WEST MIDDLESEX 27, MONITEAU 8

NEW WILMINGTON – West Middlesex jumped out to a 20-0 lead at the end of three quarters on its way to a 27-8 win over Moniteau Saturday.

Moniteau’s lone score came on a 17-yard Denny Pry to Drew Yeckel pass early in the fourth quarter. Pry was 4-for-11 for 47 yards, the touchdown and an interception. Yeckel had three catches for 36 yards.

Trey Staunch led West Middlesex 6 of 14 for 121 yards while rushing 12 times for 36 yards and two touchdowns.  

CLARION 34, KARNS CITY 12

KARNS CITY – Behind Cody Hearst’s stellar all-around game and strong performances from T.J. Armstrong and John Katis, Clarion won at Karns City for the first time since 1999 thanks to a 34-12 victory Saturday night.

Hearst pretty much did it all for the Bobcats (2-0) scoring twice on touchdown catches, recording 13 tackles on defense and blocking two Karns City (1-1) punts. He finished the night with three catches for 77 yards, had 2 ½ tackles for a loss and one pass breakup.

Armstrong, meanwhile, rushed 17 times for 69 yards and two touchdowns and also caught and 8-yard scoring pass from Katis, who was 7-for-8 for 148 yards and three scores in helping Clarion end a seven-game overall losing streak to Karns City.

Tyler Kepple threw for a touchdown while going 5-for-11 for 49 yards with an interception for Karns City. He also led the Gremlins with 11 carries for 70 yards. Tristan Rhoades added six totes for 52 yards and a touchdown, while Logan Moroney hauled in the scoring pass from Kepple.  

PORT ALLEGANY 46, KANE 13

PORT ALLEGANY – Matt Bodamer accounted for 350 yards of total offense and five touchdowns in helping Port Allegany to a key early-season AML win, 46-13, over visiting Kane Saturday afternoon.

Bodamer was 17-for-22 passing for 230 yards and three touchdowns and ran 18 times for 120 yards and two scores. The three scoring passes give him 93 in his career, two shy of tying the District 9 record of 95 set by Brockway’s Derek Buganza. He also has 7,565 career passing yards, which is the eighth most in Pennsylvania history. Buganza holds the state record with 9,752.

Bodamer connected on touchdown passes of one and 14 yards to Tyce Miller and 18 to Nick Conway while scoring on runs of four and 23 yards. Trent Neal also scored on a 10-yard run for the Gators, while freshman Jordan Seefeldt threw his first career touchdown pass to Mac Tanner leaving him 92 shy of the school record.

Conway had nine catches for 139 yards, while Miller had seven for 80. Neal ran for 111 yards on 16 carries.

Kane, which was held to minus two yards rushing thanks in large part to seven Port Allegany sacks, scored on 3-yard John Welch run and on an 8-yard pass from Sean Jordan to Tyler Ennis.

CURWENSVILLE 46, CAMERON COUNTY 20

CURWENSVILLE — The Curwensville Golden Tide gave their head coach Andy Evanko his 100th career win as they put together one of their traditional big-running numbers games in a 46-20 win over Cameron County Friday night.

The Golden Tide gained 354 yards on 50 carries, getting 100-yard games from Josh Greslick (16-161) and Zach Tibbens (16-143). Tibbens ran for two scores on runs of 20 and 16 yards while Greslick scored on a 50-yard run.

The Tide also got some production from their passing game and quarterback Hunter McCracken, who completed 5 of 8 passes for 113 yards and three touchdowns, all of his completions going to Jordan Russell, who caught scoring tosses of 22, 65 and 16 yards.

Curwensville (2-0) led 32-12 at halftime. Cameron County quarterback Tucker Britton threw a 6-yard TD pass to Devin Mason and ran in a score on an 18-yard run. The Red Raiders fell to 0-2.

Evanko improved his career record to 100-37 in his 13th season.

CLEARFIELD 47, PENNS VALLEY 0

SPRING MILLS — In a game delayed more than 2 ½ hours by lightning, the Clearfield Bisons got a big game from Tyler Stratton in a 47-0 blowout win at Penns Valley Friday night.

Stratton scored four touchdowns, opening the game’s scoring on the second play with a 34-yard interception. He then scored on runs of 4,1 and 8 yards to help the Bisons (2-0) blow out the Rams in a game that saw them lead 41-0 by intermission to set the PIAA Mercy Rule’s running clock in motion the entire second half.

Stratton rushed for 133 yards on 12 carries. Bisons quarterback Christian Lezzer completed 5 of 6 passes for 80 yards and scored on a 1-yard run while throwing a 47-yard TD pass to Trey Jordan.

ELK COUNTY CATHOLIC 18, SHEFFIELD 0

SHEFFIELD — The Elk County Crusaders bottled up Sheffield, limiting the Wolverines to 95 yards of offense while forcing six turnovers in an 18-0 shutout win Saturday afternoon.

The Crusaders (2-0) got touchdown runs from Brock McCullough (10 yards), Joe McLaughlin (6 yards) and Ben Cortina (10 yards).

McCullough led the Crusaders running game with 77 yards on 11 carries.

