Southern Columbia
December 2025
PIAA 2A Championship Farrell vs Southern Columbia (Photo Gallery)
December 5, 2025 | Ryan Scipio
Southern Columbia wins vs Farrell 43-22 Full High Quality Gallery coming to ScipsPhotography.com soon Game Highlights: Full High Quality Gallery coming to ScipsPhotography.com soon Follow @ScipScip
PIAA Class 2A Title Game Preview: Southern Columbia
December 4, 2025 | Dave Fegley
PIAA District 4 League: PHAC Head Coach: Jim Roth OVERVIEW Southern Columbia in a state final? It has become an annual tradition for followers in Catawissa, Elysburg, and Numidia. Not last year though. The Tigers were sent packing in the district semifinals to eventual state champion Troy and finished with a 7-5 record. That win […]
Southern Columbia Takes care of business against a talented Lansdale Catholic team
November 29, 2025 | Lindsey Bennett
Southern Columbia will be playing for the 15th State Championship next Friday @ 1:00pm in Cumberland Valley, on paper it looked like Lansdale Catholic should be able to dominate the Tigers, but The Tigers and there very fundamentally sound DNA showed that you can’t judge a team by the size of their athletes (Click the […]
Southern Secures State Title Appearance Over Lansdale Catholic
November 29, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Tigers beat Crusaders 24-7 Heading into the locker room tied at 7-7, Southern Columbia realized that Lansdale Catholic was the toughest opponent that it had faced all season. It makes sense considering it was the Eastern Final, but the Crusaders appeared as if they were a play from striking at any moment. After halftime, Southern […]
Video Recap: Southern Columbia Smothers Lansdale Catholic, Advances to 23rd State Title Game
November 29, 2025 | Cody Brady
SoCo v Lansdale Cath by PAFootball Newsdotcom Southern Columbia racked up nearly 300 yards on the ground and took advantage of early second half mistakes by the Crusaders en route to a 24-7 victory Friday night at Lehighton. After the teams exchanged first drive scores, there would be no further scoring until the second […]
Preview: Southern Columbia Seeks 23rd State Title Game Appearance; Lansdale Catholic Looking for 2nd
November 27, 2025 | Cody Brady
When: Friday, November 28, 7:00 Where: Lehighton HS Who: Southern Columbia Tigers(13-1) v Lansdale Catholic Crusaders(12-2) Last Meeting: This will be the first meeting between the two schools What’s at Stake: With a win, Southern Columbia would go to its 23rd state title game and would be seeking its 15th title victory. If Lansdale Catholic […]
Southern Steamrolls Past Steel-High
November 22, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Tigers put game into Mercy Rule and win 55-26 Southern Columbia and Steelton-Highspire are two of Pennsylvania’s most decorated programs, and Friday night’s matchup at Harold L. Bolig Memorial Stadium added another chapter to their shared history of excellence. With 14 combined state championships and 50 district titles between them, both teams entered the contest […]
Southern Wins D4 Crown Back From Troy
November 15, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Tigers Motivated in 42-0 Victory It was something that Southern Columbia had long waited for. The Tigers had to endure more than a full calendar year to get redemption against Troy. Entering the District 4 Class 2A final, Troy was ranked No.1 in the state and Southern was No. 4 based on PFN’s weekly rankings. […]
Southern Columbia handily takes down Troy in District 4 Title game
November 15, 2025 | Lindsey Bennett
It was a tough night for the Troy Trojans; it seemed like everything that did was stymied and they had no answers against the Tigers of Southern Columbia (Click the link below to see the full video wrap up).
