Barkley now has 3,005 career rushing yards and also leads the District with 23 total td’s this year.  East Stroudsburg North had 3 players rush for over 100 yards in their win over Nazareth.  Elijah McBride rushed for 184 yards, Thomas Melchiorre rushed for 182 yards and Tony Cruz rushed for 105 yards.  Junior, Wyatt Clements of Lehighton now has 30 career td’s.  Christian Gretzinger of Palisades scored 2 td’s in their win over Bangor and now has 31 for his career.  Michael McDaniel of Bethlehem Catholic went over 2,000 yards for his career and now has 2,082 yards.  Bud Moyer of Tamaqua ran for 174 yards and scored 4 total td’s (2nd week in a row) in their win over Shenandoah Valley.  Teammate Malik Roper spelled Moyer and rushed for 104 yards and a td.  Undefeated Freedom had 2 players rush for over 100 yards in their overtime win over Whitehall.  QB Joe Young had 111 yards and his 7th consecutive game with exactly 1 rushing td, and Joe Santos had 105 yards and the game winning 2 point conversion.