A look to the Eastern Teams, 2008.
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Sketchy but here’s how it looks at this early date. Classes are for this year. Add a year for 2008. Info is from school’s web sites, max preps, notes, newspapers, programs of games attended, etc.
Pennsbury 4-6; Graduated 40 seniors in 2006 and still went 4-6 in 2007 scoring 255 points, losing to Glen Mills and Abington by 1. Believe they graduate 3 OL/DL, Corey Llwellyn, David Veda and Dean Schofield, also RB Shakir Green, Matt Santicerma but good looking sophomore Malcolme Perry returns, 5-7 167, 451ry, QB Jack Westberg a jr and TE/DL Steve Marck 6-4 240 jr. Return a number of junior linemen, Zack Nall 6-2 235, Dan Hoffmeister 6-3 270, Brian Mosby 6-0 235, Tom Ryan 6-2 225, Brad Mayer 6-0 265, Jared Parrish 5-9 250, Will Abrego 6-1 324, Pat Cantrell 6-1 235. They return 6-7 to defense so a nice core there and other side. Played well in most losses. Should be improved.
Pennridge 3-9; Played a lot of juniors and sophomores this season and return QB Brad Herrman 95/223-1517-9/17 td/picks + 617ry, juniors RBs Matt Pattison 95/341 +13/103py, Kyle Lynch 80/215, sophs Ian Walbridge 35/218, Ryan Metzler 21/78. Graduate receiver corps of Jim Jefferson 38/711, Derek Kunkle 22/391 and Brian Stephenson 7/186. Graduate OL Zach Garner, Roger Moore and Pat Clligett, 12 seniors. Maybe not a sleeper but better in ‘08 than ’07.
Central Bucks South 11-1; Big loss of course is RB Eric Reynolds 260-2832ry, 34 tds, or 3108 tot ydg with pass receptions and his completing 9 of 11 for 120. All totaled 38 touchdowns. WR Colin Donnelly a big loss and I think the lines or most of it gone; #56 OG James Soreth, #78 OC Dustin Hojnacki, #73 OT Rob Kee (first team AP All-State ), #51 Karlos Bimba, #63 Dave Enos, #68 Mike Rodgers. Graduate 11 OL/DL seniors, DE John Jackson. The good news is quarterback Tom Johns 6-5 195 Jr returns.
Neshaminy 11-2; This is Neshaminy where they always seem to have the bodies but they do lose a lot….QB Justin Kenney, RBs Jason Ulmer, Joe Stemme, WRs Capanna and Steinberg, OLs Blair Gower 6-2 278, Adrian Kiwewski 6-1 250, Dylan Waterbruy 6-3 270 and Kyle Dunleavy 6-4 241, Aaron Lee . Nice LB corps gone, Ulmer, Stemme and Greg Martell. OL returns Dan Shirley 6-3 257 jr, TE Paul Carrezola 6-4 240. RB Quinlan Arnold back. Nice rebound from 6-4 season.
North Penn 9-3; Ended year losing 3 of 5 after 7-0 start but return most of team with 16 seniors gone. Except for FB Mike Katch it looks like most of the skill returns, QBs Justin Davey 5-9 170 + jr A.Taggart and soph Todd Smolinsky, RBs Tyler Smith, Ronnie Akins (WR?), 5-11 175, Bennett, Lewis, Price, sophs Eric Stoll, Greg Pace. Good PK McManus is back.
Abington 7-5; Lose QB Kevin Morton 6-3 190, RB Khahlil Pittman 5-8 165, entire OL, Vince Ricci, 6-2, 248, Jake Neihoff 6-2, 270, Brian Corrigan 6-3, 275, Mike Ruhl 6-1, 220, etc. Essentially a full rebuild. Expected more from Ghosts, thought loaded at start of year but were still a dangerous team that was a double-overtime loss to CB East and 4 point loss to CB South away from a 9-3 season.
Conestoga 8-4; Huge skill loss with QB Steve Richter, WR Nihja White 6-3 185 and RB Tyreek Clarke gone. Lost some good talent on lines with Jake Crooks 6-2 290 and TE/OLB Trevor Behmke 6-6 250, also Josh Pack 6-1 235, Mattt Kaminskas 6-3 230, Matt Tucker 6-2 240. Return a number of good looking junior linemen, 6-1 300, 6-2 296, 5-8 280, 5-8 225, 5-11 226, 6-2 240, 6-0 225, 5-10 245. Who says size doesn’t count? Always have it at Conestoga. They have a sophomore quarterback to keep an eye on, Julian Anapolsky, 6-2 250. Don’t know anything about him but he must have an arm to be used there at that versatile size. Bottom line is 27 seniors graduating.
Ridley 13-1; Big losses, entire OL Tony Agotsiotis 5-9 200, Mike King T 6-2 240, Brian Traband T 5-11 190, Dan DePrinzio G 6-3 290, Ryan Eckenrode G 6-2 275, TE 6-2 195, (Jim Kelly back 6-2 220 jr) QB Steve Egee, running back Andrew Hodges, good K/P Uysaler, linebackers Hodges, Marenic, etc. The district one champ graduates one of their finest teams in years, back-to-back 13-1 seasons.
