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Warrior Run(2-4) at Southern (6-0) (Friday)

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Selinsgrove (6-0) at Montoursville (5-1) (Friday)

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Danville (3-3) at Lewisburg (5-1) (Friday)

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Game NightWhat: Friday 7 p.m.Where: Christy Mathewson-Memorial StadiumLast meeting: Lewisburg won, 41-0, in 2014Radio: 100.9-FM, 6:30 p.m.

DANVILLE IRONMEN (3-3)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr 8 Peyton Riley 6-0 154 WR-K Fr. or 9 Matt Meloy 5-10 182 WR Sr.60 Mark Kitchen 6-0 215 RT Sr.52 Jay Brennan 5-9 195 RG Sr. or65 Preston Fausnaught 5-11 200 RG Fr.78 Jon Berkey 5-10 260 C Sr.53 Ken Cooper 6-1 206 LG So.59 Derien Yeager 5-10 240 LT So. 2 Joe Strausser 5-11 250 TE Sr.12 Gannon Feldman 5-10 165 QB So.23 Trent Hilkert 6-2 215 FB Jr.10 Eric Sees 5-5 147 HB Fr.22 Colton Riley 5-10 155 HB Sr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr59 Derien Yeager 5-10 240 DE So.52 Jay Brennan 5-9 195 NG Sr. 60 Mark Kitchen 6-0 215 DE Sr. 5 Shane Kozick 5-10 156 OLB Fr.53 Ken Cooper 6-1 206 WLB So.2 Joe Strausser 5-11 250 MLB Sr.35 Jared Mowery 6-0 205 ILB So.23 Trent Hilkert 6-2 215 OLB Jr. 8 Peyton Riley 6-0 154 CB Fr. 9 Matt Meloy 5-10 182 S Sr.22 Colton Riley 5-10 155 CB Sr.2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/ResultBloomsburg W, 31-7Mifflinburg W, 20-0Loyalsock L, 27-7at Southern Columbia L, 42-14at Mount Carmel L, 20-10Wyalusing W, 42-15at Lewisburg Fridayat Central Columbia Oct. 23Shikellamy Oct. 30at Warrior Run Nov. 6LEWISBURG GREEN DRAGONS (5-1)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr21 Matt Fedorjaka 6-2 165 WR Sr.74 Dee Gose 6-1 250 LT Jr.65 Cody Palmer 6-2 253 LG Sr.72 Lance Klinefelter 5-11 250 C So.55 Blake Benfer 5-11 215 RG So.56 Andrew Durfee 6-2 205 RT Sr.25 Aaron Veloz 5-8 192 TE Jr. 8 Trent Gower 5-10 155 QB Sr. 9 AJ Ramirez 5-4 125 RB Jr. 2 Dominic Farronato 6-1 205 RB Sr.26 Noah Inch 5-11 150 WR Sr.14 Nate Liscum 5-9 155 K So.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr25 Aaron Veloz 5-8 192 DE Jr.55 Blake Benfer 5-11 215 DT So.65 Cody Palmer 6-2 253 DT Sr.62 Riley Shaw 5-7 160 DE Jr.34 Skyler Anderson 5-7 140 OLB Jr.2 Dominic Farronato 6-1 205 ILB-P Sr.44 Trey Delbaugh 5-9 175 ILB Jr.1 Dylan Farronato 6-1 155 OLB Fr.21 Matt Fedorjaka 6-2 165 CB Sr. 5 Donte Malone 5-11 143 S Jr.26 Noah Inch 5-11 150 CB Sr.

2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/Resultat Shikellamy W, 38-14Montoursville W, 31-21at Mount Carmel L, 21-7at Milton W, 33-0Central Mountain W, 37-0at Central Columbia W, 42-31Danville FridaySouthern Col. Oct. 22Warrior Run Oct. 30at Mifflinburg Nov. 6

By Todd HummelThe Daily Item

LEWISBURG — Friday night at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium is one of the key games in both Heart-land Athletic Conference Division II and in the race for District 4 Class AA play-off seedings.

“It’s a huge game for us,” Danville coach Jim Keiser said. “It’s probably our big-gest game in two years.”

However, maybe the most interesting part of the con-test is the game within a game between the Lewisburg skill position players and the Danville secondary.

“Noah and (Matt) Fed(orjaka) are going to be tested by the secondary,” Lewisburg coach Michael Ferriero said. “(Quarterback Trent) Gower is going to have to make good decisions.”

“They got Noah Inch, Fe-dorjaka and the younger (Dylan) Farronato kid out there,” Keiser said. “It’s go-ing to be a job for them.”

Inch has 27 catches and is averaging 20.6 yards per catch with nine touchdowns, while Fedorjaka has 25 catches for 380 yards and three scores.

The Danville secondary has picked off 13 passes this season as senior safety Matt Meloy and freshman corner Peyton Riley each lead the team with three intercep-tions.

Another key matchup will come up front, where Lewis-burg (5-1 overall, 1-1 HAC-II) will have to try to contain

the Danville (3-3, 0-2 HAC-II) running game as well.

The Green Dragons have allowed 5.3 yards per carry this season and Danville junior fullback Trent Hilk-ert has emerged in his first healthy season.

Hilkert has rushed for 694 yards and seven touchdowns.

“Defensively, it’s going to come down to executing the game plan,” Ferriero said. “Danville does a great job running the ball. (Hilkert) has good power and good speed. We have to attack the gaps.”

Keiser says another key for the Ironmen run game has been the emergence at halfback of Ryan Palm and the return of Cross Truesdall from injury.

“When we’ve had our suc-

cess, we have had comple-mentary runners — Russell Heath and Anthony Sori or Sam Dressler and Isaiah Croll,” Keiser said. “I think we’ve found that combina-tion with Palm, Truesdall and Hilkert.”

Both teams are coming off contrasting week 6 games as well. Danville played its best game of the season in routing

Wyalusing last week.“Our goal is to get better

each week and we’ve been getting that out of our guys,” Keiser said. “It really came together last week and hope-fully this week it can again.”

The Green Dragons fell behind at halftime to winless Central Columbia before ral-lying for the victory.

“I was not happy. We took care of some things. I just felt we came out pretty flat,” Fer-riero said. “We were more fo-cused on their record. There isn’t anybody that is going to roll over for us.”

The game also has some pretty big playoff implica-tions, especially for Dan-ville.

Keiser thinks the Iron-men won’t be able to make a crowded District 4 Class AA field without a victory over the Green Dragons.

“I just don’t see how we can get the points to get in without a win,” Keiser said.

Lewisburg is currently sec-ond with 680 points, while Danville is 10th with 350 points — 80 points behind No. 8 Mount Carmel.

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Danville’s Ryan Palm carries the ball upfield during last week’s game against Wyalusing.

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What: Friday 7 p.m.Where: Wildcats StadiumLast meeting: Mifflinburg won, 42-20, in the 2014 regular season

MIFFLINBURG WILDCATS (0-6)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr13 Brian Zimmerman 5-11 180 WR Sr.76 Garrett Ressler 6-3 305 T Jr.57 Cody Botts 6-4 245 G Sr.50 Michael Renard 5-11 240 C Jr.55 Luke Walter 5-10 215 G Jr.70 Sam Rishel 6-4 260 T Jr.33 Brad Sauers 6-1 195 TE Sr.14 Josh Foster 5-7 176 QB Fr.30 Clayton Sheesley 5-9 181 RB So.20 Brayden Pierce 6-1 195 RB Jr.11 Tristan Martin 6-0 175 WR Sr.9 Ryan Oliver 6-0 170 K-P So.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr33 Brad Sauers 6-1 195 DE Sr.70 Sam Rishel 6-4 260 DT Jr.76 Garrett Ressler 6-3 305 NG Jr.55 Luke Walter 5-10 215 DT Jr.57 Cody Botts 6-4 245 DE Sr.30 Cole Laubach 5-9 181 LB So.11 Tristan Martin 6-0 175 CB Sr.13 Brian Zimmerman 5-11 180 S Sr.28 Derrick Seedor 5-8 160 CB Sr.

2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/Resultat Southern Columbia L, 49-21Danville L, 20-0Montoursville L, 62-25at Shikellamy L, 27-14Jersey Shore L, 45-14at Selinsgrove L, 54-26Central Mountain Fridayat Milton Oct. 23at Shamokin Oct. 30Lewisburg Nov. 6

CENTRAL MOUNTAIN WILDCATS (2-4)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr25 JJ Harris 5-9 170 WR Sr.76 Pat Barner 6-3 280 LT Sr.54 Mahilk Houtz 5-10 200 LG So.56 Trevor Smith 6-1 240 C Sr.67 Hunter Shoemaker 5-11 220 RG Sr.58 Spencer Wockenfuss 6-4 265 RT Jr.88 Hunter Baker 6-0 225 TE Sr. 9 Austyn Carson 5-8 155 QB So.27 Bryce Mansfield 5-11 180 FB Jr.36 Hunter Weaver 6-1 210 TB Sr.11 Tyler Zablocki 6-0 170 WB Sr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr67 Hunter Shoemaker 5-11 220 DE Sr.37 Brian Andrus 5-9 190 DT Jr.74 Shawn Shafer 5-11 215 DT Sr.8 Bryce Bittner 6-0 230 DE Sr.88 Hunter Baker 6-0 225 LB Sr.36 Hunter Weaver 6-1 210 LB Sr.25 JJ Harris 5-9 170 LB Sr.11 Tyler Zablocki 6-0 170 CB Sr.27 Bryce Mansfield 5-11 180 SS Jr.17 Evan Prough 5-7 170 FS So.12 Cordell Muthler 5-11 155 CB Sr.

2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/Resultat Williamsport L, 48-30Shamokin W, 24-21at Central Columbia W, 34-13Mount Carmel L, 41-21at Lewisburg L, 37-0Shikellamy L, 34-22at Mifflinburg FridayTyrone Oct. 23Southern Columbia Oct. 30at Jersey Shore Nov. 6

By Chris NagyThe Daily Item

MIFFLINBURG — For the Mifflinburg Wildcats, the first six games of the 2015 season haven’t gone the way they expected.

But instead of dwelling on what might have been, for Mifflinburg on Friday night it’s the start of a four-game season as it welcomes Central Mountain (2-4) to the western end of Union County.

“We have four weeks to play,” said Mifflinburg coach Jason Dressler. “We need to come out and be competitive in these four games.

“We just need to keep fo-cusing on the positives and keep getting better.”

One of the positives for the Wildcats (0-6) has been the fact that the running game has also started to im-prove in the past few weeks, with junior tailback Brayden Pierce leading the way with 450 yards and five scores.

But one of the negatives for Mifflinburg has been the turnovers. The Wildcats are minus-23 this year in the turnover margin, including 16 interceptions.

One of the places Mif-flinburg has struggled has been getting consistency out of the quarterback posi-tion. Freshman Josh Foster has been the starter and has struggled at times this sea-son showing his inexperi-ence.

If the Wildcats can get steady play out of the quar-terback position, the season might just turn around since Mifflinburg has weapons in the passing game. Receiv-ers Brian Zimmerman and Tristan Martin are fast and dangerous in open spaces, all they need is the ball. Both have more than 250 yards receiving this season.

The defense has also been up and down this season. Three weeks ago, the Wildcats defense put them in a position to win against Shikellamy. But the D has struggled the last two weeks.

Martin has also been a major threat in the return game. The senior returned a kick last week for a touch-down against Shikellamy and has put the offense in great field position all sea-son.

“Being 0-6, we just got to keep moving forward,” said Dressler. “We just have to focus on getting guys healthy and get ready to go at the next four games.”

To say Central Mountain comes into Wildcats Sta-dium on Friday licking its wounds would be an under-statement.

Central Mountain has

been hit hard by the injury bug in key positions and has had a struggle overcoming them.

The big one has been to Justin Neff.

The junior was the starter at quarterback before the injury and returned last week against Shikellamy in limited action, catching a touchdown pass and rushing the ball a few times. Sopho-more Austyn Carson got the start at quarterback.

With Neff limited, Cen-tral Mountain will lean on running back Hunter Weaver, who has more than 400 yards this season.

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Mifflinburg’s Brian Zimmerman runs with the ball after making an interception against Jersey Shore earlier this season.

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Game NightWhat: Friday 7 p.m.Where: Warriors StadiumLast meeting: Selinsgrove won, 35-0, in the 2014 regular seasonRadio: Eagle 107.3-FM, 6 p.m.; ESPN 92.3-FM, 6 p.m.

SELINSGROVE SEALS (6-0)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr 8 Colin Hoke 5-11 185 WR Sr.68 Jacob Strickler 6-3 246 LT Sr.67 Aaron Boob 5-9 210 LG Sr.59 Jack Gaugler 6-0 242 C Sr.72 Ryan Hoke 5-11 205 RG Sr.75 Keith Dreese 6-2 252 RT So.22 Joey Radel 5-11 180 TE Sr.18 Logan Leiby 6-0 180 QB So. 9 Ethan Trautman 5-11 185 FB Sr. 3 Angelo Martin 5-10 175 HB Sr.11 Nick Swineford 6-0 180 WR Sr.22 Joey Radel 5-11 180 K Sr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr77 Andrew Boob 5-115 220 DT Sr.61 C. Perieira-Muniz 5-11 213 NG Sr.68 Jacob Strickler 6-3 246 DT Sr.9 Ethan Trautman 5-11 185 OLB Sr.12 Tony Dressler 6-1 200 ILB So.67 Aaron Boob 5-9 210 ILB Sr.59 Jack Gaugler 6-0 242 ILB Sr. 5 David Klinger 5-10 200 OLB Sr.11 Nick Swineford 6-0 180 CB Sr.23 Garrett Campbell 5-10 180 S Jr.26 Cole Schenck 5-11 165 CB Sr.

