Couple regular season notes before we head into the playoffs.
Dorian Thomas finished the regular season with 1,201 yards, which places him 7th on the single regular season season rushing list. The top ten:
1. Nysir Minney-Gratz, 2015: 1,715
2. Nahjee Adams, 2019: 1,651
3. Shane Simpson, 2014: 1,535
4. Eric Thompson, 1993: 1,407
5. Juan Gaddy, 1992: 1,384
6. Juan Gaddy, 1991: 1,376
7. Dorian Thomas, 2024: 1,201
8. Brad Piperata, 2003: 1,152
9. Frank Lane, 1986: 1,150
10. Jeff Staton, 1988: 1,148
He's the 16th 1,000 yard regular season for the Rovers. From what I can find, Will Day's 962 yards puts him 19th in single regular season rushing yards. As a duo, I think Thomas and Day have the second highest combined total of 2,163 yards - only Shane Simpson and Dalvyn Reynolds in 2014 have more, with a pretty eye popping 2,450 (1,535 and 915). In terms of total season, Simpson and Reynolds ran for 3,279 yards and Ovid Goulbourne and Brad Piperata in 2003 are next on the list with 2,820 (Ovid missed three regular season games, then had playoff totals of 195, 89, 140, and 157 yards go over 1,000 for the year). Juan Gaddy/Larry Gibson in 1991, and Shane Simpson/Kyle Bambary in 2013 are the other duos to crack 2,000 yards combined.
Easton's current nine game winning streak is the 18th in program history of at least nine games. The school record is 19 straight wins stretching from week 3 in 1986 to the D11 championship game in 1987. Their longest of the state playoff era is a 13 game winning streak, done in 2004 and 1991, where they started 13-0 before falling in the Eastern Final, and stretching from P'burg in 2013 to the D11 championship game in 2014. A D11 title and a win over Philipsburg would match the 13 game streak for this crew. A state championship would put them at 16, tying the stretch from 1916 to 1918 for the second longest win streak in program history. Here's hoping.
For the record, the longest unbeaten streak in school history is 41 straight from 1921 to 1926. The more modern (post WWII) record is a 24 game unbeaten streak starting in 1966 and ending in week 2 of 1969. Obviously modern overtime rules negate further unbeaten streak records.
I said Friday that Thomas's 315 yards (revised) record was second in Cottingham history behind Nysir Minney-Gratz going for 469 against Nazareth in week 10 of the 2015 season. It's the third 300 yard game in school history, joining Minney-Gratz and Juan Gaddy's 314 yard effort agaist P'burg in 1991. Easton's total of 623 yards of total offense didnt' quite catch the 699 they posted in the 2014 Simpson/Barkley shootout, but I think it is only the second time over 600 yards of offense in a game for the Rovers, though they did break the record for single game rushing with 567 yards, topping the 530 from that 2014 game.
Dorian Thomas finished the regular season with 1,201 yards, which places him 7th on the single regular season season rushing list. The top ten:
1. Nysir Minney-Gratz, 2015: 1,715
2. Nahjee Adams, 2019: 1,651
3. Shane Simpson, 2014: 1,535
4. Eric Thompson, 1993: 1,407
5. Juan Gaddy, 1992: 1,384
6. Juan Gaddy, 1991: 1,376
7. Dorian Thomas, 2024: 1,201
8. Brad Piperata, 2003: 1,152
9. Frank Lane, 1986: 1,150
10. Jeff Staton, 1988: 1,148
He's the 16th 1,000 yard regular season for the Rovers. From what I can find, Will Day's 962 yards puts him 19th in single regular season rushing yards. As a duo, I think Thomas and Day have the second highest combined total of 2,163 yards - only Shane Simpson and Dalvyn Reynolds in 2014 have more, with a pretty eye popping 2,450 (1,535 and 915). In terms of total season, Simpson and Reynolds ran for 3,279 yards and Ovid Goulbourne and Brad Piperata in 2003 are next on the list with 2,820 (Ovid missed three regular season games, then had playoff totals of 195, 89, 140, and 157 yards go over 1,000 for the year). Juan Gaddy/Larry Gibson in 1991, and Shane Simpson/Kyle Bambary in 2013 are the other duos to crack 2,000 yards combined.
Easton's current nine game winning streak is the 18th in program history of at least nine games. The school record is 19 straight wins stretching from week 3 in 1986 to the D11 championship game in 1987. Their longest of the state playoff era is a 13 game winning streak, done in 2004 and 1991, where they started 13-0 before falling in the Eastern Final, and stretching from P'burg in 2013 to the D11 championship game in 2014. A D11 title and a win over Philipsburg would match the 13 game streak for this crew. A state championship would put them at 16, tying the stretch from 1916 to 1918 for the second longest win streak in program history. Here's hoping.
For the record, the longest unbeaten streak in school history is 41 straight from 1921 to 1926. The more modern (post WWII) record is a 24 game unbeaten streak starting in 1966 and ending in week 2 of 1969. Obviously modern overtime rules negate further unbeaten streak records.
I said Friday that Thomas's 315 yards (revised) record was second in Cottingham history behind Nysir Minney-Gratz going for 469 against Nazareth in week 10 of the 2015 season. It's the third 300 yard game in school history, joining Minney-Gratz and Juan Gaddy's 314 yard effort agaist P'burg in 1991. Easton's total of 623 yards of total offense didnt' quite catch the 699 they posted in the 2014 Simpson/Barkley shootout, but I think it is only the second time over 600 yards of offense in a game for the Rovers, though they did break the record for single game rushing with 567 yards, topping the 530 from that 2014 game.
