2018 Team Previews – Oxford Area Hornets (1)

Written by: David Mika on Friday, July 27th, 2018. Follow David Mika on Twitter.

Head Coach: Mike Means

Assistant Coaches:

Brian Wood
Joe Pearson
George Hildebran
John Rodgers
Eric Szpyrka
Leo Pizzini
Joe Martinelli
Rich Higgins
Mo Nadachowski

Team Name: Oxford Area Hornets

2017 Record: 6-5

2018 Schedules:

Key Starters Lost: QB Chandler England, RB Brandon Holz, LB/TE Julian Nadachowski, G Jared Tweed, T Connor McMurrough, WR/CB Brandon Deshields, DE Phillip Hurtt

Offensive Starters Returning: (5)
C – Sam Blevins 6′ 225 (12)
G – Colin Lilly 6′ 230 (12)
G – Dylan Ricketts 6’1 230 (12)
WR – Brandon McWilliams 5’7 155 (12)
WR – Alijah Thomas 6′ 220 (12)

Defensive Starters Returning: (8)
SS – Nate Ferro 5’8 150 (12)
FS – Brett Kochmansky 6’1 170 (12)
CB – Justin Neskie 5’8 160 (11)
LB – John Renninger 5’7 180 (12)
LB – Alijah Thomas 6′ 220 (12)
DL – Mason Hager 5’7 190 (12)
DL – Dylan Jobe 6’3 320 (11)
DL – Jay Morton 6′ 230 (11)

Special Team Starters Returning: (0)

Key Newcomers: (7)

WR – Anthony Woody 5’7 160 (12)
LB – Xavier Myers 6′ 170 (12)
RB/CB – Tim Faber 5’7 160 (11)
LB – Jared Vining 5’10 160 (11)
LB – Jaxson Chew 5’11 165 (11)
OL – Michael Anthony 5’8 185 (11)
LB – Kelvin Figueroa 5’9 185 (10)

Key Stats: 6-4 regular season record, lost in the first round of the playoffs to Marple Newtown. Broke scoring record for school averaging 38 ppg

2018 Offensive Outlook: We lost a lot of good seniors who are going on to play at the next level. Our interior line is strong and experienced but we need guys to step up at the tackle positions. Most of our skill positions, especially at RB and WR are experienced and we will be breaking in a new QB who started on defense for us last year, Brett Kochmansky. For us to run our no huddle spread offense at it’s highest level, we need our new guys to gel early so we can play as fast as possible.

2018 Defensive Outlook: We are really experienced on defense. We have 8 starters back from our playoff game last year and lot of other guys who got Varsity time. Our defense should be vastly improved and will need to start the year fast with our schedule and while our offense fits in some new personnel. Our league schedule is tough as always in the Ches-Mont and we need to get more physical on both sides of the football.

2018 Special Teams Outlook: We are replacing our kicker and punter and are still figuring out who will fill those roles for us.

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