2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/Resultat Central Columbia W, 38-7Mount Carmel W, 14-7Shikellamy W, 45-9at Shamokin W, 52-7at Berwick W, 17-14Mifflinburg W, 54-26at Montoursville Oct. 16Jersey Shore Oct. 23at Milton Oct. 30Southern Columbia Nov. 6

MONTOURSVILLE WARRIORS (5-1)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr88 Cole Karschner 6-4 175 SE Sr.61 Holden Lodge 6-0 220 LT Sr.67 Bryce Berresford 6-0 240 LG Sr.62 Dalton Tubbs 6-0 215 C So.54 Colby Probst 5-11 220 RG Sr.79 Caleb Frantz 6-0 230 RT Sr.47 Mitchell Rothrock 6-1 200 TE Jr.11 Brycen Mussina 6-4 180 QB Jr.44 Ben Cerney 6-0 245 FB Sr.22 Keith Batkowski 5-9 160 HB Sr.19 Tommy Shea 5-11 170 SE Jr. 9 Ethan Lazorka 5-9 140 K Jr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr61 Holden Lodge 6-0 220 DE Sr.44 Ben Cerney 6-0 245 DT Sr.74 Logan Vargo 6-2 220 DT Sr.54 Colby Probst 5-11 220 DE Sr.19 Tommy Shea 5-11 170 OLB Jr.39 Torin Lewis 5-9 185 ILB Jr.24 Aiden Plants 5-8 190 OLB Sr.22 Keith Batkowski 5-9 160 CB Sr. 5 Jacob Strassner 5-11 165 FS Sr.30 Nolan Ott 5-11 170 SS Jr.12 Riley Conboy 5-10 155 CB Jr.2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/ResultSouth Williamsport W, 41-14at Lewisburg L, 31-21at Mifflinburg W, 62-24Jersey Shore W, 42-25at Shikellamy W, 40-0Milton W, 63-15Selinsgrove Fridayat Shamokin Oct. 23Hughesville Oct. 30at Loyalsock Nov. 6

By Todd HummelThe Daily Item

MONTOURSVILLE — Before the season, it was a highly anticipated battle be-tween the defending Class AA District 4 champion and the defending Class AAA District 4 champion.

Now, as the game stands on the horizon, it will also go a long way in determin-ing the Heartland Ath-letic Conference Division I champion.

Selinsgrove (6-0 overall, 3-0 HAC-I) travels to Mon-toursville (5-1, 4-0) on Fri-day night.

One could list all the tal-ent at the skill positions in this game — and we’ll get into them in a bit — but the winner of this game will be determined in the trenches.

Selinsgrove coach Derek Hicks feels the Warriors’ line is very similar to Ber-wick’s line from two weeks ago. The two aren’t similar scheme wise, but Montours-ville and the Bulldogs have size and strength up front in

common.“I think up front they are

a copy of Berwick,” Hicks said. “They have a lot of similar size and strength up front.”

Both Selinsgrove and Montoursville are coming off big wins — the Seals raced out to a 41-0 halftime lead in their victory over Mifflinburg, while the War-riors drubbed Milton 61-15.

“We wanted to take care of business, play well and win last week,” Hicks said. “And that’s how it all went down.”

The Selinsgrove defense will see a healthy dose of the Warriors’ running game. Montoursville is averag-ing 7.6 yards per carry as a team.

Senior tailback Keith Bat-kowski leads the way with 1,092 yards and 11 touch-downs. When 5-foot-11 senior fullback Ben Cer-ney isn’t paving the way in front of Batkwoski, he chips in with 342 yards and six scores.

If that wasn’t concern-ing enough, Montoursville junior quarterback Brycen Mussina is averaging 14.5 yards per completion with eight touchdowns and two interceptions.

“It’s not a big secret that they want to line up and pound the ball at you,” Hicks said. “But if they have to pass, Mussina can hurt you if he needs to.”

Berwick’s power running game caused the Seals some issues in Selinsgrove’s 17-14 win, but Hicks doesn’t see that as an issue this week.

“Berwick really out-manned us for a while at the point of the attack, but once

we adjusted (as a defense), we did all right,” Hicks said. “We just want to eliminate the mental mistakes and play our game.”

The Selinsgrove offense has had the perfect amount of balance thus far this sea-son.

Senior tailback Juvon Batts has 597 yards and seven touchdowns on the ground in four games this season, but the biggest im-provement for the Seals has come in the passing game.

Sophomore quarterback Logan Leiby has completed 64 percent of his passes for 822 yards and nine touch-downs.

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Selinsgrove’s Colin Hoke catches the ball for a touchdown during the Seals’ 54-26 win over Mifflin-burg last week.

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What: Friday 7 p.m.Where: Braves StadiumLast meeting: Shamokin won, 27-13, in the 2014 regular seasonRadio: WKOK 1070 AM, 6:30 p.m.

SHIKELLAMY BRAVES (2-4)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr 8 Trey Cunningham 6-2 195 WR Jr. or21 Hunter Dodge 5-9 135 WR So.79 Harrison Rees 6-1 250 RT So.78 Derek Bussey 6-3 240 RG Jr.76 Jeremy Bacon 5-9 255 C Sr.74 Bryce Snyder 6-3 220 RG Jr.75 Jacob Stine 6-7 255 RT Jr.83 Owen Long 6-0 220 TE Sr.10 Christian Schlegel 6-3 210 QB Sr.24 Gabe Tilford 5-11 175 FB So.35 Kobe Swanger 6-0 205 HB Sr. 1 Lemeir Mitchell 5-5 140 HB Jr. or14 Joey Folk 5-8 155 HB Fr.23 Dylan Snyder 5-11 175 K Jr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr34 David Munoz 6-0 220 DE Fr.59 Dylan Harry 6-2 230 DE Jr.79 Harrison Rees 6-1 250 DT So.36 Ethan Oakes 5-10 200 DE Jr.3 Owen Long 6-0 220 OLB Sr.2 Josh Krieger 6-1 185 ILB So.24 Gabe Tilford 5-11 175 ILB So.10 Christian Schlegel 6-3 210 OLB Sr. 6 Pierson White 5-11 170 CB Jr.12 Tate Krankoskie 6-1 170 S-P So. 8 Trey Cunningham 6-2 195 CB Jr.2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/ResultLewisburg L, 38-14at Jersey Shore L, 42-28at Selinsgrove L, 45-9Mifflinburg W, 27-14Montoursville L, 40-0at Central Mountain W, 31-22Shamokin FridayLoyalsock Oct. 23at Danville Oct. 30at Milton Nov. 6

SHAMOKIN INDIANS (2-4)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr7 Isaiah Reiprich 6-1 158 WR Sr.79 Adam Miller 6-0 255 LT Sr.72 Derrick Dilliplane 5-9 198 LG Sr.63 Blake Zalar 6-0 260 C Fr.59 Jake Wolfe 6-0 195 RG Jr.75 Trent Curcie 5-8 226 RT So.6 Tom Campbell 6-0 170 QB Sr.34 Garrett Zalar 6-1 240 FB Sr.1 Preston Burns 5-5 180 RB Sr.19 Jake DiRienzo 6-2 167 WR Sr.10 Alek Washuta 5-9 157 K Sr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr66 Aaron Miller 6-0 169 DT Jr.54 Jake Carpenter 5-8 164 NG So.56 Brayson Pawelczyk 5-10 175 DT Sr.2 Dilin DeCampie 5-7 155 OLB Sr.5 David Stevens 5-9 152 OLB Jr.34 Garrett Zalar 6-1 240 MLB Sr.1 Preston Burns 5-5 180 OLB Sr.3 Mike Breslin 5-7 144 CB or15 Nate Shurock 5-10 154 CB Sr.23 Ty Berge 5-7 163 SS Sr.19 Jake DiRienzo 6-2 167 FS Sr.7 Isaiah Reiprich 6-1 158 CB Sr.6 Tom Campbell 6-0 170 P Sr.2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/Resultat Line Mountain W, 28-7at Central Mountain L, 24-21 OTSouthern Columbia L, 49-27Selinsgrove L, 52-7Milton W, 49-19at Jersey Shore L, 28-7at Shikellamy FridayMontoursville Oct. 23Mifflinburg Oct. 30at Mount Carmel Nov. 6

By Chris NagyThe Daily Item

SUNBURY — When the Shikellamy Braves play solid, fundamental football, they can be a hard team to beat.

Unfortunately for the Braves this season, the games in which the Braves (2-4) have done that have been few and far between.

“We have hurt ourselves in some of our losses this season with penalties and mental mistakes,” said Shikellamy coach Todd Tilford. “When we get things rolling, we have to play smart football and not hurt ourself.”

The Braves will look to do just that as Shamokin takes the short trip up Route 61 Friday for the Heartland Athletic Conference Divi-sion I battle.

But more importantly, the game will go a long way in determining the District 4 Class AAA playoff seed-ings.

Right now, the Braves sit in third after getting the big win over Class AAAA Cen-tral Mountain last week, but Shikellamy is hoping that win does more than just give them pints in the play-off race.

“I hope it’s a building block,” said Tilford. “The win put us back in the play-off mix.”

Shamokin (2-4) sits in a tie for fourth in the stand-ings with East Juniata.

The game itself will fea-ture two of the most explo-sive players in the area.

Shawn Turber, who has been nursing a shoulder in-jury, returned to the field last week and made an immedi-ate impact for the Braves. Turber returned a punt 75 yards and caught a 65-yard touchdown pass in the win. Turber had 120 total yards

on just nine touches. He is also an important part of the Braves secondary.

For Shamokin, the of-fense is carried on the back of Preston Burns. The se-nior has 726 yards this sea-son and eight touchdowns.

But as both teams focus on the stars, it just might be the unknowns who step up and determine the game’s outcome.

Shikellamy’s Gabe Tilford has 250 yards and four

scores this season, but most of that has been in the last four games as the running back is starting to come into his own. As is quarterback Christian Schelgel, who has thrown for almost 500 yards.

Quarterback Nate Shurock, in his first start, had a solid game against Jersey Shore and will look to continue that against the Braves. The senior threw for 155 yards and a score

against the Bulldogs.The key to the game might

be turnovers, as the Braves have coughed it up just eight times compared to 16 for the Indians.

“We need to take care of our business,” said Shamokin coach Pat Di-Rienzo. “We can’t fall be-hind like we have against good teams and try to bounce back.”

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Shikellamy’s Tate Krankoskie intercepts the ball meant for Mifflinburg’s Cole Laubach during a game earlier this season.

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Game NightWhat: Friday 7 p.m.Where: Thompson Street StadiumLast meeting: Jersey Shore won 47-0 in 2014Radio: WMLP 1380 AM, 6:30 p.m.

MILTON BLACK PANTHERS (1-5)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr23 Jalil Garrison 5-9 130 WR So.72 James Hare 6-2 220 RT Sr.63 Brent Engleman 5-9 190 RG Jr.70 Brock Guffey 6-0 220 C Sr.67 Tyler Clayton 6-1 185 LG So.66 Trent Batman 5-8 220 LT So12 Alex Garcia TE So. 4 Hunter Snyder 6-2 175 QB Sr.46 Brandon Stokes 6-0 195 FB-K Sr.28 Raff Rodriguez 6-0 175 HB Sr.2 Michael Cooper 5-10 160 HB Sr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr72 James Hare 6-2 220 DT Sr.66 Trent Batman 5-8 220 NG So. or70 Mason Fisher 6-0 285 NG Fr.58 Nicholas Summers 5-7 157 DT Fr.26 Hunter Wertz 6-1 160 OLB Jr.46 Brandon Stokes 6-0 195 ILB-P Sr.63 Brent Engleman 5-9 190 ILB Jr. 2 Michael Cooper 5-10 160 CB Sr.12 Alex Garcia S So.28 Raff Rodriguez 6-0 175 S Sr.23 Jalil Garrison 5-9 130 CB So. or24 Xavi Rodriguez 6-0 155 CB Jr.2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/Resultat Troy L, 22-15at Warrior Run L, 31-28North Penn W, 35-32Lewisburg L, 33-0at Shamokin L, 41-19at Montoursville L, 63-15at Jersey Shore FridayMifflinburg Oct. 23Selinsgrove Oct. 30Shikellamy Nov. 6

JERSEY SHORE BULLDOGS (5-1)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr14 Cole Eiswerth 6-2 170 WR Sr.3 Todd Sanford 5-9 155 WR Sr.11 Eric Lehman 6-0 185 TE Jr.68 Josh Sechrist 6-3 237 T SR.61 Cameron Boughter 6-3 237 G Sr.79 Ethan Kutza 6-2 255 C Sr.75 Issac Stetts 6-3 246 G Sr.73 Cody Crowley 6-2 210 T Sr.31 Bryce Charles 6-1 245 FB Sr.24 Levi Lorson 5-9 193 TB Sr.7 Travis Bradley 6-1 195 QB Sr.5 Cam Griffin 5-1 125 K Fr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr75 Issac Stetts 6-3 246 DE Sr.45 Seth Young 6-0 172 DE Sr.79 Ethan Kutza 6-2 255 DT Sr.61 Cameron Boughter 6-3 237 NT Sr.31 Bryce Charles 6-1 245 DT Sr.24 Levi Lorson 5-9 193 LB/P Sr.55 Nate Lose 5-11 196 LB Sr.23 Austin Bouse 5-10 162 LB Sr.7 Travis Bradley 6-1 195 S Sr.32 Jarett Guthrie 6-0 186 CB Jr.21 Kevin Titus 6-1 165 CB So.2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/Resultat Bellefonte W, 14-6Shikellamy W, 43-26Athens W, 28-7at Montoursville L, 42-25at Mifflinburg W, 45-14Shamokin W, 28-7Milton Fridayat Selinsgrove Oct. 23at Bald Eagle Area Oct. 30Central Mountain Nov. 6

By Matt BeltzFor The Daily Item

JERSEY SHORE — Coming off a come-from-behind win over North Penn-Mansfield in its third game of the season, Milton had reason to believe things were looking up after having dropped its first two games of the season by a combined 10 points. But ever since that win, things have taken a turn for the worst as the Black Panthers have dropped their past three games by an aver-age of 34 points.

