Shore Manhandles Milton
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball Senior Writer JERSEY SHORE — Going into Friday night’s Heartland Conference football matchup, Milton (1-5) and Jersey Shore (5-1) found themselves diametrically opposite each other in terms of won-loss records. After 48 minutes of the PHAC fray, that same pattern remained as the Bulldogs (6-1) ambushed the Black Panthers (1-6) by […]
Shikellamy Scores Early and Often
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball Senior Writer MILL HALL — When Shikellamy visited Don Malinak Stadium Friday night for a Heartland Conference matchup with Central Mountain, the game was billed as one there for the taking by either team. Unfortunately for the Wildcats, the Braves had other ideas as they spoiled Central Mountain’s Homecoming with a […]
West Chester Pulls Away from LHU in Second Half
By BILL ALBRIGHT Eastern PAFootball.com Senior Writer LOCK HAVEN — After playing four solid quarters of football in a frustrating loss to East Stroudsburg one week ago, it appeared that the trend carried over as Lock Haven University was deadlocked with West Chester at 9-all at halftime of Saturday’s PSAC-East matchup at Hubert Jack Stadium. […]
East Stroudsburg Slips Past Lock Haven in PSAC-East Battle
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com/WesternPAFootball.net Senior Writer LOCK HAVEN — For the Lock Haven University football team, it was a case of being so close to, but still so far from realizing its first victory of the season. Hosting East Stroudsburg in a PSAC-East matchup, the Bald Eagles battled hard for sixty minutes, only to see […]
Shore Pulls Away From Athens In Second Half
Bulldogs score 28 unanswered points for second week in a row By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball Senior Writer JERSEY SHORE — When Athens invaded Thompson Street Stadium Friday night for a battle of cats and dogs with Jersey Shore, the game marked the early season clash of two unbeaten teams. When all of the smoke from […]
Jersey Shore over Shikellamy
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball Senior Writer JERSEY SHORE — For the first nineteen minutes of their matchup Friday night, Shikellamy and Jersey traded punches through a scoreless first period and five minutes of the second quarter. But so much for the two teams equalizing each other as the Bulldogs had too much down the stretch […]
Clarion over Lock Haven
By BILL ALBRIGHT WesternPAFootball.net Senior Writer LOCK HAVEN — When Lock Haven University welcomed Clarion to Jack Stadium Thursday night, LHU first-year coach Dave Taynor was hoping that the new era of Bald Eagle football would get off to a positive start. Unfortunately for Taynor and his squad, the good things they were hoping for […]
LHU season preview
By BILL ALBRIGHT WesternPAFootball.net Senior Writer LOCK HAVEN — When Lock Haven and Clarion kick off the 2015 football season Thursday, September 3, at Hubert Jack Stadium, it will mark the beginning of another new era in LHU football history. Taking over the reins of the LHU program to begin the 2015 season will be […]
Jersey Shore Completes Perfect 10-0 Regular Season
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com/WesterPAFootball.net Senior Writer MILL HALL — If you want to find a way to describe the 2014 Jersey Shore Bulldog football season, you don’t need to look any further. Just label it PERFECTION! Ten teams have tried and all ten have failed to defeat the Bulldogs. After winning nine in a row, […]
Bulldogs Toss a Shutout at Bald Eagle Area
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Senior Writer JERSEY SHORE — When a team is rolling along, there are always a few games that might be labeled as “trap” games. Fortunately for Jersey Shore, Friday night didn’t turn out to be one of those games. Entering the contest with Bald Eagle Area sporting a spotless 8-0 mark, […]
Ship Sails Past LHU, 42-24
By BILL ALBRIGHT WesternPAFootball.net Senior Writer LOCK HAVEN — When Shippensburg paid a visit to Hubert Jack Stadium Saturday for a PSAC contest with Lock Haven, something had to give. Both teams were in the midst of losing skids, the Red Raiders having dropped their last three games, while the Bald Eagles had opened their […]
Mifflinburg downs Central Mountain
By BILL ALBRIGHT WesternPAFootball.net Senior Writer MILL HALL — When Mifflinburg invaded Don Malinak Stadium for a football battle with Central Mountain Friday night, two things were certain. First of all, one of the two teams was going to win its second game of the season as both teams entered the fray at 1-5. Secondly, […]
Jersey Shore Humbles Mifflinburg 41-6
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Senior Writer JERSEY SHORE — During the first four weeks of the season, the Mifflinburg football team ran into four quality teams. Unfortunately for the Wildcats, they came out on the short of the final score in three of the four games. Friday night at Thompson Street Stadium, things didn’t get […]
LHU Throws Scare into IUP
EasternPAFootball.com/WesterPAFootball.net Senior Writer LOCK HAVEN — The scoreboard at Hubert Jack Stadium had the final at IUP 21, Lock Haven 16, but that was only part of the story. A play here, another play there, a little better execution with fewer mistakes, and it could have been a whole different ball game. As most people […]
PSU Notebook
EasternPAFootball/WesternPAFootball Senior Writer UNIVERSITY PARK — Whether or not Penn State head football coach James Franklin has some type of connection with Mother Nature, he wasn’t about to let it rain on his parade in his inaugural appearance at Beaver Stadium Saturday afternoon. With showers and possible thunderstorms forecasted throughout the day, most of the […]
Shore pulls away from Bellefonte
EasternPAFootball and WesternPAFootball Senior Writer JERSEY SHORE — Sometimes the final score on the scoreboard doesn’t indicate how the football game unfolded. That was pretty much the case Friday night at Thompson Street Stadium for Jersey Shore and Bellefonte. Although the board had the final at Shore 31, Bellefonte 7, the game was much closer […]
Shore Wins First District Title Since 1997
