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Updated Stats for Week Ten Duke Helm

This week's notes: Jordan Gray of Nazareth rushed for 250 yards vs Whitehall to establish a new District 11 record for rushing yards in a game for a freshman (old record is this week's trivia). Gray now has 909 yards for the season and is second all-time behind James Mungro of East Stroudsburg South. Mungro rushed for 1,233 yards as a freshman in 1993 and scored a freshman record 17 touchdowns. Gray joins 9 other running backs that had at least 400 yards rushing as a freshman. They are Mungro, Jonathan Linton (Catty), Billy Stocker (Wilson), Sean Hoffman (Wilson), Cody Remaley (N. Lehigh), Dan Tavani (Notre Dame), Scott Lavalva (Bangor), Woody Petchel (Pen Argyl) and Juan Gaddy (Easton). Which one of these held the record. Four of them rushed for over 180 yards in a game and are all seperated by only 7 yards. Josh Wing of Bangor now has 19 touchdowns for the season and is tied for the school record with Mike Smith (1997) and Scott Lavalva (2008 & 2009). Wing also needs 80 yards to break Lavalva's single season rushing record of 1,662 yards that he set as a sophomore in 2008. Dylan Evans of Pen Argyl is now in 24th place on the all-area rushing list with 3,728 yards. Evans went by Southern Lehigh great Chris Smith and P'Burg's all-time leading rusher Leonard Brice. He is also exactly 800 yards behind legendary Woody Petchel in career rushing yards (4,529/3,729) for the school. Brendan Nosovitch is now in 28th place with 3,519 yards. Robert Bennie of Stroudsburg now has 2,876 career rushing yards and is sandwiched between Easton's Brad Piperata (2,879) and Parkland's Andre Williams (2,872) in 53rd place. Here some more names he moved ahead. Chris Thomas (Pius/Str), Nate Pendry (Cat), CJ Billera (Emm), John Killar (SV), Dave Paffenroth (Str), Joe Thomas (Str/Pius), Nick Kurtz (Wh), Jake Remmel (Sal), Bob Tarola (Beca), Adam Zara (Pius), Ethan Pendry (Cat), and Justin Graff (Naz). Evans now has 69 career touchdowns tying him with Stroudsburg great Artie Owens for 6th place all-time in the area. Nosovitch is tied with Darren Mason of Liberty and Robbie Frey of Lehighton for 18th place with 58 career td's. Welcome back rb Eddie Elliott of Freedom. Elliott missed the first 7 games of the season with a leg injury. Joe Clouse of East Stroudsburg North (1,256 yards) is now the school's single season rushing leader. Clouse also broke his brother Jon's single season touchdown record with his 3 scores last week. Joe now has 17 td's, one better than Jon had in 2006. Rob Getz of Pleasant Valley needs 96 yards rushing to break the school record of 1,036 yards set by Chris Jacobs in 1998.

Rob Dvoracek of Parkland still leads the area with 22 td's, Evans of Pen Argyl has 21 td's, Okezie Alozie of Freedom, Josh Wing of Bangor and Paul Martin of Marian Catholic all have 19 td's. Andrew Harris of Whitehall and Joe Clouse of East Stroudsburg North have 17 td's each.

Daniel Harding of Nazareth broke his own single season td pass record with one against Whitehall. Harding now has 21 for the year, one more then he threw last year. Sophomore AJ Long of Pius X now has an area leading 27 td passes for the year. He now has 55 career td passes and moved by Tim Cramsey of Central Catholic and Barry Kennedy of Catasauqua into 10th place all-time in the area. Long also went over 5,000 yards for his career. With his 3 td passes against Palisades, Ty Edmond of Southern Lehigh is now the school's all-time career leader with 30 td passes. Corey Sroka (2006-09) held the old record with 28. Junior Jeff Krisiak of Pocono Mountain West is now the school's career passing leader. Krisiak has 2,161 yards breaking the old record held by Jon Mangual who threw for 2,118 yards from 1996-97. Mangual still holds the school's career td pass record with 21 and single season passing yards with 1,265. Krisiak is 2 td passes behind Mangual with 19 career td passes and needs 145 yards to break Mangual's single season yardage record. Robert Bennie of Stroudsburg now has 2,270 yards of total offense and is within 91 yards of school record holder Artie Owens (West Virginia, San Diego Chargers). In 1971, Owens had a school record 2,061 yards rushing on 197 carries (10.5 ypc) and caught 17 passes for 300 yards for a total of 2,361 yards. He also scored a State record 41 td's that year.