Despite the tough stretch Milton is currently in, coach George Goodwin and his team know that with just a couple of wins, they can eas-ily get back into the District 4 Class AAA playoff race. A win at heavily favored Jersey Shore this week would earn Milton major points in the playoff rankings.

“Our kids realize the in-tensity of the schedule and that we’re playing some re-ally good football teams,” said Goodwin. “They’re aware of the situation and they look at the playoff points. We were a couple of plays away from being in a better position now. But we dug ourselves that hole and now we must dig ourselves out to have any chance of competing at the end of the regular season.”

Of course, beating a Jer-sey Shore team that has been a juggernaut the last couple of seasons — partic-ularly one that appears to be hitting its stride as the sea-son comes down the stretch — is easier said than done. Senior tailback Levi Lorson has rushed for career highs of 262 and 281 yards the last two weeks to go over 1,000 for the season, and the Bull-dogs’ defense has bore down after its loss to Montours-ville in Week 4.

“Levi practices every day

like it’s the Super Bowl. We’re not only proud of the yards he’s run for, but of how he gives everyone else credit,” said Jersey Shore coach Tom Gravish. “He’s also playing great at line-backer and is a big part of why we’ve won a lot of games the last few seasons.”

Gravish will need to make sure his team guards against looking ahead to its matchup with Selinsgrove next week, but he isn’t terribly con-cerned about it doing so.

“We had a great discussion after our game last week and our seniors were telling guys that it’s important they have a great week of prac-tice,” said Gravish. “Milton has good personnel and they know that. We’re not taking anything for granted and we’re going to keep empha-sizing that all week.”

For his part, Goodwin be-lieves that Milton will need to change things up a little bit offensively to have a chance against the Bulldogs.

“We have to mix it up and not be as predictable with the run game,” said Good-win. “We were able to get our passing game going a little bit last week. We must continue to do that against what we’re going to see teams putting in the box.

“I think we’ve found things that (quarterback) Hunter (Snyder) can be successful at. We have to gear things towards his strengths and we’ve gotten better at that the last couple of weeks.”

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Shamokin’s Garrett Zalar fights for extra yards while being tackled by Milton’s Zachary Philips and Jalil Garrison earlier this season.

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What: Friday 7 p.m.Where: The Silver BowlLast meeting: North Schuylkill won 53-21 in 20014Radio/internet: blackdiamondsports.net, 6:45 p.m.

NORTH SCHUYLKILL SPARTANS (3-3)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr10 Tevin Murray 6-6 212 WR Sr.74 Dane Tarantelli 6-3 257 OT Sr.51 C.J. Steinhilber 6-0 212 OG Sr.56 Jordan Green 6-2 235 C Sr.73 Dylan Reese 6-0 233 OG Sr.61 Brett Dillman 6-2 296 OT Sr.26 Mason Geary 6-1 198 TE So. 8 Bobby Grigas 6-2 187 QB Sr.40 Pat Gownley 5-11 185 RB Sr.42 Major Jordan 6-1 212 RB Jr. 2 Jordan Marlow 5-10 185 WR Sr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr74 Dane Tarantelli 6-3 257 DE Sr.56 Jordan Green 6-2 235 DT Sr.73 Dylan Reese 6-0 233 DT Sr.77 Jeno Schicatano 6-0 220 DE Jr.74 Dane Tarantelli 6-3 257 LB Sr.51 C.J. Steinhilber 6-0 212 LB Sr.42 Major Jordan 6-1 212 LB Jr.40 Pat Gownley 5-11 185 CB Sr.8 Bobby Grigas 6-2 187 S Sr. 5 Bobby Wagner 6-0 175 S Jr. 2 Jordan Marlow 5-10 185 CB Sr.2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/Resultat Tamaqua W, 20-14Blue Mountain L, 24-20Lehighton L, 33-13at Marian Cath. W, 26-7Mahanoy Area L, 17-0at Shenandoah W, 50-13at Mount Carmel Fridayat Jim Thorpe Oct. 23Schuykill Haven Oct. 30Panther Valley Nov. 6

MOUNT CARMEL RED TORNADOES (3-3)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr21 Lane Tanney 5-7 135 WR Jr.66 Ethan Batros 6-0 240 OL Sr.67 Dylan Fiamoncini 6-0 230 OL Sr.75 Billy Anderson 6-0 235 OL Fr.77 Thomas Pastchu 6-2 270 OL Jr.70 Brendan Boris 6-3 210 OL So.2 Michael Bergamo 6-3 165 TE Sr.7 Tommy McDonald 5-11 165 QB So.1 Kyle Karycki 5-11 218 RB Sr.44 Allen Yancoskie 6-0 200 FB Sr.32 Michael Cuff 5-9 165 WR So.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr70 Brendan Boris 6-3 210 DE So.66 Ethan Batros 6-0 240 DT Sr.67 Dylan Fiamoncini 6-0 230 DT Sr.13 Mason Duran 6-3 225 DE Sr.44 Allen Yancoskie 6-0 200 LB Sr.47 Manus McCracken 5-7 185 LB Sr.32 Michael Cuff 5-9 165 CB So.27 John Ayers 5-10 175 S Fr.1 Kyle Karycki 5-11 218 S Sr.21 Lane Tanney 5-7 135 S Jr.2 Michael Bergamo 6-3 165 CB Sr.

2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/Resultat Loyalsock L, 24-7at Selinsgrove L, 14-7Lewisburg W, 21-7at Central Mountain W, 41-21Danville W, 20-10at Southern Columbia L, 42-0North Schuykill Fridayat Warrior Run Oct. 23Central Columbia Oct. 30Shamokin Nov. 6

By Todd HummelThe Daily Item

MOUNT CARMEL — Friday night at the Silver Bowl has all kinds of in-teresting subplots for both squads.

When Mount Carmel hosts North Schuylkill in one of the more heated ri-valries in the area, it’s a battle of squads fighting for their playoff lives at this point in the season.

It’s also the first time first-year Mount Carmel coach John Darrah will take on his former team. Darrah was the Spartans’ defensive coordinator before he was hired to take over at his alma mater and still teaches social studies at North Schuylkill High School.

However, Darrah says it doesn’t mean as much you’d think. He’s been on the other side of things — returning to his old high school stomping grounds as an assistant for the Spartans — and he doesn’t see this as much different.

“I think it’s the same kind of deal only the opposite,” Darrah said. “It might be a little different because I still the see the (North Schuylkill) kids in school every day.”

The more important things for both teams, though, is the playoff battle.

Right now in District 4 Class AA, the Red Torna-does are sitting in the fi-nal berth at No. 8, but can ill afford many losses over the final three weeks of the season with the top seven teams in Class AA being ei-ther 6-0 or 5-1.

Meanwhile, North Schuylkill, which lost by two points in the District 11 Class AA championship game a season ago, is cur-rently fifth in the four-team race for a district berth.

“We made the kids aware this week how much this

game means to both teams,” Darrah said. “We know North Schuylkill is going to fight tooth-and-nail to win this game.”

It’s a strange spot for the Spartans to be in at Week 7 this season. The Spartans returned eight starters on both sides of the ball and were the favorite in the An-thracite League and in Dis-trict 11.

With the rise of unde-feated Jim Thorpe (the Spartans’ opponent next week) and one-loss Lehigh-ton — along with injuries to

quarterback Bobby Grigas and wideout Tevin Murray — the Spartans are battling for their playoff lives.

The Red Tornadoes are looking to bounce back from a poor performance last week against Southern Columbia, where the Tigers rolled to a 42-0 win.

The other interesting part of the game will be that North Schuylkill and Mount Carmel are mirror images of each other — they run the same offense and defense.

“We know them well and of course they know us

pretty well,” Darrah said. “They know what they can take advantage of on both sides of the ball.”

A week after rushing for a school-record 368 yards, the Southern Columbia defense held Mount Carmel senior tailback Kyle Karycki to just 28 yards on the ground.

“We went through a lot of adversity in the summer and through our scrimmages,” Darrah said. “Our kids handled it then and I think they can handle it now. I think we’ve put that game past us.”

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Mount Carmel players look on during a recent game.

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Game NightWhen: 7 p.m. FridayWhere: Tiger StadiumInternet: blackdiamondsports.netSOUTHERN COLUMBIA TIGERS (6-0)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr1 Cameron Young 5-7 135 SE Jr. or31 Steve Toczylousky 6-2 195 SE Sr.76 Aaron Kroh 6-2 230 LT Sr.53 Andrew Bell 5-10 225 LG So.63 Dale Houser 5-9 225 C Sr.79 Josh Yoder 6-2 250 RG Sr.52 Gabe Delbo 5-11 240 Rt Sr.33 Garrett Henry 6-1 185 TE Jr.14 Nick Becker 6-3 190 QB Sr.43 Jarred Torres 5-11 230 FB Sr.23 Blake Marks 5-11 170 HB Jr.26 Hunter Thomas 5-10 185 HB Jr.13 Tyler Keiser 6-1 165 K Sr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr90 Chase Tillet 6-0 220 DE Sr.59 Nick Freeman 6-1 270 DT Fr.71 Chris Grosch 6-2 300 DT Sr.52 Gabe Delbo 5-11 240 DE Sr. or79 Josh Yoder 6-2 250 DE Sr.23 Blake Marks 5-11 170 OLB Jr.66 Austin Knepp 5-7 210 ILB Sr.42 Matt Bell 6-1 190 ILB Sr.32 Jacob Potter 5-10 175 OLB Sr.1 Cameron Young 5-7 135 SE Jr.31 Steve Toczylousky 6-2 195 SE Sr.28 Billy Marzeski 5-10 175 CB Sr.14 Nick Becker 6-3 190 P Sr.2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/ResultMifflinburg W, 49-21at Bloomsburg W, 56-14at Shamokin W, 49-27Danville W, 42-14Central Columbia W, 40-0Mount Carmel W, 42-0Warrior Run Fridayat Lewisburg Oct. 22at Central Mountain Oct. 30at Selinsgrove Nov. 6WARRIOR RUN DEFENDERS (3-3)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr16 Gage Anzulavich 6-4 157 QB So.63 Chad Biichle 6-1 235 LT Sr.68 Ty Nicholas 5-10 195 LG Sr.71 Zach Smith 6-0 237 C Sr.53 Zach Divers 6-0 238 RG Sr.62 Ben Lapp 6-1 195 RT Sr.32 Tyler Brown 6-1 171 RB Sr.36 Tony Null 6-1 188 RB Jr30 Jorge Guillen 6-0 225 FB Jr.81 Kade Meyer 5-10 161 WR So.or83 George Reasner 5-10 169 WR Sr.86 Theodore Bender 6-1 188 WR Sr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr40 Pacey Howard 6-1 191 DE So.53 Zach Divers 6-0 238 DT Sr.68 Ty Nicholas 5-10 195 DT Sr.88 Matt Truckenmiller 6-2 207 DE Sr.86 Theodore Bender 6-1 188 LB Sr.71 Zach Smith 6-0 237 LB Sr.45 Noah Showers 6-0 177 LB Jr.67 Tristan Litchard 5-11 225 LB Sr.21 Dante Morris 5-10 162 CB Jr.82 Michael Muffly 6-0 172 CB Jr.83 George Reasner 5-10 169 S Sr.2015 ScheduleDate Opponent/ResultMuncy L, 35-0Milton W, 34-31at Wyalusing L, 21-6Central Columbia W, 21-7at Hughesville L, 21-0North Penn W, 41-28at Southern Columbia FridayMount Carmel Oct. 23at Lewisburg Oct. 30Danville Nov. 6

By Marion ValanoskiFor The Daily Item

CATAWISSA — South-ern Columbia needs to put last week’s impressive victory over Mount Carmel in the rearview mirror and concen-trate on Warrior Run on Fri-day in their Heartland Con-ference Division II matchup at Tigers Stadium.

The Tigers were nothing short of overwhelming in their 42-0 whitewashing of the Red Tornadoes that in-cluded not only shutting out the red-hot Mount Carmel squad, but in the process limited standout running back Kyle Karycki to just 58 yards.

Meanwhile, the Defend-ers evened their season mark by outlasting North Penn-Mansfield, 41-28.

Warrior Run has exhib-ited a balanced offensive at-tack with quarterback Gage Anzulavich completing 67 of 101 passes for 707 yards and three touchdowns. Matt Truckenmiller has caught 12 passes for 151 yards and two TDs. Matt Gummo has contributed with 14 re-ceptions for 154 yards and Teddy Bender follows with 13 catches for 141.

The Warrior Run ground game is led by Tyler Brown’s 512 yards on 119 carries, in-cluding three touchdowns.

“Brown is a hard-nosed runner and the focal point of their ground game,” Tigers coach Jim Roth said. “They will try and establish the run out of the Power-I and will come right at you with a good offensive line. Also in their scheme of things they do certain things to help their quarterback in the passing game so our defense can expect more short passes and bubble screens.

Anthony Null has also contributed for the Defend-ers with 105 yards and two TDs; Ty Kirkner has pitched in with 79 yards and three

TDs.“Warrior Run is not the

Warrior Run of years ago, which struggled to win a game,” Roth said. “They have talent on the team and have exhibited the ability to be balanced, so we will focus on those areas of concern and work on shutting them down.

