District 11 Top returning players 2018 Week 14

Written by: EasternPAFootball.com Staff on Saturday, December 1st, 2018. Follow EasternPAFootball.com Staff on Twitter.

DISTRICT 11 NOTES (week 14):   

by Duke Helm

RUNNINGBACKS: 

Bethlehem Catholic’s Tavion Banks rushed for 168 yards and 5 td’s in their win over Pottsgrove.   Banks has rushed for 1,558 yards and scored 30 td’s this season.  For his career, Banks has rushed for 2,455 yards and scored 45 total td’s.  Teammate Zaheer Seabrooks has rushed for 1,422 yards and scored 18 td’s this season.  His career totals are 2,251 yards rushing and 25 total td’s scored.  Freedom sophomore, Matt Russin finished the season rushing for 936 yards.  Teammate, senior Jalen Stewart finished the season rushing for 941 yards and scoring 16 td’s.  He ends his career with 1,067 yards rushing and 20 total td’s scored.  Tyrese Brandon of Northampton finished the season rushing for 1,066 yards and scoring a total of 22 td’s.  His 22 td’s is 2nd best at Northampton behind the 23 td’s Charlie Wogenrich scored in 1961.  Brandon also caught 27 passes for 288 yards and 4 td’s out of his 22 total td’s scored.  Brandon will enter his senior season with 1,727 yards rushing, 570 yards receiving and 32 total td’s scored.  Harold Reynolds of Easton finished his senior season rushing for 1,061 yards rushing and scoring 15 td’s.  For his career, he rushed for 2,246 yards and scored 30 td’s.

 

QUARTERBACKS:

Jared Jenkins of Freedom ends his junior season with 2,195 yards passing and 30 td passes.  Jenkins will enter his senior year with school records of 4,921 yards passing and 47 td passes.  Zamar Brake of Bethlehem Catholic threw for 260 yards vs Pottsgrove pushing his season total over 2,000 yards (2,096 yards).  He moves up from 10th to 6th place all-time at Bethlehem Catholic for single-season passing yards.  He went ahead of Mike Palos (2,002 yards), Dan Kendra III (1,988 yards), Mark Borda (1,884 yards), and Javon Clements (1,846 yards).  Nathan Nimeh of Easton threw for 1,944 yards and 22 td’s this season.  His yardage has him in 2nd place all-time at Easton for a single-season, 19 yards behind Scott Poulson who threw for 1,963 yards last year.  Nimeh’s 22 td passes is 1 short of the Poulson’s school record 23.

 

RECEIVERS:

Rontay Dunbar of Freedom finished the season catching 45 passes for 821 yards and 5 td’s.  His catches were 4th best and his yardage was 3rd best at Freedom for a single-season.  Teammate Vincent Reph caught 31 passes for 401 yards and 11 td’s this season.  His 11 td’s are 2nd best at Freedom behind only Trent Clarks’s 14 that he caught in 1997.  Another Patriot, Gabe Caton caught 38 passes for 590 yards and 9 td’s.  Both Reph and Caton will be back next year.  Bethlehem Catholic’s leading receiver Matt Stianche has caught 34 passes for 541 yards and 5 td’s this season.  Michael Dunlap of Easton ended his senior season catching 39 passes for 804 yards and 9 td’s.  All 3 totals are top 5 for a single-season at Easton.  His catches and yardage have him in 5th place and his reception td’s have him tied for 3rd place.  Three other former Rovers caught 9 td’ s in a season.  Bobby Apgar and Mark Libiano both caught 9 td’s in 1990 and Jesse Pellegrino caught 9 in 2001.

 

KICKERS:

Enzo Martellucci of Easton kicked a field goal vs P’Burg and ended the year kicking 7 total with a long of 41 yards.  Martellucci kicked 12 career field goals.

 

DISTRICT 11 HISTORY:

2 District 11 runningbacks had over 400 carries in one season.  In 2012, senior Colin McDermott of Central Catholic had 459 carries in 15 games for an average of 30.6 carries a game.  In 2008, senior Zach Barket of Schuylkill Haven had 406 carries in 15 games for an average of 27 carries a game.  Top juniors were James Mungro of ES South – 356 carries in 1995, Cody Remaley of Northern Lehigh – 354 carries in 2009, William Casella of Schuylkill Haven – 351 carries in 2013 and Sean Bleiler of Parkland – 344 carries in 1998.  Sophomore honor goes to Kobe Brish of Schuylkill Haven with 318 carries in 2017.  Frank Morici of Notre Dame had 282 carries in 1989 and Scott LaValva of Bangor also had  282 carries in 2009.  Nick Frantz of Pine Grove had 269 carries in 2001, Harry Hall of Northwestern had 254 carries in 2013, and Darren Mason of Liberty had 253 carries in 1998.  Top freshman in a landslide was Jordan Gray of Nazareth when he carried the ball 267 times in 2011.

