2021 Team Preview: Newport Buffaloes

Written by: David Mika on Sunday, August 8th, 2021. Follow David Mika on Twitter.

 

Head Coach: Todd Rothermel

Assistant Coaches:
George Miskinis
Mark Feltman
Ed Smith
Shirey Little
Jeff Heimbaugh
Adam Butterbaugh

Team Name: Newport Buffaloes

2020 Record: 4-2

District: 3

Class: AA

League: Mid-Penn Conference, Liberty Division

Key Starters Lost:
Mason Huggins WR / FS
Will Davis WR / DB / Kicker
Thomas Pyle RB / OLB
Aaron Liddick OT / DE
Adam Reich WR
Matt Godbout FB / LB
Payton Berkheimer DL
Grant Foltz DL

Starters Returning:
Andrew Bates – QB -OLB, 6’4 – 190, Senior
Tyler Geer – Center – ILB, 5’10” – 205, Junior
Caleb Lesher – Guard – DE, 5’9” – 225, Junior
Joe Sprout – Guard – DE, 59” – 175, Sophomore
Shane Lamprey – Tackle – DE – 6’5”, 210, Junior
Caleb Godbout – WR – DB, 5’7”, 165, Senior
CJ Christilaw – RB – ILB, 5’10”, 180, Senior
Carter Bennett – Tackle – DT, 6’2”, 265, Senior
Eli Zerance – Tackle – DT, 6’2”, 275, Senior
Dalton DOwnin – TE – DE, 6’3”, 180, Senior
Lawrence Tsuseb – WR – DB, 6’2”, 170, Junior

Special Team Starters Returning:
Gage Wirth – K / Punter
Caleb Godbout – Long Snapper
Andy Bates – K / Punter

Key Newcomers:
Aiden DIshman, JR – 5’10, 165 RB / LB
Aydan Smith, SR – 5’10, 170 RB / LB
Jesse Potter, JR – 6’1″ 185 TE / LB
Zach Bellis, SO – 5’10” 175 OL / LB
Mason Messick – 5′ 9″ 160 ATH

2020 Returning Player Stats:

Andrew Bates completed 33 of 79 for 455 yards and 4 touchdowns. He rushed for 642 yards on 79 carries and 8 touchdowns. He also caught two passes for 50 yards and one score. On defense, he had 32 total tackles, two interceptions, and one fumble recovery. 

Tyler Geer had 8 total tackles.

Shane Lamprey – Tackle – DE – 6’5”, 210, Junior

Caleb Godbout had 19 total tackles and one interception. 

CJ Christilaw had 57 total tackles, two tackles for loss, one sack, and two fumble recoveries. 

Carter Bennett had 7 total tackles.

Eli Zerance had 3 total tackles and one fumble recovery.

Dalton Downin had 6 total tackles

2021 Offensive Outlook: Limited numbers mean we must stay healthy. We need to develop skilled players quickly to balance our offense. We need to execute, what we do, to the best of our ability and not be concerned with the other team as much as we are concerned about our assignments.

2021 Defensive Outlook: Tackle well, create turnovers and develop depth. Make the opponent’s offense earn yards gained and not make mistakes allowing big plays or easy yardage gained.

2021 Special Teams Outlook: Just be solid in this aspect of the game. Don’t do things that will give the opponent a short field / easy score or give us poor field position.

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