District 11 Notes – Week 7

Written by: Duke Helm on Friday, October 14th, 2022. Follow Duke Helm on Twitter.

RUNNINGBACKS: 

Jalen Fletcher of Freedom rushed for 267 yards and 2 td’s in their win over Whitehall.  Fletcher leads the EPC South with 958 yards rushing and 14 td’s scored.  Fletcher also went over 1,000 yards rushing in his career (1,259 yards) and has scored 20 career td’s.  Aidan Myers of Schuylkill Haven rushed for 281 yards and 5 td’s in their win over Panther Valley.  Myers surpassed 1,000 yards on the season and currently has 1,012 yards rushing and 12 td’s.  District leader Alex Achenbach of Williams Valley rushed for 219 yards and 2 scores in their 22-21 win over Mahanoy Area.  Achenbach has 1,162 yards rushing and 18 td’s this season.  The junior joins the “40 td” club as he has scored exactly 40 career td’s to date.  In the same game Colm McGroaty of Mahanoy Area rushed for 246 yards and 3 scores.  McGroaty has rushed for 891 yards and scored 14 td’s this season.  The junior also went over 2,000 yards rushing in his career (2,276).  Michael Pascoe of Panther Valley also went over 2,000 yards rushing in his career (2,015).  Cade Christopher of Northwestern rushed for 206 yards and scored 4 td’s in their win over Pottsville.  Christopher has scored 17 td’s this season and sits 1 td behind District leader Achenbach.  Steven Lilly of Palisades scored 4 td’s in their win over Pen Argyl and is third in the District with 16 td’s scored.  Payton Fasnacht of Blue Mountain scored 4 td’s in their win over Wilson to double his season output.  Matt Machalik of Palmerton broke the school career rushing record that Chris Siracuse held.  Machalik has rushed for 2,713 career yards surpassing the 2,685 yards Siracuse racked up from 1996-98.  Machalik has scored 50 career td’s and has thrown 41 career td’s.  Junior Luke Stevenosky of Minersville joins the chart as he has rushed for 1,060 yards in his career.  Aidan Hutchison of Easton rushed for 200 yards and a td in their loss to Bethlehem Catholic and Cade Sawyer of Southern Lehigh rushed for 201 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Saucon Valley.

QUARTERBACKS:

Sonny Sasso of Nazareth and Danny Darno of Notre Dame each threw for over 200 yards for the 4th time tis season last week.  Sasso threw for 250 yards and a score in their win over Central Catholic and Darno threw for 235 yards and 3 td’s in their loss to Northern Lehigh.  Matt Machalik of Palmerton leads the District in passing yards (1,661) and td passes (23).  He also tied the school career td pass record with his 41 td passes.   Garrett Perschy threw 41 td’s from 2013-16.  Danny Darno of Notre Dame threw for 261 yards and 4 td’s in their win over North Schuylkill.  Sasso (1,491 yards) and Darno (1,439 yards) are second and third in the District this season behind Machalik and Darno went over 2,000 yards passing for his career (2,009).  Jake Fotta of Emmaus (1,148 yards), Trey Dogmantis of Whitehall (1,125 yards), Trevor Minalda of North Schuylkill (1,046 yards), Brad Rissmiller of Pen Argyl (1,046 yards), Isaac Whiteash of Williams Valley (1,033 yards), and Colby Mitchell of ES South (1,013 yards) all went over 1,000 yards passing for the season.  Fotta also tied the school record for career td passes with 25.  Ethan Parvel set the record when he threw 25 td passes in his only season at Emmaus in 2018.  Joseph Martinez of Easton threw for 207 yards and a td vs Bethlehem Catholic.