Hank Cappiello, Devin Constable and Mitchell Vallone had interceptions for ECC.

CLAY-BATTELLE 26, A-C VALLEY 13

BLACKSVILLE, W. Va. – Kevin Kaufman threw for a touchdown pass and ran for a touchdown but it wasn’t enough as visiting A-C Valley lost to Clay-Battelle (W. Va.) 26-13 in an interstate matchup Friday night.

Kaufman was 12-for-30 for 146 yards and the touchdown to go with an interception while rushing 12 times for 58 yards and the score. He also caught one pass for 15 yards. Justin Rothen had four catches for 88 yards and a touchdown for the Falcons (0-2).  

BRADFORD 28, OIL CITY 27, 2 OTS

BRADFORD – Justin Fishkin scored twice in overtime, and the Bradford defense stopped an Oil City two-point conversion pass in the second overtime to get a 28-27 win over the visiting Oilers Friday night at Parkway Field.

The game, which was delayed almost an hour and a half because of weather before the start of the contest, proved to be worth the wait.

The teams were tied at 15 at the end of regulation after Oil City (0-2) blocked a Ty Riley field goal in the closing seconds.

Oil City then struck first in overtime scoring on a 2-yard Kevin Daly run. The extra point was wide left.

Bradford (2-0) answered on a Fishkin 7-yard run, but Riley missed the extra point forcing a second extra session.

In the second overtime, Fishkin put the Owls ahead with another scoring run, and this time Riley’s kick was true.

But Oil City answered the score on a fourth-and-goal 1-yard plunge by Daly. The Oilers then decided to go for the win, but the Bradford defense forced an incomplete pass from Oil City quarterback Colton Cunningham, a Cranberry student playing in his first year of the Oil City-Cranberry co-op after playing for A-C Valley last year as a part of the Cranberry-A-C Valley co-op.

Matt Yurkewicz scored a pair of touchdowns in regulation for Bradford, while Cunningham threw a touchdown and ran for one in regulation for Oil City.

Nunzio Cavallero had a big interception of Cunningham late in regulation as the Oilers were threatening deep in Owl territory.

Yurkewicz rushed 19 times for 174 yards and the two scores while going 3 of 10 passing for 62 yards. Fishkin ran 10 times for 47 yards, while Josh Corigani had 108 yards rushing on 13 carries for the Owls.

BROOKVILLE 22, REDBANK VALLEY 13

NEW BETHLEHEM – Behind a pair of Zach Vroman touchdown runs, Brookville bounced back from a Week One defeat to top homestanding Redbank Valley 22-13 Friday night.

Vroman ran 13 times for 105 yards and scored on runs of three and five yards while also throwing a two-point conversion pass that put the Raiders (1-1) up 15-7 in the third quarter and causing and recovering a fumble on defense in the fourth quarter.

Redbank Valley (0-2) had a chance to tie the game early in the fourth quarter after quarterback Jake Daugherty scored on a 7-yard run, but failed on the two-point conversion pass. On the next possession, Brookville went 65 yards on six plays scoring when Cameron Yard hit Braiden Smith with a 25-yard touchdown pass. Yard did most of his damage on the ground rushing 12 times for 55 yards.

Brodie Zacherl added 68 yards rushing for Brookville, while Daugherty was 12 of 19 passing for 98 yards and rushed 12 times for 52.  

SMETHPORT 36, JOHNSONBURG 20

SMETHPORT – Clay Schuler ran for two touchdowns and threw for a third to give first-year Smethport head coach Jim Berlin his first win in his second try, 36-20 over visiting Johnsonburg, Friday night.

Schuler scored on runs of nine and two yards and threw a 33-yard scoring pass to Ryan Corbett. Karl Lightner also had a 2-yard touchdown run for the Hubbers (1-1), who led 29-6 at the end of three quarters, while Ryan Corbett contributed a safety and Ryan Stratton a 1-yard run. Schuler finished the night with 169 yards rushing and the two scores while also going 2-for-6 passing for 64 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. Lightner rushed 12 times for 94 yards.

Frank Kocjancic hooked up with Mitchell Holmberg for three scoring passes for Johnsonburg (0-2), including a pair on the fourth quarter. Kocjancic was 15-for-30 passing for 200 yards, 3 touchdowns and one interception, while Holmberg had a monster game with 12 catches for 196 yards and three scores while also intercepting a pair of passes on defense.

Stratton, who ran nine times for 51 yards and the touchdown,  led Smethport’s defense with 13 tackles, including a sack, and an interception. Jake Abrams added 11 stops, including a sack.

UNION 21, PUNXSUTAWNEY 6

RIMERSBURG – Union outlasted both a weather delay that took over an hour and a half and a Punxsutawney team that was looking to go 2-0 to get a 21-6 win over the visiting Chucks Friday night in Rimersburg.

Kaden McGregor ran for a pair of touchdowns, and Brody Shick picked off three Punxsutawney passes to help the Golden Knights improve to 2-0 on the year.

McGregor, who ran 28 times for 191 yards, had touchdown runs of 82 and eight yards, and Cody Kline added 25-yard scoring run for Union, while the Knights defense had four interceptions in the game.

