The Marion Center Stingers advanced to the District 6 2A semifinals with a 13-0 defeat of Northern Cambria Saturday night at John R. Malino Stadium.
The Stingers will play host to Cambria Heights next weekend. Cambria Heights advanced into the semifinal round via a forfeit win over Southern Huntingdon.
Here’s Todd Marino with a recap of the game on U92.5 FM.
The Saltsburg Trojans were eliminated from the District 1A bracket at Juniata Valley. The Trojans committed five costly turnovers and Juniata Valley made them pay on the way to a 49-21 victory.
With the score tied 7-7 after one quarter, the Trojans threw three interceptions in as many possessions, and the Hornets capitalized on all three, scoring two touchdowns within 20 seconds, and they added a a third in the second quarter to build a 28-7 halftime lead, and they never looked back.
Running back Jayce Rand rushed for 179 yards on 23 carries, while quarterback Hunter Johnson threw a pair of touchdown passes, both on bubble screens, both to Gabe Brower, covering 47 and 64 yards.
Saltsburg quarterbacks completed just 2 of 20 passes with four picks. Trevon McFarlin rushed for 81 yards, Gino Bartolini carried 19 times for 68 yards scoring twice. Angelo Bartolini returned a kickoff for 80 yards for Saltsburg’s final score.
Here’s Mark Bertig with the radio recap.
With the win, Juniata Valley will travel to Portage next weekend in the PIAA D6 1-A quarterfinals. Saltsburg Athletic Director Glenn Richards reported that the Trojans will resume regular season games, playing host to West Shamokin next weekend.
The Blairsville Bobcats’ season ended with a 50-20 loss to Williamsburg in the first round of the District 6 1A playoffs Saturday night at Hollidaysburg’s Tiger Stadium.
Williamsburg celebrated its first District 6 playoff victory since 1989 behind three touchdown passes and two touchdown runs by quarterback Lambert Palmer.
Williamsburg scored the first 22 points, including touchdowns dives by Palmer of 2 and 4 yards on the Blue Pirates’ first two possessions. Tyler Clark added another short touchdown run of 4 yards to put Blairsville in a three-score hole before the Bobcats finally answered with a touchdown drive in the final two minutes of the first half. Devon Witmer scored the first of his two touchdowns on a 3-yard pass from Zak Artley to cut Williamsburg’s lead to 22-7 just before the halftime.
The Blue Pirates moved quickly to end any Blairsville hopes of a comeback in the third quarter. Jahmarea Wansley caught a 26-yard touchdown pass from Palmer, then a Blairsville fumble deep in its own territory led to a 12-yard pass to Wansley on the next play and the Bobcats were down 34-7 less than three minutes into the quarter.
Witmer caught a 60-yard touchdown pass later in the quarter, but it was quickly answered with a 74-yard kickoff return by Wes McCall.
In his final game as Blairsville quarterback, Artley completed 17 of 30 passes for 257 yards and three touchdowns, but he also threw three interceptions. Blairsville turned over four possessions in all.
Here’s Chuck Clark with a recap on Cat Country 106.3 FM.
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