Game of the Week: Twin Valley vs. Susquehanna Township, presented by Kevin Miller of Berkshire Investment Group

By Mike Drago Last updated Nov 26, 2025

Twin Valley's Grant Moser, left, and Ryan Rementer sack Berks Catholic's Cole Harter. (PhilMarPhoto)

District 3 Class 4A championship

Twin Valley (12-0) vs. Susquehanna Twp. (12-0)

Kick: Friday, 7, at Myerstown.

Series: Twin Valley leads 1-0.

Last meeting: The Raiders stunned the Indians with three scores in a 23-second span, erasing an early deficit before pulling away for a 47-19 victory last year in a district quarterfinal at Susquehanna Township. The Raiders got a 31-yard pass from Evan Myers to Drew Engle with 1:03 left in the first quarter to take their first lead. The Indians fumbled the ensuing kickoff into the end zone for a safety. Ben Grundy took the resulting free kick back 66 yards for a TD and 23-7 lead with 40 seconds remaining in the quarter. The game marked a triumphant return for Engle, who had missed the final nine games of the regular season with a broken collarbone. He rushed for 122 yards and scored three TDs. Township QB Torrin Evans threw for 179 yards and 3 TDs.

How they got here: Twin Valley defeated West Perry 55-15 in the quarterfinals and West York 42-14 in the semifinals. . . Susquehanna Township defeated Elco 50-13 in the quarterfinals and Wyomissing 37-35 in the semifinals.

Common opponents:

Elco lost to Twin Valley 60-0 and to Susquehanna Township 50-13.
West Perry lost to Twin Valley 55-15 and to Susquehanna Township 55-7.
Wyomissing lost to Twin Valley 28-6 and to Susquehanna Township 37-35.

District playoff history: This is Twin Valley’s first championship game, and its fifth straight appearance in the tournament. It is 5-4 overall. . . Susquehanna Township is making its first trip to the championship game since 2015 and seeking its first district title. It is 15-18 overall with three previous trips to the championship game.

Fast fact: This is Susquehanna Township’s first 12-0 start. It last won 12 games in 2009, when it lost to Manheim Central in the district title game.

Raiders update: Won first district semifinal as Drew Engle rushed for career-high 250 yards and 4 TDs in 42-14 win at West York. . . Trailed 14-0 in the first quarter, largest deficit of the season, before responding with 42 unanswered points. . . Had not trailed by more than 3 points all season. . . Completed first unbeaten regular season in program history. . . Set program record with 11^th win with 55-15 win over West Perry in quarterfinal. . . Engle rushed for career-high 212 yards and scored five touchdowns against West Perry. . . He became the program’s all-time leading rusher last week with 3,691 yards. . . The senior has scored a program-record and Berks-leading 33 TDs this season and a program-record 57 in his career. . . He needs 25 yards to break his program record of 1,599 rushing yards, set in 2023. . . Junior Lucas Myers went over the 1,000-yard mark last week; he’s averaging a team-best 11.2 yards per carry and has scored 20 TDs, which would’ve been the program record before this season. . . Soph Maverik Foster is the league’s top-rated passer: He is completing a league-best 71.8 percent of his throws with 15 TDs and zero INTs. . . Have committed a Berks-low 6 turnovers in 12 games. It did not have a turnover last week. . . Have scored 640 points, second-most in Berks history to Wyomissing, which scored 671 points in 16 games in reaching the PIAA championship game in 2021. . . Averaging 53.3 points per game, second-most in the state. The Berks record is 54.5 points per game, by Governor Mifflin in 2020. . . Ranked No. 1 in the Lancaster-Lebanon League in total offense, total defense, scoring, scoring defense, and pass defense during the regular season; No. 2 in rush defense. . . Ranked No. 1 in state for past four weeks by PennLive.com.

Did you know? Twin Valley coach Brett Myers won three District 3 Class 3A championships in his previous stop at Middletown, beating Wyomissing 48-20 in 2016 and 49-0 in 2017 and Bermudian Springs 42-20 in 2018. His team lost the next two finals, both to Wyomissing.

Indians’ Torin Evans
(Harvey Levine/PennLive.com photo)

Indians update: Scored on the final play of the game to stun Wyomissing 37-35 in semifinals, matching program record for victories in a season. . . QB Torin Evans, who threw the game-winning pass to Josh Nengite as time expired, completed 17-of-23 for 192 yards and 4 TDs. . . Evans, one of seven ’Hanna players with Division I offers, has thrown for 2,684 yards and 36 TDs. . . Evans, who has an offer from Akron, had thrown just 3 interceptions in first 11 games before being picked off twice by the Spartans. . . Evans also leads team in rushing, with 885 yards and 12 TDs; he ran for 144 yards against Wyomissing, his fifth game of 100 or more yards rushing. . . WR/LB Jarrett Kern, who has an offer from Akron, is considered by coach Joe Headen to be the glue of the team. In the quarterfinals he scored in three ways: a fumble recovery, a Pick-6 and a reception. . . He leads team with 46 receptions. . . WR Zi’khere Leaks, a Syracuse commit, has 38 catches for 629 yards and 10 TDs. . . Top lineman is 6-3, 280-pound Yendor Mack, who committed to U-Mass before flipping to Coastal Carolina. . . Team finished 0-10 in 2021, when current seniors were in eighth grade. . . Improved to 5 wins in 2022, 7 in 2023, and 8 last year. . . Had suffered five straight opening-round defeats in district play before beating Elco in quarterfinals. . . That was first playoff win in 10 years. . . Defense came up with three interceptions and allowed just 70 rushing yards in Week 9 win over eventual District 3 Class 3A champ Trinity. . . Jesse Nengite, a 6-3, 210-pound LB, has offers from Akron, Monmouth, Albany and Temple. . . Josh Nengite, a 6-3, 210-pound WR/B, has an offer from Akron. . . Jasani Brown, a 6-3, 185-pound DB, has offers from Old Dominion and Akron. . . Went 8-0, with wins over state-ranked Steel-High (35-20) and state-ranked Trinity (24-14), to win Mid-Penn Colonial Division title. . . Own wins over seven district playoff teams. . . Ranked No. 4 in state by PennLive.com.

Fast fact: Twin Valley’s first-string defense allowed only two first-half touchdowns in its first 11 games before allowing two in the first quarter last week.

Winner plays: District 10 champ Oil City (10-1) or District 7 champ Aliquippa (9-3) in PIAA semifinal, site, time and date to be determined.

PIAA championship: Thursday, Dec. 4, at Cumberland Valley at 7.