DT West 10-2; Lose QB Nolan Kearney, #2, 3, 4, 5 rushers, 3 OL, Chester Schofield 5-10 250, Tim Ferguson 6-1 195 and Mike Egan 5-6 190 (got a lot of mileage out of that that quick line) and most of the defense. Return top rusher and # 2 receiver Jared Heller 21 Tds, 923ry, 28/228py. Sophomore Brett Gillespie was #2 QB last season, 6-1 170, got some time. West was smaller last year than other years but quick as everyone knows who saw the CB South game. Good looking soph DE 6-2 190 Josh Coulter and jr.DE Ryan Kendra at 6-5 230 are back. Hard seeing them duplicating back-to-back 10-2 seasons without Kearney.
DT East 8-3; Graduated 9 senior linemen, at least 2 started, Eric Ducharme 5-11 235, Mike Brophy 6-1 255 along with 6-3 190 QB Pete O’Connor, #1 WR Derek McKinley, #1 RB Goetz, Duron Wilson and TE/DE Nate Matta. Since inception in 2003 (5-7), East seems to “rebuild” annually going 8-2, 11-2, 7-4 and 8-3. Nice fast striking attack last year; under rated team. Aside from Coatesville only Henderson beat them. Lost a lot of skill. All totaled 29 seniors graduated.
Henderson 12-2; Lost key players, QB John O’Donnell 775py, 1259ry, 22 Tds, 14 extra points! Also both backs RB/LB Jabair Kahn 5-11 195, 168/1358ry, 227py, # 2 tackler, 99; Russell Jacobs 6-0 185 735ry 72py, starter as DB, #1 and 2 WRs John Lunquist 13/227 and Jack Cunningham 13/220py. 8-9 starting defense graduating, most of OL/DL, Miles Philpott 5-11 250 and Channing Philpott 5-10 270, Akiail Williams 6-3 260 and Ed Hart 6-0 200. Graduate 7 of top 11 tacklers. Played a lot of people last year, # 4 rusher/CB Kevin Mann 5-9-175 Jr 61/231ry, OL/DL # 1 tackler Evin Reinhart jr 6-0 180, #3 and #4 tacklers jr QB/LB 6-0 215 Kevin Costello (95 tackles), RB/LB Josh Morgan 6-0 190 (90), 5-9 180 RB/LB Brett Wms (33), a couple OL/DLs Casey Caslin 6-1 290 (33 tackles), Matt Smith 6-2 230 jr (19, 1sack), Sam Miller 6-3 230 soph all return. Looks like a good nucleus. Line up info from program.
Coatesville 5-5; Incomplete roster (max preps, school web site). Return exciting soph QB Charles Green 815py, 720ry, 1535 tot ydg. Others back are junior LB corps Allen Erdman 6-0 210, Chris Norton 5-10 195 and Claude Norris 5-9 190, their top 3 tacklers and pt’er Joe Thomas, hot shot soph 6-0 215, #3 rusher, 431ry. Another big soph got pt, TE/LB Jody Dodds 6-2 210. # 1, 3, 4 rushers return, #2 RB Haneef Brake 697ry will graduate. Graduate a few linemen but Raiders never have a shortage of big linemen. Return PK Chris Massero3 of 4, 37 long. Seem poised to make some noise.
Interboro 8-3; BuroBucs, what’s up? Looks like Bucs graduated entire OL (most of DL) with Brain Mergetech 6-1 290, Ian Hecksher 6-0 270, John McGowan 5-8 220, Mike Marchesani 6-1 220, Matt Mitchell 6-0 210 gone. Chris Taggert back 6-0 260 and don’t see much beyond that. Looks dangerously thin along lines but well stocked at skill especially juniors QB McMenamin 5-9 170, E/DB Shawn Krautzel 6-1 185 and TE/LB Vince Broomall 6-0 190 returning.
Hazelton 11-2; Senior oriented team (really?), graduate18 srs, QB Joe Kost, RB Nate Eachus (5-11 195, 2196ry, 28 tds), RB/LB Rich Matz 6-0 215 (nice tandem LBs), kicker Drew Orth, OL/DL Kyle Medvitz 6-1 220, F.Deandrea 6-1 225, Gregg Hunter 5-11 225. Big returning junior OL’ers are Ryan Knight 6-1 271, Francisco Fabian 6-1 300, Rafael Marceese 5-10 220 and starter Jon Koslop 6-2 245. Some big sophs in wings, 6-1 245, 5-9 230, 6-0 220, 5-7 240, 5-11 245. Projected QB starter was last year’s number two, a big kid Matt Drumheller 6-3, 190. Why media calls this a senior oriented team is a mystery with 13 soph-jrs playing enough for 4 sophs to get 40+ tackles and 6 jrs getting 28 to 48. Bodes well for 2008 with sophs WR/DB Chad Nicholas 6-2 180 15-235py, RB/LB Matt Manfredi 5-9 185, 13/65ry, RB/LB A.J. Petrone 5-10 175, 41/219ry, 41 tackles, etc. Soph OL/DL Matt Semanchik 5-11 245, 42 tackles and soph RB/LB Charlie Craig 6-0 180, 23 tackles. Nice size for 10th graders. Juniors in the picture are OL/DE Brian Pavelko 6-0 200 48T’s, OL/DL Jon Koslop 6-2 245, 43T’s, WR/DB Shane McKernan 6-2 170, 6/145py. Tough replacing a back-backer like Eachus but Hazelton looks to have a lot of potential.
