2018 Team Previews – Pittston Area Patriots (2)

Written by: David Mika on Friday, August 24th, 2018. Follow David Mika on Twitter.

Head Coach: Nick Barbieri

Assistant Coaches:

Genarro Zangardi
Joe Delucca
Joe Graziano
Vito Quaglia
Sam Eramo
Jason Mills
Chuck Montagna
Robb Haas

Team Name: Patriots

2017 Record: 6-5

2018 Schedule:

Key Starters Lost:

Walter Coles, QB
Kevin Krawczyk, WR
Jake Rutkowski, OL
Keemar Woodruff, RB
Dorian Ryans, LB
Tyler Ferlick,LB
Richard Wallace, DB
Matt Starinski, DB

Offensive Starters Returning: (8)

Ed Galonis, SR OL 6′ 215
Joey Jones, SR OL 6′ 210
Andrew Krawczyk, JR WR 6’2 165
Bryan Giambra, SR WR 6’1 160
Reily Brody, SR OT 6’2
John Delucca, SR TE 6′ 220
Tony Gorey, SR TE 6’2 190
Seth Johnson SR OL 5’11 225

Defensive Starters Returning: (4)

Franny George JR 5’11 185 LB
Mike Coe SR 6′ 205 LB
Reily Brody SR 6’2 225 DL
John Delucca SR 6′ 220 LB

Special Team Starters Returning: (1)

Mike Coe SR P 6′ 205

Key Newcomers: (10)

JR WR Brennan Higgins 6′ 175
JR RB Dylan Lukachko 5’9 160
SR DB Tannen Kraklio 6′ 175
SO DB Braheem Patterson 5’10 165
so LB John Symons 6′ 175
SR WR Alex Haas 6’3 180
JR QB Mike Nocito 5’10 150
JR QB Alex Anastasi 6′ 185
SO QB P.J. Pisano 5’10 145
SO WR Anthony Thomas 5’9 140

2018 Offensive Outlook: We will return the majority of our offensve line and have a great group of skilled players. Having to replace a three year starter at quarterback will be a challenge, but there are three solid players competing for the position. We will be successful if we can get our young talent to mature quickly. We need to be able to establish a running game to take some pressure off of our inexperienced quarterbacks.

2018 Defensive Outlook: We will be replacing the majority of our defense including our entire secondary. We need to be better stopping the run in order to be successful.
A good group of talented athletes will compete to fill those positions, however, we will be inexperienced.

2018 Special Teams Outlook: Mike Coe returns as our punter, but we will need to replace our kicker. Special teams played a big role in our success last season and we expect it t play a big role again this year.

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