PORT ALLEGANY 20, SMETHPORT 12

PORT ALLEGANY – Behind touchdown runs from Seth Lowery and Matt Bodamer and two Kenny Kysor field goals, Port Allegany beat visiting Smethport 20-12 Saturday afternoon.

Lowery scored on a 56-yard run and Bodamer a 3-yard run in the first half, and Kysor kicked field goals of 23 and 25 yards in the half to help the Gators (3-3 overall, 3-3 AML North)) take a 20-6 halftime lead.

Bodamer finished the day with 10 carries for 74 yards and was 13 of 22 passing for 171 yards and an interception with Lowery chipping in 83 yards rushing on 11 carries. Tyce Miller had four catches for 79 yards and Trevor Neal four for 54 yards.

Ryan Wells led Smethport (1-5, 1-5) with 22 carries for 130 yards and a 2-yard touchdown run. Kevin Lord was 6 of 15 passing for 94 yards, a touchdown and an interception. He hit Andrew Paulik with an 8-yard scoring pass.

The win keeps Port Allegany a game back of Cameron County for first place in the AML North. The Gators are tied for second with Coudersport. Port’s final two regular-season games are at Cameron County and then home to Coudy. In between, the Gators are at one-win Sheffield next week.

HICKORY 28, KARNS CITY 14

KARNS CITY – Marlon Pegues ran for 146 yards and a touchdown, returned a kickoff for a touchdown and had a key interception late in the first half that was returned for a touchdown after he flipped the ball to a teammate to lead Hickory to a 28-14 win at Karns City Friday night.

Hickory led 14-7 late in the first half, and Karns City was inside the Hornets 35-yard line when Pegues, who had returned the opening kickoff 82 yards for a score before giving Hickory the 14-7 lead with a 5-yard run later in the half, picked off a Dylan Hipple pass at his own 10-yard line. As he was about to be tackled on the return, he flipped the ball to teammate Alexander Kirsch who completed the 90-yard interception return for a touchdown making it 21-7 at halftime.

Karns City got with seven, 21-14, on a Hipple to Tyler Marsinetti touchdown pass before Mike Grata’s 30-yard scoring run gave Hickory cushion.

Alex Kinkila led Karns City with eight carries for 61 yards and scored the first Gremlin touchdown on a 2-yard run.

The loss drops Karns City to 2-4, the Gremlins worst start since going 2-7 in 1995. Karns City had lost a total of eight games the last four seasons while winning four straight District 9 Class A titles including just four regular-season contests.   

CLEARFIELD 56, PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA 25

HYDE – Beau Swales scored four touchdowns, including two on interception returns, and ran for 138 yards as the Clearfield Bisons rolled to a 56-25 win over Philipsburg-Osceola Friday night.

The Bisons (6-0) actually trailed 3-0 midway through the first quarter, but scored 42 unanswered points through the rest of the first half. Then Swales returned his second pickoff 27 yards midway through the third quarter. His first came on a 32-yard return and his TD run came from  64 yards out late in the third quarter.
Derek Morgan rushed for 114 yards on 14 carries and ran for three touchdowns of 28, 2 and 23 yards. Quarterback Curtis Frye threw an 88-yard TD pass to Andrew Redden.

JOHNSONBURG 41, RIDGWAY 0

JOHNSONBURG – Andrew Nortum completed 12 of 17 passes for 179 yards and four touchdowns, almost all of it going to his top receiver Joe Holmberg in a 41-0 rout of next-door rival Ridgway Friday night.

Holmberg caught nine passes for 164 yards and hauled in scoring strikes of 40, 9, 23 and 21 yards. Max Zimmerman scored the Rams’ first touchdown on a 22-yard run. Zimmerman ran for 76 yards on 17 carries while Nortum added  74 yards on nine carries.

Johnsonburg (4-2) outgained Ridgway (0-6), 399-120. Alex Dickant and D.J. Skraba each rushed for 40 yards for the Elkers.

CHESTNUT RIDGE 50, KEYSTONE 6

NEW PARIS – The Keystone Panthers got on the scoreboard first on quarterback Mitchell Rearick’s 7-yard touchdown run, but it only went downhill from there as the Panthers lost a non-conference game on the road to District 5’s Chestnut Ridge Friday night, 50-6.

Jude Donatelli ran for 133 yards on 14 carries in the first half alone and scored three touchdowns on runs of 5, 1 and 1 yards to give Chestnut Ridge (5-1) a 21-6 halftime lead.

In the second half, Chestnut Ridge got touchdown runs from Brad Hengst of 61 yards, Kaleb Mock from 10 yards yards out, Beau Bosch on a 9-yarder and Isaac Lankey on a 1-yarder.

The Panthers fell to 2-4.

BROOKVILLE 57, CLARION-LIMESTONE 13

STRATTANVILLE – Steven Kennedy scored four touchdowns and Ryan Kerr added a pair, as Brookville cruised past neighboring Clarion-Limestone 57-13 Friday night at C-L.

Kennedy, the Raiders quarterback, scored on runs of 11, 1 and 13 yards and added a 40-yard punt return for a touchdown while rushing six times for 52 yards and going 6 of 10 passing for 110 yards.

Kerr added scoring carries of 23 and four yards and finished the night with seven totes for 51 yards. He also caught an 18-yard pass.

Brookville (5-1), which outgained C-L 392-157, led 43-7 at halftime thanks to a 27-point first quarter.