Wyoming Valley West 10-2; Got to 10-2 last year with a young team. Return Junior OL/DL’s Durnell Johnson 6-4 285, 6-0 260 Matt Drevenak, 6-5 270 Malcolm Bates, Tyler Cpwman 6-0 270, 5-10 220 Mike Pretko and good size sophs moving up, 6-1 242, 6-2 250, 6-3 250. Lose a good tailback in Matt Kolojejchick but return quarterback Jack Crossin 5-10 170 jr and FB Dave Ryncavage, a 6-1 220 jr. Looks like Coach Curry (Berwick) has the makings of another good team. Coach has sure done a nice bit of work the last two years, rescuing a floundering program and returning them to prominence in district two going 9-2, 10-2 first two years.
Abington Heights 6-5; Scoring only 209 points and now lose quarterback Mike Dargatis, 3of 4 leading rushers and top 2 receivers. Lost at least 3 OLs, John Kilpatrick 6-4 260, Brian Peters 6-2 230, Anthony Lepri 6-2 290. 6 other linemen graduated. Junior replacements (previous starters?) include Billy Johnson 6-1 235, Greg Moyer 5-11 290, Colin Brener 6-4 245 and Chris Stankowski 5-10 240. A few monster sophs in 6-2 290 J. Goldstein, P.Bernardi 5-9 265 , A.Brunori 6-1 245, starter Evan Craig 6-1 285 and John Price 6-0 225. Hit hard at skill from a 6-5 season.
Delaware Valley 9-2; QB Billy Poore 59/101/1002, 81/415ry graduates along with #2 rusher TJ Bergman 85/542, top receiver Shawn Gregson 28/428. Return # 2 QB Ian Maute a Jr with 4 passes 6-1,175. Lost 3 OL/DL, LB, DE, 1 DB. OL’ers Dan Budd 6-3 255 and Aaron Thompson 6-1 280 gone. Return 2 Jr OLs, Kyle Lutz 5-10 215, Chris Horner 6-3 240, 1 DL-Horner, DE George Siracuse 6-0 230 # 4 tackler, Lutz at LB and 2 DBs. Return 4 of 5 top tacklers. Junior OL/DL Chris Conklin 6-5, 285 got time. He and Horner 6-3 240 are it with a small jr class coming up. Soph’s (jrs next year) are 5-10 Steve Yakaboski 5-10 250, Jack Rosenstein 5-9 240, rest of jr-soph class 212 and down, so they’ll be smaller.
East Stroudsburg South 8-4; Lose QB Zack Frederick 6-1 204 870py, 376yr. Backup was 5-6 143 sophomore Robbie Moyer. Lost a powerful runner in Anthony Davis 1505ry, 17 tds but return a soph FB/LB they’re high on, Sam Bergen 6-0 205, 53 tackles. 3 of top 4 receivers graduate with # 3 and 4 rushers behind RB A.Davis and QB. AP 1st teamer OL Corey Lewis 6-7 292 graduates so Cavs took some hits at key positions. 6 senior linemen graduate. Mike Calvert back, 6-7 285, Tim Sasso 5-8 253 with sophs likely moving up and into vacancies; Clay Grinder 6-0 250, Tom Lapping 5-10 250, John Frisbie 6-2 245, Gus Wms 6-1 250. ES South’s program on the rise but ‘08 looks like a rebuilding year.
Parkland 15-1; Lost 17 seniors entering 07 and made final, graduate 14 this year. Lose QB John Laub + 1300py, RBs Sam Tajiri, Kale Sweeney, FB Kevin Herod, OLs Tim Fegely 6-2 275, Andrea Sloan 6-0 245 and Alex Kollar 6-1 275. Return WR Jaleel Clark 6-4 205, HB Daryl Herod 5-10 205, TE Sam Zaccaro 6-5 245, OL/DL Clint Miller 6-3 220, Matt Frederick 6-1 250 and Ian Tomcho 6-1 245. Junior linemen include Eric Troutman 6-0 235, Connor McKenna 6-1 250, Grant Mauger 6-0 250, Nathan Warnke 6-0 235, Len Teutonico 5-10 245. Linemen rarely an issue at Parkland so if they can find another quarterback it looks good. Rooster lists Jrs Sean Keiper 5-9 175 and Allen Nist 6-0 175. Big soph coming up, Matt Smith 6-3 175. Imagine pulling another Laub out of the hat.
