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SHEFFIELD 42, OTTO-ELDRED 0

SHEFFIELD – Behind 100-yard rushing performances from Nick Bonavita and Kalil Slaughter, Sheffield rolled past Otto-Eldred 42-0 Saturday afternoon.

Bonavita had a game-high 147 yards rushing on 12 carries and scored on runs of 65 and 32 yards for the Wolverines (2-4 overall, 2-4 AML North), while Slaughter added 110 yards rushing on seven carries including a 45-yard touchdown.

Ike Nearing chipped in six carries for 65 yards and a touchdown and was also 1-for-5 for 23 yards and a score, while Kwante Johnson scored on a 57-yard punt return and caught the scoring toss from Nearing.

Sheffield outgained Otto-Eldred 370 yards to 72 with Dakota Vaughn leading the Terrors (1-5, 1-5) with 22 yards rushing and eight yards passing.

ST. MARYS 21, REDBANK VALLEY 13

ST. MARYS – Cody Baker ran for 258 yards and two touchdowns to lead St. Marys to a 21-13 win over visiting Redbank Valley Friday night.

Baker, who used 37 carries to gain his yards, scored on a 3-yard run in the first quarter to give the Dutch (5-1) a 7-0 lead and then his 79-yard sprint in the third quarter erased a 13-7 halftime deficit and gave St. Marys the lead for good.

Robbie Glass added a 6-yard insurance touchdown midway through the fourth quarter for St. Marys, which ran for 304 yards as a team.

Redbank Valley (2-4) got a 50-yard touchdown run from Mark Strothers and an 8-yard touchdown pass from Jake Dougherty to Dean Sesco in the second quarter to take the 13-7 halftime lead. Strothers finished with 12 carries for 150 yards, while Dougherty was 7 of 17 passing for 54 yards.

PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA 40, CLEARFIELD 33

PHILIPSBURG – Philipsburg-Osceola became the first team in over four years to score 40 points in a regular-season game against Clearfield outgunning the Bisons 40-33 Friday night in Philipsburg.

Beau Swales led Clearfield with 23 carries for 113 yards and five touchdowns but it wasn’t enough to overcome a Mounties offense that racked up 393 yards.

Curtis Frye added 194 yards passing on 14 of 30 for the Bisons but also threw a pick-6 early in the game. Swales added three catches for 24 yards.

The loss was the first of the season for Clearfield (5-1).

HICKORY 42, KARNS CITY 20

HICKORY – DeShawn Coleman ran for 208 yards and three touchdowns to lead Hickory to a 42-20 win over visiting Karns City Friday night.

Alex Kinkela tried to answer with two rushing touchdowns of his own on 15 carries for 86 yards for the Gremlins (3-3) but it wasn’t enough. Glenn Toy added 87 yards rushing on 12 carries for Karns City, while Jerod Hutchison had 11 carries for 34 yards and a touchdown while catching three passes for 32 yards.

BROCKWAY 17, CURWENSVILLE 12

CURWENSVILLE — Kyle Braun and Tom Vervoort ran for touchdowns in the final 3:22 of the first half as the visiting Brockway Rovers won at Curwensville Friday night, 17-12.

Brockway (4-2) trailed Curwensville (4-2) 6-3 before Braun’s 34-yard run put the Rovers up for good at 10-6 with 3:22 left in the first half. Then Vervoort scored on a 6-yard run with 41 seconds left before halftime.

The only scoring in the second half came on Curwensville’s Alex Holland’s second of two touchdown runs on a 72-yarder just 18 seconds into the third quarter. Holland, who rushed for 210 yards on 29 carries, scored the Tide’s first touchdown on a 2-yard run in the second quarter.

Brockway, however, was able to intercept Tide quarterback Hunter McCracken three times, two of them by Levi Miller and the other by Braun.

Braun, the Rovers’ quarterback who didn’t complete a pass on just two attempts, led the Rovers with 165 yards rushing on 20 carries.

Brockway, Ridgway and Curwensville are now tied at 4-2, one game behind first-place Elk  County  Catholic in the Allegheny Mountain League-South Division.

ELK COUNTY CATHOLIC 13, KANE 6

KANE — Quarterback Mitchell Vallone threw two first-half touchdown passes to lead the Elk County Catholic Crusaders to a 13-6 win at Kane Friday night.

Vallone threw a 26-yard pass to Devin Constable and a 44-yard pass to Joe McLaughlin with 3:49 left in the first half was the final score of the game as the Crusaders (5-1) grabbed sole possession of first place in the Allegheny Mountain League’s South Division. Vallone completed 6 of 12 passes for 95 yards.

