WEEK 6 GAME RECAPS

BROCKWAY -- With 240 yards rushing in Brockway's 28-14 win over Ridgway Friday night, Brockway's Aaron Cantafio is believed to have broken the District 9 rushing mark set last year by DuBois' Justin Marshall.

Cantafio now has 3,640 yards rushing in his career, the most by any known District 9 runner. He only needs 360 yards to break the 4,000-yard career mark, a mark that is believed to never have been reached in the district.

In addition to his 240 yards rushing, Cantafio scored two touchdowns and a 2-point conversion in helping the Rovers (5-1) defeat the Elkers (4-2).

Brockway built a 22-0 halftiome lead then held off a Ridgway rally that saw the Elkers score 14 third-quarter points to get the win. The game was still in doubt until Cantafio scored from 13 yards out with 11 seconds left in the game.

Jesse Vivian added 20 carries for 92 yards, and Mike Greco had 15 carries for 75 yards and two touchdowns.

Brandon Steger went 6-15 for 142 yards and two touchdowns for Ridgway. Kalen Fitch had four catches for 113 yards and a 48-yard touchdown catch.

Brockway rolled up 410 total yards while holding Ridgway to 142 total yards including just 16 yards rushing on 21 rushes.

CURWENSVILLE -- Adam Donahue caught 6 passes for 105 yards and three touchdowns to led unbeaten Curwensville (6-0) to a 33-0 win over Elk County Christian (1-5) Friday night at Curwensville.

Matt Harnish went 9-12 for 109 yards and three touchdowns for Curwensville, while Jake Steger rushed 10 times for 34 yards.

PHILIPSBURG -- Clearfield rallied from an early 8-0 deficit to defeat Philipsburg-Osceola 22-8 Friday night in Philipsburg.

Matt Meckey led Clearfield with 17 rushes for 78 yards and a touchdown, while Michael Sayers was 6-13 for 145 yards and two TD passes.

Brian Kospick caught five passes for 140 yards and two touchdowns for the Bison.

ST. MARYS -- DuBois Area scored thr first three touchdowns of the second half to increase a slim 14-7 halftime lead into a 34-7 lead on its way to a 34-13 win over St. Marys in District 9 League action Friday night at St. Marys.

Derek Marshall ran 18 times for 122 yards and three touchdowns for the Beavers, while Matt Sopic was 8-15 for 122 yards.

Dan Fox had 17 rushes for 141 yards for St. Marys, which was held to 176 yards of total offense.

DuBois' Todd Braid had an all-around good game with five rushes for 43 yards and a touchdown, four catches for 47 yards, two kickoff returns for 37 yards, four punt returns for 47 yards and one interception on defense. In all he had 174 total yards.

EMPORIUM -- Jeff Shostak rushed for two touchdowns and threw a third to lead Smethport (5-1) to a 20-0 win at Cameron County Friday night.

Shostak went 6-18 for 107 yards and the scoring strike for the Hubbers who have won five straight.

Marc Shelgren added two receptions for 51 yards and a TD and eight rushes for 38 yards for Smethport, while Dan Mitchell had 10 carries for 111 yards. Eric Raydo had 17 carries for 77 yards rushing for the Hubbers.

Cameron County was held to 130 yards total including only four passing. Gideon Hourung led the way with 22 rushes for 70 yards.

CLARION – For the second straight week, Clarion’s offense more resembled that of a basketball team rather than of a football team, as the Bobcats (6-0 overall, 6-0 KSAC) scored on eight of their 14 first-half possessions on the way to a 62-6 win over Moniteau (2-4, 2-4) Friday night at Clarion.

This win came on the heels of Clarion 82-0 win at West Shamokin last week. The Bobcats are now averaging 53.5 points per game while allowing just 2.2 points per game.

"We had a great week of practice offensively," Clarion head coach Larry Wiser said. "The intensity was there in practice this week."

The Bobcats, ranked No. 2 in Class A by the Pennsylvania Football News, racked up 488 yards 390 on its way to the win. The Bobcats had 346 yards on the ground and 142 in the air.

"I thought our offense was diversified enough in the fact that we were able to run in and out and get the ball over the top," Wiser said. "And that is as good as we have thrown the ball in a long time."

Clarion’s defense held Moniteau to 100 of total offense, including just eight in the air. The Bobcats held Moniteau Bill Staab, who rushed for 282 yards a week ago against Redbank Valley to just 62 yards on 30 carries including 28 yards on 8 carries in the fourth quarter.