“We also need to continue working on our own areas where the coaches see we can still improve.”

Offensively, the Defend-ers have passed for 707 yards and rushed for 694 on the ground, while the defense has allowed 1,129 yards on the ground and 491 through the air.

The state-ranked (Class AA) Tigers proved they are ready to wrest their throne

back from the rest of the field with their outstanding effort against the Red Tornadoes, who were on a three-game winning streak.

Nick Becker continued to shine at quarterback against Mount Carmel, and he has logged 578 yards through the air on 27 pass completions in 47 attempts. Steve Toczlusky

has been on the receiving end with 11 catches for 578 yards and seven touchdowns, fol-lowed by Hunter Thomas’ 13 receptions for 291 yards and three touchdowns. South-ern’s all-around ground at-tack is headed by Thomas, who has 31 carries for 477 yards and an impressive nine TDs.

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Warrior Run’s Tyler Brown finds a hole in the North Penn defense during last week’s game in Turbotville.

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A whole new world

By Todd HummelThe Daily Item

History was made last Wednesday when the PIAA revamped most scholastic sports in Pennsylvania.

Our discussion is going to strictly deal with football.

Football is changing from four classes to six classes. The season was also short-ened by a week and how schools report their enroll-ment numbers was changed a bit as well.

The first two changes shouldn’t change things much in District 4, accord-ing to football chairmen and Shamokin superintendent James Zack.

“I don’t think there will be much change, but we don’t know until the enrollment figures come in, other than the obvious of more teams getting into the playoffs,” Zack said.

Zack said that the district plans to keep the 10-week

regular season and the cur-rent playoff set-up, so prob-ably the biggest switchup will be just one scrimmage for District 4 teams.

“A lot of the bigger dis-tricts are in favor of the two scrimmages to get less playoff teams,” Zack said. “A smaller district like ours wants as many playoff teams as possible.”

That makes some inter-esting scenarios. In the biggest classification — for

this area — as it looks now, there are only four teams in Class AAAA (Selinsgrove, Shikellamy, Jersey Shore and Shamokin) and all would qualify for the play-offs.

The two middle classes — Class AAA and Class AA — will most likely, de-pending on how the rest of the PIAA shakes out, be the class that would get the eighth playoff teams like the current Class AA schools;

With new classes, will more state titles be in the offing for area teams?

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From left, Henry Hynoski, Josh Marks and Nick Gallinot celebrate Southern Columbia’s state title in 2006.

Selinsgrove football players celebrate after winning the PIAA Class AAA championship in 2009. With two more classes being added next year, there might be more state champs who hail from the Valley.

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the rest will have four teams.

Most of the coaches I spoke with this week have no problem with the six classifi-cations or even giving up the scrimmage to give up any playoff teams.

“I think it’s great for Penn-sylvania high school foot-ball,” Danville coach Jim Keiser said. “It gives more teams a chance to get to the state championships.”

That’s something that Se-linsgrove coach Derek Hicks echoes as well.

“I think it’s a fairer

matchup of the teams around the state,” Hicks said.

However, almost to a man, a lot of the coaches thought one of the biggest issues facing the PIAA wasn’t ad-dressed by the new school classifications.

“My biggest problem is I still don’t see a level playing field,” Keiser said. “These private schools that can re-cruit all over the state play-ing against us, Southern Co-lumbia and Mount Carmel that are public, and (we) have to draw from within a certain boundary.

“They didn’t do anything about making that an even playing field.”

Shikellamy coach Todd Tilford is in favor of the six classifications and giving up one scrimmage, but he agrees with Keiser.

“The bigger issue is it’s not the same set of rules for the public schools and the private/charter schools,” Tilford said.

His suggestion is to keep the public schools split into to four classes and keep the private/charter schools as the other two classes.

Maybe the biggest change won’t be felt until the ac-tual enrollment figures are released. The first round of numbers were due this week, but the new classifications won’t be released by the PIAA until late December, when most of this will finally become clear.

Schools only have to count 10 percent of their charter school, home-schooled kids.

“I think there are going to be some different figures,” Zack said. “If you have 100 cyber or charter school kids and now they only count has

10, that has to affect some numbers.”

This change is to help some of the Pittsburgh City Schools (District 8) that have has many as 200 charter and home-school students within their district boundaries.

Don’t be surprised if some schools elect to play up in District 4 as well, especially to Class AAA, where only four teams currently reside.

In the end, nobody really knows how this will work out until those classification numbers come out at the end of December.

Breakdown of schools that play foot-ball in District 4 into six classesClass ASchool male enrollmentBucktail 54Montgomery 96Canton 104North Penn 124Sayre 131Muncy 138Class AASchool male enrollmentLine Mountain 149South Williamsport 154Bloomsburg 166Wellsboro 170Cowanesque Valley* 113Wyalusing 156Southern Columbia 180Hughesville 184Loyalsock 185Towanda 189Troy 193Warrior Run 204Mount Carmel 207Class AAASchool male enrollmentCentral Columbia 210Danville 211Montoursville 253Lewisburg 257Mifflinburg 282Athens 294East Juniata** 153Milton 264CMVT 279Class AAAASchool male enrollmentShamokin 325Selinsgrove 346Jersey Shore 347Shikellamy 359Class AAAAASchool male enrollmentWilliamsport 605*-cooperative agreement with Williamson**-cooperatove agreement with Midd-WestNote: Current enrollement figures used. New enrollement figures will be released in late December.

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Mount Carmel’s Tim Wargo looks for yardage during the 2002 Class AA state title game.

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EAST JUNIATA TIGERS (2-3)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr13 Dylan Henderson 5-10 150 WR Jr. or81 Bailey Hetrick 5-10 160 WR Sr.72 Patrick Jordan 5-9 150 LT Fr.56 Owen Zechman 5-11 185 LG Sr.63 Karona Franklin 5-11 185 C So.59 Cameron Snook 5-11 185 RG Jr.53 Bryce Fawver 6-2 200 RT Jr.86 Garrett Gabel 6-2 185 TE So.10 Chris Schulgen 6-0 185 QB Jr.28 Logan Pursley 5-10 175 RB So.39 Andrew Zerby 5-11 170 RB Sr.44 Mason Hambright 5-10 175 RB Jr.

DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr56 Owen Zechman 5-11 185 DE Sr.59 Cameron Snook 5-11 185 DT Jr.62 Micah Treaster 6-1 220 DT Sr. or52 Q. Fillmore 6-1 250 DE So.86 Garrett Gabel 6-2 185 DE So.23 Kaleb Berkich 6-10 210 DE So.28 Logan Pursley 5-10 175 LB So.39 Andrew Zerby 5-11 170 LB Sr.50 Levi Sanders 5-9 185 LB Sr.81 Bailey Hetrick 5-10 160 LB Sr.10 Chris Schulgen 6-0 185 CB Jr.13 Dylan Henderson 5-10 150 S Jr.44 Mason Hambright 5-10 175 CB Jr.

2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/Resultat Hughesville L, 55-21at Pine Grove W, 13-3Greater Nanticoke W, 23-14Newport L, 41-10Juniata L, 47-7at Millersburg FridaySusquenita Oct. 16at Halifax Oct. 23Tri-Valley Oct. 30at Line Mountain Nov. 6

By Chris NagyThe Daily Item

BEAVER SPRINGS — Just three weeks ago, East Juniata was sitting in a good place at 2-1. And even though they are in the midst of a three-game losing streak, the Tigers are still in the hunt for the playoffs.

East Juniata (2-4) hosts Susquenita on Friday night in a Tri-Valley League showdown in a game that is a lot different than it was a year ago.

Last year, both teams came into the game winless looking for their first victory ,and East Juniata escaped with the victory thanks to a last-minute drive and a couple of gutsy fourth-down calls.

But this year is a lot dif-ferent.

Susquenita comes into the game 4-2 and is coming off its first TVL loss of the sea-son last week against New-port.

The difference for the Blackhawks has been on de-fensive side of the ball.

Susquenita has allowed just 87 points all season, with 73 of those points com-ing in the two losses.

But on the flipside, the Blackhawks have scored just 87 points this season. Susquenita has lost by an av-erage of 36.5 points a game, but has only had a winning margin of 16 points.

The Blackhawks offense has relied on the legs of tail-back Kevin Keeny this year. The senior has rushed for

754 yards and has more than three-quarters of the total offense for Susquenita.

East Juniata comes into the game 2-4 and tied for fourth in the District 4 Class AAA playoff race with Shamokin.

Despite the three-game skid, the Tigers have played solid defense against some of the most-skilled teams in the TVL.

East Juniata lost just 41-10 to Newport and then held Ju-niata to just 47 points, which is an accomplishment as Ju-niata had scored 70 points in the previous game.

“Those results are big for us,” said East Juniata coach George Miskinis. “If we can have performances like that against good teams, hope-fully it will continue.”

The offense has also had its chances and contin-ues to improve with Chris Schulgen under center. The junior quarterback has ac-counted for more than 600 yards this season and has been a dual threat to pass or run the ball.

The Tigers’ offense con-tinues to evolve also, as it is a wing-T offense. But it also shows some spread looks to give Schulgen more oppor-tunities to make a play.

“We’re making adjust-ments and tweaks each week,” said Miskinis. “We have to stay true to what we are doing.

“We are pretty confident in Schulgen running the of-fense.”

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Bloomsburg 20 68 21 47—156Opponents 35 56 38 22—151statistics BHS OPPFirst downs 73 92Rushes-net yards 237-1,072 243-1,216Passing yardage 608 522Passing 33-68-1 34-65-4Fumbles-lost 9-3 17-5Penalties-yards 33-274 19-139INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — Coty Kashner 103-690, 8 TDs; Darius Green 41-206, 2 TDs; Christian Lee 23-96, TD; Nick Anderson 40-85; Tommy Harrison 17-32, TD; Jacob Mattive 3-5, 2 TDs; Logan Klinger 1-6; Hunter Coulter 3-(-7); Jake Frye 1-(-3); Nick Maletesta 2-(-5); team 3-(-22).PASSING — Nick Anderson 32-67-1 for 569 yards, 8 TDs; Cooper Thrush 1-1-0 for 39 yards, TD.RECEIVING — Eric Foust 14-278, 5 TDs; Tommy Harrison 5-69; Coty Kashner 4-98, TD; Logan Klinger 2-76, TD; Christian Lee 3-30, TD; Dylan Klinger 1-26, TD; Evan Bond 1-12; Jake Frye 1-4; Jonathan Stone 1-1.SCORING — Coty Kashner 8 rushing TDs, 1 receiving TD, 54 points; Eric Foust 5 receiving TDs, 30 points; Christian Lee, 1 rushing TD, 1 receiving TD, 1 2-point catch, 14 points; Daruis Green 2 rushing TD, 12 points; Jacob Mattive, 2 rushing TDs, 12 points; Logan Klinger 1 receiving TD, 6 points; Tommy Harrison 1 rushing TD, 6 points; Dylan Klinger 1 receiving TD, 6 points; Kiernan Harmon, 6 PATs, 6 points; Lance Klinger 10 PATs, 10 points.

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Central Columbia 21 22 7 15—65Opponents 63 88 30 29—210Statistics CCHS OPPFirst downs 65 101Rushes-net yards 164-612 227-1,327Passing yardage 689 856Passing 60-137-4 60-97-4Fumbles-lost 9-4 9-1Penalties-yards 37-298 40-339INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — Evan Campbell 37-174, TD; Brittain Cooke 51-163. TD; Aaron Fawver 28-102, TD; Owen Gensemer 17-67; Trae Devlin 2-26; Brandon Orzolek 1-20; Ky Seesholtz 1-3; Eli Petersheim 1-(-4); Peter D’Ambrosio 1-(-1); Justin Thivierage 3-(-4); team, 1-2.PASSING — Aaron Fawver 55-129-4 for 623, 4 TDs; Ky Seesholtz 5-8-0 for 66 yards.RECEIVING — Brady Crawford 14-166, 2 TDs; Eli Petersheim 13-134; Peter D’Ambrosio 10-76, 2 TDs; Brittain Cook 6-66; Evan Campbell 6-50; Jensen Thivierge 4-48; Trae Devlin 4-102; Isaac Gensemer 3-35.SCORING — Eli Petersheim 1 kickoff return TD, 1 kickoff return TD, 12 points; Brady Crawford, 2 receiving TDs, 12 points; Peter D’Ambrosio 2 receiving TDs, 12 points; Aaron Fawver 1 rushing TD, 6 points; Evan Campbell 1 rushing TD, 6 points; Brittain Cooke 1 rushing TD, 6 points; Garrett Bailiar 7 PATS, 1FG 10 points.

DANVILLE (3-3)Danville 45 42 30 7—124Opponents 29 7 40 35—111statistics

DHS OPPFirst downs 82 92Rushes-net yards 232-1,072 237-1,299Passing yardage 529 669Passing 42-83-5 43-96-13Fumbles-lost 8-5 12-7Penalties-yards 29-216 34-237INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — Trent Hilkert 113-676, 7 TDs; Ryan Palm 40-160, 4 TDs; Eric Sees 20-102; Gannon Feldman 37-91; Cross Truesdell 10-30; Austin Miller 3-1; Peyton Riley 1-3; Brennan Ryan 1-(-4); Colton Riley 4-(-8); team 1-(-16).PASSING — Gannon Feldman 42-75-4 for 529 yards, 5 TDs; Brennan Ryan 0-3-0; Peyton Riley 0-5-0.RECEIVING — Colton Riley 12-132, TD; Peyton Riley 9-164; Cross Truesdell 7-85, TD Shane Kozick 7-101, 3 TDs; Matt Meloy 4-30; Trent Hilkert 3-0; Peyton Persing 2-17.SCORING — Trent Hilkert, 7 rushing TDs, 42 points; Ryan Palm, 4 receiving TDs, 24 points; Peyton Riley 1 interception return TD, 2 FG, 10 PATs, 22 points; Shane Kozick 3 receiving TDs, 18 points; Cross Truesdell 1 receiving TD, 6 points; Colton Riley 1 receiving TD, 6 points; Jared Mowrey 1 interception return TD, 6 points.