Kane’s touchdown came on Jonah Smith’s 14-yard run early in the second quarter. The Wolves (3-2) outgained the Crusaders, 255-180. Quarterback Sean Jordan completed 13 of 22 passes for 119 yards, but was intercepted twice by Cole Gerber and Pat Brennen.

Gerber rushed for 66 yards on 15 carries. Smith led Kane with 66 yards rushing on 17 carries.

DUBOIS 42, MEADVILLE 12

DUBOIS — Trailing 6-0 early, the DuBois Beavers scored 42 unanswered points in the second and third quarter on their way to a 42-12 rout of visiting Meadville Friday night.

The Beavers (5-1) put together a balanced offensive attack as quarterback Sean Sleigh completed 15 of 22 passes for 181 yards and rushed for 40 yards. Garrett Brown’s 76 yards rushing led a 256-yard running attack, with his touchdown coming on a 72-yard punt return in the third quarter.

Sleigh scored the Beavers’ first touchdown on a 9-yard run. Joey Morrison scored the next two on runs of 6 and 2 yards. Shane Marshall galloped 64 yards for  a touchdown in  the third quarter and Brady Haines went in from four yards out to complete the scoring.

Meadville (3-3) got most of its offense from Fred Epps and Terence Goodman, who rushed for 93 and 84 yards respectively. Epps scored both touchdowns on runs of 3 and 40 yards, the latter coming with the PIAA Mercy Rule’s running clock in action early in the fourth quarter.

RIDGWAY 39, JOHNSONBURG 0

RIDGWAY  — In the 107^th meeting between next-door rivals, the Ridgway Elkers got touchdowns from five different players in their 39-0 rout of the Johnsonburg Rams Friday night.

The Elkers (4-2) wound up outgaining the Rams (0-6), 343-81, and led 32-0 by halftime. The only score of the second half put the PIAA Mercy Rule’s running clock into motion with 9:03 left in the game.

Elkers quarterback Jordan Lundin threw two touchdown passes to JoJo Jacques and Kyle Caggiano covering 29 and 30 yards respectively in the first quarter. Mike Cappiello ran for two touchdowns of 41 and 7 yards. Eric Matheson ran for an 81-yard touchdown and Zac McKnight scored the game’s final touchdown on a 51-yard run.

Frank Kocjancic led the Rams with 48 yards rushing on 15 carries.

Ridgway took a 50-49-8 series advantage with its biggest lopsided win over the Rams since a 46-0 win way back in 1976.

PORT ALLEGANY 48, SMETHPORT 13

SMETHPORT – Matt Bodamer threw for six touchdowns passes and ran for a seventh score to lead Port Allegany to a 48-13 win at Smethport Friday night.

Bodamer was 22 of 32 passing for 339 yards and the six scores. Three of the touchdowns went to Rickie Bova who had three catches for 77 yards. Charlie Buchanan added six catches for 110 yards and a touchdown. Trevor Neal added three catches for 97 yards and a touchdown.

The Gatos (5-1) led 35-0 at halftime and 48-0 before Smethport scored two meaningless fourth-quarter touchdowns.

Coudersport 21, Cameron County 7

COUDERSPORT — Mitch Freeman rushed for 198 yards and two touchdowns while also adding a receiving score to help Coudersport remain unbeaten at 6-0 with a 21-7 win over Cameron County Friday.

Freeman scored on a 32-yard in the first quarter to make it 7-0.  Then, QB Tim McCusker, returning from injury connected with Freeman on a 40-yard scoring strike to make it 14-0 Falcons in the first quarter.

The two teams were held scoreless in the second and third quarters, before Freeman scored on a 26-yard scamper to put the game out of reach.

Devin Mason hauled in a 54-yard touchdown pass from Tucker Britton to account for the Red Raiders lone score.

Coudy’s defense, which hasn’t allowed more than 13 points in a game this season, limited Cameron County to 176 total yards.

General McLane 34, Bradford 13

BRADFORD — General McLane racked up 429 yards of offense en route to a 34-13 non-conference win over Bradford Friday.

Josh Ponsoll passed for two scores and ran for another, while Matt Astorino, younger brother of Penn State defensive back Drew Astorino, ran for a 75-yard touchdown for the Lancers.

Bradford scored both of their touchdowns in the second half on a Josh Corignani seven-yard run and a four-yard run by QB Matt Yurkewicz.

Yurkewicz completed 5 of 17 passes for 63 yards, while also adding 50 yards on the ground. 