 

 

2018 single game highs: ( ) is the week the player accomplished the stat (yellow highlighter = last week)

 

Single Game Touchdowns (4)

6 (2), 4 (3), 4 (8) Ryan Clark (ES South)  *Ties School Record*

6 (9) Gabe Kuehn (Minersville)  *School Record*

5 (2) Trey Gretzinger (Palisades)  *School Record*

5 (2), 4 (5), 5 (8), 4 (10) Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven)

5 (4), 5 (7), 5 (8) Kaleb Monaco (PM West)

5 (5) Jarrin Geisinger (Jim Thorpe)

5 (7) Dalton Musselman (Southern Lehigh)

5 (8), 5 (11) Nate Boyle (Tamaqua)

5 (11) Dominic Nelson (Parkland)

5 (9), 5 (12), 4 (2), 4 (4), 4 (10) Ian Csicsek (Saucon Valley)  *Ties School Record*

5 (14), 4 (6), 4 (9), 4 (10) Tavion Banks (Bethlehem Catholic)

4 (1) David Sanders (Notre Dame)

4 (2) CJ Selby (Jim Thorpe)

4 (5) Dimitri Rojas (Stroudsburg)

4 (5) Jaden Leiby (North Schuylkill)

4 (5) Andrew Sabo (Palmerton)

4 (6) Jacob Kamp (Salisbury)

4 (7) Jordan Nelson (Palmerton)

4 (7) Ike Lucas (Tri-Valley)

4 (8) Tyler Elsdon (North Schuylkill)

4 (10) Tyrese Brandon (Northampton)

4 (10) Justin Paul (Northern Lehigh)

4 (11) Harold Reynolds (Easton)

4 (11) Ethan Brader (Palisades)

4 (13) Jalen Stewart (Freedom)

 

Single Game Rushing Yardage (200)

397 (7), 241 (8), 241 (9), 239 (4) Kaleb Monaco (PM West)  *School Record*

342 (9), 295 (7), 289 (4), 288 (6), 260 (12), 257 (10), 217 (11), 210 (3) Ian Csicsek (Saucon Valley)  *School Record*

343 (10), 328 (2), 268 (8), 259 (5), 250 (11), 240 (7) Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven)

328 (6), 263 (9) Nasai Moon (Pleasant Valley)  *School Record*

326 (3), 263 (1), 218 (10), 202 (9) Ryan Clark (ES South)

299 (10) Shavar Hussett (Whitehall)

284 (5), 215 (6) Dimitri Rojas (Stroudsburg)

261 (1), 256 (7) Trey Gretzinger (Palisades)

260 (9), 231 (10) Gabe Kuehn (Minersville)  *Ties School Record*

259 (5), 212 (1) Jaden Leiby (North Schuylkill)

257 (3), 232 (1) Logan Bachman (Central Catholic)

248 (2), 246 (9), 243 (11) Ethan Brader (Palisades)

236 (5), 221 (1) CJ Selby (Jim Thorpe)

227 (7) Matt Doherty (Marian Catholic)

226 (9) Tavion Banks (Bethlehem Catholic)

220 (1) Zach Chowansky (North Schuylkill)

209 (3) Ben Kramer (Blue Mountain)

207 (11) Nate Boyle (Tamaqua)

205 (9) Ryan Scheffler (Pottsville Nativity)

205 (11) Sone Ntoh (Emmaus)

 

Single Game Passing Yardage (200)

382 (8), 335 (5), 289 (6), 256 (4), 250 (10), 249 (7), 216 (11), 201 (1) Anthony Harris (Nazareth)

380 (2), 269 (4) Chris Whiteman (Lehighton)  *School Record*

361 (1), 361 (9), 349 (11), 339 (6), 337 (2), 316 (10), 298 (5), 297 (7), 256 (4), 236 (8), 232 (3) Cole DeFranco (Notre Dame)

330 (5), 269 (3), 234 (4), 223 (2), 219 (11) Dylan Rinker (PM East)  *School Record*

311 (7), 283 (10), 246 (5), 206 (6) Logan Edmond (Southern Lehigh)

308 (9), 225 (5) Ejau Collazo (Dieruff)

272 (5), 218 (9) Damon Yost (Pottsville)

270 (8), 217 (9) Ethan Parvel (Emmaus)

268 (6), 251 (9), 243 (7), 221 (12), 217 (11) Deven Bollinger (Northwestern)

260 (14), 256 (5) Zamar Brake (Bethlehem Catholic)

256 (5) Nate Nimeh (Easton)

252 (2), 228 (9) Jared Jenkins (Freedom)