The Lions (1-5) got a pair of touchdowns from Zack Kemmer, who scored on a 91-yard kickoff return and on a 55-yard pass from Billy Kelley. Kelley was 5 of 13 passing for 82 yards, while Kemmer had three grabs for 82 yards.

MEADVILLE 21, DUBOIS 14

MEADVILLE – Artel Foster’s 5-yard touchdown run with 6:09 left capped a come-from-behind 21-14 win for Meadville over visiting DuBois in a District 10-Region 5 game Friday night.

DuBois (3-3 overall, 2-2 Region 5) led 14-7 at halftime and carried that lead into the opening minute of the fourth quarter before Zack Towers scored his second touchdown of the night on a 1-yard run 59 seconds into the quarter to tie the game.

Towers’ 12-yard run midway through the first quarter gave Meadville (2-4, 2-2) a 7-0 lead before DuBois tied the game on a 51-yard touchdown pass from Sean Sleigh to Max Hines later in the quarter. Sleigh then hooked up with Chris Powers on a 14-yard scoring toss with 1:06 to play before the half to stake the Beavers to the 14-7 lead.

Sleigh was 11 of 28 passing for 193 yards, two touchdowns and two picks. He also ran nine times for 16 yards. Hines had two catches for 67 yards and the score with Powers adding two for 29, while Shawn Newpher ran 19 times for 114 yards and had two grabs for 44 yards.

Towers led all rushers with 132 yards on 28 carries.

CAMERON COUNTY 34, COUDERSPORT 8

EMPORIUM – Cameron County took a large step towards winning its fourth straight AML-North title with a 34-8 win over visiting Coudersport Friday night.

Four different Red Raiders (4-2 overall, 4-2 AML North) scored touchdowns led by two long ones from quarterback Zach Austin, who scored on runs of 53 and 54 yards and finished the night with eight carries for 128 yards while also going 3 of 6 passing for 30 yards.

Jason Shaw, Andrew Fragale and Dylan Reed added touchdown runs for Cameron, which scored 14 second-quarter points to take a 14-0 halftime lead that it expanded to 27-0 by the end of the third quarter.

Alex Furman scored Coudersport’s lone touchdown on a 5-yard run with 2:41 left to play. The Falcons (3-3, 3-3), playing for the second straight week without injured quarterback Tim McCusker, were outgained 384-201 including 353-163 on the ground and lost three fumbles.

Jason Blose added 121 yards rushing on 16 carries for Cameron County, while Fragale had 66 on 10 carries and one catch for 18 yards.

Mitch Freeman and Jason Gibson each ran for 36 yards for Coudersport, which also got 53 yards on nine carries from Ryan Gerner. Gibson was 3 of 9 passing for 30 yards.

ELK COUNTY 27, KANE 13

ST. MARYS – Ricky Pearsall racked up his second straight 200-yard game rushing for 211 yards and three touchdowns to help Elk County Catholic remain unbeaten with a 27-13 win over visiting Kane Friday night.

Pearsall, who now has 1,091 yards rushing and 13 touchdowns on the year, scored on runs of five, seven and five yards.

Kane led 7-0 at the end of the first quarter on a 7-yard Alex Anderson touchdown run before Pearsall’s first touchdown 30 seconds into the second quarter tied the game at seven.

Kyle Schneider then hit Tyler Herzing with a 38-yard scoring pass making it 14-7 before Anderson scored on a 1-yard run before the half to cut the deficit to 14-13.

Pearsall then scored two second-half touchdowns to put the game away.

Anderson ran nine times for 40 yards and was 8 of 19 passing for 112 yards and a pick for Kane.  Shane Cotterman had an interception for the Wolves.

Schneider was 4 of 10 for 68 yards, the score and a pick for ECC. Brock McCullough had the Crusaders interception.

GENERAL MCLANE 38, BRADFORD 13

EDINBORO – General McLane scored 24 unanswered second-half points en route to a 38-13 win over visiting Bradford Friday night.

Pat Pascarella led Bradford (4-2) with 156 yards rushing on 21 carries to go over the 1,000-yard mark on the season. He scored a second-quarter touchdown, as did Mark Havers helping the Owls stay within a point of the Lancers, 14-13, at halftime. Havers had nine carries for 75 yards for the Owls, who were without starting quarterback Cody Coates, who missed the game with a finger injury.

OTTO-ELDRED 10, SHEFFIELD 8

DUKE CENTER – Jake Knapp’s 25-yard field goal with 5:06 left gave Otto-Eldred the cushion it needed to give first-year Otto-Eldred head coach Virgil Graham his first career win 10-8 over visiting Sheffield Friday night.

Knapp’s field goal put the Terrors (1-5) ahead 10-0, and the extra three points were needed when Ike Nearing scored on a 2-yard run for Sheffield (1-5) on the ensuing drive.

Luke Kerr’s 6-yard run in the first quarter put Otto-Eldred up 7-0.

MONITEAU 34, UNION 0

WEST SUNBURY – Behind two Kyle Armagost touchdown passes and an Armagost touchdown run Moniteau blanked visiting Union 34-0 Friday night.

Armagost, who didn’t play the first quarter of a scoreless game, came in in the second quarter and scored on a 1-yard run before throwing a 32-yard touchdown pass to Ethan Pry to help the Warriors (3-3) take a 21-0 halftime lead. He then tossed another touchdown pass to Pry in the fourth quarter to finish off the scoring and finished the night 7 of 9 passing for 143 yards.

Justin Geagan added 144 yards rushing and a touchdown for the Warriors.

Union drops to 1-5 with the loss.