2025 District 9 Review – 6th Week

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Phil Myers | September 30, 2025

Here are the top performers of the week, along with a couple other tidbits:

Quarterbacks:

• Braylon Wagner, Redbank Valley, threw for 300 yards and 4 scores.
• Trent Colgan, Brookville, passed for 4 touchdowns.
• Carter Hindman, Central Clarion, had 223 yards throwing the football.
• Ryan Schenfield, Otto-Eldred, threw a trio of TD passes and also ran for a touchdown.
• Eric Novosel, Kane, 202 yards passing and a touchdown, plus 88 yards rushing and a touchdown.
• Dom Corcetti, Keystone, accounted for 227 all-purpose yards and a couple of TDs, 1 passing and 1 rushing.
• Xavier Curry, Clearfield, 2 TD passes and another TD rushing.
• Brennan Fillhart, Port Allegany, tossed the agate for 200 yards.

 Running Backs:

• Colton Ryan, Clearfield, scored 3 touchdowns rushing.
• Markus Gerg, Ridgway, ran for a trio of scores.
• Hunter Scherer, Karns City, traversed the field for 3 TDs.
• Max Gallagher, Union/AC Valley, had the trifecta in rushing touchdowns.
• Jonah Ganoe, Smethport, racked up 224 yards on the ground, scoring 2 times.  He had a third TD on a pass reception.
• Evan Anderson, Kane, ran for 180 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
• Jordan Rutan, Punxsutawney, rushed for 167 yards and 2 TDs.

 Receivers:

• Jaxon Huffman, Redbank Valley, grabbed 6 aerials for 170 yards and a touchdown.  He also threw a pass for a touchdown.
• Cooper Broad, Clearfield, garnered 156 receiving yards.
• Nick Wilfong, Port Allegany, had 143 yards receiving.

 Defense and Special Teams:

• Wyatt Blendinger, Otto-Eldred, returned a punt 50 yards.
• Caleb Hendershot, Curwensville, scored when he travelled 20 yards with a blocked punt.
• Cael Butler, Curwensville, returned an interception for a TD 70 yards.
• Caleb Wonderly, Coudersport, scored on a 32-yard pick six.
• Briggs Beckwith, Central Clarion, had a 30-yard pick six.
• Blake Porter, Brookville, returned his interception 6 yards for the touchdown.
• Robert Ruffing, Ridgway, scooped up a fumble and ran 37 yards for the score.

Other Tidbits:

• Union/A-C Valley is now 6-0 for the first time in the 10-year history of Falcon Knight football. 
• Port Allegany’s all-state running back, Aiden Bliss, moved into 2nd place in D-9 career rushing history when he once again ran for over 100 yards, giving him over 1,000 for the year so far.  Bliss now has 6,087 yards and trails only Nick Stewart of Curwensville who has 7,324 yards.

Game of the Week: There were 3 dandies this week.  The first one found 1A Port Allegany topping 3A St. Marys 32-26.  The win extended Port’s regular season win streak to 18 games.  The Gators took an 8-0 lead after the first quarter.  The second stanza was wild with 36 points scored.  Port clung to a 24-20 lead at the intermission.  The Dutch scored the only TD in the third quarter to lead the #4 ranked Gators 26-24 heading to the last quarter.  The winning score came with under minutes to play, but Port had to survive on defense.  And they did, overcoming a pass interference penalty on an intercepted pass and a St. Marys WR dropping a pass deep in port Allegany territory.

The second game of the week was the Kane-Smethport contest which ended with Kane winning to up their record to 5-1.  The first half was a see-saw battle that ended with Smethport leading 22-14, a lead that held until the 4th quarter.  Kane scored early in the last stanza to trim the Hubber lead to 22-20.  Smethport subsequently had the ball in the red zone but the Wolves’ defense came up big.  Later, the Hubbers had a 4th and two at the Kane 41, but elected to go for the 1st down instead of punting.  Kane held and drove down the field scoring the winning TD with less than a minute to go.

The final GOTW saw Brockway win a one pointer 19-18 over Keystone in a real nail-biter at the end.  Brockway appeared to be comfortably ahead 19-6 through even the first 4 minutes of the fourth quarter.  Then Keystone kicked it up a notch scoring twice in the last seven minutes.  The second TD was scored with 26 seconds remaining.  The Panthers chose to go for the two-point conversion and the win, but the Brockway Rover ‘D’ stopped them inches short of the goal line to preserve the victory.   

Upcoming Games of the Week:

• Kane 5-1 @ Union/AC Valley 6-0
• Karns City 4-2 @ Westinghouse 6-0

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