7 records to keep an eye on in Week 10
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Several players are on the verge of, or within range of, breaking Berks or program records in the final week of the regular season, or in the postseason, which begins next week. Here’s a look at some of the key ones:
1
Cameron Small needs 183 rushing yards to break Muhlenberg’s regular season rushing record. He has 1,552 yards through nine games.
Jason Reinhart has the Muhls’ single-season record with 1,883 yards in 1998; he played 12 games. He ran for 1,734 yards through the first 10 games.
Mel Fegely rushed for 1,561 yards in the 1993 regular season, and finished with 1,691. Ben Ortiz rushed for 1,383 yards in the 2013 regular season, and finished with 1,748.
The Muhls are unlikely to get a Week 11 game this season, and their Week 10 opponent is a tough one: unbeaten Conestoga Valley.
Small broke out for a program-record 346 yards this season against Exeter.
2
Evan Myers needs 192 passing yards to break Twin Valley’s single-season record of 1,498, which he set as a freshman in 2021. The Raiders play Daniel Boone Friday and will have at least one postseason game.
His 5,481 career passing yards are second all-time in Berks, behind Wilson’s Chad Henne (7,071); Daniel Boone’s Chris Bokosky (5,300) had been No. 2.
His 42 career touchdown passes are tied for 10th in Berks history.
3
Schuylkill Valley’s Logan Nawrocki needs 111 yards to become just the third Berks quarterback to pass for 2,000 yards more than once.
Muhlenberg’s Nate Daniels was the first, in 2007-08. Daniel Boone’s Jon Monteiro did it in 2008-09.
Nawrocki became the 18th Berks passer to top that mark last season, when he threw for 2,108 yards in 12 games.
Wilson has had six different quarterbacks reach that number but none who have done it twice.
4
Exeter’s Jayden Zandier needs 155 yards to top Jesse Reider’s career program rushing record of 2,876 yards, accomplished from 2000-03.
Zandier has topped 1,300 yards in consecutive seasons – no one in program history has ever done that – and stands at 2,722 yards heading into Friday’s regular season finale against Daniel Boone. He’ll have at least one more game next week in districts.
Zandier last week tied Eric Nangle’s single-season record of 23 touchdowns; he owns the Exeter career record of 43. He needs three rushing TDs to break Chase Yocum’s career mark of 36.
5
If Schuylkill Valley makes an extended playoff run Logan Nawrocki could challenge the Berks single-season mark for touchdown passes.
Daniel Boone’s Jon Monteiro set the record with 34, in 2008. Nawrocki has thrown 27 through nine games. The Panthers are guaranteed to play at least two more games.
Nawrocki has thrown three or more TDs six times in nine games, with a program-record five against Columbia and four against both Kutztown and Annville-Cleona.
His 55 career TD passes are fourth-most in Berks history.
6
Twin Valley’s Evan Myers needs 5 rushing yards to become just the sixth Berks quarterback to both rush and pass for over 2,000 yards in his career, and the first in seven years.
The last to do it was Exeter’s Brandon Unterkoefler, in 2017.
The others: Boyertown Dave Crognale (in 2008), Schuylkill Valley’s Derek Gaul (2010), Exeter’s Chase Yocum (2014) and Gov. Mifflin’s Jan Johnson (2014).
Myers’ 7,476 yards from scrimmages heads the list of dual-threat QBs; no others have topped 7,000 combo yards.
7
Tony Cipolla’s completion percentage record has stood for a quarter-century. Now several Berks passers are within range of topping the former Wilson quarterback, who completed 68.4 percent of his passes in 1999.
Schuylkill Valley’s Logan Nawrocki (69.5) and Conrad Weiser’s Donovan Gingrich (69.2) are currently ahead of Cipolla’s mark.
Within striking range: Berks Catholic’s Zach Suski (68.3) and Exeter’s Riley Martinez (68.1).
Madyx Gruber (66.2) has the highest completion percentage at Wilson since Cipolla.