EAST JUNIATA (2-4)East Juniata 0 34 34 13—81Opponents 37 83 28 40—188statistics EJHS OPPFirst downs 64 82Rushes-net yards 232-864 165-1,296

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Game NightWhat: Friday 7 p.m.Where: Eagle StadiumLast meeting: Line Mountain won 14-7 in 2014Internet: www.blackdiamondsports.net

UPPER DAUPHIN TROJANS (3-3)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr5 Max Snyder 5-11 145 Wr Sr. or3 Zach Rebuck 5-11 135 WR Sr.51 Cole Zimmerman 6-3 205 LT Sr.32 Coy Rickert 5-9 205 LG Sr.54 Cody Zerby 5-9 200 C Sr.55 Mason Bellis 6-3 222 RG So.58 Tanner Bechtel 5-11 175 RT Jr.16 Colton Laudenslager 5-10 155 TE Sr.12 Aaron Cleveland 6-4 170 QB Sr.28 Carson Barge 5-10 150 RB Fr.38 Tyler Wiest 5-10 130 RB Jr.30 Donny Gelnett 5-11 165 SB Fr.11 Alex Uler 6-0 160 K Sr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr16 Colton Laudenslager 5-10 155 TE Sr.54 Cody Zerby 5-9 200 C Sr.74 Blair Warner 6-1 335 DT Jr.55 Mason Bellis 6-3 222 NG So.1 Colin Harner 6-0 195 DE So.17 Drake Lenker 5-10 150 SS Sr.32 Coy Rickert 5-9 205 LB Sr.58 Tanner Bechtel 5-11 175 LB Jr.28 Carson Barge 5-10 150 DB Fr.20 Mason Wiest 5-11 130 DB Fr.12 Aaron Cleveland 6-4 170 DB/P Sr.2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/Resultat Camp Hill L, 56-0Tri-Valley L, 41-13Halifax W, 28-27at Williams Valley L, 61-26at St. Joseph’s Catholic W, 14-8at Pine Grove W, 34-13at Line Mountain FridayNewport Oct. 23at Millersburg Oct. 30Susquenita Nov. 6

LINE MOUNTAIN EAGLES (1-5)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr48 David Quinn 5-11 160 WR Jr.60 Garrett Kieffer 6-4 285 LT Jr.65 Jonathan Lenker 6-2 200 LG Sr.50 Ben Bidding 5-10 200 C Jr.74 Byrce Hoffman 6-1 260 RG Jr.71 Brok Phillips 5-10 260 RT Sr.80 Brendan Renn 6-2 220 TE Sr.11 Kurt Mace 5-11 160 QB Sr.28 Tyler Boyer 6-0 175 TB So.10 Brent Osman 6-0 200 FB/K Jr.12 Logan Ingram 6-0 160 WR Jr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr60 Garrett Kieffer 6-4 285 DE Jr.50 Ben Bidding 5-10 200 DT Jr.74 Byrce Hoffman 6-1 260 DT Jr.65 Jonathan Lenker 6-2 200 DE Sr.26 Cole Hauck 5-6 140 OLB Jr. or14 Gage Bowers 5-5 140 OLB So.80 Brendan Renn 6-2 220 ILB/P Sr.10 Brent Osman 6-0 200 ILB Jr.28 Tyler Boyer 6-0 175 OLB So.48 David Quinn 5-11 160 FS Jr.4 Brenden Cregger 6-0 160 CB So.3 Breven Derk 5-10 145 CB Fr.2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/ResultShamokin L, 28-7Susquenita L, 17-7at Millersburg L, 27-20at Juniata L, 70-6Tri-Valley L, 28-0at Halifax W, 28-6Upper Dauphin Fridayat St. Joesph’s Oct. 23at Williams Valley Oct. 30East Juniata Nov. 6

By Harold RakerFor The Daily Item

MANDATA — Confi-dence should not be a prob-lem for either team when Up-per Dauphin visits next-door neighbor Line Mountain on Friday night for a Tri-Valley League contest.

The Trojans have won two games in a row to get to 3-3 on the season (3-2 TVL) and the Eagles (1-5, 1-4) got their first win of the season last week.

Line Mountain coach Rod-ney Knock said the 28-6 win over Halifax was a big one for his team and the confidence showed in Monday’s prac-tice.

“The kids are excited and we think we match up well across the board (with Upper Dauphin). I think it’s going to be a slugfest Friday night,” he said.

Knock said the Trojans are balanced and have an athletic quarterback (senior Aaron Cleveland) and a hard-run-ning tailback (freshman Ma-son Wiest).

The Eagles coach said Cleveland has a good arm, but the Trojans also like to run him and the Eagles’ de-fense has had trouble when facing athletic quarterbacks. He said the defense is look-ing forward to the challenge of trying to shut the 6-foot-4, 170-pound Cleveland down.

Knock said the defense has improved over the past two weeks, but will need to play even better against the Tro-jans.

Line Mountain finally clicked on offense last week, showing the ability to throw and run the ball. Senior quar-terback Kurt Mace threw a pair of touchdown passes, one each to wide receiver David Quinn and tight end Brendan Renn.

Knock said Mace is be-ginning to get comfortable with Quinn — who missed

a couple of games with torn ligaments in his hand — and Renn. The senior tight end has good hands and gives Mace another target.

Junior fullback Brent Os-man had a great game last week and Knock said he has improved recently after working hard to cut down on his fumbles. Osman became the Eagles’ main weapon af-ter the loss of junior Kenny Boyer for the season to a leg injury.

Upper Dauphin coach Brent Bell said his team is also gaining confidence and learned over the last two weeks what they are capable of.

“This is an important game for us from the standpoint of where we want to end up at the end of the season,” he said.

The Trojans are in the run-ning for a District 3 Class A playoff berth and, Bell said, “We just have to play with that in mind on Friday night and use it as incentive.”

Bell said the biggest chal-lenges posed by Line Moun-tain are its size advantage up front and the fact that the Ea-gles run option on offense.

“Any time you play an op-tion team, you have to be very disciplined in your re-sponsibilities and you have to (be disciplined) throughout the game because the minute you let down, they can take advantage of it and that can create big plays offensively for them,” he said.

He added, “They definitely have size up front and that’s something we have to be

aware of, that we are able to get movement up front in our running game. I think they are a little different type of team than we’ve seen the last couple of weeks. We have to game-plan for them and be aware of it, and but we can’t let that necessarily change what we do, either.”

The Eagles’ line is anchored by 6-foot-4, 285-pound junior tackle Garrett Kieffer, and he is joined by 6-1, 260-pound junior guard Bryce Hoffman and 6-2, 200-pound senior guard Jonathan Lenker.

All are two-way players.

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Game NightWhen: 1 p.m., SaturdayWhere: Nicholas A. Lopardo StadiumRadio: WQSU, 1 p.m.

SUSQUEHANNA CRUSADERS (2-3)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr10 Nick Crusco 6-0 180 QB So.49 Cameron Ott 5-11 190 RB So. 12 Casey Crotty 6-1 185 WR Sr. 23 Pat Cutillo 5-7 180 WR Sr.9 Diamente Holloway 6-1 175 WR So.11 Devon Pascoe 6-5 230 TE Jr.79 Ryan Pearce 6-4 290 LT Sr.74 Ken Milano 6-1 285 LG Sr. 61 Matt Baker 6-1 245 C Jr.69 Don Bair 6-0 300 RG So.73 Elijah Long 6-1 285 RT Sr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr40 Phil Pecora 6-2 245 DE Sr.92 Rob Stearns 6-2 255 NT Sr.55 Caleb Jones 5-8 156 OLB Jr. 27 Tom McLoughlin 6-1 210 LB Sr. or56 Mason Spangler 6-1 220 LB Sr. 3 Jim Barry 6-1 230 LB Sr.26 Joe Scaglia 5-11 195 LB So.44 Anthony Balboa 6-3 230 LB Sr.36 Wyatt Kirkendall 6-0 170 FS Fr.21 Phil Madison 5-8 160 CB Jr.7 Tim Lurz 6-1 190 H Sr.47 Matt Sawka 5-10 175 DB Sr. or25 Rashien Phillips 5-11 160 CB Fr.93 Evan Argirou 5-8 165 K Jr.96 Dylan Jenkins 6-2 210 P Jr.

2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/ResultLycoming W, 28,13at Johns Hopkins L, 59-7Dickinson W, 42-35at Gettysburg L, 49-30at Muhlenberg L, 27-24Moravian SaturdayUrsinus Oct. 24at F&M Oct. 31McDaniel Nov. 7at Juniata Nov. 14

MORAVIAN GREYHOUNDS (4-1)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr6 Jalen Snyder-Scipio 6-3 211 WR Jr.13 Aaron Hudson 5-7 161 WR So.54 Bradley Straight 6-2 252 LT Jr.74 Shane Fisher 6-1 290 LG Fr.64 Max Neis 6-4 283 C Sr.58 Daniel Smith 6-3 270 RG Sr.70 Joseph Pellegrino 6-3 245 RT Fr.15 Justice Anderson 5-11 166 WR So.11 Liam Nolan 5-8 156 WR Jr.12 Mike Hayes 6-1 207 QB Jr.3 Chris Negron 5-8 179 RB Jr.85 Jerome Wachter 5-9 175 K Sr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr32 Tim McCabe 6-0 229 DE Sr.65 Ryan Pysher 6-2 300 DT Sr.50 John Snyder 5-10 267 NG Jr.97 Dan Bracken 5-2 212 DT Sr.45 Steve Ewald 6-1 215 OLB Fr.40 Brendan Downey 6-0 212 MLB Sr.20 Tre’ Smith 6-0 212 OLB Fr.4 Jimmy McCarthy 5-9 158 CB Sr.10 Anthony Orlando 5-8 174 S Sr.34 Nick Zambelli 6-0 185 S Fr.7 Noah Miller 6-0 180 CB Jr.

2015 ScheduleOpponent Date/Resultat King’s W, 21-17at McDaniel W, 40-8Johns Hopkins L, 45-23at Dickinson W, 55-38Ursinus W, 31-3at Susquehanna Saturday Franklin and Marshall Oct. 24Gettysburg Oct. 31Juniata Nov. 7at Muhlenberg Nov. 14

By Josh FunkFor The Daily Item

SELINSGROVE — The second half of the season is upon the Susquehanna Crusaders following a con-ference-wide bye last week-end.

Susquehanna (2-3 overall, 1-3 Centennial Conference) returns home to Selinsgrove to face Moravian (4-1, 3-1) on Saturday afternoon in a 1 p.m. kickoff.

“They’re a very good foot-ball team and their record shows it,” Crusaders coach Tom Perkovich said of the Greyhounds, who enter the game averaging 399 yards and 34 points per game. “They’ve got two very good running backs and a big-play receiver whom we’ll have to try to contain.”

Those two Moravian backs Perkovich referenced are Chris Negron and Eli Redmond. Negron has rushed for 11 touchdowns and averages more than 130 yards rushing per game. Redmond is a multi-pur-pose threat, rushing for 215 yards and adding another 85 receiving while scoring six total touchdowns.

“It’s pretty much a week-in and week-out thing for us — we’ll need to stop the run and make big plays (on of-fense),” Perkovich said.

Defensively, the Crusad-ers will be aided by the presence of linebacker Tom McLoughlin, who, when healthy, has been quite a one-man wrecking crew. Despite missing three games because of injury, McLoughlin has earned Centennial Conference De-fensive Player of the Week honors in the two full games he has played.

“He’s such a special player,” Perkovich said. “He shows up really fast on film. I think some things might have gone differently (on defense) if we had him out

there on the field for us.”Against Muhlenberg two

weeks ago, McLoughlin collected nine solo tackles, three tackles for loss, two sacks, two fumble recover-ies and an interception. He’s posted 23 tackles in two games; 19 have been solos.

“I was talking with our coaches (after the Muhlen-berg game), and I’d never seen a stat line like that before,” Perkovich said. “What he did was unreal and unheard of. It was defi-nitely one of the best games I’ve ever seen.”

Tim Lurz, the Crusad-ers’ leading tackler with 53 stops, also filled a critical

role against Muhlenberg, moving from safety to line-backer.

“He moved up a level, and they (Muhlenberg) ran a lot at him and threw in his area a lot,” Perkovich said. “And Tim stepped up. He had a lot thrown at him quickly in three days moving from linebacker to safety, but he performed well.”

Offensively, sophomore field general Nick Crusco has accounted for 15 to-tal touchdowns, and leads the team in rushing touch-downs, with six. Due to in-juries in the backfield, Kyle Neuschatz has had to as-sume the tailback responsi-

bilities.“This is the first on-field

action Kyle has seen in about two years,” Perkovich said. “He had an injury in high school and medically red-shirted last year. He’s had a good bit thrown at him, but he deserves to be where he’s at. He’s done well in that role.”

Diamente Holloway is coming off a 100-yard re-ceiving performance against Muhlenberg. Holloway is av-eraging 16 yards per recep-tion and leads Susquehanna with 352 receiving yards. Pat Cutillo leads the Crusaders in receptions, with 32.