BROCKWAY 42, OTTO-ELDRED 6

BROCKWAY — Alex Shaffer-Doane threw three touchdown passes, and Chad Melillo ran for two scores as the Brockway Rovers led 42-0 before halftime and breezed to a 42-6 win over Otto-Eldred Friday night.

Shaffer-Doane tossed a 24-yard pass to Jacob Perrin, a 7-yarder to Anthony Benson and an 18-yarder to Brandon Morris. He completed 14 of 20 passes for 224 yards. Benson caught 7 passes for 144 yards. 

Melillo ran for the game's first two touchdowns on runs of 1 and 3 yards. His 36 yards on eight carries actually led the Rovers' running game.

Otto-Eldred's lone score came on Dakota Vaughn's 12-yard pass to Seth Bigley in the fourth quarter. Vaughn rushed for 97 yards and completed 8 of 18 passes for 101 yards, but was intercepted twice.

Brockway improved to 2-0 while Otto-Eldred fell to 0-2.

COUDERSPORT 36, RIDGWAY 13

RIDGWAY – Visiting Coudersport scored 22 unanswered second-half points to beat Ridgway 36-13 Friday night.

Ridgway (1-1) trailed by just a point, 14-13, at the half after a late first-half touchdown pass of four yards from Zac McKnight to Ben McDonald, but Coudersport took control of the game with a strong rushing attack in the second 24 minutes.

A 20-yard touchdown run by Alex Hershey on the Falcons first possession of the half set the tone in the half, and Coudersport put an explanation point on the win with a 13-play, 94-yard drive that ended in a 1-yard Mitch Freeman touchdown run. In between, Ethan Hite also scored on a 1-yard run for the Falcons.

Freeman ran 21 times for 140 yards and two touchdowns to lead Coudersport, which rushed for 305 yards on the night including 60 on 12 carries from Caden Whitman. Hite also threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to Zac Elenchin.

McKnight added an 85-yard kickoff return on the game’s opening kickoff for Ridgway.  

ST. MARYS 33, KEYSTONE 7

ST. MARYS – St. Marys had three runners break the 100-yard mark led by 138 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries from Joe Luchini to claim its first win of the year, 33-7, over visiting Keystone Friday night.

Alex Feldbauer added 116 yards and two touchdowns on 20 carries, while Jordan Straub rushed 11 times for 103 yards helping the Dutch (1-1) gain 446 yards of offense including 367 on the ground. Quarterback Alex Coudreit also scored on the ground and threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to Robbie Glass. Glass had three grabs for 54 yards, while Coudriet was 4-for-6 passing for 79 yards.

Josh Eberhart got Keystone on the board late in the fourth quarter on a 3-yard run. Eberhart was 10 of 18 passing for 91 yards and an interception while rushing 12 times for 50 yards.

DUBOIS 61, FRANKLIN 21

DUBOIS – DuBois raced out to a 55-0 halftime lead and never looked back in gaining a 61-21 win over visiting Franklin in a District 10 Region 5 game Friday night at E.J. Mansell Stadium.

Six of the Beavers eight first-half touchdowns came in the final six minutes of the first half including a pair of interception returns. That totaled an amazing 41 points in five minutes for DuBois.

Bryson Paulinellie led DuBois (2-0) with five first-half touchdown catching three touchdown passes, scoring on a touchdown run and also returning an interception for a score.

Gabe French tossed all three scoring passes, while Ben Mayro, Shane Marshall and Devin Clark had a touchdown runs and Austin Gahr an interception return for a score for the Beavers. French was 9 of 14 for 155 yards and the three touchdowns, while backup Connor Stewart was a perfect 13 of 13 for 176 yards passing.  

Kyle Ritchey threw for 318 yards and three touchdowns while tossing one interception in relief for Franklin (0-2).

WARREN 83, CLARION-LIMESTONE 12

WARREN – For the second straight week, Clarion-Limestone got blown out falling 83-12 at Warren Friday night in Warren.

Warren led 21-0 at the end of the first quarter and 49-12 at halftime before scoring 34 more points in the third quarter. And the fourth quarter was just a six-minute quarter because of the score and the threat of an incoming storm, the Warren Times-Observer reported.

It wasn’t all bad news for C-L, as Christian Bakewell threw a pair of second-quarter touchdown passes hooking up with Tommy Smith on an 18-yard connection and with Brent Slater on a 7-yarder. Bakewell was a respectable 13 of 23 for 113 yards and the two scores. Smith had four grabs for 73 yards and the touchdown.

According to the Times Observer, Warren’s record for points in a game in the last 97 years was 104 in a 104-0 beating of Franklin in 1915. The Dragons also scored 89 vs. Ridgway in 1923, 85 against Salamanca (N.Y.) in 1915 and 81 vs. Ludlow in 1921.

According to ePaSports.com’s High School Football History, the 83 points allowed are the most ever by a Lions team surpassing the 63 allowed to Clarion in 1986, and the 71-point loss is the worst in school history surpassing three 57-point losses including one to Clarion last week.