"I thought they had a very similar offense to what C-L was running, which is basically Clarion University’s offense," Wiser said. "It required us to be really disciplined at the linebacker position and for our linemen to take their gaps. There was no question that other than Moniteau’s first series our defense played well."

The only negative, if you could call it that, for Clarion (6-0 overall, 6-0 KSAC) was that Moniteau’s first team scored a touchdown late in the fourth quarter against Clarion’s junior varsity defense, the first touchdown the Bobcats have allowed in 22 quarters. The streak lasted 284 minutes, and 42 seconds and included four shutouts.

"There is no question that the right thing to do was to keep our JV in there," Wiser said. "It would have been nice to keep that streak alive, but I will use it as a teaching tool for our kids that were in there and hopefully it will make us a better football team."

Clarion wasted little time getting on the scoreboard scoring on its first offensive play of the game when Kyle Cathcart went 69 yards for the touchdown. Dan Kaufman’s extra point gave the Bobcats a 7-0 lead with 8:15 left in the first half.

After a Moniteau punt, Clarion took over on its own 28-yard line. Once again it took the Bobcats only one play to score as Mario Bernardi hit Taylor Sessions for a 72-yard touchdown pass that gave Clarion a 14-0 lead with 5:50 left in the opening quarter.

Taking over at the Moniteau 32 after another punt, it took Clarion two plays to score its next touchdown. The score came on a 29-yard ruin by J.D. Hughes that made the score 21-0 with 3:324 left in the first quarter. Zac Mechling paved the way for Hughes score with a great block on the Moniteau cornerback.

Clarion had one more score left in it in the first quarter, as Bernardi hit Dan Patton for a 26-yard scoring pass with 18 seconds left in the quarter. Kaufman missed the point after, but Clarion led 27-0 at the end of the first quarter.

After forcing a Moniteau punt early in the second quarter, Clarion used two plays to score its fifth touchdown of the night.

This time it was a 38-yard run up the middle by Mike Corbett one play after he went down the sideline for 17 yards. Kaufman’s extra point gave the Bobcats a 34-0 lead.

After forcing another Moniteau punt, Clarion needed one play to strike again. Bernardi hit Zac Mechling with a 44-yard scoring strike giving Clarion a 41-0 lead with 7:41 left in the first half.

Bernardi was perfect on the night completing 3-for-3 for 142 yards and three touchdowns.

"Our passing game is something we have been focusing on the last couple of weeks," Bernardi said. "We made big strides during practice this week and got the job down."

"There’s no question Mario played a great game tonight," Wiser said. "And Taylor and Danny and Zac made some great cathces on those passes. But Mario put the ball right in there. That is as good as I have seen anyone throw that deep ball in a long time."

Three-and-a-half minutes latter Clarion scored again when Cathcart went 38 yards for a touchdown giving the Bobcats a 48-0 lead with 4:24 left in the half.

Cathcart finished the game with 110 yards rushing on three carries and two touchdowns.

"Kyle makes that break to the outside and just outruns people," Wiser said. "On at least one if not both of his touchdowns, people had angles on him, and he just took it up the sideline past them."

Moniteau finally found a way to stop Clarion on its next possession, as Bernardi fumbled and the Warriors recovered at their own 46.

Clarion’s defense got the ball back four plays latter, though, as Pat Rumbaugh fumbled at the Moniteau 33-yard line, and Clarion’s Nick Niznik recovered the ball at that spot with 19 seconds left in the half.

Clarion tried to run the clock out by handing the ball to Brock Luke up the middle. Luke, however, was able to bounce the play outside and score on a 33-yard touchdown run. Luke’s score gave the Bobcats a 55-0 lead at halftime.

With the mercy rule in effect and the clock running, the third quarter went by in 12 minutes. Clarion kept the ball on the ground with its JV offense with Matt Allio running for

The Clarion reserves got into the offense fireworks with 10:48 left in the game when quarterback Ben Bevevino rolled out from the Moniteau 5-yard line and score Clarion’s last touchdown making the score 62-0.

Moniteau finally broke through with 1:18 left in the game, as its first team offense scored against Clarion’s JV defense. Joe Hetherington got the score on a 30-yard carry on fourth-and-25 from the Clarion 30.