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Game NightWhen: Noon, SaturdayWhere: Michie StadiumRadio: Eagle 107.3 FMBUCKNELL BISON (3-2)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr6 R.J. Nitti 6-4 230 QB Jr.4 C.J. Williams 6-0 210 RB Jr.80 Andrew Owers 6-3 240 FB Fr.2 Bobby Kaslander 6-2 200 WR Sr.18 Will Carter 5-10 180 WR Jr.70 Julie’n Davenport 6-7 315 LG Sr.76 Clayton Hoffmaster 6-4 295 LG Sr.54 Cary Hess 6-4 290 C Jr.66 Devlin Brennan 6-4 295 GR Jr.71 Ramy Kased 6-6 315 RT Sr.87 Andrew Podbileski 6-4 240 TE So.

DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr90 Doug Whitlock 6-2 250 DE So.40 Abdullah Anderson 6-4 295 DT So.99 Ben Schumacher 6-2 270 NG Jr.15 Jimmy King 6-1 250 DE Sr.29 Ben Richard 6-1 235 MLB So.42 Mark Pyles 6-0 220 SLB So.5 Clayton Ewell 6-1 195 SS Sr.12 Bret Berg 6-1 200 FS Jr.28 Connor Golden 6-0 195 WS So.13 Colin Jonov 5-11 195 CB So.8 Nick O’Brien 5-10 195 CB Jr,2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/ResultMarist W, 17-0Duquesne L, 26-7at Cornell W, 19-14at VMI W, 28-22 (OT)Lehigh L, 21-10at Army West Point SaturdayGeorgetown Oct. 24at Lafayette Oct. 31at Fordham Nov. 7Holy Cross Nov. 14at Colgate Nov. 21

ARMY BLACK KNIGHTS (1-5)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr82 Edgar Poe 6-4 215 WR JR.2 Kelvin White 6-3 258 TE Sr.50 Ryan Alexander 6-1 250 LT Sr.60 Justin Gilbert 6-7 278 LG Sr.53 Matt Hugenberg 6-5 295 C Sr.74 Jaryn Villegas 6-2 286 RG So.78 Brett Toth 6-6 259 RT So.17 Ahmad Bradshaw 5-11 198 QB So.25 Aaron Kemper 5-6 210 FB Jr.6 John Trainor 5-11 190 TB So.5 Joe Walker 6-0 204 AB So.15 DeAndre Bell 6-1 224 WR Sr.95 Daniel Grochowski 6-1 220 K Sr.

DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr50 Bayle Wolf 6-1 221 SAM So.57 Jordan Smith 6-3 258 DT Jr.93 T.J. Atimalala 5-11 268 NG Sr.59 John Voit 6-3 247 DE So.21 Alex Aukerman 6-1 228 RE So.11 Andrew King 6-0 246 MLB Jr.39 Jeremy Timpf 6-1 225 WLB Jr.14 Chris Carengie 6-0 200 FC Sr.23 Rhyan England 5-10 192 FS So.9 Xavier Moss 6-2 194 BS Jr.3 Josh Jenkins 6-0 190 BC Jr.80 Alex Tardieu 6-4 218 P Sr.2015 ScheduleDate Opponent/ResultFordham L, 37-35Connecticut L, 22-17Wake Forest L, 17-14Eastern Michigan W, 58-36Penn State L, 20-14Duke L, 44-3Bucknell SaturdayRice Oct. 24Air Force Nov. 7Tulane Nov. 14Rutgers Nov. 21Navy Dec. 12

By Todd StanfordThe Daily Item

WEST POINT — Coming off a disappointing loss to Lehigh in its Patriot League opener last week, Bucknell has a unique opportunity this Saturday to get back on the winning track and make a little program history.

The Bison (3-2) head to West Point to face Army (kickoff at noon). It will be Bucknell’s first game against an FBS school since 2001, when the Bison fell to Kent State, 38-17.

“It’s a great opportunity,” Bucknell coach Joe Susan says. “Playing in that atmo-sphere — I’ve coached there previously — it’s a great place to play.”

Since the NCAA divided football-playing schools in Division I into two separate classes in 1978 — then called I-A and I-AA, but now called the Football Bowl Subdivi-sion and Football Champi-onship Subdivision — the Bison are 0-5 against teams from the FBS. In addition to the aforementioned setback at Kent State, they’ve also lost to Army twice (in 1988 and 1995) and Rutgers twice (1978 and 1979).

Bucknell only lost 16-14 to the Scarlet Knights in 1979, which is the closest the Bi-son have come to beating an FBS team.

If Bucknell is going to pull off the upset against Army, the Bison will have to find a way to stop an unorthodox offensive attack by the Black Knights. Army (1-5) runs a double-slot option, which means three running backs line up in the backfield.

“It’s basically the fullback and two slot backs and the quarterback,” Susan says. “So they have a four-back offense. All four of those kids, depending on how they read you, are capable of run-ning the ball.”

Susan admits that his de-

fense spent time preparing for Army’s offense previous to this week.

“It’s a unique offense,” he says. “We’ve been (prepar-ing) the defense since last spring.”

The Black Knights are led by quarterback Ahmad Bradshaw on the ground; he has 308 yards and four touchdowns on 83 carries. Fullback Aaron Kemper is next with 42 carries for 255 yards.

Since Army has a run-first mentality, Susan is hoping his team can build an early lead and force the Black Knights to throw more.

“Any time you play a team like this,” Susan says, “if you can put them behind on the scoreboard, it forces them to play a different style of of-fense than they’re used to.”

Bucknell was without the services of preseason all-Pa-triot League picks C.J. Wil-liams (running back) and Will Carter (wide receiver) last week. Williams sat out

due to concussion protocol, while Carter was serving a one-game suspension. Susan says that Carter will defi-nitely play this week, but he’s not sure about Williams.

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Bucknell’s R.J. Nitti attempts a pass against Duquesne last month.

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Game NightWhen: 2 p.m., SaturdayWhere: Robert B. Redman StadiumRadio: WHLM 930 AM / 94.7, 104.3 FM / Berwick: 1280 AM / Danville: 105.5 FM

BLOOMSBURG HUSKIES (4-2)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr8 Connor Gades 6-1 195 WR Sr.7 Chad Hoffman 6-1 190 WR Jr.70 John Garland 6-4 300 LT Jr.62 Christian Whiteside 6-3 275 LG Sr.63 Ryan Geiger 6-1 285 C Sr.74 Nick Reed 6-1 275 RG Sr.50 Dakota Hoagland 6-4 300 RT Sr.5 Shane Quinn 6-2 250 TE Sr.13 Tim Kelly 6-1 188 QB Sr.26 Lawerence Elliot Jr. 6-1 207 RB Jr.39 Eric McCracken 6-0 245 FB So.90 Tyler Smith 5-10 185 K Jr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr82 Joe Wetty 6-3 230 DE Jr.71 Jeremiah Lowery 6-3 270 DT Sr.42 Ezra Ranco 6-2 300 DE Jr.44 Andrew Harris 5-10 215 DE Jr.53 Tyriq Clary 6-0 225 MLB Sr.11 Garrett Pope 6-2 218 BLB Sr.9 Gary Postell 5-8 170 RCB Sr.6 Marquis Seamon 5-10 165 LCB Fr.17 Jerrin Toomey 5-10 185 S Jr.21 Donavan Morris 6-0 179 S Sr.48 Will Wagner 6-4 200 P Jr.

2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/ResultStonehill L, 27-10at California (PA) W, 20-13Mercyhurst L, 20-14at Shippensburg W, 17-6Cheyney W, 63-0at Millersville W, 41-20Kutztown Saturdayat West Chester Oct. 24at East Stroudsburg Oct. 31Lock Haven Nov. 7Seton Hill Nov. 14

KUTZTOWN GOLDEN BEARS (3-3)2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/ResultAssuption L, 41-37at Indiana (PA) W, 34-33Gannon L, 66-31at Cheyney W, 34-0Millersville W, 47-14at West Chester L, 44-14at Bloomsburg SaturdayEast Stroudsburg Oct. 24at Lock Haven Oct. 31Shippensburg Nov. 7Clarion Nov. 14

By Josh FunkFor The Daily Item

BLOOMSBURG — Mill-ersville dented Blooms-burg’s 12-quarter streak of not allowing a touchdown this past Saturday. But re-ally, nobody in the PSAC East has been able to dent the Huskies (4-2 overall, 3-0 PSAC East) otherwise.

Kutztown (3-3, 2-1) will get its shot Saturday at Bloomsburg’s homecoming game, which will kick at 2 p.m.

Kutztown last recorded a victory in Columbia County in 1992, and Bloomsburg has won 26 of its 34 all-time home games against the Golden Bears entering Sat-urday’s contest. That 1992 game is the lone Huskies home defeat to the Golden Bears since 1982, a span in which Bloomsburg is 14-1-1 overall.

Offensively, the Golden Bears will encounter a red-hot Huskies offense, which has averaged 52 points per game in victories over Cheyney and Millersville. Twenty of the Huskies’ last 23 scoring drives have ended in touchdowns, and a veteran offensive line has made it all possible.

Led by Ryan Geiger, John Garland, Christian White-side, Nick Reed and Dakota Hoagland, the Bloom quintet has a combined 115 varsity starts worth of experience in their careers and aver-ages 287 pounds per man. They’ve helped pave the way for an offense which has rolled up 1,432 yards rushing and is averaging 381.5 yards and 27.5 points per game.

The Huskies’ ground game finished with yet an-other 200-yard day against Millersville, amassing 236 yards in all. Lawrence El-liott Jr. led the way with 146 yards and a touchdown on 17 carries, and Joe Pars-nik scored three times and

ended the day with 55 yards on 14 carries. Parsnik leads Bloom with seven rushing touchdowns and Elliott has tallied 670 yards and five scores on 104 carries.

Field general Tim Kelly hasn’t thrown an intercep-tion over the last two games, and posted a season-high 188 yards while completing 17-of-24 passes against Millers-ville. Kelly is pacing an aerial attack which averages 142.8 yards per game, and features receiving targets like Chad Hoffman (team-high 201 yards on 16 catches), Con-ner Gades, Nate Hoenl and Doug Strang.

Defensively, Blooms-burg was punishing against Millersville’s ground game, limiting the Marauders to a

mere 26 yards and an aver-age of just over one yard per carry. Bloomsburg has also gotten excellent defensive pressure and forced 11 sacks over its last two games.

The Huskies did allow Millersville quarterback J.J. Paige to throw for 250 yards and two touchdowns, and opponents are averag-ing over 180 yards per game through the air against Bloomsburg.

That’s something the Hus-kies will have to be wary of against Kutztown. Golden Bears quarterback Chad Barton has had quite a 2015 season, throwing for 1,618 yards and 15 touchdowns against only seven intercep-tions. He has the reins of a KU offense averaging 452

yards and 32.8 points per game.

Barton’s favorite tar-gets are Kellen Williams (35 receptions, 566 yards, five touchdowns) and Kodi Reed (35, 556, 7).

Terry Williams leads the Golden Bears in rush-ing, with 437 yards and five touchdowns on 71 carries.

Defensively, Kutztown’s Zack Delp has had a very productive season, totaling 57 tackles — seven for loss — along with 3.5 sacks.

The Golden Bears, how-ever, are allowing just as many yards as they aver-age. KU has allowed 457.5 yards per game, with oppo-nents gaining 188 yards per game on the ground and 289 through the air.

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Bloomsburg’s Joe Parsnik rushes against Cheyney earlier this season.

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Game NightWhen: Saturday 8 p.m. Radio: 1070 AM 6:30 p.m.TV: ABCPENN STATE NITTANY LIONS (5-1)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr12 Chris Goodwin 6-1 208 WR So.7 Geno Lewis 6-1 205 WR Sr.88 Mike Gesicki 6-6 255 TE So.73 Paris Palmer 6-7 302 LT Jr.70 Brendan Mahon 6-4 318 LG Jr.55 Wendy Laurent 6-2 294 C Sr.72 Brian Gaia 6-3 2-4 RG Sr.59 Andrew Nelson 6-6 302 RT Jr.5 DaeSean Hamilton 6-1 206 WR Jr.14 Christian Hackenberg 6-4 228 QB Jr.24 Nick Schott 5-11 198 RB So.34 Dom Salomone 5-10 242 FB Sr.99 Joey Julius 5-10 259 K So.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr95 Carl Nassib 6-7 272 DE Sr.98 Anthony Zettel 6-4 284 DT Sr.99 Austin Johnson 6-4 323 DT Sr.90 Garrett Sickels 6-4 258 DE Jr.11 Brandon Bell 6-1 231 SLB Jr.40 Jason Cabinda 6-1 245 MLB Jr.42 Troy Reeder 6-1 241 WLB So.15 Grant Haley 5-9 189 CB So.2 Marcus Allen 6-2 209 FS So.5 Jordan Lucas 6-0 193 SS Sr.10 Trevor Williams 6-0 200 CB Sr.92 Daniel Pasuquariello 6-1 200 P So.2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/Resultat Temple L, 27-10buffalo W, 27-14Rutgers W, 28-3San Deigo State W, 37-21Army West Point W, 20-14Indiana W, 29-7at Ohio State Saturdayat Maryland Oct. 24Illinois Oct. 31at Northwestern Nov. 7Michigan Nov. 21at Michigan State Nov. 28

OHIO STATE BUCKEYES (6-0)OFFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr68 Taylor Decker 6-8 315 LT Sr.54 Billy Price 6-4 315 LG So.50 Jacoby Boren 6-2 285 C Sr.65 Pat Elfein 6-3 300 RG Jr.57 Chase Ferris 6-5 310 RT Sr.81 Nick Vannett 6-6 260 TE Sr.1 Braxton Miller 6-2 215 HB Sr.12 Cardale Jones 6-5 250 QB Jr.15 Ezekiel Elliot 6-0 225 RB Jr.3 Michael Thomas 6-3 210 WR Jr.4 Curtis Samuel 5-11 200 WR So.7 Jalin Marshall 5-11 205 HB So.98 Jack Willougby 6-2 210 K Sr.DEFENSENo Player Ht Wt Pos Yr97 Joey Bosa 6-6 275 DE Jr.92 Adolphus Washington 6-4 290 DT Sr.90 Tommy Schutt 6-3 290 DT Sr.59 Tyquan Lewis 6-4 260 DE So.43 Darron Lee 6-2 235 SLB So.5 Raekwon McMillan 6-2 240 MLB So.37 Joshua Perry 6-4 254 WLB Sr.8 Gareon Conley 6-0 195 CB So.11 Vonn Bell 5-11 205 SAF Jr.23 Tyvis Powell 6-3 210 SAF Jr.13 Eli Apple 6-1 200 CB So.95 Cameron Johnston 5-11 195 P Jr.2015 SCHEDULEOpponent Date/Resultat Virginia Tech W, 42-24Hawaii W, 38-0Northen Illinois W, 20-13Western Michigan W, 38-12at Indiana W, 34-27Maryland W, 49-28Penn State Saturdayat Rutgers Oct. 24Minnesota Nov. 7at Illinois Nov. 14Michigan State Nov. 21at Michigan Nov. 28

By Travis JohnsonThe Associated Press

STATE COLLEGE — Jordan Lucas realizes he and most of his teammates won’t get an opportunity like this again.

