District 11 Notes (Week 11):

Written by: Duke Helm on Friday, November 10th, 2023. Follow Duke Helm on Twitter.

RUNNINGBACKS: 

Josh Ludlow of Notre Dame rushed for 194 yards and scored a school tying record 6 td’s in week 11. Gerald Grube scored 6 td’s vs Wilson in 2017. Ludlow upped his td season total to 24 and and his career total to 45. Senior Caden Henritzy of Northampton went over 1,000 yards rushing on the season in week 11 (1,090 yards). Henritzy scored a td in the game to improve his career total to 50 td’s scored. Aiden Myers of Schuylkill Haven scored 3 td’s in week 11 which put him in the “40 td” club with exactly 40. Myers, a senior, has rushed for 1,260 yards and scored 14 td’s this season and teammate Sophomore Niko Carestia has rushed for 1,270 yards and scored 19 td’s. Trey Tremba of Parkland went over 3,000 career rushing yards last week (3,035 yards). Tremba joins an elite group of District 11 players that have rushed for 3,000 yards and have 1,000 yards receiving in a career (1,164). The other 4 players to accomplish this were Frank Morici of Notre Dame who rushed 640 times for 3,146 yards and caught 111 passes for 1,002 yards from 1988-91. He scored a total of 35 td’s. Shane Simpson of Easton rushed 563 times for 4,514 yards and caught 115 passes for 1,587 yards. He scored 85 td’s in his career. Austyn Borre of Pleasant Valley rushed 586 times for 4,295 yards and caught 89 passes for 1,052 yards. He scored 66 career td’s. Nate Boyle of Tamaqua rushed 539 yards for 4,088 yards and caught 109 passes for 1,562 yards. He scored 79 career td’s. Tremba has also scored 62 td’s in his career. Cade Sawyer of Southern Lehigh rushed for 221 yards and scored 5 td’s in week 11. Sawyer has rushed for 1,473 yards this season while scoring 34 td’s. Sawyer has 55 career td’s. Colm McGroarty of Mahanoy Area finished his career with a school record 4,219 yards rushing. McGroarty scored 62 career td’s which is the 2nd highest total in school history behind Ziggy Dudash’s 69 td’s that he scored from 1997-99. Matt Machalik of Palmerton went over 2,000 yards rushing on the season (2,071 yards) and has scored 35 td’s. Machalik is the first District 11 player to have a season rushing for 2,000 yards and another season with 2,000 yards passing. He has scored 93 career td’s moving him into 4th place all-time in the District. He moved Cody Remaley of Northern Lehigh down to 5th place with his 92 td’s he scored from 2007-10. Alex Achenbach of Williams Valley rushed for 295 yards and scored 3 td’s in week 11. Achenbach leads the District with 2,633 rushing yards. He also broke 2 school records in the process. He’s rushed for 6,594 career yards and scored 80 career td’s. Dylan Rabuck held both records when he rushed for 6,421 yards and scored 78 td’s from 2014-17. Achenbach moves into 4th place all-time in the District for his rushing yardage. Besides moving ahead of Rabuck, he also went by Colin McDermott of Central Catholic (6,473 yards from 2010-12), and Remaley (6,555 yards from 2007-10). His 80 td’s puts him in 10th place all-time in the District. Dylan Evans of Pen Argyl (2008-11), and Nate Boyle of Tamaqua (2016-19) move out of the top ten with their 79 career td’s.

QUARTERBACKS:

Antonio Fontanez of Central Catholic threw for 254 yards and 4 td’s in week 11. Fontanez takes over the District lead with his 2,071 yards passing this season. Danny Darno of Notre Dame is right behind Fontanez with 2,062 yards. Darno leads the District with 24 td passes. Luke Spang of Parkland is one behind Darno with 23 td passes. Brady O’Donnell of Lehighton joined the “4,000 yard” club and broke the school career passing yardage record in week 11. O’Donnell ended his career throwing for 4,136 yards. Tyler Cann held the old record when he threw for 3,993 yards from 2012-15. Ben Kreitzer of Nativity (1,123 yards), Blake Schwartz of Tri-Valley (1,085 yards), Gavin Taff of Northampton (1,049 yards), Dante Carr of Minersville (1,018 yards), and Tyler Miller of Blue Mountain (1,001 yards) all went over 1,000 yards passing in week 11. Machalik has 5,940 career passing yards which moves him up one more spot into 18th place all-time in the District. He drops Dan Persa of Liberty down to 19th place. Persa threw for 5,775 yards from 2003-06. Along with Fontanez, Aiden Hess of Catasauqua also went over 2,000 yards passing for his career (2,044 yards). In week 10. Ivan Laubach of ES South threw for 245 yards and 4 td passes in week 10.