BROOKVILLE 37, CLARION-LIMESTONE 13

BROOKVILLE — Quarterback Steven Kennedy passed for two touchdowns and ran for another while running back Zach Vroman rushed for 128 yards on 18 carries with two touchdowns as the Brookville Raiders pulled away from visiting Clarion-Limestone for a 37-13 win Friday night.

C-L (1-5) had gotten within 15-13 by halftime with two touchdowns in the final six minutes of the first half, but the Raiders (3-3) scored the final  22 points of the game in the second half.

Kennedy completed 7 of 17 passes for 133 yards while rushing for 51 yards on 13 carries. He threw TD passes of 34 and 38 yards to Sebastian Kerr in the second half. Kerr caught four balls for 119 yards. Kennedy’s TD run came early in the fourth quarter on a 1-yard run.

Vroman’s two TD runs of 4 and 25 yards staked the Raiders to a 15-0 lead to start the game, but the Lions got back in the game when quarterback Billy Kelley hit Tommy Smith with a 21-yard TD pass. Then after Kelley intercepted the Raiders’ Kennedy at the 1 and returned it out to the Lions’ 22, the Lions went 78 yards for their second score with just 14.8 seconds on the first-half clock. Backup quarterback Christian Bakewell found Kelley, who returned to the game as a receiver after being briefly knocked out of the game with an injury, with a 13-yard TD pass.

But that’s as close as the Lions would get the rest of the way as the Raiders limited them to just one first down and just 77 yards of offense in the second half, 56 of it coming on Kelley’s 56-yard pass to Tommy Smith. Smith had a huge day catching the ball for the Lions, hauling in 12 passes for 177 yards.

The Raiders outgained the Lions, 454-209. Brodie Zacherl rushed for 72 yards on six carries for Brookville, which was penalized 12 times for 119 yards.

CHESTNUT RIDGE 35, KEYSTONE 8

KNOX – Chestnut Ridge scored 28 first-quarter points on its way to a 35-8 win at Keystone Friday night.

Josh Corle caught a pair of touchdown passes from Brad Hengst and Matt Dull and Logan Kensinger each had first-quarter touchdown runs to make it 28-0. Kensinger then returned an interception 55 yards for a score in the second quarter.

Keystone’s lone score came on a 2-yard Colt O’Neil in the fourth quarter.

Hengst was 5 of 7 passing for 128 yards and the two scores with Corle catching two passes for 43 yards.

Tanner Hannold led Keystone (2-4) with eight carries for 50 yards.

CLARION 19, PUNXSUTAWNEY 7

PUNXSUTAWNEY – Clarion’s defense stopped Punxsutawney three times in the red zone to come away with a 19-7 win over the Chucks Friday night in Punxsutawney.

The Bobcats (4-2) got a fumble, a goal-line stand and two sacks on the red-zone stands to keep a desperate Punxsutawney team out of the end zone after the Chucks took an early 7-0 lead on a 7-yard Garrett Zimmerman to Luke Janocha touchdown pass.

Clarion tied the game on a 63-yard Camron Kirkland run 49 seconds later, and then used a T.J. Armstrong strip and Ian Matson 76-yard return when Punxsy had the ball at the Clarion 2 to turn a potential deficit into a 13-7 lead on a 3-yard Brandon Heeter touchdown run.

The Bobcats then put the game away with a 12-play, 76-yard scoring drive that took up 7:25 off the clock and ended on a 1-yard Marcus Smerker touchdown run with 2:47 to play. The drive was set up after a pair of Armstrong sacks helped stop a Punxsy drive that had reached the Clarion 5-yard line.

Armstrong finished with 11 tackles, three sacks, five tackles for a loss and a forced fumble. He also ran 36 yards on 15 carries.

Smerker added nine tackles and a sack, while Logan Chernicky had eight tackles and a sack and Matson eight tackles, two for a loss, and the fumble recovery. Kirkland had 65 yards rushing on five carries and61 yards receiving on three catches.

Zimmerman led Punxsy going 12 of 18 passing for 159 yards, one touchdown and one interception. Alex Fedigan had 19 carries for 123 yards and added three catches for 68 yards.

MONITEAU 34, UNION 14

RIMERSBURG – Kyle Armagost accounted for 290 yards of total offense and five touchdowns to lead unbeaten Moniteau to a 34-14 win at Union Thursday night.

The senior Warrior quarterback ran for 184 yards and four scores and added 106 yards through the air and a touchdown.

Austin Davis had a 12-yard touchdown run for Union, while Mikey Harris returned an interception 79 yards for a score.

Moniteau is now 6-0, while Union drops to 3-3.