Liberty 10-2; Graduate 7 sr linemen (3 started) and 10 more from skill positions, notably RB/DB Ahkeem Smith, 901ry-192py, WR/DBs Joey Orlando 26-473 and Justin Rivera 16-261. Orlando #1, Smith #2, Rivera #3 receivers. Horvin Lattimer back, 6-0 230 junior TE. Return OL/DL juniors Levi Brown 6-3 315, Al Puhols 6-1 240, Horvin Lattimer 6-0 230. Levi Braxton back at DE 6-4 220. Lost DB (Rivera, Orlando, A.Smith) but DL looks good. OL Kyle Labarge 6-0 255 lost plus LB Brendan Beal 6-3 240. Return QB Anthony Gonzalez 6-2 183 who started this year as a sophomore and performed well at 66/110/1062py/14/6 td/pick, 80/465ry. #2 RB Branden Brader 5-7 150 jr, 52/523 back, QB # 3 rusher, Ryan Muhl 35/145 5-7 165 jr # 4 rusher back. Soph Malik Smith 8/113. A lot of speed in backfield. Quite a year for the sophomore QB.
Easton 8-4; Lose all purpose back/DB Jarred Holley, QB Zach Somogyi, RB Gary Fish, TE/DE Keenan Walls, OL/DLs Colin White, Nick Marzuoli. Other graduated linemen are 5-11 288 S.Malik, Brandon Bedoya 6-0 250, Greg Vas 6-2 250, Matt Selmasska 6-3 250, Paul Perrucci 5-8 240. This was one of their larger lines in a few years so I’m guessing some of these were starters. Juniors moving up at 6-0 270 Justin Grant, 6-5 225 Ryan Barrick, 6-0 230 Nick Hull and 6-0 225 M.Elgharby. Looks like serious losses.
Emmaus 7-4; One of the best defenses in D-11 ‘07 (allowed 98) but not quite enough offense (250) may be the dark-horse favorite with few graduating from the team that lost by 1 to Easton, 7 and 17 to Parkland and 14 to Liberty. In all games. Graduate 10 seniors; 5 of 20 OL/DL/TE (1), 2 RBs, 2WRs, PK. Looks like another powerful team from Emmaus.
Freedom 9-3; This team gets lost in the shuffle between Parkland, Liberty and Easton. Incomplete picture here with few stats, 19 seniors graduate. Graduate 3 starting OL/DL, Daniel McMahon 6-2 245, Anthony Carter 6-1 255 and David Harvey 5-10 195. Lose running back/DB Isaiah Wright 6-0 195 and RB/LB Pat Collins 5-11 210. At that size I suppose Wright was a S. Mike Zanoni 6-1 195 and TE/LB Todd Mike 6-1 210 graduate. Return 2 FB/LB with stats showing tackles; Ivan Encarnacion and Mike Muzyka, both 6-0 195. QB Joseph Fisher, 6-1 175 graduates. RB Jermel Lee 6-1 190 jr and Wm Velekei 6-0 175 jr are back. WR Joshua Fortin-Smith 6-0 170 jr returns. Only 6 linemen graduate from team. Unsure of starters besides above mentioned linemen but the following junior linemen return, Orlando Colon 6-2 240, Kyle Peters 6-3 325, John Kaczmarek 6-3 275, Christian O’Connor 6-1 225, Sean Searfass 5-11 245, Zach Gruhe 5-10 225 and Joshua Lutzi 6-1 220. Skill was their strength last year and appear to have lost some in Wright and Weaver.
Whitehall 8-4; Nice record despite allowing more than scored, 226-235. Played a lot of youth but looks like they have some serious graduation losses. Graduate QB Andrew Polony 6-2 185, 99/188/1099, and versatile #1 rusher/WR/LB/KO/P Matt Hamscher 5-11, 185, 525py, 696ry, 73 punt rtns and 536 KO rtn ydg, #1 tackler. Huge loss there. Also lose #2 rusher Garrett Waterhouse 37/145 (# 3 is QB, 44/93), #2 WR Kurt Gerhard 32/353, #4 Brock Costenader 24/319 and #5 WR Pat Manturi 26/187. Graduate 3 OL/DL (Mark Elkhoury 6-1 230, Erik Long 5-11 220, Nick Spaits 5-9 210), 2 LB, 2DB. Return # 2 QB Jim Lahue 60/112/621py, 6-0 185 jr, TE Aaron Hoenl 6-2 200 jr 29/330py, OL/DL Carl Kreidler 6-2 230 jr, DE Doug Henniger 6-0 200 jr. 5 sophomores got significant pt O/D.
Philadelphia Catholic Red Division;
Haven’t done my homework here in enough detail to list but know SJ, Roman, LaSalle lose a lot including quarterbacks. SJ’s losses are numerically high but they always reload without skipping many beats. RC loses QB C Johnson, RB Sloan-El, Moody, DL Edwards. LaSalle loses record setting QB J. Harrison, WR 6-5 220 Joe Migliarese but return highly regarded soph RB Sam Feleccia, 6-2 195, jr next year. Judge returns a 3 year (?) starting QB and a lot of their team. O’Hara seems best positioned on paper with QB Tom Savage, RBs Corey Brown and Evan Higgins back. Don’t think they’ll miss TE/DE Mark Wedderburn. Does anyone else think he was under used? The line was on the small side this year. Program from Bonner game shows two 6-4 250 sophs coming up, Matt Wms and Joe Whinnery. Will build around juniors 6-1 275 Dennis Mushrush and 6-0 225 Andrew Glace. In the Blue Division you always have to keep your eye on Wood but West Catholic looks strong at skill/speed; special QB Curtis Drake and RBs Raymond Maples, Rob Holloman over 1000ry each! and Drake at or near 600ry. That’s it for now. Time for a little R & R. More in a few months.