 

RECEIVERS:

Joey Flail of North Schuylkill became the first Spartan to catch 100 career passes.  Flail currently has 102 catches breaking the old record of 99 that Rich Zahodnick caught from 2014-16.  Flail, just a junior, has 1,510 career receiving yards.  Damian Tyminski of Pen Argyl broke his own single season school record when he caught his 44th pass last week.  Tyminski caught 43 passes last year to set the record.  The junior already owns the career record with 87 catches and is closing in on the career yardage record.  Nolan Lobb of Nazareth went over 1,000 yards receiving for his career (1,097).  He joins teammmate Mason Kuehner who has 1,253 career receiving yards.  Kuehner scored 4 td’s last week (3 rushing, 1 receiving) giving him 14 td’s on the season.  Sophomore Noah Dolbin of Nativity leads the District with 709 yards receiving and is followed by Brady Evans of Williams Valley with 657 yards.  Five players are tied with 8 td receptions.  They include the formentioned Dolbin, Evans, and Lobb along with Dan Lucykanish of Palmerton and Conner Dillon of Tamaqua.

 

STAT OF THE WEEK:

 

Back to the Emmaus career td pass record.  Etahn Parvel set the single season and career record in his only season at Emmaus in 2018 when he threw 25.  He also is tied for the single season td pass record at Whitehall where he threw 31 in 2017.  Zachary Gilbert also threw 31 td passes for Whitehall the season before Parvel in 2016.

 

2022 single-game highs: ( ) is the week the player accomplished the stat

Single Game Touchdowns (4)

5 (1) Alex Achenbach (Williams Valley)

5 (3), 4 (7) Steven Lilly (Palisades)  *Ties School Record*

5 (7), 4 (2) Aiden Myers (Schuylkill Haven)

4 (1), 4 (7) Cade Christopher (Northwestern)

4 (1) Caiden Schaffer (Central Catholic)

4 (3) Danny Darno (Notre Dame)

4 (5) Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)

4 (5) Jalen Fletcher (Freedom)

4 (6) Aidan Hutchison (Easton)

4 (7) Payton Fasnacht (Blue Mountain)

4 (7) Cade Sawyer (Southern Lehigh)

 

Single Game Rushing Yardage (200)

315 (2), 281 (7) Aiden Myers (Schuylkill Haven)

305 (1), 241 (2), 219 (7), 215 (6) Alex Achenbach (Williams Valley)

267 (7) Jalen Fletcher (Freedom)

250 (6) Kameron Wetzel (Tri-Valley)

246 (7) Colm McGroaty (Mahanoy Area)

222 (5) Trey Tremba (Parkland)

221 (3) Danny Darno (Notre Dame)

217 (1), 206 (7) Cade Christopher (Northwestern)

217 (3) Clarence Watkins (Allen)

216 (1) Lane Lehman (Pine Grove)

211 (5) Steven Lilly (Palisades)

208 (3) Luke DeRiggi (PM West)

203 (1) Michael Pascoe (Panther Valley)

201 (7), 200 (2) Cade Sawyer (Southern Lehigh)

200 (7) Aidan Hutchison (Easton)

 

Single Game Passing Yardage (200)

347 (6), 305 (4), 302 (3) Matt Machalik (Palmerton)  *School Record*

338 (1) Will Jacobson (Blue Mountain)  *School Record*

294 (1), 264 (5), 250 (7), 202 (4) Sonny Sasso (Nazareth)

292 (3) Brad Rissmiller (Pen Argyl)

261 (6), 235 (7), 233 (2), 228 (5) Danny Darno (Notre Dame)

256 (1) Colby Mitchell (ES South)

255 (2), 247 (1) Brady O’Donnell (Lehighton)

253 (5) Ben Dempster (Shenandoah Valley)

247 (3) Jake Fotta (Emmaus)

245 (4) Avery Koser (Southern Lehigh)

243 (4) Luke Thomas (Bethlehem Catholic)

236 (3) Trey Dogmantis (Whitehall)

235 (5) Jordy Guzman (Dieruff)

225 (3) Isaac Whiteash (Williams Valley)

215 (1), 206 (6) Ben Kreitzer (Nativity)

213 (6) Tommy Mason (Liberty)

207 (7) Joseph Martinez (Easton)

200 (1) Travis Riefenstahl (Saucon Valley)

 

Single Game TD Passes (4)

6 (5) Ben Dempster (Shenandoah Valley)  *Ties School Record*

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

5 (5), 4 (6) Danny Darno (Notre Dame)

