Are you ready for some football?
Welcome to the official blog on high school football for the 2012 season.
We want to know what game you are going to each week and let’s talk about matchups and how teams did.
Let us know what player(s) stood out each week.
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Attended the La Salle-Prep game today. Great atmosphere, probably as many people as the 2010 state semifinal game v. North Penn. Two great teams, most impressive things to me were La Salle’s defense, which really kept Prep’s ground attack in check, and Sean Coleman, with 4 TDs and 14 catches after being hit so hard three different times that I thought he was out of the game. Prep showed a lot of heart in their second half comeback. Great game.
Hats off to Berwick. The game was 9-7 in the fourth so Dallas played a lot better but Berwick apparently too much. I’ll take Berwick over AH. A berwick ACC game would be AWESOME
Berwick’s bringin it but I don’t know if they can handle the d1/d12 winner.
Berwick defeats Dallas 28-7 to advance to d2 aaa title game at crispin field, against Abington Heights a 13-6 winner over Valley View.Berwick improves to 10-1 and has won 18 out of last 19 games.
so much for garnet valley…
D-East lost 38-35.
i like reading mark d’s stuff because he is a fellow D2 guy but I agree with the other posters.
@ mark d :
We have no idea what you are saying.
Forget about writting a book, just try to write a sentence.
Just trying to make a point not write a book really dont think about it much. as for the ranking their opinions it hard to rank high school all over the country you never know what the teams are like that they play so I with jimbo I dont put much stock in them.Do you watch thouse games on E.S.P.N these ranked High School teams seen some really good team and some really bad and their ranked
@ mark d
Why you skip word when write? Why do use 4 question marks when ask question???? Why not capitalizes “I” when speak first person? Sorry, i had just get off chest!!!!
The national rankings definitely are not worthless. They’re pretty well on. Sure, sometimes teams are overrated or underrated. They refine it as they go. It’s been a while since a PA team has cracked the final top 10 in the USA Today. Think 2003 was the last time.
http://www.sportsfanbase.com
streaming live
@Jimbo i agree, it just struck we the way he said it can they hang with them like if they had no chance could they just stay in the game.so used that to make a point very very good football team at N.A
Anyone know of any live video streams / telecasts of any playoff games this weekend?
@markd, national high schools rankings are worthless but yes, expect NA to be there in the end.
@Jim if Valley View doesn’t turn the ball over i think the game will come down to Valley View return kicking game vrs Abington kicker,Abington can control not kicking to Valley View return men and that kid empress me 43 yard field goal last time i saw him. you know these programs don’t like each other it be a hard hitting game!!! see you their
Ok let’s make some predictions . In District 1 although I am pulling for Pennridge, realistic choice is Pennsbury. I am no fan of their coach but they are built for the Cold. I personally believe a staff like LaSalle or North Allegheny coaching Pennsbury would achieve State title appearances every other year. They have that much size, speed and toughness year after year.
PCL — going to be a war. Tough to beat LS twice in 1 year. Bret Gordon is the smartest Offensive coach around– he will have a winning game plan. Prep O lives on short fields. Their QB is a Good runner but not a good passer.LS 17-14.
LS- Easton rematch in a few weeks…hope all the kids have good health during the playoffs
Look out in D1 AAAA, Garnet Valley has been playing better last few weeks. They look like they could go on a roll.
Nice mark d, heres what I got
Dallas 21 Berwick 14
Wyoming Area 35 LL 7
Old Forge 35 Riverside 20
Dunmore 35 Trail 7
Scranton 42 ESS 8
AH 20 VV 7
Lakeland 30 GAR 13
Del Val 28 whitehall 26
markd, looks good, AH-VV by 3? is interesting, on paper a good game to watch.
@Craig
You asked if N.Allegheny could hang with Prep & La Salle. Fox sports has them ranked no 9 in the Nation!!!! I think they can hang
let hear your predictions
D2 playoffs
AAAA
Scranton 42 E.S.S 14
Del valley 35 Whitehall 21
AAA
Abington 24 V.V 21
Dallas 21 Berwick 14 (you talked me in to it rob)
AA
W.A 28 Lake Lehman 14
Lakeland 35 G.A.R 14
A
Old Forge 42 Riverside 21
Dunmore 35 Lackawanna Trail 14
I’m just gonna say this: Expect a much, much closer game between Berwick and Dallas on Friday….Gonna Say Dallas wins 21-14. Not that Berwick is palying bad football, I just think Dallas is a machine right now.
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For what it worth here’s some numbers,the WVC in divison 1 went 6-13 in non conference games the LFC went 12-2.WVW the only team to win all it WVC games went 0-3 in non confrence games and lost by and avg score of 36-14.this was based on non conference games only, games like Pittston and W.A or Lakeland Valley View were not counted as they were division crossover and not non conference.
Abington is not playing with a freshman tailback. Was at game Saturday, starter is Ryan Judge, #28. He took over for Quinn Karam, who suffered an injury earlier in season. As for losing to Scranton, I wouldn’t put much stock in that game, Scranton is a very good AAAA team. Also, Show and quarterback have played defense all year, are two of their best players. As for VV and Berwick history, they’ve played 7 times. VV has won 3 times, 14-3 in 1984, when Berwick was ranked #1 in the nation, 24-21 in 1999, and 35-21 in 2010, the only time game was played at VV. Two of the games Berwick won were blowouts, other two were close.