Pennsbury 4-6; Graduated 40 seniors in 2006 and still went 4-6 in 2007 scoring 255 points, losing to Glen Mills and Abington by 1. Believe they graduate 3 OL/DL, Corey Llwellyn, David Veda and Dean Schofield, also RB Shakir Green, Matt Santicerma but good looking sophomore Malcolme Perry returns, 5-7 167, 451ry, QB Jack Westberg a jr and TE/DL Steve Marck 6-4 240 jr. Return a number of junior linemen, Zack Nall 6-2 235, Dan Hoffmeister 6-3 270, Brian Mosby 6-0 235, Tom Ryan 6-2 225, Brad Mayer 6-0 265, Jared Parrish 5-9 250, Will Abrego 6-1 324, Pat Cantrell 6-1 235. They return 6-7 to defense so a nice core there and other side. Played well in most losses. Should be improved.
Pennridge 3-9; Played a lot of juniors and sophomores this season and return QB Brad Herrman 95/223-1517-9/17 td/picks + 617ry, juniors RBs Matt Pattison 95/341 +13/103py, Kyle Lynch 80/215, sophs Ian Walbridge 35/218, Ryan Metzler 21/78. Graduate receiver corps of Jim Jefferson 38/711, Derek Kunkle 22/391 and Brian Stephenson 7/186. Graduate OL Zach Garner, Roger Moore and Pat Clligett, 12 seniors. Maybe not a sleeper but better in ‘08 than ’07.
Central Bucks South 11-1; Big loss of course is RB Eric Reynolds 260-2832ry, 34 tds, or 3108 tot ydg with pass receptions and his completing 9 of 11 for 120. All totaled 38 touchdowns. WR Colin Donnelly a big loss and I think the lines or most of it gone; #56 OG James Soreth, #78 OC Dustin Hojnacki, #73 OT Rob Kee (first team AP All-State ), #51 Karlos Bimba, #63 Dave Enos, #68 Mike Rodgers. Graduate 11 OL/DL seniors, DE John Jackson. The good news is quarterback Tom Johns 6-5 195 Jr returns.
Neshaminy 11-2; This is Neshaminy where they always seem to have the bodies but they do lose a lot….QB Justin Kenney, RBs Jason Ulmer, Joe Stemme, WRs Capanna and Steinberg, OLs Blair Gower 6-2 278, Adrian Kiwewski 6-1 250, Dylan Waterbruy 6-3 270 and Kyle Dunleavy 6-4 241, Aaron Lee . Nice LB corps gone, Ulmer, Stemme and Greg Martell. OL returns Dan Shirley 6-3 257 jr, TE Paul Carrezola 6-4 240. RB Quinlan Arnold back. Nice rebound from 6-4 season.
North Penn 9-3; Ended year losing 3 of 5 after 7-0 start but return most of team with 16 seniors gone. Except for FB Mike Katch it looks like most of the skill returns, QBs Justin Davey 5-9 170 + jr A.Taggart and soph Todd Smolinsky, RBs Tyler Smith, Ronnie Akins (WR?), 5-11 175, Bennett, Lewis, Price, sophs Eric Stoll, Greg Pace. Good PK McManus is back.
Abington 7-5; Lose QB Kevin Morton 6-3 190, RB Khahlil Pittman 5-8 165, entire OL, Vince Ricci, 6-2, 248, Jake Neihoff 6-2, 270, Brian Corrigan 6-3, 275, Mike Ruhl 6-1, 220, etc. Essentially a full rebuild. Expected more from Ghosts, thought loaded at start of year but were still a dangerous team that was a double-overtime loss to CB East and 4 point loss to CB South away from a 9-3 season.
Conestoga 8-4; Huge skill loss with QB Steve Richter, WR Nihja White 6-3 185 and RB Tyreek Clarke gone. Lost some good talent on lines with Jake Crooks 6-2 290 and TE/OLB Trevor Behmke 6-6 250, also Josh Pack 6-1 235, Mattt Kaminskas 6-3 230, Matt Tucker 6-2 240. Return a number of good looking junior linemen, 6-1 300, 6-2 296, 5-8 280, 5-8 225, 5-11 226, 6-2 240, 6-0 225, 5-10 245. Who says size doesn’t count? Always have it at Conestoga. They have a sophomore quarterback to keep an eye on, Julian Anapolsky, 6-2 250. Don’t know anything about him but he must have an arm to be used there at that versatile size. Bottom line is 27 seniors graduating.
Ridley 13-1; Big losses, entire OL Tony Agotsiotis 5-9 200, Mike King T 6-2 240, Brian Traband T 5-11 190, Dan DePrinzio G 6-3 290, Ryan Eckenrode G 6-2 275, TE 6-2 195, (Jim Kelly back 6-2 220 jr) QB Steve Egee, running back Andrew Hodges, good K/P Uysaler, linebackers Hodges, Marenic, etc. The district one champ graduates one of their finest teams in years, back-to-back 13-1 seasons.