250 (2) Ethan Reis (Panther Valley)

243 (10), 236 (7) Jordan Nelson (Palmerton)

233 (4), 221 (9), 208 (1) Daulton Leedy (Tri-Valley)

225 (4) Anthony Nanoah (Whitehall)

223 (3) Bo Meyers (Bangor)

221 (5) Brayden Knoblauch (Tamaqua)

221 (7) Scott Schwalm (Minersville)

220 (12), 209 (3), 208 (10) Aiden Stanton (Pottsville)

210 (8) Dante Mahaffey (Saucon Valley)

 

Single Game TD Passes (4)

6 (8) Dylan Rinker (PM East)   *School Record*

6 (9), 5 (1), 5 (7), 5 (10), 4 (6), 4 (8) Cole DeFranco (Notre Dame)  *School Record*

5 (1) Jared Jenkins (Freedom)  *School Record*

5 (6), 5 (8), 4 (10), 4 (11) Deven Bollinger (Northwestern)  *School Record*

5 (5), 4 (9) Damon Yost (Pottsville)

5 (5), 4 (7) Logan Edmond (Southern Lehigh)

4 (3) Levi Engle (Williams Valley)

4 (3) Aiden Stanton (Pottsville)

4 (3) Zamar Brake (Bethlehem Catholic)

4 (6) Ejau Collazo (Dieruff)

4 (9) Anthony Harris (Nazareth)

 

Single Game Receptions (10)

12 (8) Blake White (Panther Valley)  *Ties School Record*

14 (10), 12 (8) Tommy Manos (Nazareth)

11 (5), 10 (10) Nate Stefanik (Nazareth)

11 (12) Christian Sapp (ES South)  *Ties School Record*

10 (2) David Sanders (Notre Dame)  *Ties School Record*

10 (5) Darius Robinson (PM East)  *School  Record*

10 (7) Dalton Musselman (Southern Lehigh)

10 (7) Tommy Manos (Nazareth)

 

Single Game Reception Yardage (140)

240 (8) Tommy Manos (Nazareth)  *School Record*

216 (7), 168 (5) Dalton Musselman (Southern Lehigh)

210 (6), 192 (2), 191 (1), 151 (9) David Sanders (Notre Dame)  *School Record*

179 (2) Blake White (Panther Valley)

177 (4), 164 (9) Joe Herman (Whitehall)

173 (5) Nate Stefanik (Nazareth)

170 (9), 150 (5), 141 (4) Jessiah Woods (Dieruff)

155 (4) Nick Lucian (Bethlehem Catholic)

152 (4), 141 (2) Zack Crum (Lehighton)

151 (1) Christian Sapp (ES South)

148 (8) Ryan Holub (Saucon Valley)

148 (12) Michael Dunlap (Easton)

147 (8) Deonte Castro (Emmaus)

146 (10) Louis Frye (ES North)  *School Record*

143 (10) Tyrese Brandon (Northampton)

 

Single Game Reception TD’s (3)

4 (1) David Sanders (Notre Dame)

4 (5), 4 (7) Dalton Musselman (Southern Lehigh)  *School Record*

4 (9) Mason Barnes (Pottsville)  *School Record*

3 (3) Matt Stianche (Bethlehem Catholic)

3 (4) Joe Herman (Whitehall)

3 (6) Jessiah Woods (Dieruff)

3 (8) Justin Rodda (Northwestern)

3 (8) Trey Trevis (Southern Lehigh)

 

Field Goal Distance (40)

48 (4) Devin Bartholomew (Parkland)  *School Record*

46 (5) Rustin Seyle (Central Catholic)  *School Record*

45 (5) Matt Bugbee (Nazareth)

44 (9) Derek Lasher (Bangor)  *School Record*

43 (4) Devon Troxell (Catasauqua)

42 (1) Rustin Seyle (Central Catholic)

42 (8) Devin Bartholomew (Parkland)

41 (3) Rustin Seyle (Central Catholic)

41 (7) Matt Bugbee (Nazareth)

40 (8) Lucca Stroia (Marian Catholic)

 

 

District 11 Season Leaders (plus any player that set a school record)

 

Rushing (1000)

2854 Ian Csicsak (Saucon Valley)

2160 Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven)

1913 Ryan Clark (ES South)

1754 Kaleb Monaco (PM West)

1732 Ethan Brader (Palisades)  *School Record*

1689 Jaden Leiby (North Schuylkill)  *School Record*

1679 Trey Gretzinger (Palisades)

1558 Tavion Banks (Bethlehem Catholic)

1422 Zaheer Seabrooks (Bethlehem Catholic)

1371 Gabe Kuehn (Minersville)

1310 CJ Selby (Jim Thorpe)

1304 Nick Breiner (Tamaqua)

1238 Logan Bachman (Central Catholic)

1234 Brady Miller (Williams Valley)

1186 Dimitri Rojas (Stroudsburg)

1151 Nasir Legree (Liberty)

1123 Nasai Moon (Pleasant Valley)

1083 Ryan Schreffler (Nativity)

1083 Lubens Myers (Emmaus)

1066 Tyrese Brandon (Northampton)

1061 Harold Reynolds (Easton)

 

