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2019 Team Previews: Upper Moreland Golden Bears (1)

Written by: David Mika on Thursday, August 8th, 2019. Follow David Mika on Twitter.

Head Coach: CJ Szydlik

Assistant Coaches: Joe McCourt, Joe Murphy, Al Rongione, Dennis Regan, Mike O’neil, Floyd Shaffer, Zack Donnelly and Tom Hannan

Team Name: Upper Moreland Golden Bears HS

2018 Record: 3-7

Twitter: @umgoldenbears

Hudl Highlights:

Key Starters Lost: Caleb Mead RB/DB, Rob Easley OL/DL, Safier Barr RB/DB

Offensive Starters Returning: (7)

Jahaire Johnson WR
TJ Troxell WR
Dai-Jahn Dukes TE
Jon Knight QB
Ryan Schernecke OL
Nasir Thomas OL
Marvin LaFrance OL

Defensive Starters Returning: (8)

Jahaire Johnson DB
TJ Troxell DB
Dai-Jahn Dukes LB
Jon Knight LB
Sean Fagan DL
Nasir Thomas DL
Ben Hellsinger DL
Owen Dunleavey LB

Special Team Starters Returning: (1)

Nick Prisco K/P

Key Newcomers: (5) Cameryn Jackson Soph- RB/DB, Anthony Broderick Jr- WR/RB/DB, Byron Hopkins Soph- QB/DB, Dan Goldstein Jr- OL/DL, Jason Lobban Jr- WR

2019 Offensive Outlook: We return most of our offensive players, just not most of our offensive production that came from Caleb Mead in 2018. We have real good skill returning at WR with Johnson, Troxell and newcomers Broderick and Lobban. A camp QB battle between returning starter (Jr) Jon Knight and (Soph) Byron Hopkins that is really putting us in a good place. Our OL returns almost has a whole unit, hopefully a lot stronger. Sophomore Cameryn Jackson has step up into the RB roll so far.

2019 Defensive Outlook: Our Defense returns 2X All SOL LB Dai-Jahn Dukes and 8 other starters. We are looking for more consistency from the defense as a whole.