Team of the Day: Twin Valley Raiders
2024 Berks football coverage
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The Twin Valley Raiders enter their 29th season in an unfamiliar location — on top.
They set a program record last season with 10 wins — they had never won more than seven before — and earned a championship for the first time in 16 years, sharing the Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 3 title with Ephrata and Garden Spot. Along the way they earned a spot in the state Top 10 rankings for the first time.
They enter the 2024 season coming off three straight winning seasons, a first for the program, and as a favorite to win the Section 4 title.
Like most start-up football programs Twin Valley had trouble getting off the ground. It won just one game in its first season, 1996, and had back-to-back winless seasons in 1999 and 2000.
The Raiders went through a series of coaches in their early years before finding stability with co-head coaches Jerry Wilczynski and Joe Dohmson — the first, and only, co-head coaches in Berks football history.
Twin Valley finished with a winning record in their second season, 2004, and three years later won seven times and the Berks Football League Section 2 title.
Twin Valley was lifted in recent seasons by the duo of Dominic Caruso and Trey Freeman, teammates from 2018-21. Caruso finished with program records of 3,684 rushing yards and 41 touchdowns. Freeman finished with 2,250 career receiving yards, setting a Berks record. (That record was broken in 2022 by Exeter’s Joey Schlaffer.)
To see more about Twin Valley football history, including the newly expanded team records page, click on the Raiders Team Page.
You can find this season’s schedule, the Raiders’ series record against all their current opponents, results from recent seasons and team rushing, scoring and passing records you won’t find anywhere else.
Each day during the preseason, MikeDragoSports.com will feature a different Berks team.
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