Five Fast Football Facts for Week 9
1
Schuylkill Valley’s Logan Nawrocki and Hamburg’s Tyler Shuey each just missed setting program records for completions in their Frost Bowl shootout last week.
Nawrocki hit on 23-of-34 passes, one short of the record set by Sean Riley in 1998, against Muhlenberg.
Shuey hit on 21-of-30 passes, one short of the record set by Jared Ruppert in 2008, against Northern Lebanon.
Riley also owns Schuylkill Valley records for completions in a season (168) and completion percentage (.632) in a season.
Nawrocki is on pace to wipe both those records away.
He has 119 completions with at least three games left. He’s completing 70.0 percent of his passes.
2
Exeter is just the third Berks team to open 8-0 in three straight seasons.
Berks Catholic was the first, going 9-0, 14-0, 12-0, and 9-0 from 2012-15.
Wyomissing also had four straight such starts, going 12-0, 9-0, 15-0 and 13-0 from 2019-22.
The Eagles won their first 12 games in 2022 and lost in Week 9 last season.
3
Chase McMonagle has thrown for 1,047 yards in his first four starts since taking the quarterback job at Fleetwood in Week 5.
He threw for over 300 yards in his second start, in Week 6 against Kennard-Dale, and did it again last week against the Manheim Central.
The Tigers threw for just 192 yards in their first five games.
4
Hamburg’s Ty Werley in on the verge of adding his name to the relatively short list of Berks receivers with 100 career catches. He heads to Berks Catholic Friday with 94 catches, a program record.
His 10 catches last week against Schuylkill Valley are third-most in program history; Jordan Ernst set the single-game record with 13 in 2008.
Werley has a program-record 1,625 career receiving yards; only five Berks receivers have finished with 2,000.
He set the program record last season with 253 receiving yards in a game, against Halifax.
5
Matt Bauer needs two wins to match Don Thomas as the winningest coach in Exeter football history
Bauer, in his 16th season, has the Eagles off to an 8-0 start and has won 121 games.
Thomas won 123 games in his 24 seasons, from 1959-82, with perfect Inter-County League runs in 1967 and 1970.
Bauer’s teams won the Berks Football League Section 1 championship in 2015 and the Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 2 title in 2022.
Bauer ranks 11th on Berks’ all-time wins list, just behind Thomas. His winning percentage (.683) ranks 10th.