RECEIVERS:

Damian Tyminski of Pen Argyl ends his career with school records of 170 receptions, 2,556 receiving yards, and 17 td receptions. Nick Ryan of Shenandoah Valley ends his career with school records of 130 receptions, 2,231 receiving yards, and 27 td receptions. Junior Noah Dolbin of Nativity went over 100 career receptions (103) and broke the school record. Paul Bandholz caught 100 passes from 1986-88. Dolbin will enter his senior season needing 47 yards to reach 2,000 yards for his career and needs 2 td catches to break the career record. Ian Juica of Catasauqua went over 100 catches in week 10 and added 8 more in week 11 and now has 109 in his career. He also caught a td pass in week 11 and now has 20 for his career. Alex Moser of Pen argyl went over 1,000 yards receiving for his career last week. Moser ended his career catching 64 passes for 1,040 yards and 10 td’s. Tyminski currently leads the District with 62 receptions. Justin Yescavage of JimThorpe leads the District in reception yardage with 964 yards. Xzavier Pusateri of ES South caught 8 passes for 119 yards and 4 td’s in week 10. Three more made the chart in week 11 with 500 career receiving yards. They are Ethan Manley of Mahanoy Area (548 yards), Brady Behr of PM West (543 yards), and Nekhi Spencer of ES South (506 yards).

Career reception District 11 rankings:

Damian Tyminski (Pen Argyl) 170 catches (6th place)

Joey Flail (North Schuylkill) 168 catches (7th place)

Jareel Calhoun (Central Catholic) 166 catches (8th place)

Mason Kuehner (Nazareth) 160 catches (tied for 9th place all-time with Nate Stewart Pius X/BECA 2012-15)

Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley) 130 catches (tied for 21st best with Ryan Greene of Catasauqua 2014-16)

Career reception yardage District 11 rankings: 

Flail 2,736 yards (7th best)

Tyminski 2,556 yards (10th best)

Kuehner 2,495 yards (12th best)

Ryan 2,231 yards (17th best)

Career reception td’s: 

Flail 40 (tied for 2nd best all-time with Jahan Dotson of Nazareth 2014-17 )

Ryan 26 (tied for 20th best with Matt Kistler of Tamaqua 2016-19, and Christian Sapp of ES South 2018-20)

2023 single-game highs: ( ) is the week the player accomplished the stat

Single Game Touchdowns (4)

6 (1), 5 (4) Matt Machalik (Palmerton)  *Ties School Record*

6 (3), 4 (2) Luke Stevenosky (Minersville)

6 (4) Brennan Kunkel (Panther Valley)

6 (11), 4 (7), 4 (8) Josh Ludlow (Notre Dame)  *Ties School Record*

5 (2), 5 (7), 4 (6), 4 (9) Alex Achenbach (Williams Valley)

5 (3), 4 (10) Colm McGroarty (Mahanoy Area)

4 (1) Ian Juica (Catasauqua)  *Ties School Record*

4 (1) Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)

4 (2) AJ Slivka (Northampton)

4 (2), 4 (11) Alex Ecker (Pleasant Valley)

5 (11), 4 (3), 4 (4), 4 (5), 4 (7), 4 (8) Cade Sawyer (Southern Lehigh)

4 (3), 4 (4) Trey Tremba (Parkland)

4 (3) Ty Sander (Palmerton)

4 (5) William Francis (Stroudsburg)

4 (6) Dalton Clymer (Northwestern)

4 (6) John Haubert (Palisades)

4 (7) Emilio Gonzalez (Palmerton)

4 (7), 4 (9) Nathan Gray (ES South)

4 (7) Bradley Whalen (Tamaqua)

4 (8) Charles Capers (ES South)

4 (8) Parrish McFarland (Pottsville)

4 (9) Niko Carestia (Schuylkill Haven)

4 (10) Xzavier Pusateri (ES South)

Single Game Rushing Yardage (200)

343 (2), 316 (7), 295 (11), 255 (4), 237 (9), 230 (1), 228 (8), 220 (6), 201 (10) Alex Achenbach (Williams Valley) *School Record*

324 (4) Brennan Kunkel (Panther Valley) *School Record*

319 (4), 240 (8), 238 (5), 221 (3), 209 (1) Matt Machalik (Palmerton) *School Record*