With Central Catholic and Allen playing in blizzard like conditions on Saturday afternoon the game was called at halftime. With that being said, Kevin Gulyas of CC caught only 2 passes for 6 yards and snapped his District 11 record of consecutive games with a td catch at 14. He caught a td pass in all 6 playoff games last year and in the first 8 games this year. His District 11 career records now stand at 197 catches for 3,316 yards and 40 td catches. Adam Bridgeforth of Nazareth is now tied with Justin Kondikoff for the school record with 58 receptions in a season. Kondikoff had 58 receptions for 1,014 yards in 1996, his junior year, Kondikoff's yardage is still a school record. Bridgeforth is 131 yards behind Kondikoff with 883 yards. Bridgeforth is still tied with Chris Garr (1986-88) for the most td catches at Nazareth for a career with 12. Pocono Mountain East's qb Evan Fardella returned to the field last week for the first time since breaking his collarbone in the first game of the season. Payton Bachman of Northwestern tied the school record for receptions in a season with 32. Preston Nelson had 32 catches in 2005. Bachman (440 yards) is also 45 yards behind single season school record holder Nick Eschbach. Eschbach had 485 yards receiving in 2003. Matt Camilletti of Pius X became the first player in the District 11 history to have at least 35 catches in all 4 years of his career.

Season bests:
373 rushing yards - Rob Dvoracek (Parkland), 337 - Josh Wing (Bangor), 327 - Dylan Evans (Pen Argyl), 282 - Aaron Harris (Whitehall), 272 - Jarred Muffley (Tamaqua), 250 - Jordan Gray (Nazareth), 245 - Paul Martin (Marian Catholic), 236 - Khaleel Artis (Emmaus), 227 - Jesse Snyder (Palisades), 226 - Kyree Bowles (Notre Dame), 225 - Ty Cunningham (Northwestern), 223 - Travon Pugh (Pocono Mountain West)
6 td's - Rob Dvoracek (Parkland), 5 td's - Joe Clouse (East Stroudsburg North)
415 passing yards - Brendan Nosovitch (Cen. Catholic), 406 - AJ Long (Pius X), 391 - Daniel Harding (Nazareth), 389 - Daniel Harding (Nazareth), 335 - Daniel Harding (Nazareth), 323 - Brendan Nosovitch (Cen. Catholic)
4 td passes - Daniel Harding (Nazareth), Pat Duvigneaud (Jim Thorpe), AJ Long (Pius X), Jeff Krisiak (Pocono Mountain West)
15 receptions - Kevin Gulyas (Cen. Catholic), 12 - Adam Bridgeforth (Nazareth), 12 - Jalen Snyder-Scipio (Cen. Catholic), 11 - Kevin Gulyas (Cen. Catholic), 11 - Jacen Nalesnik (Lehighton)
280 reception yards - Kevin Gulyas (Cen. Catholic), 191 - Jacen Nalesnik (Lehighton), 184 - Andrew Bridgeforth (Nazareth), 177 - Marquis Harp (ESS) 171 - Kevin Gulyas (Cen. Catholic)

Week 10 Trivia? Jordan Gray of Nazareth rushed for 250 yards vs Whitehall last week to set a new District 11 record for rushing yards in a game by a freshman. Who held the previous record?

Kevin Gulyas of Central Catholic is averaging 8.75 catches and 142.5 yards per game (8 games).
Answer to week 9 Trivia? Who holds the area single season records.
Mike Lelko of Phillipsburg 1995: In 10 games he caught 87 passes (8.7) for 1,353 yards (135.3).

Kevin Gulyas of Cen.Catholic had 280 yards receiving vs Parkland to tie the District 11 record.
Answer to week #8 Trivia? Who is he tied with and what other player had 279 yards in a game?
In 2004, Quintin Lopez of Pius X had 280 yards vs Southern Columbia in a 1A State playoff game.
In 2005, Brad Walter of Wilson had 279 yards vs Northern Lehigh in a District 11 2AA playoff game.

Josh Wing of Bangor rushed for 337 yards against Catasauqua for a new Colonial League record.
Answer to week #7 Trivia? Who holds the District 11 record for rushing yards in a single game?
Nick Kurtz of Whitehall had 429 yards against Freedom in 1999.