DT West 10-2; Lose QB Nolan Kearney, #2, 3, 4, 5 rushers, 3 OL, Chester Schofield 5-10 250, Tim Ferguson 6-1 195 and Mike Egan 5-6 190 (got a lot of mileage out of that that quick line) and most of the defense. Return top rusher and # 2 receiver Jared Heller 21 Tds, 923ry, 28/228py. Sophomore Brett Gillespie was #2 QB last season, 6-1 170, got some time. West was smaller last year than other years but quick as everyone knows who saw the CB South game. Good looking soph DE 6-2 190 Josh Coulter and jr.DE Ryan Kendra at 6-5 230 are back. Hard seeing them duplicating back-to-back 10-2 seasons without Kearney.
DT East 8-3; Graduated 9 senior linemen, at least 2 started, Eric Ducharme 5-11 235, Mike Brophy 6-1 255 along with 6-3 190 QB Pete O’Connor, #1 WR Derek McKinley, #1 RB Goetz, Duron Wilson and TE/DE Nate Matta. Since inception in 2003 (5-7), East seems to “rebuild” annually going 8-2, 11-2, 7-4 and 8-3. Nice fast striking attack last year; under rated team. Aside from Coatesville only Henderson beat them. Lost a lot of skill. All totaled 29 seniors graduated.
Henderson 12-2; Lost key players, QB John O’Donnell 775py, 1259ry, 22 Tds, 14 extra points! Also both backs RB/LB Jabair Kahn 5-11 195, 168/1358ry, 227py, # 2 tackler, 99; Russell Jacobs 6-0 185 735ry 72py, starter as DB, #1 and 2 WRs John Lunquist 13/227 and Jack Cunningham 13/220py. 8-9 starting defense graduating, most of OL/DL, Miles Philpott 5-11 250 and Channing Philpott 5-10 270, Akiail Williams 6-3 260 and Ed Hart 6-0 200. Graduate 7 of top 11 tacklers. Played a lot of people last year, # 4 rusher/CB Kevin Mann 5-9-175 Jr 61/231ry, OL/DL # 1 tackler Evin Reinhart jr 6-0 180, #3 and #4 tacklers jr QB/LB 6-0 215 Kevin Costello (95 tackles), RB/LB Josh Morgan 6-0 190 (90), 5-9 180 RB/LB Brett Wms (33), a couple OL/DLs Casey Caslin 6-1 290 (33 tackles), Matt Smith 6-2 230 jr (19, 1sack), Sam Miller 6-3 230 soph all return. Looks like a good nucleus. Line up info from program.
Coatesville 5-5; Incomplete roster (max preps, school web site). Return exciting soph QB Charles Green 815py, 720ry, 1535 tot ydg. Others back are junior LB corps Allen Erdman 6-0 210, Chris Norton 5-10 195 and Claude Norris 5-9 190, their top 3 tacklers and pt’er Joe Thomas, hot shot soph 6-0 215, #3 rusher, 431ry. Another big soph got pt, TE/LB Jody Dodds 6-2 210. # 1, 3, 4 rushers return, #2 RB Haneef Brake 697ry will graduate. Graduate a few linemen but Raiders never have a shortage of big linemen. Return PK Chris Massero3 of 4, 37 long. Seem poised to make some noise.
Interboro 8-3; BuroBucs, what’s up? Looks like Bucs graduated entire OL (most of DL) with Brain Mergetech 6-1 290, Ian Hecksher 6-0 270, John McGowan 5-8 220, Mike Marchesani 6-1 220, Matt Mitchell 6-0 210 gone. Chris Taggert back 6-0 260 and don’t see much beyond that. Looks dangerously thin along lines but well stocked at skill especially juniors QB McMenamin 5-9 170, E/DB Shawn Krautzel 6-1 185 and TE/LB Vince Broomall 6-0 190 returning.
Hazelton 11-2; Senior oriented team (really?), graduate18 srs, QB Joe Kost, RB Nate Eachus (5-11 195, 2196ry, 28 tds), RB/LB Rich Matz 6-0 215 (nice tandem LBs), kicker Drew Orth, OL/DL Kyle Medvitz 6-1 220, F.Deandrea 6-1 225, Gregg Hunter 5-11 225. Big returning junior OL’ers are Ryan Knight 6-1 271, Francisco Fabian 6-1 300, Rafael Marceese 5-10 220 and starter Jon Koslop 6-2 245. Some big sophs in wings, 6-1 245, 5-9 230, 6-0 220, 5-7 240, 5-11 245. Projected QB starter was last year’s number two, a big kid Matt Drumheller 6-3, 190. Why media calls this a senior oriented team is a mystery with 13 soph-jrs playing enough for 4 sophs to get 40+ tackles and 6 jrs getting 28 to 48. Bodes well for 2008 with sophs WR/DB Chad Nicholas 6-2 180 15-235py, RB/LB Matt Manfredi 5-9 185, 13/65ry, RB/LB A.J. Petrone 5-10 175, 41/219ry, 41 tackles, etc. Soph OL/DL Matt Semanchik 5-11 245, 42 tackles and soph RB/LB Charlie Craig 6-0 180, 23 tackles. Nice size for 10th graders. Juniors in the picture are OL/DE Brian Pavelko 6-0 200 48T’s, OL/DL Jon Koslop 6-2 245, 43T’s, WR/DB Shane McKernan 6-2 170, 6/145py. Tough replacing a back-backer like Eachus but Hazelton looks to have a lot of potential.