318 (9), 239 (7), 235 (8) Nathan Gray (ES South)

316 (2), 272 (5), 234 (10), 224 (4), 223 (8). 219 (7) Luke Stevenosky (Minersville) *School Record*

300 (2), 201 (4) Alex Ecker (Pleasant Valley)

262 (4), 222 (3) Trey Tremba (Parkland)

254 (2), 221 (11), 204 (8), 200 (7) Cade Sawyer (Southern Lehigh)

241 (10), 201 (7) Colm McGroarty (Mahanoy Area)

240 (10) Dalton Clymer (Northwestern)

227 (1) Lane Lehman (Pine Grove)

216 (10) Caden Henritzy (Northampton)

205 (2) Danny Darno (Notre Dame)

203 (3) Noah Pierre (Freedom)

Single Game Passing Yardage (200)

370 (7), 205 (3) Danny Darno (Notre Dame)

345 (3), 221 (9) Ryder Bray (Pocono Mountain West)

306 (5), 237 (7), 231 (4) Cole Lazorick (Jim Thorpe)

296 (3) Brad Rissmiller (Pen Argyl)

296 (8), 266 (5), 260 (10), 208 (4) Caden Mengel (North Schuylkill)

290 (3) Josiah Williams (Emmaus)

280 (5), 230 (10), 222 (8), 201 (2) Luke Spang (Parkland)

275 (10), 254 (11) Antonio Fontanez (Central Catholic)

271 (5) Brody Breiner (Panther Valley)

269 (4), 260 (1) Christopher Fritts (Southern Lehigh)

260 (1), 244 (4), 240 (9) Peyton Falzone (Nazareth)

260 (11), 221 (1) Trevor Minalda (North Schuylkill)

258 (9), 212 (5) Cayden Vassa (Bethlehem Catholic)

245 (10) Ivan Laubach (ES South)

237 (8), 204 (3) Shane Leh (Northwestern)

231 (5) Cole Ordway (Easton)

231 (10), 210 (1) Brady O’Donnell (Lehighton)

225 (2) Bruce Hopeck (Marian Catholic)

217 (8) Gavin Taff (Northampton)

217 (11) Ben Pilcher (Stroudsburg)

208 (1), 219 (6) Aiden Hess (Catasauqua)

203 (10), 202 (2) Trey Dogmantis (Whitehall)

200 (3) Chase Walker (Freedom)

Single Game TD Passes (4)

5 (1) Aiden Hess (Catasauqua)  *Ties School Record*

5 (3) Ryder Bray (Pocono Mountain West)  *Ties School Record*

4 (1) Greg Campbell (Bangor)

4 (1) Ben Dempster (Shenandoah Valley)

4 (2), 4 (10) Luke Spang (Parkland)

4 (3), 4 (7) Danny Darno (Notre Dame)

4 (5) Cole Lazorick (Jim Thorpe)

4 (10 Ivan Laubach (ES South)

4 (11) Antonio Fontanez (Central Catholic)

Single Game Receptions (10)

10 (3) Damian Tyminski (Pen Argyl)

Single Game Reception Yardage (140)

198 (9) Mason Kuehner (Nazareth)

197 (8) Joey Flail (North Schuylkill)  *School Record*

190 (5), 184 (4), 149 (2) Justin Yescavage (Jim Thorpe)

179 (10) Jack Robertson (Saucon Valley)

174 (7) Jamanni Cruz (Salisbury)

167 (3) Damian Tyminski (Pen Argyl)

167 (7), 141 (1) Andrew Olesh (Southern Lehigh)

161 (11) Collin McGee (North Schuylkill)

148 (1) Alex Moser (Pen Argyl)

146 (1) Ian Juica (Catasauqua)

146 (5) Collin Torres (Easton)

146 (11) Aidan Sorrentino (Central Catholic)

142 (2) Jake Pukszyn (Liberty)

142 (3) Mason Bollinger (Northwestern)

Single Game Reception TD’s (3)

4 (1) Ian Juica (Catasauqua)  *School Record*

4 (1) Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)  *Ties School Record*

4 (10) Xzavier Pusateri (ES South)

3 (1) Riley Stapp (Bangor)

3 (2) Carter Vassa (Bethlehem Catholic)  *Ties School Record*

3 (3) Jack Robertson (Saucon Valley)  *Ties School Record*

3 (10) Conner Johns (Parkland)

Field Goals (40 yards)

51 (3), 49 (7) Luke Meyers (Central Catholic)  *School Record*

45 (4) Will Buck (Emmaus)

