Every week each member of the PennLive.com High School Football team will each offer you a trio of tasty tidbits we affectionately call What’s Hot-What’s Not.
HOT LIST
*How about we start with Waynesboro. The Indians get cracked 47-0 in Week 1 by East Pennsboro. Week 2 features a step up in classification to a Chambersburg team that has high hopes with its most talented squad in at least a decade. Waynesboro quick goes down 19-0 before the contest is seven minutes old. Here comes the mercy rule, right? That would have been my first guess. But the Indians bucked up and showed some serious backbone by keeping it 19-0 into halftime. It eventually became 33-0 by the midway point of the third quarter. But you know, that’s where it stayed. Waynesboro did score 21 points in the final four minutes to make it a surprising 33-28 final. The Trojans were never in real danger of losing. That is some fight in a dog. Love it.
*When an administrative oversight takes a win off your plate, that’s a hard pill to swallow because it wasn’t a result of something football players or coaches can control. Camp Hill found out 24 hours before it’s Week 2 game it had used an ineligible player in the Lions’ opening victory over Upper Dauphin. The administration did the right thing by immediately reporting the violation and surrendering the win. Trust us, this could have been a lot worse. What if that oversight is discovered in Week 7. Anyway, the Lions had to take the field Friday night as a 0-1 team instead of 1-0. A road win in Shippensburg is no easy task. But the Lions pulled out a 30-26 triumph over the Greyhounds and officially stand 1-1 after two games. I believe the Lions proved something to, at the very least, themselves last Friday night.
*I almost fell over Saturday afternoon at Severance Field when in the second half the defending District 3-AAAA champion Wilson Bulldogs went … NO HUDDLE! Wilson is one of those grinder teams that prides itself on exquisite game planning and execution to skewer the opposition. The Bulldogs would have definitely been in my top five of holdout programs in terms of dipping their toe in this no-huddle craze. Good to see head coach Doug Dahms riding the wave of football evolution. I never would have expected to see that. But you know what? I sort of enjoyed watching the lads in all-white go with the no huddle look a few times.
NOT HOT LIST
*Harrisburg gets a double dose of not hot this week. First, the Cougars are 0-2. Now, granted they have played what I consider the heavy favorites to win district championships in the top two classifications in Bishop McDevitt and Wilson. And the Cougars were in both games. But still, this is an 0-2 team that has a lot of football still to play but needs something good to happen. The second part is the injuries keep piling up. I wouldn’t expect to see starting QB Mikell Clark this week. He took a hard hit when being sacked and was on the turf grabbing his head. Just when Clark was starting to look like a comfortable varsity quarterback he goes down. The injuries and adversity have already hit this club hard.
*I never imagined a day when I would see a Lancaster Catholic football team score only one touchdown in two regular season games. Do the Crusaders really have only 240 total yards of offense? Wow.
*Coaches look hard for answers, but I’m not sure the Trinity staff will find one in the near future in regards to its run defense going AWOL in the fourth quarter. Two weeks in a row is a trend. You can buck a trend, but it’s awfully hard to reverse one. The T-Rocks’ offense has some pop. But it can’t keep pace because it’s not on the field enough. Trinity is also 0-2 and could use a little warm-and-fuzzy in its camp.
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