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Rising to the occasion: Lansdale overwhelms Lakeland

Tagged under: District 12, District 2, Gameday Hub, News, pfn, Playoffs

| November 15, 2025

Inability to take advantage of outstanding field position was Chiefs undoing

GERMANTOWN- When facing a team that has as much talent and speed, you need to take advantage of every opportunity given to you to come out victorious on the gridiron. Saturday afternoon at what is known as the Germantown Supersite or Benjamin L. Johnson Memorial Stadium, the Lakeland Chiefs could not cash in on three scoring chances in the first half, leading to a 43-7 defeat to highly regarded Lansdale Catholic in the first round of the PIAA state 2A playoffs on an overcast day.

Lakeland had three drives start inside the Crusaders 40 yard line that could produce zero points. After forcing a punt on the Chiefs opening drive, Lansdale Catholic quarterback Yeboa Cobbold Jr, fumbled back the ball to Lakeland and the Chiefs ad the ball at the Crusader 35, but a fourth down pass was incomplete turning the ball back over.

Lakeland’s defense forced a Crusader punt, but a high snap and a subsequent attempt to avoid the heavy rush, resulted in a 7 yard punt and Lakeland took over at the 26 of Lansdale Catholic, but again the drive was halted on a failed fourth down attempt.

The Crusaders drove 95 yards on their ensuing drive, culminating with a 35 yard touchdown pass from Cobbold to wide receiver James Webb, who made a brilliant catch with a defender draped all over him in the end zone. Ray Williamson connected on the point-after making it 7-0 with ten minutes left in the second quarter.

Lakeland punted on their next drive, only to get the ball right back after a Cobbold fumble was recovered at the Crusader 23. The Chiefs drove it to the three but a penalty and two tackles losses pushed the ball back to the nine. On another fourth down attempt quarterback Davd Naniewicz was dropped for a loss.

Three plays later Cobbold hooked up with Webb again, this time from 57 yards out as he caught the ball at the Chiefs eight and fought off a couple would-be-tacklers to get across the goal line making it 14-0 with just 28 seconds left in the half.

“We knew coming in that Naniewicz was key to their offense. We needed to throttle him down some, but he is a tough customer.” coach Dom D’Addona stated after the game.

On the opening drive of the second half had Lansdale Catholic take the second half kickoff from their own 23, and the drive was just one play as Nick O’Brian ripped of a 77 yard score down the home sidelines making the score 21-0.

Following a Saeed Robinson interception of a Naniewicz pass at the Crusader 13 lead to an 87 yard drive capped off by a Cobbold 20 yard score nearly untouched increasing the lead to 28-0 with 2:32 left in the third quarter.

Cobbold finished with 133 yards passing and ran for an additional 73 yards in the contest and had the two touchdowns passes to Webb

Russell Holmes was the next Crusader player to get his name on the stat sheet with a 23 yard burst up the middle, then was the recipient of fumble scoop-and-score, when a end around went awry and Holmes dashed in from 31 yards to make it 43-0.

Lakeland did avoid the shutout by scoring on an eight yard pass from Naniewicz to Gavin Roberts with 3:07 left in the game.

Lansdale Catholic (11-2) will face the District XI champion, Williams Valley (12-1). The Vikings defeated Schuylkill Haven Friday night 34-31. That game will be played next week at a site and time TBA. Lakeland finished their season at 11-2.

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