40 (2) Gavin Mentzer (North Schuylkill)

District 11 Season Leaders

Rushing (1,000)

2633  Alex Achenbach (Williams Valley)

2183  Luke Stevenosky (Minersville)

2071  Matt Machalik (Palmerton)

1704  Nathan Gray (ES South)

1516  Trey Tremba (Parkland)

1473  Cade Sawyer (Southern Lehigh)

1469  Colm McGroarty (Mahanoy Area)

1274  Dalton Clymer (Northwestern)

1270  Niko Carestia (Schuylkill Haven)

1260  Aiden Myers (Schuylkill Haven)

1253  Alex Ecker (Pleasant Valley)

1159  Payton Fasnacht (Blue Mountain)

1095  Noah Pierre (Freedom)

1090  Caden Henritzy (Northampton)

1026  Lane Lehman (Pine Grove)

Touchdowns (20)

35  Matt Machalik (Palmerton)

34  Cade Sawyer (Southern Lehigh)

32  Luke Stevenosky (Minersville)

31  Alex Achenbach (Williams Valley)

27  Trey Tremba (Parkland)

24  Dalton Clymer (Northwestern)

24  Josh Ludlow (Notre Dame)

23  Colm McGroarty (Mahanoy Area)

Passing Yards (1,000)

2071  Antonio Fontanez (Central Catholic)

2062  Danny Darno (Notre Dame)

1936  Peyton Falzone (Nazareth)

1813  Luke Spang (Parkland)

1774  Cole Lazorick (Jim Thorpe)

1704  Aiden Hess (Catasauqua)

1689  Trey Dogmantis (Whitehall)

1655  Ryder Bray (Pocono Mountain West)

1647  Caden Mengel (North Schuylkill)

1647  Brad Rissmiller (Pen Argyl)

1631  Christopher Fritts (Southern Lehigh)

1499  Chase Walker (Freedom)

1414  Matt Machalik (Palmerton)

1403  Brady O’Donnell (Lehighton)

1277  Bruce Hopeck (Marian Catholic)

1270  Shane Leh (Northwestern)

1254  Cayden Vassa (Bethlehem Catholic)

1246  Greg Campbell (Bangor)

1168  Josiah Williams (Emmaus)

1123  Ben Kreitzer (Nativity)

1085  Blake Schwartz (Tri-Valley)

1083  Cole Ordway (Easton)

1049  Gavin Taff (Northampton)

1018  Dante Carr (Minersville)

1001  Tyler Miller (Blue Mountain)

Touchdown Passes (16)

24  Danny Darno (Notre Dame)

23  Luke Spang (Parkland)

20  Shane Leh (Northwestern)

20  Antonio Fontanez (Central Catholic)

19  Christopher Fritts (Southern Lehigh)

19  Aiden Hess (Catasauqua)

16  Matt Machalik (Palmerton)

16  Trey Dogmantis (Whitehall)

16  Cole Lazorick (Jim Thorpe)

Receptions (40)

62  Damian Tyminski (Pen Argyl)

52  Mason Kuehner (Nazareth)

52  Ian Juica (Catasauqua)

50  Justin Yescavage (Jim Thorpe)

50  Jareel Calhoun (Central Catholic)

46  Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)

45  Jake Pukszyn (Liberty)

44  Aidan Sorrentino (Central Catholic)

43  Shacre Colwell (Freedom)

42  Andrew Olesh (Southern Lehigh)

42  Joey Flail (North Schuylkill)

41  Brett Bashore (Whitehall)

40  Jack Robertson (Saucon Valley)

Reception Yardage (600)

964  Justin Yescavage (Jim Thorpe)

820  Mason Kuehner (Nazareth)

779  Andrew Olesh (Southern Lehigh)

775  Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)

744  Damian Tyminski (Pen Argyl)

713  Joey Flail (North Schuylkill)

707  Ian Juica (Catasauqua)

662  Carter Vassa (Bethlehem Catholic)

651  Noah Dolbin (Nativity)

634  Conner Johns (Parkland)

Reception Touchdowns (8)

11  Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)

10  Conner Johns (Parkland)

  9  Andrew Olesh (Southern Lehigh)

  9  Ian Juica (Catasauqua)

  9  Jack Robertson (Saucon Valley)

  8  Carter Vassa (Bethlehem Catholic)

  8  Collin McGee (North Schuylkill)

  8  Joey Flail (North Schuylkill)

  8  Caleb Newsome (Nazareth)

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