Long Time Coming: Easton will face La Salle Friday night in long awaited rematch

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Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski | November 20, 2025

The Explorers and Red Rovers have not played against one another since 2010. La Salle owns back-to-back wins.

It has been ten years in the making since a District XI highest classification football squad has beaten a District 12 team. That team was the Parkland Trojans knocked off La Salle 16-13 en route to a state title shot against Pittsburgh Central Catholic in 2015.

Friday night at historic Bethlehem School District Stadium. The Red Rovers of Easton, put their unbeaten streak of 13 games on the line when facing La Salle College Explorers at 7pm. With the winner advancing to the PIAA State 6A semifinal to face either North Penn or Pennridge.

La Salle comes into the game with a 10-1 record. The Explorers have several impressive wins this season: 23-6 over Pittsburgh Central Catholic. Two wins over perennial power St. Joe’s Prep 31-20 on October 4th and a 24-14 decision on November 1st. They also hold two out-of-state wins against Salesianum of Delaware 28-17 and Calvert Hall (MD) 48-7. The only blemish on their record is a 39-36 defeat to another state semifinalist in 5A Roman Catholic. The Cahillites rocked Whitehall this past weekend 49-7.

For Easton, it has been quite a journey a 3-8 team two years ago, improved to 11-2 last year and now are unbeaten and looking for their first 14 win season in school history and looking for their first trip to the state semifinals since 2003.

The Explorers have several Division 1 recruits, quarterback Gavin Sidwar, for Missouri, offensive tackle Grayson McKeogh and wide receiver/safety Joey O’Brien committed to the University of Notre Dame and tight end JP Oates is committed to Temple. Sidwar, has completed 186 passes on 264 attempts for 2,671 yards and 32 touchdown passes. O’Brien has caught 66 catches on the season for just under a thousand yards and 16 scores. Oates has 30 receptions for 440 yards and 4 touchdowns. Ahzir Nelson is the leading rusher 689 yards and a dozen scores on 119 touches.

Easton is led by quarterback Cole Ordway with 1,191 yards passing on 84 of 131 passing and 16 touchdowns in 2025. He has also rushed for an additional 1,827 yards on 201 attempts for 34 scores. Andrew Biddle is Ordway’s top go-to receiver with 420 yards on 38 receptions and Chris Martinez, coming out of the backfield has picked up 1,319 yards on 265 carries and seven times he crossed the goal line.

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