The Bobcats’ Sessions appeared to take the ensuing kickoff back 83 yards for a score, but a push in the back brought it back. Clarion then downed the ball running out the clock.

Moniteau was led by Staab’s 62 yards, while Hetherington had 35 yards and the score.

C-L HOLDS OFF REDBANK VALLEY

NEW BETHLEHEM -- Clarion-Limestone built a 17-7 lead through three quarters and held on to beat Redbank Valley 17-13 Friday night at Redbank Valley.

"It was one of our better wins of the season," C-L coach Clyde Conti said. "Redbank is a pretty good football team when they have all of their weapons. To go down to Redbank for their homecoming and with the emotions running high and to come out of there with a win, I'm real happy."

The Bulldogs (2-4 overall, 2-3 KSAC)) were boosted by the return of Matt Shealy, who had missed the first five games with a spleen injury, while C-L (5-1 overall, 4-1 KSAC) got a lift from the return of Dan Alderton, who had missed last week's game with a concussion. But Alderton played sparingly in the second half.

"Shealy played really well for them," Conti said. "He made some excellent plays and really gave them a boost."

Despite Alderton's return, C-L was without the services of Chad Conti (concussion), Mike Reynolds (concussion) and Jason Thompson (leg).

"We turned in a gutty performance," Conti said. "We had a lot of guys hurt and had different guys coming in and out of the game. At one point, we had four freshmen playing out there.

Redbank Valley scored when Chris Merwin hit Shealy with a five-yard pass that gave the Bulldogs a 7-0 lead five seconds into the second quarter.

C-L tied the game 13 seconds latter when J.J. Ferguson hit Justin McKissick with an 80-yard pass.

A Rocky Davis field goal from 22 yards out gave C-L a 10-7 lead with 7:17 left in the first half.

Redbank had a chance to tie the game late in the first half, but Dustin Shaffer missed from 37 yards out leaving C-L ahead 10-7 at halftime.

The Lions made the score 17-7 when Brad Beggs hit Ryan Smith with a 63-yard TD strike.

Redbank made a game out of it when Merwin hit Shealy from 17 yards out to make the score 17-13.

Ferguson went 4-8 for 89 yards and the score for C-L, while Dan Alderton rushed 19 times for 82 yards, Ryan Smith had two catches for 64 yards and the score.

Shealy had 6 catches for 95 yards and two scores. Merwin went 10 of 24 passing for 182 yards and two TD's.

Ron Geist led the Redbank Valley running game with 110 yards on 21 carries.

KNOX- Billy Colwell scored on a 16-yard run with seven seconds left in the game to lift Keystone to a stunning 32-28 win over A-C Valley.

Trailing 28-26 with 1:08 left, the Panthers (2-4 overall, 2-3 KSAC) started their game-winning scoring drive around midfield. Adam Black, who went 18-of-32 passing for 230 yards and threw three touchdowns, drove Keystone to the Falcons 16-yard line to set up the Caldwell TD.

The Falcons built their 16-0 lead as quarterback Cory Jackson, who was filling in for an injured Mike Stewart (shoulder), scored on a 4-yard run and hooked up with Josh Kriebel on a 38-yard TD pass. Chris Gilman ran in both two-point conversions.

Black found Ted Wilson on TD passes of 24 and 18 yards. Both of the Panthers' two-point attempts failed.

The Panthers took their first lead of the game in the third quarter when Black connected with Pat Irwin on a 19-yard TD, making the score 18-16.

A-C Valley got the lead back with 10:16 left in the game, as Gilman scored on a 39-yard run to make the score 22-18.

The two teams traded touchdowns, as Keystone rallied on a Luke Henry 13-yard run. A-C Valley responded with a 1-yard TD plunge by Jackson to make the score 28-26.

Wilson finished the game with seven catches for 90 yards and the two scores, while Irwin had six cathces for 84 yards and the score.

KARNS CITY- Karns City held Wilmington, ranked 10th in Class AAA by the PA Football News, and who came into the game averaging 45.2 points a game, to just a third-quarter field goal.

The only problem was that Wilmington, who had given up on average only 6.6 points per game, shut out the Gremlins to earn a 3-0 victory Friday night at Karns City. It was Wilmington's fourth shutout of the season.

Bill McCann's 26-yard field goal at the 5:15 mark of the third quarter proved to be all the points Wilmington (6-0) needed.