Wyoming Valley West 10-2; Got to 10-2 last year with a young team. Return Junior OL/DL’s Durnell Johnson 6-4 285, 6-0 260 Matt Drevenak, 6-5 270 Malcolm Bates, Tyler Cpwman 6-0 270, 5-10 220 Mike Pretko and good size sophs moving up, 6-1 242, 6-2 250, 6-3 250. Lose a good tailback in Matt Kolojejchick but return quarterback Jack Crossin 5-10 170 jr and FB Dave Ryncavage, a 6-1 220 jr. Looks like Coach Curry (Berwick) has the makings of another good team. Coach has sure done a nice bit of work the last two years, rescuing a floundering program and returning them to prominence in district two going 9-2, 10-2 first two years.
Abington Heights 6-5; Scoring only 209 points and now lose quarterback Mike Dargatis, 3of 4 leading rushers and top 2 receivers. Lost at least 3 OLs, John Kilpatrick 6-4 260, Brian Peters 6-2 230, Anthony Lepri 6-2 290. 6 other linemen graduated. Junior replacements (previous starters?) include Billy Johnson 6-1 235, Greg Moyer 5-11 290, Colin Brener 6-4 245 and Chris Stankowski 5-10 240. A few monster sophs in 6-2 290 J. Goldstein, P.Bernardi 5-9 265 , A.Brunori 6-1 245, starter Evan Craig 6-1 285 and John Price 6-0 225. Hit hard at skill from a 6-5 season.
Delaware Valley 9-2; QB Billy Poore 59/101/1002, 81/415ry graduates along with #2 rusher TJ Bergman 85/542, top receiver Shawn Gregson 28/428. Return # 2 QB Ian Maute a Jr with 4 passes 6-1,175. Lost 3 OL/DL, LB, DE, 1 DB. OL’ers Dan Budd 6-3 255 and Aaron Thompson 6-1 280 gone. Return 2 Jr OLs, Kyle Lutz 5-10 215, Chris Horner 6-3 240, 1 DL-Horner, DE George Siracuse 6-0 230 # 4 tackler, Lutz at LB and 2 DBs. Return 4 of 5 top tacklers. Junior OL/DL Chris Conklin 6-5, 285 got time. He and Horner 6-3 240 are it with a small jr class coming up. Soph’s (jrs next year) are 5-10 Steve Yakaboski 5-10 250, Jack Rosenstein 5-9 240, rest of jr-soph class 212 and down, so they’ll be smaller.
East Stroudsburg South 8-4; Lose QB Zack Frederick 6-1 204 870py, 376yr. Backup was 5-6 143 sophomore Robbie Moyer. Lost a powerful runner in Anthony Davis 1505ry, 17 tds but return a soph FB/LB they’re high on, Sam Bergen 6-0 205, 53 tackles. 3 of top 4 receivers graduate with # 3 and 4 rushers behind RB A.Davis and QB. AP 1st teamer OL Corey Lewis 6-7 292 graduates so Cavs took some hits at key positions. 6 senior linemen graduate. Mike Calvert back, 6-7 285, Tim Sasso 5-8 253 with sophs likely moving up and into vacancies; Clay Grinder 6-0 250, Tom Lapping 5-10 250, John Frisbie 6-2 245, Gus Wms 6-1 250. ES South’s program on the rise but ‘08 looks like a rebuilding year.
Parkland 15-1; Lost 17 seniors entering 07 and made final, graduate 14 this year. Lose QB John Laub + 1300py, RBs Sam Tajiri, Kale Sweeney, FB Kevin Herod, OLs Tim Fegely 6-2 275, Andrea Sloan 6-0 245 and Alex Kollar 6-1 275. Return WR Jaleel Clark 6-4 205, HB Daryl Herod 5-10 205, TE Sam Zaccaro 6-5 245, OL/DL Clint Miller 6-3 220, Matt Frederick 6-1 250 and Ian Tomcho 6-1 245. Junior linemen include Eric Troutman 6-0 235, Connor McKenna 6-1 250, Grant Mauger 6-0 250, Nathan Warnke 6-0 235, Len Teutonico 5-10 245. Linemen rarely an issue at Parkland so if they can find another quarterback it looks good. Rooster lists Jrs Sean Keiper 5-9 175 and Allen Nist 6-0 175. Big soph coming up, Matt Smith 6-3 175. Imagine pulling another Laub out of the hat.
Liberty 10-2; Graduate 7 sr linemen (3 started) and 10 more from skill positions, notably RB/DB Ahkeem Smith, 901ry-192py, WR/DBs Joey Orlando 26-473 and Justin Rivera 16-261. Orlando #1, Smith #2, Rivera #3 receivers. Horvin Lattimer back, 6-0 230 junior TE. Return OL/DL juniors Levi Brown 6-3 315, Al Puhols 6-1 240, Horvin Lattimer 6-0 230. Levi Braxton back at DE 6-4 220. Lost DB (Rivera, Orlando, A.Smith) but DL looks good. OL Kyle Labarge 6-0 255 lost plus LB Brendan Beal 6-3 240. Return QB Anthony Gonzalez 6-2 183 who started this year as a sophomore and performed well at 66/110/1062py/14/6 td/pick, 80/465ry. #2 RB Branden Brader 5-7 150 jr, 52/523 back, QB # 3 rusher, Ryan Muhl 35/145 5-7 165 jr # 4 rusher back. Soph Malik Smith 8/113. A lot of speed in backfield. Quite a year for the sophomore QB.
