
Parkland rolls past Pleasant Valley
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Torey Petruno | September 11, 2025
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Trojans score early and often to quickly dispatch visiting Bears.
Parkland’s march toward an EPC championship faced little resistance as they quickly capitalized on multiple Pleasant Valley miscues to gain an early lead and never look back. The open the game, Parkland received the kickoff and wasted little time finding the end-zone. On their first offensive play, Trojan quarterback Finn Coen found Nassim Adams in the flat who almost took the swing pass to the house, but he was brought down from behind at the Pleasant Valley 5 yard line. Two plays later, Parkland’s TJ Lawrence found a hole right up the middle and put Parkland up 7-0 with 10:43 left in the opening quarter.
🚨🚨TOUCHDOWN!! 🚨🚨
After a looong catch and run from @finn_coen3 to @NassimAdams1, @tjlawrence263 cashes in 2 plays later to put the Trojans up early!@PHSTrojansFB 7@football_pv 0
10:43 left in the 1st@PaFootballNews pic.twitter.com/MuyA1MMExc— NittanyPete (@NittanyPete) September 11, 2025
The ensuing drive saw Pleasant Valley QB Jaxson Haines picked off on third down by Parkland’s TJ Lawrence who returned the interception deep in to Bears’ territory. Two plays Jaren Sanchez found room up the middle to quickly make this a 2 score game just over three minutes in to the game.
🚨🚨INTERCEPTION and TOUCHDOWN!! 🚨🚨@football_pv is picked off on 3rd down and long by @tjlawrence263. Jaren Sanchez finds room up the middle 2 plays later to put the Trojans up early by 2 scores!@PHSTrojansFB 14@football_pv 0
8 : 47 left in the 1st.@PaFootballNews pic.twitter.com/LW1iZ3CQrr— NittanyPete (@NittanyPete) September 11, 2025
Pleasant Valley’s offense started to come to life a bit on the next drive, accumulating a few first downs before being forced to punt the ball away by the Parkland defense. The punt was fielded just outside Parkland’s 10 yard line by Nassim Adams who took the return all the way back for the touchdown. With just under 3 minutes remaining in the opening quarter it was now Parkland 21, Pleasant Valley 0.
🚨🚨TOUCHDOWN!! 🚨🚨@NassimAdams1 returns the @football_pv punt for the score!!!@PHSTrojansFB 21@football_pv 0
2 : 51 left in the opening quarter@PaFootballNews pic.twitter.com/5qNJI4zC8A— NittanyPete (@NittanyPete) September 11, 2025
The ensuing Bear possession ended with another turnover. This time a mis-handled pitch found its’ way in to the waiting arms of Parkland’s TJ Lawrence. Trojan qb Finn Coen took his shot on the first play after the turnover and found Blake Nassry down the seam for a 40 yard pitch and catch for the score which extended the Trojan lead to 28 still in the first quarter.
🏈🏈TOUCHDOWN! 🏈🏈
On the first play of the drive after the @tjlawrence263 fumble recovery, @finn_coen3 finds @BlakeNassry down the seam for a 40 yard strike for 6!@PHSTrojansFB 28@football_pv 0
Just over a minute left in the 1st quarter.@PaFootballNews pic.twitter.com/9aa2xR8Zfz— NittanyPete (@NittanyPete) September 11, 2025
The 2nd quarter was more of the same from Parkland as Naquan Thomason found the end zone on back to back drives to extend the Trojan lead to 42-0 with just under 7 minutes until half time.
🚨🚨TOUCHDOWN!! 🚨🚨@NaquanThomason right up the middle from 6 yards out for the score!!@PHSTrojansFB 35@football_pv 0
Just over 9 min left in the half.@PaFootballNews pic.twitter.com/fyRHrwsfy4
— NittanyPete (@NittanyPete) September 11, 2025
🚨🏈🚨TOUCHDOWN!! 🚨🏈🚨@NaquanThomason up the middle again for the score!!@PHSTrojansFB 42@football_pv 0
6 : 45 left in the half.@PaFootballNews pic.twitter.com/z2rXvRsVub— NittanyPete (@NittanyPete) September 11, 2025
Following these two scores, Pleasant Valley finally was able to break through on to the scoreboard. The Bears methodically marched the ball down the field and with 46 seconds left in the half, Isaac Westerman found room around the edge of the Trojan defensive line and got the Bears on the board.
🚨🏈🚨TOUCHDOWN!! 🚨🏈🚨@football_pv gets on the board VA a 3yd run by Isaac Westerman with 46 seconds left in the half!!@PHSTrojansFB 42@football_pv 6@PaFootballNews pic.twitter.com/vSHveEbMD4
— NittanyPete (@NittanyPete) September 12, 2025
The 2nd half began with Pleasant Valley once again moving the ball downfield and quickly finding the end-zone once again. This time via a long 31 yard run by Chris Ward who found room around the right side of the Parkland defense and after shaking off a few defenders, found paydirt. With 9:12 remaining in the 3rd quarter, it was Parkland 42, Pleasant Valley 13. The struggles for Parkland continued in to the 3rd quarter as a long run by Caleb Corsa ended in disaster as he was stripped of the ball deep in Pleasant Valley territory. The Bears however were unable to do anything with this gift and were forced to punt the ball away. The punt however, was blocked by the Trojan’s Jason Brubacher and rolled out of the end-zone for a safety.
🚨🚨PUNT BLOCK! 🚨🚨
Parkland’s Jason Brubacher with the punt block for the safety!@PHSTrojansFB 44@football_pv 13
3 : 38 left in the 3rd pic.twitter.com/FQlk2TwS7N— NittanyPete (@NittanyPete) September 12, 2025
Corsa seemingly took the turnover to heart and would account for the next two Trojan scores, putting Parkland up 51-13 with just under a minute left in the 3rd quarter.
🏈🚨🏈TOUCHDOWN!! 🏈🚨🏈@calebcorsa takes it in from 12 yards out for the score!@PHSTrojansFB 51@football_pv 13
29 seconds remaining in the 3rd@PaFootballNews pic.twitter.com/s7hKLm6V4k
— NittanyPete (@NittanyPete) September 12, 2025
🏈🚨🏈TOUCHDOWN!! 🏈🚨🏈@calebcorsa takes it in from 12 yards out for the score!@PHSTrojansFB 51@football_pv 13
29 seconds remaining in the 3rd@PaFootballNews pic.twitter.com/kErSyVwPZ2
— NittanyPete (@NittanyPete) September 12, 2025
With just under 7 and a half minutes left in the game, Parkland’s Justin Barnes capped the scoring for the evening as he found room around the right side of the Bears’ defense and scored from 21 yards out to push the score to 58-13 in favor of the Trojans.
🚨🚨TOUCHDOWN!! 🚨🚨
Justin Barnes takes it around the outside from 21 yards out for the Trojan TOUCHDOWN!@PHSTrojansFB 58@football_pv 137 : 27 left in the game@PaFootballNews pic.twitter.com/IBnFUZ80OE
— NittanyPete (@NittanyPete) September 12, 2025
With the victory, Parkland moves to 4-0 on the season and will travel to Nazareth next week for a battle of currently undefeated EPC teams. Nazareth is slated to face off against Bethlehem Freedom (1-3) this Friday at BASD stadium in Bethlehem. Pleasant Valley falls to 1-3 on the year and will travel to East Stroudsburg South next week. The Cavaliers will face off this Friday against Allen (03-0)at home.
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