Southern Columbia Wins 600th Game
November 8, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Tigers Trump Panthers Southern Columbia is focused on rebounding from last year’s playoff exit. The Tigers took another step in the right direction on Friday as they beat Bloomsburg in their District 4 Class 2A semifinal matchup. Against a team they know more than any other, it was fitting that they reached a milestone in […]
Southern Beats Cowanesque Valley In Playoff Opener
November 1, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Tigers beat Indians in first ever meeting For a program that has had more success than any other in the state, one would think that Southern Columbia had to have played against every team in District 4 at this point, but that wasn’t the case. The Tigers welcomed Cowanesque Valley on Halloween for the first […]
District 4: Class 1A-4A 2025 Playoff Preview
October 31, 2025 | Davin Ridall
It seems like only yesterday we were preparing for the first week of the season. Now, Halloween is right around the corner, trees are losing all their leaves, and the weather is getting much colder, which means playoff time is here once again. The playoffs are where records are thrown out the window and where […]
Southern’s Special Teams Were Special Against Shikellamy
October 25, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Tigers win ninth straight game The last time Southern Columbia scored more than 60 points in back-to-back weeks was the 2019 season when the Tigers broke nearly every PIAA record imaginable on the way to winning Pennsylvania’s 2A crown. On Friday night in the final game of the regular season, Southern defeated Shikellamy 61-28 after […]
District 4 Showdown: Tigers Trounce Panthers
October 18, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Southern’s Garcia scores 4 times in 61-0 win Bloomsburg came into Southern’s stadium confident. After all, the Panthers and Tigers had identical 7-1 records entering the second to last week of the regular season. By the end of the night, Southern more than sent out a public service announcement to the gridiron world — “We’re […]
Southern Columbia Claims Division Title
October 11, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Tigers win at Montoursville 26-16 It takes a team to win, but Southern Columbia’s Blaise Kissinger highlighted the victory on both sides of the ball in crucial moments as the Tigers beat Montoursville 26-16. The win earned Southern the Pennsylvania Heartland Athletic Conference Division 2 championship inside of Memorial Stadium. “We have been working all […]
Southern Secures 21-14 Win Over Mifflinburg
October 4, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Tigers Take Care Of Business There was one game in Pennsylvania that was undoubtedly the most intriguing in the state, and that game took place in Union County on Friday. Southern Columbia won 21-14 over Mifflinburg. Ultimately, the state’s 2A No. 4 ranked Tigers executed down the stretch to beat the No. 8 team in […]
Southern Defense Impresses In Win
September 27, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Tigers Tackle Ironmen 41-21 The objective was simple. Win and stay healthy. The Tigers won handily and escaped with just one injury that will be evaluated later in the week. “I was very happy once again with the way our defense played. They took care of business throughout the time that they were on the […]
District 4 Mid-Season Review 2025
September 24, 2025 | Davin Ridall
Five weeks of the 2025 season have come and gone, and there’s plenty to talk about so far around District 4! We’ve had plenty of parity so far, some teams emerging after years of disappointment, some teams falling short of expectations, and some teams doing a little in between. So if you haven’t been paying […]
Southern Columbia Wins Cross-County Clash
September 20, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Tigers eat up Blue Jays 48-0 In the 30th straight win for Southern Columbia over Central Columbia dating back to well before any current player was born, the Tigers wasted no time to prove their dominance. By the time Grady Garcia scored with 4:18 left in the first quarter, to make the score 27-0, the […]
The STATE of PA Football: Live from Big Dan’s BBQ. Tigers, Panthers & Ironmen!
September 17, 2025 | Billy Splain
Join the PFN staff and special guest host Jim Doyle as they interview players and coaches from Bloomsburg, Danville and Southern Columbia. Join us live at Big Dan’s BBQ on rte 487 in Catawissa or watch live on CWTAP tv or Stream on PAFootballnews.com
Tigers Trounce Tornadoes
September 13, 2025 | Dave Fegley
SCA wins rivalry 49-16 On a night that Southern Columbia honored the 10th anniversary of their 2015 PIAA Championship squad that went undefeated with a 49-14 Mercy Rule victory over Aliquippa for the 2A crown, and a night where current Tiger assistant coach Josh Tripp was recognized for his courageous battle in dealing with brain […]
Southern Columbia Shuts Out Milton
September 6, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Tigers dominate cat clash On Milton’s final drive of the first half, they picked up four first downs against Southern Columbia’s defense. The end result? A sack that ended the second quarter as the Tigers went into their home locker room with a comfortable 21-0 edge. Those first downs were hard to come by as […]
SCA Slams Sock
August 30, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Tigers Lance Lancers Southern Columbia obviously didn’t like the fact that Loyalsock won three years ago in the regular season against the Tigers. That year ended with the sixth of a record seven straight PIAA Class 2A championships for Jim Roth’s program. After falling to Wyomissing in the season opener for a second year in […]
Spartans Top Tigers Again
August 23, 2025 | Dave Fegley
Wyomissing wins against Southern 49-27 1981 and 2025 aren’t years to remember to start a season in Southern Columbia’s gridiron department. Why? The connection, more than four decades apart, on Friday that the Tigers found themselves in with back-to-back season opening losses was something Jim Roth was never a part of. The state’s most successful […]
2025 PFN Team Preview: Southern Columbia Tigers
August 15, 2025 | Cody Brady
Southern Columbia Tigers Head Coach: Jim Roth Class 2A PIAA District: 4 2024 Record 7-5 Key Starters Lost Dominic Fetterolf – ILB Brecken Reamer – DB Travis Wegrzynowicz – DB Joey Yancoski – LB Jude Bremigen – OG Dylan Stine – OT Returning starters Ethan Makowski – (Sr) DE, 6’-225 – 38 Tackles […]
