District 11 Notes: Top Returning Player WEEK 1

Written by: EasternPAFootball.com Staff on Friday, September 11th, 2015. Follow EasternPAFootball.com Staff on Twitter.

by Duke Helm

DISTRICT NOTES:

RUNNINGBACKS: Kyle Boney of Emmaus rushed for 147 yards and 5 td’s in their win over ESN. Boney also caught 2 passes for 35 yards and a score. Boney’s 6 td’s tied the school record that Joe Williams set in 2010 vs PMW. Mike Stasko of Palmerton rushed for a school record 248 yards in a win over Wilson. Stasko, a junior, also caught 2 passes for 75 yards and a td. Stasko scored 3 td’s and a 2 point conversion while racking up 323 yards of total offense. Chris Siracuse held the old single season record when he rushed for 240 yards (14 carries) and 5 td’s vs Palisades in 1998. Evan Culver of Saucon Valley rushed for 147 yards and 2 td’s in their win over Salisbury. Culver now has 31 career td’s. KJ Snerr of Marian Catholic rushed for 84 yards and 3 td’s to go over 2,000 yards for his career. Pleasant Valley’s Austyn Borre was the only runningback on the chart not to score a td. Borre, has 46 career td’s which is currently the most among active players in the District. Borre is two ahead of Wyatt Clements of Lehighton. Jamaal Brome of Stroudsburg rushed for 236 yards and 3 td’s in their 49-47 loss to Nazareth. Andrew Szerencsits of Northampton rushed for 151 yards (1 td) and also caught 2 passes for 56 yards and a td in their win over Allen. Danny Scheib, a sophomore from Tri-Valley, rushed for 160 yards and 3 td’s (1 catch for 15 yards) in their win over Millersburg. Harry Hall of Northwestern rushed for 194 yards, caught a pass for 13 yards and scored 2 td’s in their against Notre Dame.

Southern Lehigh’s senior, Blake Levengood started his first game at quarterback last Friday night and threw a school record 406 yards in their win over Palisades. Travis Edmond just set the record last year when he threw for 258 yards against Wilson. Levengood also tied the school record of Ty and Travis Edmond for td passes in a game with 4. Doug Erney of Liberty threw for 296 yards and 3 td’s in their win over Bethlehem Catholic. Erney needs 66 yards to reach 5,000 yards for his career. Erney also rushed for 133 yards and 2 td’s. In the same game, Julian Spigner threw for 190 yards and 3 td’s and rushed for 99 yards and a td. Spigner went over 4,000 yards passing for his career in the game. Devante Cross of Parkland threw for 117 and a score and rushed for 114 yards and 2 td’s in their win over Dieruff. Spigner and Cross have each thrown for exactly 470 passes in their careers and completed 262 and 263 respectively. Ian McCole of Shenandoah Valley went over 2,500 yards passing in his career. Giani Sinatore of Whitehall threw for 243 yards and a td in their win over PMW and also scored 2 td’s. Sinatore and Nick Rodichok of Williams Valley both went over 2,000 yards passing in their careers. Jake Jakobson of Stroudsburg threw for 202 yards and 3 td’s last week. Tevon Weber of Salisbury threw for 235 yards against Saucon Valley and needs 49 more to reach 3,000 yards for his career. Travis Stefanik of Nazareth also threw for 235 yards last week with 3 of them going for td’s. Stefanik also rushed for 108 yards and scored 2 td’s in their. Cristian Burker of Catasauqua also rushed (103) and passed (115) for over 100 yards against Bangor. Mason Freed of Blue Mountain threw 4 td’s passes in their win over Shenandoah Valley. Tre Jordan of Notre Dame threw for 177 yards (1 td) and rushed for 3 td’s in their win over Northwestern.

Wide Receiver Ethan Price of Southern Lehigh caught 8 passes for a Colonial League record 296 yards. Brad Walter of Wilson had 279 yards vs Northern Lehigh in a District 11 playoff game in 2005 and Zach Bogoly of Wilson had 252 yards vs Salisbury in a regular season game in 2012. That also puts Price over 1,000 yards for his career. Nate Stewart of Bethlehem Catholic caught 4 passes for 159 yards last week. Three of those went for td’s and he now has 30 career td catches. Nick Basenese of Notre Dame leads all receivers in the District with 9 catches.

2015 single game highs: ( ) is the week the player accomplished the stat

Single Game Touchdowns (4)

6 (1) Kyle Boney (Emmaus) *Ties School Record*

Single Game Rushing Yardage (200)

248 (1) Mike Stasko (Palmerton) *School Record*

236 (1) Jamaal Brome (Stroudsburg)

Single Game Passing Yardage (200)

406 (1) Blake Levengood (Southern Lehigh) *School Record*

296 (1) Doug Erney (Liberty)

243 (1) Giani Sinatore (Whitehall)

235 (1) Tevon Weber (Salisbury)

235 (1) Travis Stefanik (Nazareth)