Team of the Day: Daniel Boone Blazers
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Daniel Boone has struggled to find its footing in the Lancaster-Lebanon League; the Blazers have won just two league games in three years and have gone 4-26 overall since leaving the Berks Football League.
It wasn’t that long ago that the Blazers were a football force.
After decades of undistinguished play the Blazers rose to prominence in the early 2000’s, winning or sharing three Inter-County League Section 1 titles and regularly making the District 3 playoffs.
The Blazers won the I-C Section 2 title in 2004 in just their second season under Dave Bodolus. They set a program record with 10 wins and won the Section 1 title in 2006.
They upped the program record to 11 wins in 2010 when they won another Section 1 title. They completed Bodolus’ nine-year stay in Birdsboro with nine straight winning finishes and a 79-28 overall mark.
Bodolus remains the only Daniel Boone coach, and one of a handful in Berks history, never to finish a season below .500.
Recent seasons have been tough. The Blazers finished 1-9 in each of the past two seasons; their four wins since 2022 is the fewest in a three-year stretch in program history.
Head coach J.D. Okuniewski, who played for Bodolus during Boone’s glory years, is trying to remedy that.
One of the bright spots last season was Hadyn Moyer, who passed for nearly 1,600 yards and led the team in rushing in his first season at quarterback.
Bodolus’ powerhouse teams were known for their dangerous passing attacks. Jon Monteiro threw for a program-record 2,969 yards in 2008, 467 coming in a record performance against Blue Mountain. Chris Bokosky owns the program record for passing yards in a career at 5,300. Zach Keeley is the Blazers’ most productive receiver; he caught 86 balls for 1,263 yards in 2008.
Earlier, Nate Romig broke the Berks career rushing mark, going for 4,492 yards from 2002-05.
To find more about Daniel Boone football history, including the newly expanded team records page, click on the Blazers Team Page.
You can find this season’s schedule, the Blazers’ series record against all their current opponent, results from recent seasons, and year-by-year won-loss records, as well as team rushing, scoring and passing records you won’t find anywhere else.
Throughout the summer MikeDragoSports.com will feature each Berks County team.
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