Here are your top 6 District 11 single game rushing performances.
1. 429 - Nick Kurtz (Whitehall) vs Freedom (25 carries, 4 td's) 1999
2. 413 - Zach Barket (Schuylkill Haven) vs North Schuylkill (26 carries, 7 td's) 2008
3. 402 - Austin Scott (Parkland) vs Freedom (18 carries, 6 td's) 2002
4. 395 - Franklyn Quiteh (Pocono Mountain West) vs Jim Thorpe (33 carries, 4 td's) 2008
5. 389 - Zach Barket (Schuylkill Haven) vs Jim Thorpe (27 carries, 4 td's) 2008
6. 384 - Andre Williams (Parkland) vs Central Catholic (20 carries, 5 td's) 2009

Brendan Nosovitch of Central Catholic has 75 career td's passes through week 5 (now has 82).
Answer to week #6 Trivia? Who was he tied with for 2nd place in District 11 and who's in 1st? Cole Hildabrant of Pius X had 75 td passes (2004-06). Tyler Smith of Wilson is the District 11 record holder with 87 td passes (2006-09).

The Bridgeforth twins from Nazareth both hold a receiving record at their school.
Answer to week #5 Trivia? What other brother tandem, each have a school receiving record?
Saucon Valley's Okken brother's. Keith (2006-09) holds the school record for most yards receiving in a career with 1,246 and brother Jason (2008-10) holds the school record with the most catches in a career with 83.

Brendan Nosovitch went over 9,000 total yards combined passing and rushing. He now has 10,831
Answer to week #4 Trivia? who holds the District 11 record for combined yardage (pass,rush)
DJ Lenehan of Wilson with 9,450 yards: 7,765 passing yards and 1,685 rushing yards.

AJ Long of Pius X set a District 11 record last year with 202 completions. Nosovitch 187 in 2011.
Answer to week #3 Trivia? who held the District 11 record for completions in a season
DJ Lenehan of Wilson had 183 completions in 2006 his senior year.

Bonus Trivia answer: Who was the only other freshman to have over 100 completions? (A) Alex Atiyeh, (B) Dan Kendra jr, (C) Adam Knoblauch, (D) Ric Schumacher, (E) Brent "Chuck" Andrew, (F) Ryan Fry...Schumacher had 110 completions in 248 attempts for 1,286 yards and 12 td's as a freshman in 1988.

Brendan Nosovitch moved into the top 10 in the Region for career passing yards.
Answer to week #2 Trivia? name the other 9 in the top 10
1. 8,035 - Tyler Smith - Wilson (2006-09)
2. 7,765 - DJ Lenehan - Wilson (2003-06)
3. 7,312 - Brendan Nosovitch - Central Catholic (2008-11)...now in 3rd
4. 6,991 - Cole Hildabrant - Pius X (2003-06)
5. 6,490 - Ric Schumacher - Notre Dame (1988-91)
6. 6,128 - Anthony Casciano - Pius X (2006-09)
7. 6,120 - Ryan Fry - Nazareth (1995-98)
8. 6,087 - Dan Kendra jr - Bethlehem Catholic (1991-94)
9. 5,874 - Dan Persa - Liberty (2003-06)
10. 5,740 - Mark Borda - Bethlehem Catholic (1999-01)

What current coach dropped out of the top 10?
Answer to Bonus Trivia: Pius X head coach Phil Stambaugh had 5,595 yards from 1992-95.
NOTE: Brent "Chuck" Andrew of Marian Catholic had 5,614 yards passing from 1994-97.

Wide receivers Kevin Guylas of Central Catholic and Matt Camilletti of Pius X both have 125 career receptions entering this year.
Answer to week 1 trivia? (name the 5 receivers (D-11) with 125 career receptions) now 7
1. 197 catches - Kevin Gulyas - Central Catholic (2008-11)...now first
2. 164 catches - Matt Camilletti - Pius X (2008-11)...now second
3. 144 catches - Jeff McGeehin - Central Catholic (1971-73)
4. 138 catches - Bob Frederick - Allen (1971-73)
5. 137 catches - Fenton Black - Panther Valley (1990-92)
5. 137 catches - Tyler Artim - Whitehall (2008-10)
7. 129 catches - Adam Thomas - Wilson (2004-06)




Duke Helm
District 11 Statistician