Touchdowns (20)

40 Ian Csicsek (Saucon Valley)

30 Tavion Banks (Bethlehem Catholic)

30 Ryan Clark (ES South)

27 Nate Boyle (Tamaqua)  *School Record*

26 Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven)

25 Kaleb Monaco (PM West)

25 Trey Gretzinger (Palisades)  *School Record*

23 Dalton Musselman (Southern Lehigh)

23 Ethan Brader (Palisades)

22 Tyrese Brandon (Northampton)

 

Passing Yards (1000)

3441 Cole DeFranco (Notre Dame)  *School Record*

2704 Anthony Harris (Nazareth)

2195 Jared Jenkins (Freedom)

2096 Zamar Brake (Bethlehem Catholic)

1998 Deven Bollinger (Northwestern)

1986 Dylan Rinker (PM East)  *School Record*

1944 Nathan Nimeh (Easton)

1890 Chris Whiteman (Lehighton)  *School Record*

1818 Ethan Parvel (Emmaus)

1812 Logan Edmond (Southern Lehigh)

1683 Daulton Leedy (Tri-Valley)

1430 Brayden Knoblauch (Tamaqua)

1368 Brayden Mitchell (ES South)

1364 Ejau Collazo (Dieruff)

1261 Anthony Nanoah (Whitehall)

1234 Frank Rauscher (Central Catholic)

1206 Scott Schwalm (Minersville)

1160 Levi Engle (Williams Valley)

1127 Bo Meyers (Bangor)

1113 Lawson Bray (PM West)

1052 Aiden Stanton (Pottsville)

1028 Hunter Luckinbill (Blue Mountain)

 

Touchdown Passes (18)

43 Cole DeFranco (Notre Dame)  *School Record*

30 Deven Bollinger (Northwestern)  *School Record*

30 Jared Jenkins (Freedom)  *School Record*

27 Anthony Harris (Nazareth)

25 Ethan Parvel (Emmaus)  *School Record*

22 Logan Edmond (Southern Lehigh)

22 Nathan Nimeh (Easton)

18 Dylan Rinker (PM East)  *School Record*

18 Chris Whiteman (Lehighton)

18 Brayden Mitchell (ES South)

18 Hunter Luckinbill (Blue Mountain)

Receptions (40)

89 Tommy Manos (Nazareth)  *School Record*

68 Isaiah Dejesus (Notre Dame)

66 Nate Stefanik (Nazareth)

65 David Sanders (Notre Dame)

59 Zack Crum (Lehighton)

49 Triston Hilliman (PM East)  *Ties School Record*

48 Jessiah Woods (Dieruff)

47 Deonte Castro (Emmaus)

47 Christian Sapp (ES South)

46 Blake White (Panther Valley)

45 Rontay Dunbar (Freedom)

45 George Hlavac (Central Catholic)

44 Nate Boyle (Tamaqua)

43 Justin Pasquale (Central Catholic)

43 Dalton Musselman (Southern Lehigh)

42 Allen Negrete (Whitehall)

41 Bryce Ellinger (Minersville)

 

Reception Yardage (600)

1341 David Sanders (Notre Dame)  *School Record*

1186 Tommy Manos (Nazareth)

980 Isaiah Dejesus (Notre Dame)

902 Zack Crum (Lehighton)

828 Nate Stefanik (Nazareth)

821 Rontay Dunbar (Freedom)

810 Dalton Musselman (Southern Lehigh)

804 Michael Dunlap (Easton)

800 Jessiah Woods (Dieruff)

800 Christian Sapp (ES South)

780 Deonte Castro (Emmaus)

753 Justin Rodda (Northwestern)

710 Mason Barnes (Pottsville)

686 Triston Hilliman (PM East)

672 Allen Negrete (Whitehall)

635 Nate Boyle (Tamaqua)

605 Jayden Cruz (Williams Valley)

 

Reception Touchdowns (10)

16 David Sanders (Notre Dame)  *School Record*

14 Dalton Musselman (Southern Lehigh)

12 Nate Stefanik (Nazareth)

12 Justin Rodda (Northwestern)

11 Vincent Reph (Freedom)

11 Jessiah Woods (Dieruff)  *School Record*

10 Deonte Castro (Emmaus)  *Ties School Record*

 

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