A couple of thoughts . . . from Week 10

By Mike Drago Last updated Nov 9, 2025

Kutztown scored a couple of victories Friday in its season finale. The Cougars earned their second win, beating Pequea Valley 36-28. In the process they made Berks football history, finishing the season with three 1,000-yard rushers: Mason Sherry (1,351), Ryan Walters (1,031), and Ian Bahr (1,008). The Cougars are the first team in Lancaster-Lebanon League history to produce three 1,000-yard backs in the same season and the first in Pennsylvania to do it since Philadelphia West Catholic in 2008. Entering the game Walters needed 155 yards and Bahr 7; Walters got 186 and Bahr 15. Sherry had 136. Kutztown leads the league in rushing, averaging 358.7 yards per game.

Not a record but just as remarkable: Berks Catholic doesn’t have a single 1,000-yard rusher but has four players with 500 or more rushing yards. The Saints would’ve had a fifth had Owen Schalk not missed three games with a shoulder injury. He returned Friday to score the winning touchdown against Annville-Cleona and has 486 yards. Xavier Gerald leads the team with 748. The others: Jeremiah Camara 680, Aidan Curley 560, and Coy Koller 535. Each averages better than 8 yards per carry.

The Saints spread around the scoring, too. A dozen different Berks Catholic players have scored touchdowns this season – and the leading scorer isn’t one of them. Placekicker Alex Reali has five field goals and 44 PATs for 59 points.

Has a placekicker ever had a better game than Governor Mifflin’s Lance Koenig? In a loss to Ephrata Friday the 6-foot senior kicked field goals of 30 and 32 yards; converted both his PAT attempts; threw a touchdown pass off a fake field goal; and recovered his own onside kick. Oh, and this: He set the program record for field goals in a season, with seven. His only miss this season came on a 49-yard attempt. His long for the season is 41.

Has a defensive lineman ever scored more often than Twin Valley’s Greyson Miller? The all-league tackle had a pair of Pick-Sixes in a 71-7 win over Daniel Boone Friday, returning interceptions 3 and 26 yards. The 6-1, 265-pound senior is no stranger to the end zone. Last season he returned a pair of fumbles for touchdowns.

Twin Valley set a program record for points in a game with its 71-7 win over Boone. The 64-point winning margin is the second-highest in Raiders history; last season they beat Olney Charter 69-0. Only six other Berks teams have scored more points in a game. Over the last 100 years the most is 77, by Exeter in 2021.

Twin Valley has already smashed its program scoring record and still has at least one – and probably several – games left. The Raiders have scored 540 points, smashing last year’s record of 482. They averaged a record 40.2 points last season. So far they’re averaging 54.0 per game, second-highest in the state and challenging for the Berks record of 54.5, by the Nick Singleton-led 2020 Governor Mifflin team.

The Raiders get a lot of people involved in the scoring, too. In the win over Boone seven different players had touchdowns. For the season, 17 different players have touchdowns. Seventeen. That’s just about everybody but the water boy.

One final Twin Valley note, for now: The unbeaten Raiders are just the third Berks program to experience both a 10-0 regular season and an 0-10 season. They’ve gone 0-10 three times, most recently in 2013. The others? Exeter, which was winless in 2008 and perfect just seven years later, in 2015. The first was Muhlenberg, which went 0-10 in 1963 and 10-0 nine years later, 1972.

Wilson will open Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 1 play next season against Manheim Township, according to preliminary schedules not yet announced by the league. The Bulldogs and Blue Streaks met in Week 10 the past several seasons, which kept everyone on its toes. Also: Wilson will play Central York in Week 9 next season.

Central York squeezed past four-time defending District 3 Class 6A champion Harrisburg to claim the No. 1 seed for the upcoming tournament. You need a microscope to see the difference: Central York compiled a power rating of .8089, Harrisburg .8086. That means Central’s nine opponents combined for maybe one more win the past 10 weeks than Harrisburg’s.

Central York and Harrisburg are among six District 3 teams to finish the regular season unbeaten. The others: New Oxford, Conestoga Valley, Susquehanna Township and Twin Valley.

Southwestern, which finished 4-6 and well out of the running for a 5A playoff spot, can make a claim for playing the toughest schedule of any District 3 team. The Mustangs had a strength-of-schedule rating of .710. Second-highest belongs to Governor Mifflin at .704. The only Mifflin opponent to finish below .500 is Lebanon, which went winless.

Hamburg’s streak of four straight winning records and trips to the postseason – longest in program history — is over. The Hawks won twice, both by a point, over Midd-West and Kutztown. They do have a promising quarterback to build around: Freshman Isaac McFadden started every game, completed more than half his passes, and threw for over 1,200 yards.

Muhlenberg’s 8-2 regular season finish is its best since posting the same record in 2007, under John Yocum. The eight wins equal the total of the past six seasons. Muhlenberg’s improvement of four wins over last season is the most among Berks teams this season. The biggest dropoff? Conrad Weiser, which won 10 games last year, four this year.

Cameron Small became Muhlenberg’s all-time rushing leader Friday, with 3,769 yards. That topped the record of 3,703, set by Jason Reinhart from 1997-1999.

Leo Brown needs 212 yards to break Exeter’s single-season rushing mark of 2,093, set last season by Jayden Zandier. Brown went for 156 yards in Friday’s win over Elizabethtown. He has rushed for 100 or more yards nine straight games, topping 200 four times and 300 once. His season-low came in the opener against Daniel Boone, when he ran for 91 yards on just four carries.