The Penn State senior safety was still in high school the last time Penn State played a No. 1 opponent. The Nittany Lions lost to Alabama then and haven’t fared well against the coun-try’s best since. They’re 3-12 against ranked teams since the 2010 loss at Bryant-Denny Stadium — a pattern the Nittany Lions will try to turn around on their trip to Columbus this weekend to face Ohio State.

“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” Lucas said. “Ohio State is the top team in col-lege football right now. I’m sure they feel like they have a target on their back and teams want to take them down and that’s a great chal-lenge.”

It’s one head coach James Franklin made special men-tion of at a team meeting on Sunday. Although Franklin usually refuses to put any opponent on a pedestal, he thought it necessary consid-ering the rare circumstance and the momentum his team has built since a humbling loss to Temple on Sept. 5.

Then, quarterback Chris-tian Hackenberg was sacked 10 times and his team was embarrassed by the Owls. But Penn State’s offense has improved since, pro-tecting Hackenberg for large stretches where he’s found receivers downfield. The junior quarterback has completed 56 percent of his passes over the last three games and hasn’t thrown an interception in 93 attempts. He’s had help on the ground, where running backs Nick Scott and Mark Allen have found holes to run through

with Akeel Lynch and Sa-quon Barkley out.

Barkley was consistently explosive, averaging nearly 9 yards per carry, before suf-fering a right ankle injury against San Diego State. And while he’s questionable to return this weekend — Franklin didn’t update his status Tuesday — the Nit-tany Lions can rely on an-other constant.

A defense that’s leading the country with 25 sacks and is in the top 10 in tack-les for loss (53) and turnover margin (plus-8) has afforded the offense time and space to grow.

“I think we’re resilient,” Franklin said. “I think we have found ways to be suc-cessful each week, different ways of doing it. We’re get-ting better.”

Ohio State plans to black

out Ohio Stadium — an op-posite take on Penn State’s White Out — and will debut new, all-black uniforms.

With five straight home games, and the season-opener played in Philadel-phia where Penn State fans made up a majority of the crowd, tackle Andrew Nel-son is looking forward to be-ing the bad guys for once.

“I think that’s something

that we’re definitely all em-bracing,” Nelson said. “Ob-viously we know that we’re hated by the Ohio State community, but we have a great opportunity this week-end to go in there and play with the best of our ability.”

Lucas doesn’t believe aesthetics will play much of a role, however. He’s con-cerned with keeping Ohio State’s play makers out of the end zone.

Four Buckeyes, includ-ing multi-talented Braxton Miller, are averaging more than 12 yards per catch while running back Ezekiel Elliott has 22 runs of 10 or more yards and 10 touchdowns.

“They have a lot of differ-ent weapons so everybody has to be accounted for,” Lucas said. “They have a veteran offensive line. They have a good quarterback and they have athletes on the perimeter. (we have to) make sure we play mistake-free football.”

Nelson, who was on the 2013 team that was thrashed 63-14 in Columbus, knows what mistake-filled foot-ball feels like. He knows what it took to close the gap last year when Penn State bounced back from a 17-point halftime deficit to force double overtime, where the Buckeyes won at Beaver Stadium.

“We can move the ball on them offensively and we can definitely stick with this team,” Nelson said. “We don’t fear anybody.”

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LOS ANGELES — Southern California athletic director Pat Haden de-fended both his hiring and firing of Steve Sarkisian on Tuesday, saying the troubled football coach passed a thorough background check and had no behavioral missteps until the last two months.

Haden said he sent a let-ter of termination to Sarki-sian when he was unable to contact the coach person-ally, one day after Sarkisian showed up to work “un-well.” Interim coach Clay Helton will lead the Trojans (3-2, 1-2 Pac-12) against No. 14 Notre Dame on Saturday.

“I was able to gather facts and determine that Steve’s conduct did not meet USC standards and expectations of a head coach,” Haden said. “He knew those expec-tations and failed to meet them, so we made a decision in the best interest of our student-athletes, and that was to terminate Steve.”

USC President Max Nikias issued a statement in strong support of Haden, who is under scrutiny for his handling of Sarkisian’s problems and the football team’s struggles.

Haden allowed Sarki-sian to keep working after an embarrassing alcohol-related incident at a pep rally in August because he decided the coach “deserved a second chance,” he said.

“I felt at that time, it was in the best interests of our players, who had been through an incredible amount of adversity during the (NCAA) sanctions and the coaching changes they had gone through, and to Steve, not to suspend or fire him,” Haden said. “Based on the input of trusted

medical professionals and staff, it was determined he could continue coaching while seeking treatment. I felt a great deal of compas-sion for Steve Sarkisian.”

Haden initially placed Sarkisian on an indefinite leave of absence Sunday, but echoed similarly vague recent statements about the reasons for the decision Tuesday. Haden said his investigation over the next day revealed that Sarkisian had violated those unspeci-fied “expectations” for his behavior following the August incident, persuading Haden to fire the coach just 18 games into his tenure.

Haden said an unnamed national search firm helped with Sarkisian’s hiring

despite his anecdotal his-tory of boisterous alcohol-related behavior during his time at the University of Washington, but the AD couldn’t explain why USC saw nothing wrong with the public records obtained by the AP, the Los Angeles Times and other outlets that demonstrated Sarkisian’s enthusiasm for hefty alcohol purchases while traveling for the Huskies. Haden said Sarkisian also had back-ground checks done by USC and the NCAA.

“At the time of Steve’s hire, I firmly believed he was the right choice and fit for USC,” Haden said. “The decision didn’t work out, and I own that.”

Sarkisian, the Trojans’

fourth head coach in just over two years, went 12-6 with a talent-stacked roster, losing four games to double-digit underdogs. He lost two of his last three games, both to unranked Pac-12 oppo-nents.

Haden and Nikias, who are close friends, have stressed the positive aspects of Haden’s tenure, includ-ing strong success in smaller sports and the football pro-gram’s successful navigation of heavy NCAA sanctions predating their time in charge.

“(Haden) is a man of true character and integrity,” Ni-kias said. “He cares deeply for our student-athletes, and he always makes their well-being his highest priority.

Pat Haden has been doing an outstanding job in lead-ing Trojan athletics in the past five years, and I want to take this opportunity to reiterate my unwaver-ing support for him. I look forward to working with Pat Haden as our USC AD for many years to come.”

While Helton prepares his players for their trip to South Bend, former Trojans around the nation have been watching the USC circus with dismay and hope.

“It’s just unfortunate (to be) looking for a coach,” Buffalo Bills receiver Rob-ert Woods told The Associ-ated Press.

“It just seems like after (Pete) Carroll left, up and down years ever since,” added Woods, USC’s career leader in receptions. “But too much off-the-field drama, seems like, a lot go-ing on with the head coach, who’s supposed to be a leader of your team. I know Pat Haden is probably really frustrated with his coaches right now, but he’ll defi-nitely turn it around. He’s a great guy, and it’s a great program that can definitely turn around.”

Haden’s unusual dismissal of Sarkisian by letter joins a strange history of USC football firings.

Lane Kiffin was fired by Haden at the Los Ange-les airport in 2013 after the team returned from a blowout loss at Arizona State, with Kiffin trying desperately to talk Haden out of the move in the dead of night. Former athletic director Mike Garrett fired famed USC coach John Robinson in 1997 with a message left on his answer-ing machine, followed by a news conference to an-nounce the hiring of Paul Hackett — who wasn’t there.

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Southern California athletic director Pat Haden speaks with the media during a press conference Tuesday. He named the Trojans’ offensive coordinator, Clay Helton, to take over for head coach Steve Sarkisian, whom Haden fired Monday.

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Passing yardage 481 602Passing 24-57-4 35-51-3Fumbles-lost 11-1 9-4Penalties-yards 41-329 36-297INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — Mason Hambright 63-347, 3 TDs: Andrew Zerby 67-217, 3 TDs; Chris Schlugen 66-142, TD; Logan Pursley 20-73; Blake Sheaffer 6-70; John Moyer 3-5; Aaron Rhone 1-(-1); Brady McLaughlin 2-0; Stahl 1-0; Kaleb Berkich 1-4; Tim Snook 1-(-4); John Moyer 1-(-6).PASSING — Chris Schlugen 23-56-4 for 480 yards, 3 TDs; Micah Treaster 1-1-0 for 1 yard.RECEIVING — Andrew Zerby 3-8; Mason Hambright 2-156, TD; Dylan Anderson 3-117, 2 TDs; Bailey Hetrick 3-42; Gabriel Gabel 3-45; Anthony Minium 1-16; Logan Pursley 1-(-3).SCORING — Andrew Zerby 3 rushing TDs, 1 fumble return TD, 24 points; Mason Hambright 2 rushing TD, 1 receiving TD, 18 points; Dylan Anderson 2 receiving TDs, 12 points; Alex Tittle 7 PATS, 1 FG, 10 points.

LEWISBURG (5-1)Lewisburg 38 67 49 34—182Opponents 28 37 7 15—87statistics LHS OPPFirst downs 85 81Rushes-net yards 177-585 245-1,288Passing yardage 1,124 545Passing 81-133-7 43-107-10Fumbles-lost 7-4 12-6Penalties-yards 34-287 41-325INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — AJ Ramirez 68-258, TD; Dominic Farronato 33-140, 2 TDs; Spencer Barlett 17-85; Trent Gower 40-81, 2 TDs; Ben Higgins 9-22; Sean Lewis 3-(-12); Stone Hollenbach 1-8; team, 6-(-5).PASSING — Trent Gower 75-126-7 for 1,007 yards, 18 TDs; Stone Hollenbach 4-7-0 for 107 yards, TD.RECEIVING — Noah Inch 27-540, 9 TDs; Matt Fedorjaka 25-279, 3 TDs; Dylan Farronato 10-144, 2 TDs; Donte Malone 10-96, 3 TDs; Dominic Farronato 3-6; A.J. Ramirez 2-8; Aaron Veloz 1-7; James Richard 1-5, TD; Andrew Durfee 1-4; Spencer Barlett 1-3, TD.SCORING — Noah Inch 9 receiving TDs, 54 points; Nate Liscum 23 PATS, 3 FGs, 32 points; Matt Fedorjaka 3 receiving TD, 18 points; Dominic Farronato 2 rushing TDs, 1 interception return TD, 18 points; Donte Malone 3 receiving TDs, 18 points; Dylan Farronato 2 receiving TD, 1 kickoff return TD, 18 points; Trent Gower 2 rushing TDs, 12 points; James Richard 1 receiving TD, 6 points; Spencer Barlett 1 receiving TD, 6 points; AJ Ramirez 1 rushing TD, 6 points.

LINE MOUNTAIN (1-5)Line Mountain 7 21 6 34—68Opponent 28 74 44 40—176statistics LMHS OPPFirst downs 65 93Rushes-net yards 236-789 190-1.014Passing yardage 350 834Passing 32-109-6 49-101-4Fumbles-lost 10-8 8-4Penalties-yards 21-132 21-215INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — Brent Osman 72-380, TD; Kenny Boyer 59-263, TD; Breven Derk 32-70; Adam Malfi 5-35, TD; Colby Scott 7-26; Tyler Boyer 12-27; Cole Hauck 6-14; Justin Scott 1-5; Gage Bowers 1-2; Brendan Renn 1-(-10); team, 4-(-25); Kurt Mace, 32-(-17), TD.PASSING — Kurt Mace 32-107-5 for 350 yards, 4 TDs; K. Boyer 0-1-1; Justin Scott 0-1-0.RECEIVING — David Quinn 12-180, 2 TDs; Brendan Ryan 7-53, TD; Logan Ingram 6-40, TD; Tyler Boyer 3-37; Cole Hauck 2-9;

Brent Osman 1-9; Brendan Cregger 1-11.SCORING — David Quinn 2 receiving TDs, 1 interception return TD, 18 points; Logan Ingram 2 receiving TD; 12 points; Brent Osman, 1 rushing TD, 6 PATs, 12 points Kenny Boyer 1 rushing TD, 1 kickoff return TD, 12 points; Brendan Ryan 1 receiving TD, 1 2-point catch, 8 points Kurt Mace 1 rushing TD, 6 points; Adam Malfi 1 rushing TD, 6 points.

