A (not-so) new Fearless Friday Football Forecast champion is crowned

By Mike Drago Last updated Nov 25, 2025

You can call Matt Hagy the “Finisher.”

Dude knows how to play it down the stretch. One year after a near-perfect playoff run carried him to his first Fearless Friday Football Forecast championship he enjoyed another big postseason to make it back-to-back titles.

Hagy closed with 14-0 card in Week 14 – the only clean slate among the 12 Forecasters — and a 45-4, four-week playoff run to edge runner-up Jeff Reinhart by three points. Hagy entered the postseason in second place, two points off the lead.

His 161-22 final record was eight wins better than last year’s top score.

Each week throughout the season, through the end of the district playoffs, MikeDragoSports.com staff writers, photographers, and contributors, along with writers from football partner LNP/Lancasteronline, picked all the Berks games, along with other selected Lancaster-Lebanon League and district playoff games.

Hagy, a Douglassville native and graduate of Daniel Boone, has been covering football for MikeDragoSports.com since its inception, in 2021. He is currently Director of Athletic Communications at Ursinus College; prior to that he held the same position at Albright College.

Last year he ended the two-year mini dynasty of Coach Joe Mays, who won the inaugural crown in 2022 and shared first place the next season with Sam Cavalieri. Mays, sad to say, appears to have lost a step; he finished well off the pace this year.

In 2024, Hagy went an astounding 40-1 during the postseason, coming from just off the lead to clip Reinhart at the wire, 153-152. Hagy was perfect over the final three weeks, going 13-0, 8-0, and 8-0. No Forecaster has ever done anything like that before; none likely ever will going forward.

The top finisher gets a party hoagie from Mays Sandwich Shop. After seeing Hagy produce an Ohtani-like performance at the staff postseason gathering at Shady Maple earlier this month – he crushed all five major food groups – it’s safe to say that hoagie has no chance.

Week 14	C York Hbg	Easton La Salle	Pennridge N Penn	St College Pitts CC	McDevitt Solanco	Twin Valley Susquehanna	Oil City Quippa
Matt Hagy	Hbg	La Salle	N Penn	Pitts CC	McDevitt	TV	Quippa
Jeff Reinhart	Hbg	La Salle	N Penn	Pitts CC	McDevitt	TV	Quippa
Sam Cavalieri	Hbg	La Salle	N Penn	St College	McDevitt	TV (DD)	Oil City
Joe Mays	Hbg	La Salle	N Penn	Pitts CC	McDevitt	TV	Quippa
Phil Marabella	Hbg	La Salle	Pennridge	Pitts CC	Solanco	TV	Oil City
Sean McBryan	Hbg	La Salle	Pennridge	Pitts CC	McDevitt	TV (DD)	Quippa
Logan Moyer	Hbg	La Salle	Pennridge	Pitts CC	McDevitt	TV	Quippa
Mike Drago	C York	La Salle	Pennridge	Pitts CC	McDevitt	TV (DD)	Quippa
Clay Oberholtzer	Hbg	La Salle	N Penn	Pitts CC	McDevitt	TV	Quippa
Rod Frisco	Hbg	La Salle	N Penn	Pitts CC	McDevitt	TV	Quippa
Christian Eby	Hbg	La Salle	N Penn	Pitts CC	McDevitt	TV (DD)	Quippa
Brian Markley	Hbg	La Salle	N Penn	Pitts CC	McDevitt	TV (DD)	Quippa
Staff composite	Hbg 11-1	La Salle 12-0	N Penn 8-4	Pitts CC 11-1	McDevitt 11-1	TV 12-0

	S Lehigh Shamokin	N Pocono O’Hara	Trinity Gorettii	Steel-High Southern	This Week	Final Total
Matt Hagy	S Lehigh	O’Hara	Trinity	Southern	11-0	161-22
Jeff Reinhart	S Lehigh	O’Hara	Goretti	Southern	10-1	158-25
Sam Cavalieri	S Lehigh	O’Hara	Trinity	Southern	10-2	158-26
Joe Mays	S Lehigh	O’Hara	Goretti	Southern	10-1	156-26
Phil Marabella	S Lehigh	O’Hara	Trinity	Southern	8-3	154-29
Sean McBryan	S Lehigh	N Pocono	Trinity	Southern	10-2	154-29
Logan Moyer	S Lehigh	N Pocono	Trinity	Southern	9-2	153-30
Mike Drago	S Lehigh	O’Hara	Trinity	Southern	10-2	151-32
Christian Eby	S Lehigh	O’Hara	Goretti	Southern	11-1	149-34
Rod Frisco	Shamokin	O’Hara	Trinity	Southern	10-1	144-39
Clay Oberholtzer	Shamokin	O’Hara	Trinity	Southern	10-1	139-44
Brian Markley	S Lehigh	N Pocono	Goretti	Steel-High	9-3	132-51
Staff composite	S Lehigh 10-2	O’Hara 9-3	Trinity 8-4	Southern 11-1