Karns City (4-2) had a chance to take the lead with two minutes left in the first half, but Dayne O'Donnell's 29-yard field goal attempt went wide left.

The Gremlins also had a chance to tie the game with 9:46 left in the fourth quarter, but Jeremy Welter's 26-yard field goal attempt also went wide left.

With 6:15 left in the game, Karns City had the ball at the Wilmington 8-yard line, but Erik Fuhrer had a pass intercepted by Brandon Whiting in the end zone ending the drive.

RIMERSBURG- Anthony Conner scored on special teams and Brian Lipps threw for a touchdown as Union defeated West Shamokin 16-0 Friday night at Union's homecoming.

Conner gave Union its first touchdown of the game in the second half when he returned a kickoff 79 yards for a touchdown. Conner also ran in the two-point conversion to give the Golden Knights (3-3 overall, 3-3 KSAC) an 8-0 lead.

Lipps increased Union's lead when he connected with Seth Stewart on a 70-yard TD pass. Lipps found Jeremy Greenawalt for the two-point conversion to make the score 16-0.

Lipps finished the game 4-of-12 passing for 106 yards, but threw three interceptions. Union's running game was held to 113 yards on 40 carries.

The Union defense held West Shamokin (0-6) to 174 yards of offense, giving up 91 yards through the air and 83 yards on the ground.

Union will travel to Karns City next Friday, while the Wolves will travel to Class AAA power Clearfield.

BRADFORD- Brookville held the high-flying Bradford offense to just 200 total yards, but the Owls' special teams play helped Bradford to an 18-7 win Friday night at Bradford.

The game was scoreless at halftime, but Bradford (4-2) got on the board immediately in the second half. Elliot George took the opening kickoff of the second half back 80 yards for a touchdown. Ken Ciolek kicked the point after to give Bradford a 7-0 lead.

On the ensuing possession after the touchdown, Brookville (1-5) went three-and-out and was forced to punt. Matt Grillo received the punt and returned it 53 yards for a touchdown, Bradford's second touchdown in less than two minutes. The Owls scored on its two-point conversion attempt, making the score 15-0.

Brookville's touchdown came in the final three minutes of the game. On fourth down, quarterback Matt Melillo connected with Jeremiah Orris for a 40-yard touchdown.

Mike Fair led Bradford with 19 carries for 93 yards, while Josh Cobb had two interceptions.

Ryan Kesterholt had eight rushes for 62 yards for Brookville, Matt Melillo was 6-16 for 142 yards and a touchdown and Jeremiah Orris had two catches for 80 yards and a touchdown.

The win extended the Owls winning streak to four games. Bradford will host DuBois next week, play Titusville at home the following week and finish up the regular season at Warren.

KANE -- Kane (4-2) rallied from a 21-6 halftime deficit to get a 35-21 win over Johnsonburg (4-2) Friday night at Kane.

Sophomore quarterback Tyler Smith came off the bench to replace starter Troy Wile in the second half, and went 5-5 for 124 yards and three touchdown passes helping the Wolves score 16 third-quarter points and 13 fourth-quarter points to get the win.

Johnsonburg, which has two in a row after starting the season with four straight wins, built the first half lead thanks to two defensive touchdowns and a safety.

Joey Carnovale returned a fumble 13 yards for a score, and Jeremy Polaski returned an interception 33 yards for a TD to help the Rams stake the halftime lead.

Dan Imbrogno got Kane's only first-half score on a 79-yard kickoff return for a TD.

Kane's Royce Novosel-Johnson had 3 catches for 73 yards and a touchdown and 19 carries for 62 yards.

SHEFFIELD -- Brandon Whitman rushed for 84 yards on 10 carries, as Coudersport topped Sheffield 24-0 Saturday.

Dane Haskins led the Falcons on defense with 13 tackles, while Adam Rohrer and Zach Pucci each had 9 tackles. Pucci also had two fumble recoveries.

YOUNGSVILLE -- Behind 116 yards rushing from Travis Rankin and three touchdowns by Cliff Fillhart, Port Allegany defeated Youngsville 33-0 Saturday night at Youngsville.

The Gators defense held Youngsville to 49 yards rushing and forced four turnovers.

EISENHOWER -- Ryan Irwin caught a 6-yard touchdown pass from Jacoby Curtis with 3 1/2 minutes left in the game to lift Eisenhower to a 12-6 win over Otto-Eldred Friday night at Eisenhower.