MIFFLINBURG (0-6)Mifflinburg 19 33 14 33—98Opponents 97 75 74 19—257statistics Miff OppFirst downs 62 86Rushes-net yards 180-665 191-1,409Passing yardage 897 561Passing 70-146-16 34-59-0Fumbles-lost 12-7 7-2Penalties-yards 32-280 43-298INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — Brayden Pierce 89-451, 5 TDs; Cole Laubach 12-89, TD; Zach Shambach 6-83; Dylan Maneval 2-66; James Zack 6-25; Hunter Kahley 6-0; Tristian Martin 6-12; Brian Zimmerman 5-19; Michael Warren 5-2; Kyle Gessner 2-(-1); Clayton Sheesley 2-(-7); Owen Walter 12-(-11), TD Josh Foster 15-(-71); team, 2-(-24).PASSING — Josh Foster 36-87-11 for 411 yards, 3 TDs; James Zack 27-47-5 for 337, TD; Owen Walter 5-8-0 for 98 yards, 2 TDs; Tristan Martin 2-2-0 for 65 yards.RECEIVING — Tristan Martin 23-259, 2 TDs; Brian Zimmerman 17-287, TD; Brad Sauers 8-67, TD; Brayden Pierce 7-45; Cole Laubach 4-64; Zach Shambach 4-58 Robert Foltz 2-78, TD; Chris Day 3-15; Owen Walter 1-18; Michael Warren 1-1, TD.SCORING — Brayden Pierce 5 rushing TDs, 1 2-point run, 32 points; Tristian Martin 2 receiving TD, 1 kickoff return TD, 18 points; Cole Laubach 1 rushing TD, 1 kickoff return TD, 12 points; Owen Walter 1 rushing TD, 1 2-point run, 8 points; Robert Foltz 1 receiving TD, 6 points; Brad Sauers 1 receiving TD, 6 points; Brian Zimmerman 1 receiving TD, 6 points; Michael Warren 1 receiving TD, 6 points; Ryan Oliver 5 PATS, 5 points.

MILTON (1-5)Milton 21 26 37 31—115Opponent 76 55 48 46—225statistics Milt OppFirst downs 79 101Rushes-net yards 264-1,463 252-1,297Passing yardage 265 552Passing 23-62-3 43-85-2Fumbles-lost 20-12 13-5Penalties-yards 32-212 21-166INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — Brandon Stokes 121-843, 9 TDs; Raff Rodqiguez 49-441, 5 TDs; Lance Fogelman 22-123; Eric Wilt 18-53; Michael Cooper 8-32; Phillip Davis 2-0; Quaylin Rice 3-8; Michael Young 5-7; Hunter Snyder 19-(-53); team, 1-(-5).PASSING — Hunter Snyder 20-54-2 for 170 yards, TD; Phil Davis 3-7-1 for 95 yards, TD Brandon Stokes 0-1-0-0.RECEIVING — Mason Whitmyer 7-46; Brandon Stokes 6-98, TD; Michael Cooper 3-32; Lance Fogelman 3-19; Raff Rodriguez 1-29; Alex Garcia 1-14; Eric Wilt 1-13; Jahil Garrison 1-26, TD.SCORING — Brandon Stokes 9 rush TDs, 1 receciving TD, 4 PATs, 2 2-point runs, 68 points; Raff Rodqiguez 5 rushing TDs, 30 points; Jahill Garrison, 1 reciving TD, 6 points; Lance Fogelman 1 2-point run, 2 points.

MOUNT CARMEL (3-3)Mount Carmel 22 42 12 20—96Opponents 10 63 7 38—128statistics MCHS OPPFirst downs 77 83Rushes-net yards 259-1,455 191-857Passing yardage 393 637

Passing 26-49-3 53-82-4Fumbles-lost 7-2 15-10Penalties-yards 38-287 18-128INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — Kyle Karyicki 125-927, 9 TDs; John Ayers 54-209, TD; Allen Yancoskie 19-125; Lane Tanney 14-111; Tom McDonald 14-80; Zach Zarkowski 21-72; Cameron Britt 6-5; Michael Cuff 1-3; Gabe Bogutskie 1-(-2); Manus McCracken 4-0; team 4-(-17).PASSING — Tom McDonald 13-28-2 for 221 yards, 3 TDs; John Ayers 13-21-1 for 172 yards, TD.RECEIVING — Wes Shurock 7-190, 3 TDs; Allen Yancoskie 8-64; Lane Tanney 4-79, TD; Mason Duran 4-35; Karyicki 2-2; Michael Hood 1-24.SCORING — Kyle Karycki 9 rushing TD, 54 points; Wes Shurock, 3 receiving TDs, 18 points; John Ayers 1 rushing TD, 1 2-point run, 8 points; Lane Tanney 1 receiving TD, 6 points; Tom Paschuta 4 PATs, 4 points; Zach Zarkowski 1 2-point run, 2 points.

SELINSGROVE (6-0)Selinsgrove 72 79 26 42—221Opponent 6 16 22 26—70statistics Sel OPPFirst downs 101 51Rushes-net yards 213-1,289 203-765Passing yardage 935 284Passing 64-92-5 26-65-11Fumbles-lost 9-3 5-4Penalties-yards 40-350 34-333INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — Juvon Batts 45-596, 7 TDs; Angelo Martin 72-394, 2 TDs; Logan Leiby 44-103, TD; Garrett Campbell 5-67, TD; Drew Peterman 16-65, TDs; Ethan Trautman 17-48, 4 TDs; Joe Kahn 4-22; Hunter Croman 3-12; Cody Showers 3-4; David Klinger 1-(-1); team 2-(-2).PASSING — Logan Leiby 60-88-5 for 850 yards, 9 TDs; Cody Showers 4-4-0 for 85 yards, TD; team, 0-1-0.RECEIVING — Colin Hoke 19-255, 3 TDs; Nick Swineford 16-309, 5 TDs; Juvon Batts 6-80; Tony Dressler 5-53, TD; Richard Cope 5-40; Ethan Trautman 3-34; Joe Radel 3-31; Romeo Patterson 2-81, TD; Angelo Martin 2-13; Hunter Croman 1-2.SCORING — Juvon Batts 7 rushing TD, 1 kickoff return TD, 48 points; Joey Radel 26 PATS, 4 FG, 38 points; Nick Swineford 5 receiving TDs, 30 points; Colin Hoke 3 receiving TD, 1 punt return TD, 24 points; Ethan Trautman 4 rushing TDs, 24 points; Angelo Martin 2 rushing TDs, 12 points; Garrett Campbell 1 rushing TD, 1 intercep-tion return TD, 12 points; Tony Dressler 1 receiving TD, 1 interception return TD, 12 points; Logan Leiby 1 rushing TD, 6 points; Thomas Mullen, 2 PATs, 2 points.

SHAMOKIN (2-4)Shamokin 21 31 29 50—131Opponent 63 57 14 45—179statistics Sham OPPFirst downs 82 87Rushes-net yards 242-1,072 264-1,392Passing yardage 629 553Passing 46-99-12 29-79-2Fumbles-lost 10-4 13-7Penalties-yards 27-231 35-289INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — Preston Burns 120-725, 8 TDs; Garret Zalar 28-121; Nate Shurock 31-47; Devin Pietkiewicz 23-76; Mark Wetzel 14-50; Isaiah Reiprish 3-32; Jake Jeremiah 1-2; Ty Berge 12-1; Tom Campbell 8-(-14); team, 1-(-17).PASSING — Thomas Campbell 18-38-7 for 241 yards, 3 TDs; Nate Shurock 23-51-2 for 240 yards, 2 TDs Zach Johnson 5-12-3 for 48 yards, TD.RECEIVING — Jacob DiRienzo 9-93; Devin Pietkiewicz 9-126, TD; Ty Berge, 8-54; Isaiah Reiprish 5-116, 2 TDs; Jake Jermiah 2-16; Breslin 1-36; Marcus Divert 1-22, TD; Mark Wetzel 1-7; Nate Shurock 1-3; Garrett Zalar 2-13; Thomas Campbell 1-12,

TD; Matt Knowles 1-15.SCORING — Preston Burns 8 rushing TDs, 1 fumble return TD, 54 points; Alek Washuta 15 PATs, 2 FG, 21 points; Isaiah Reiprish 2 receiving TD, 12 points; David Stephens 2 fumble return TDs, 12 points; Jacob DiRienzo, 1 receivng TD, 6 points; Garrett Zalar 1 rushing TD, 6 points; Thomas Campbell 1 receiving TD, 6 points; Devin Pietkiewicz 1 rushing TD, 6 points.

SHIKELLAMY (2-4)Shikellamy 27 52 21 12—112Opponents 27 77 51 46—201statistics Shik OPPFirst downs 58 97Rushes-net yards 205-818 196-1,112Passing yardage 644 892Passing 43-104-6 49-88-10Fumbles-lost 5-2 12-4Penalties-yards 54-451 51-435INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — Shawn Turber 39-360, 4 TDs; Gabe Tilford 55-256, 4 TDs; Joey Folk 27-70; Pierson White 13-53, TD; Christian Schlegel 40-28, TD; Kobe Swanger 11-33; Chris Tasker 9-10; Corey Wagner 1-7; David Munoz 3-7; Ethan Oakes 3-7; Lemeir Mitchell 8-32; Luke Tilford 2-2; Tate Krankoskie 4-(-12).PASSING — Christian Schlegel 37-90-6 for 512 yards, 2 TDs; Shawn Turber 1-1-0 for 70 yards, TD; Tate Krankoskie 5-13-0 for 67 yards.RECEIVING — Shawn Turber 13-205, 2 TDs; Trey Cunningham 10-115; Gabe Tilford 9-125; Hunter Dodge 6-124, TD; Owen Long 3-64; Pierson White 2-9; Thanyne Hummel 1-11; Schlegel 1-10.SCORING — Shawn Turber 4 rushing TDs, 2 receving TDs, 1 punt return TD, 42 points; Gabe Tilford 4 rushing TDs, 24 points; Pierson White 1 rushing TD, 1 kickoff TD, 12 points; Christian Schlegel 1 rushing TD, 6 points; Hunter Dodge 1 receiving TD, 6 points; Tate Krankoskie 1 interception return TD, 6 points; Dylan Snyder 13 PATs, 1 FG 16 points. SOUTHERN COLUMBIA (6-0)Southern Col. 104 91 63 20—278Opponents 20 14 15 32-81statistics SCHS OppFirst downs 114 50Rushes-net yards 205-1,826 199-726Passing yardage 845 747Passing 41-74-4 63-125-6Fumbles-lost 16-8 7-4Penalties-yards 25-180 31-271INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — Hunter Thomas 35-512, 10 TDs; Blake Marks 44-490, 8 TDs; Jared

Torres 50-323, 5 TDs; Nic Fetterman 22-134, 2 TDs; Thomas Manley 13-98, TD; Drew Michaels 11-67; Nick Becker 3-35; Dylan Kranzel 15-39, TD; Jacob Potter 7-57; A.J. Goodlunas 8-30; Billy Marzeski 12-46, TD; Garrett Henry 1-3; Sami Abdul 5-39; Cole Potter 3-9.PASSING — Nick Becker 26-47-3 for 569 yards, 6 TDs; Drew Michaels 12-18-1 for 214 yards, 3 TDs; Justin Derk 3-9-0 for 62 yards.RECEIVING — Steve Toczylousky 11-315, 4 TDs; Hunter Thomas 11-269, 3 TDs; Cam Young 9-128, TD; Blake Marks 5-65 Jared Torres 2-10; Garrett Henry 2-34, TD; Tom Ivey, 1-3.SCORING — Hunter Thomas 10 rushing TDs, 3 receiving TD, 1 kickoff return TD, 1 interception TD, 90 points; Blake Marks 8 rushing TDs, 1 PAT, 49 points; Tyler Keiser 34 PATs, 1 FG, 37 points; Jared Torres 5 rushing TDs, 30 points; Steve Toczylousky 4 receiving TDs, 24 points; Nic Fetterman, 2 rushing TDs, 12 points; Billy Marzeski 1 rushing TD, 6 points; Dylan Frantzel 1 rush-ing TD, 6 points; Jacob Manley, 1 rushing TD, 6 points; Austin Knepp 1 interception return TD, 6 points; Garrett Henry 1 receiv-ing TD, 6 points.

WARRIOR RUN (3-3)Warrior Run 33 14 13 21—81Opponent 13 54 25 45—136statistics WRHS OppFirst downs 79 75Rushes-net yards 237-701 186-1,095Passing yardage 696 495Passing 64-99-4 40-84-2Fumbles-lost 11-4 13-8Penalties-yards 33-273 17-180INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — Tyler Brown 119-503, 3 TDs; Anthony Null 27-108, 2 TDs; Noah Showers 17-60, 2 TDs; Ty Kirkner 25-78, 3 TDs; Matt Gummo 4-25; Jorge Guillen 2-3, TD; Kade Meyer 1-3; Teddy Bender 1-2; Gage Anzulavich 32-(-75), TD.PASSING — Gage Anzulavich 64-99-4 for 696 yards, 3 TDs.RECEIVING — Matt Truckenmiller 12-149, 2 TDs; Teddy Bender 12-142; Matt Gummo 9-119; George Reasoner 3-20; Noah Showers 8-49; Ty Kirkner 5-73; Kade Meyer 6-34, TD; Jacob Snyder 2-24; Tyler Brown 2-25; Ozzie Guillen, 1-7.SCORING — Tyler Brown 3 rushing TD, 18 points; Ty Kirkner 3 rushing TDs, 18 points; Matt Truckenmiller 2 receiving TDs, 1 2-point catch, 14 points; Anthony Null 2 rushing TD, 12 points; Noah Showers, 2 rushing TDs, 12 points; Kade Meyer, 1 rushing TD, 6 points; Jorge Guillen 1 rush-ing TD, 6 points; Gage Anzulavich 1 rushing TD, 6 points; Austin Solstez 10 PATs, 10 points.

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