Easton 8-4; Lose all purpose back/DB Jarred Holley, QB Zach Somogyi, RB Gary Fish, TE/DE Keenan Walls, OL/DLs Colin White, Nick Marzuoli. Other graduated linemen are 5-11 288 S.Malik, Brandon Bedoya 6-0 250, Greg Vas 6-2 250, Matt Selmasska 6-3 250, Paul Perrucci 5-8 240. This was one of their larger lines in a few years so I’m guessing some of these were starters. Juniors moving up at 6-0 270 Justin Grant, 6-5 225 Ryan Barrick, 6-0 230 Nick Hull and 6-0 225 M.Elgharby. Looks like serious losses.
Emmaus 7-4; One of the best defenses in D-11 ‘07 (allowed 98) but not quite enough offense (250) may be the dark-horse favorite with few graduating from the team that lost by 1 to Easton, 7 and 17 to Parkland and 14 to Liberty. In all games. Graduate 10 seniors; 5 of 20 OL/DL/TE (1), 2 RBs, 2WRs, PK. Looks like another powerful team from Emmaus.
Freedom 9-3; This team gets lost in the shuffle between Parkland, Liberty and Easton. Incomplete picture here with few stats, 19 seniors graduate. Graduate 3 starting OL/DL, Daniel McMahon 6-2 245, Anthony Carter 6-1 255 and David Harvey 5-10 195. Lose running back/DB Isaiah Wright 6-0 195 and RB/LB Pat Collins 5-11 210. At that size I suppose Wright was a S. Mike Zanoni 6-1 195 and TE/LB Todd Mike 6-1 210 graduate. Return 2 FB/LB with stats showing tackles; Ivan Encarnacion and Mike Muzyka, both 6-0 195. QB Joseph Fisher, 6-1 175 graduates. RB Jermel Lee 6-1 190 jr and Wm Velekei 6-0 175 jr are back. WR Joshua Fortin-Smith 6-0 170 jr returns. Only 6 linemen graduate from team. Unsure of starters besides above mentioned linemen but the following junior linemen return, Orlando Colon 6-2 240, Kyle Peters 6-3 325, John Kaczmarek 6-3 275, Christian O’Connor 6-1 225, Sean Searfass 5-11 245, Zach Gruhe 5-10 225 and Joshua Lutzi 6-1 220. Skill was their strength last year and appear to have lost some in Wright and Weaver.
Whitehall 8-4; Nice record despite allowing more than scored, 226-235. Played a lot of youth but looks like they have some serious graduation losses. Graduate QB Andrew Polony 6-2 185, 99/188/1099, and versatile #1 rusher/WR/LB/KO/P Matt Hamscher 5-11, 185, 525py, 696ry, 73 punt rtns and 536 KO rtn ydg, #1 tackler. Huge loss there. Also lose #2 rusher Garrett Waterhouse 37/145 (# 3 is QB, 44/93), #2 WR Kurt Gerhard 32/353, #4 Brock Costenader 24/319 and #5 WR Pat Manturi 26/187. Graduate 3 OL/DL (Mark Elkhoury 6-1 230, Erik Long 5-11 220, Nick Spaits 5-9 210), 2 LB, 2DB. Return # 2 QB Jim Lahue 60/112/621py, 6-0 185 jr, TE Aaron Hoenl 6-2 200 jr 29/330py, OL/DL Carl Kreidler 6-2 230 jr, DE Doug Henniger 6-0 200 jr. 5 sophomores got significant pt O/D.
Philadelphia Catholic Red Division;
Haven’t done my homework here in enough detail to list but know SJ, Roman, LaSalle lose a lot including quarterbacks. SJ’s losses are numerically high but they always reload without skipping many beats. RC loses QB C Johnson, RB Sloan-El, Moody, DL Edwards. LaSalle loses record setting QB J. Harrison, WR 6-5 220 Joe Migliarese but return highly regarded soph RB Sam Feleccia, 6-2 195, jr next year. Judge returns a 3 year (?) starting QB and a lot of their team. O’Hara seems best positioned on paper with QB Tom Savage, RBs Corey Brown and Evan Higgins back. Don’t think they’ll miss TE/DE Mark Wedderburn. Does anyone else think he was under used? The line was on the small side this year. Program from Bonner game shows two 6-4 250 sophs coming up, Matt Wms and Joe Whinnery. Will build around juniors 6-1 275 Dennis Mushrush and 6-0 225 Andrew Glace. In the Blue Division you always have to keep your eye on Wood but West Catholic looks strong at skill/speed; special QB Curtis Drake and RBs Raymond Maples, Rob Holloman over 1000ry each! and Drake at or near 600ry. That’s it for now. Time for a little R & R. More in a few months.