4 (1) Travis Riefenstahl (Saucon Valley)

4 (1) Colby Mitchell (ES South)

4 (3) Isaac Whiteash (Williams Valley)

4 (4) Trevor Minalda (North Schuylkill)

4 (4) Josiah Williams (Emmaus)  *Ties School Record*

 

Single Game Receptions (10)

13 (1) Damian Tyminski (Pen Argyl)  *School Record*

11 (1) Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)

10 (2) Ian Rarick (Lehighton)

10 (2) Justin Yescavage (Jim Thorpe)

 

Single Game Reception Yardage (140)

202 (1), 168 (5) Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)

189 (4) Dalton Drake (Palmerton)  *School Record*

168 (6) Brady Evans (Williams Valley)

167 (6) Noah Dolbin (Nativity)vity)

166 (1) Nekhi Spencer (ES South)

158 (1) Mason Kuehner (Nazareth)

156 (2) Ian Rarick (Lehighton)

154 (4) Eric Wert (Bethlehem Catholic)

 

Single Game Reception TD’s (3)

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

3 (1) Nekhi Spencer (ES South)

3 (3), 3 (6) Brady Evans (Williams Valley)

3 (4) Joey Flail (North Schuylkill)

3 (5) Josh Ludlow (Notre Dame)

3 (5) Logan Hutsko (Minersville)

3 (6) AJ Lozano (Notre Dame)

 

Field Goals (40 yards)

42 Griffin Mitstifer (Parkland)

 

District 11 Season Leaders

Rushing (800)

1162 Alex Achenbach (Williams Valley)

1012 Aiden Myers (Schuylkill Haven)

963 Cade Sawyer (Southern Lehigh)

958 Jalen Fletcher (Freedom)

929 Mike Pascoe (Panther Valley)

891 Colm McGroaty (Mahanoy Area)

888 Cade Christopher (Northwestern)

847 Steven Lilly (Palisades)

 

Touchdowns (13)

18 Alex Achenbach (Williams Valley)

17 Cade Christopher (Northwestern)

16 Steven Lilly (Palisades)

14 Jalen Fletcher (Freedom)

14 Matt Machalik (Palmerton)

14 Mason Kuehner (Nazareth)

14 Colm McGroaty (Mahanoy Area)

13 Caiden Schaffer (Central Catholic)

13 Caden Henritzy (Northampton)

 

Passing Yards (1000)

1661 Matt Machalik (Palmerton)

1491 Sonny Sasso (Nazareth)

1439 Danny Darno (Notre Dame)

1148 Jake Fotta (Emmaus)

1143 Ben Kreitzer (Nativity)

1125 Trey Dogmantis (Whitehall)

1046 Trevor Minalda (North Schuylkill)

1046 Brad Rissmiller (Pen Argyl)

1033 Isaac Whiteash (Williams Valley)

1013 Colby Mitchell (ES South) 

 

Touchdown Passes (13)

23 Matt Machalik (Palmerton)

16 Sammy Sasso (Nazareth)

15 Jake Fotta (Emmaus)

15 Danny Darno (Notre Dame)

14 Trey Dogmantis (Whitehall)

13 Isaac Whiteash (Williams Valley)

13 Trevor Minalda (North Schuylkill)

 

Receptions (32)

44 Damian Tyminski (Pen Argyl)

36 Jareel Calhoun (Central Catholic)

33 Ian Rarick (Lehighton)

33 Noah Dolbin (Nativity)

32 Josh Ludlow (Notre Dame)

32 Jack Kocher (Whitehall)

 

Reception Yardage (550)

709 Noah Dolbin (Nativity)

657 Brady Evans (Williams Valley)

627 Damian Tyminski (Pen Argyl)

573 Conner Dillon (Tamaqua)

554 Mason Kuehner (Nazareth)

550 Josh Ludlow (Notre Dame)

 

Reception Touchdowns (8)

8 Brady Evans (Williams Valley)

8 Nolan Lobb (Nazareth)

8 Noah Dolbin (Nativity)

8 Conner Dillon (Tamaqua)

8 Dan Lucykanish (Palmerton)

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