By Rich Rhoades

While Brookville’s forfeiture of last week’s win over Union earns the biggest headline going into Week 2 of the high school football season, marquee matchups aren’t necessarily jumping off the schedule sheet for this week’s games.

Of the 15 games — 13 Friday and 2 Saturday — four feature matchups of 1-0 teams, all of them on Friday. Ridgway travels to Cameron County, Brockway heads to Coudersport, Karns City visits Union and Keystone hosts Redbank Valley.

Brockway’s trip to Coudersport is probably the most compelling, considering Coudersport’s annual contender label and the Rovers’ high-flying offense that put up 49 points on Smethport last week.

It’ll be a weekly look at the stat sheet for Brockway’s junior quarterback Derek Buganza. He nearly threw for 3,000 years last year as a sophomore and he started this year with a 363-yard, 2-TD effort against the Hubbers, completing 19 of 28 passes. In all, the Rovers piled up 603 yards of offense.

Coudersport, on the other had, put up some good numbers as well in a 36-26 Saturday night win at Elk County Catholic, totaling 405 yards of offense. Quarterback Tim McCusker rushed for 112 yards and running back Kevin Wolfinger ran for 105 yards. It looks to be the pass-happy Rovers against the running game of the Falcons as McCusker attempted just two passes.

In the other Friday night Allegheny Mountain League games, all of them cross-over games between the North and South divisions, Ridgway clashes with defending North division champion Cameron County, Curwensville (1-0) visits Otto-Eldred (0-1), Sheffield (0-1) heads to Johnsonburg (1-0) and Kane (0-1) hosts Smethport (0-1). Saturday, Port Allegany (0-1) travels to Elk County Catholic (0-1), which got 203 yards rushing and three touchdowns from running back Ricky Pearsall.

Redbank Valley’s trip to Keystone could be an interesting matchup of early unbeatens. While the Panthers had their way with A-C Valley in a 47-8 rout as quarterback Dan Reed passed for 243 yards and three touchdowns, the Bulldogs struggled early but rallied from a 19-0 deficit to beat Clarion-Limestone 20-19. Quarterback Shiloh Buchleitner rushed for 108 yards and scored two touchdowns, both of them in the fourth quarter, including the game-winner from 26 yards out with just over a minute to go.

Boosted by its inherited win over Brookville, unbeaten Union hosts Karns City, which escaped Punxsutawney with a 20-13 win. Aaron Markle led the Gremlins with 97 yards rushing and a touchdown.

In other KSAC games, Clarion (1-0) hosts A-C Valley (0-1) and defending conference champion Moniteau (0-1), trying to bounce back from a 46-14 loss to Clarion, hosts Clarion-Limestone (0-1).

Two District 9 teams play Mountain Athletic Conference-Nittany Division games as Clearfield (0-1) hosts Philipsburg-Osceola (1-0) and St. Marys (1-0) entertains Lewistown (0-1). The Flying Dutchmen are coming off an impressive performance in a 51-12 rout of Bellefonte as the gained 483 yards of offense, led by running back Kevin Hoy (168 yards, 2 TDs) and Brian Samick (107 yards rushing, 1 TD; 2 receiving TDs). The Dutch’s 51 points was the fourth-most points scored in their history.

Two non-conference games feature storied rivalries as District 9 foes Punxsutawney (0-1) and DuBois (1-0) meet for the 95^th time at the Beavers’ E.J. Mansell Stadium. The Beavers own a 59-32-3 all-time advantage. In New York on Saturday, the Bradford Owls (1-0) take on Olean (0-1) for the 112^th time. Bradford owns a series lead of 61-43-7.

In Brookville Friday night, it’s a battle of Raiders as two 0-1 squads meet. Head coach Chris Dworek’s Brookville Raiders host the Bellefonte Red Raiders, who are coached by former Brookville QB Zac Wynkoop. He was Dworek’s first starting quarterback as coach in Brookville back in 1996 and 1997. Bellefonte won the first encounter between coach and former player last year, 33-0.