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer SELINSGROVE — Former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Tug McGraw always said, “you gotta believe.” After Friday night’s District IV Class AAA championship football game, the Jersey Shore Bulldogs not only made believers in themselves, but also their fans and followers. Maybe the most amazing thing about the championship is when Shore captured […]
Bulldogs Stun Shikellamy
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer SUNBURY – The venue and the two teams were the same. However, the rewards this time were a little different. In the seventh game of the regular season, Jersey Shore and Shikellamy met in a Heartland Division I contest with the Braves walking off with a 29-19 victory over the Bulldogs […]
Shore Downs Milton
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer MILTON – It was like a shootout at the O. K. Corral, a battle that might have resembled a heavyweight fight with the two teams exchanging jabs and blows until there was only one man standing. After playing some good teams tough only to come up on the short end of […]
Rams too much for Bald Eagles
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer LOCK HAVEN – Featuring the right arm of quarterback Sean McCartney and the legs of tailback Rondell White, the 15th-ranked West Chester Rams defeated Lock Haven, 34-13, before a Hubert Jack Stadium SRO crowd Saturday afternoon in LHU Homecoming 2013. The Rams jumped on the Bald Eagles early as they scored […]
Seals Slip Past Shore
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer JERSEY SHORE — For the Jersey Shore Bulldog football team, the beat goes on. After splitting its first four games, the Bulldogs have now dropped its last four in a row, including a 14-6 setback at the hands of the Selinsgrove Seals Friday night at Thompson Street Stadium. “It got a […]
Braves defeated the Bulldogs, 29-19
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer SUNBURY – Big plays in the game of football can either be your friend or your enemy. Friday night at Shikellamy Stadium, the big plays weren’t very friendly to Jersey Shore. The Braves, riding the highs of five plays of 35 yards or more, defeated the Bulldogs by the final of […]
Danville remains unbeaten
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer JERSEY SHORE — After completing the first half of the season unbeaten, the Danville Ironmen got the second half off to a solid start Friday night at Thompson Street Stadium. Getting off to a quick start, the Ironmen built up a 17-0 lead before prevailing by a 24-7 final over […]
Bloom Overwhelms LHU
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer BLOOMSBURG — The big question facing the Lock Haven University defensive unit going into Saturday’s clash with Bloomsburg was how do you stop the Huskies all-everything tailback Franklyn Quiteh? Actually, the answer is quite simple. You can’t. You can only hope to slow him down, but even that didn’t work for […]
Mifflinburg Holds off Shore
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball Writer MIFFLINBURG – Sometimes in the game of football, you simply run out of time. For Jersey Shore, that was the scenario it faced in its game with Mifflinburg Friday night as the Wildcats hung on for a 20-13 win in a Heartland Conference matchup. Mifflinburg scored on its first three […]
LHU Downs Cheyney on LH Community Day
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer LOCK HAVEN — Seldom do you see a team win a football game when its methods of scoring are a touchdown, an extra point, a field goal and a safety. However, Saturday night at Hubert Jack Stadium, that was the method of putting points on the scoreboard for the Lock […]
Shore Outlasts Bloomsburg
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer JERSEY SHORE — Through the first two games of the 2013 season, the Bloomsburg football show has been led by the brother combo of Ricky and Colby Klingerman to a 2-1 record. However, Friday night at Thompson Street Stadium, the Jersey Shore defense decided it was time to be a […]
Montoursville pulls away from Shore
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer JERSEY SHORE — For the previous 27 meetings with Montoursville on the football field, Jersey Shore came out on the short end of the final score. For the first three quarters of Friday night’s meeting between the Bulldogs and Warriors, it appeared that the long string of losses might be […]
Bulldogs down Shamokin
SHAMOKIN – The Jersey Shore Bulldog football team is no longer searching for its first big win. After coming up short in 13 straight tries, the Bulldogs took care of business Friday night as they downed the Shamokin Indians 33-14 at Kemp Memorial Stadium. “We had a lot of fun and we got the first […]
Troy options Shore
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer TROY – One year ago, Jed Wright proved to be a one-man wrecking crew as he ran the option to near-perfection while racking up 161 yards on 17 carries good for a pair of touchdowns in a 26-6 Troy win over Jersey Shore at Thompson Street Stadium. Friday night at […]
LHU Picked to Finish Sixth in PSAC-East
By BILL ALBRIGHT WesternPAFootball.net/EasternPAFootball.com Writer KUTZTOWN — With the PSAC-East football luncheon at Kutztown University’s multi-purpose room in the McFarland Student Union Monday afternoon, the college football season is underway in general and specifically for the Lock Haven University football team. One of the highlights of the luncheon is the announcement of the pre-season ranking’s […]
Kickin with Ficken
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com/WesternPAFootball.net Writer UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State placekicker Sam Ficken will be the first to admit that his start to the 2012 season was a nightmare. However, after getting off to the sluggish start, Ficken ironed out his problems and became a consistent kicker for the Lions over the final eight games. Maybe […]
Great way to go out
BILL ALBRIGHT WesternPAFootball.net Senior Writer UNIVERSITY PARK — When the Penn State football team welcomed the Wisconsin Badgers to Happy Valley Saturday afternoon, the Lions left no stones unturned. They left everything they had on the field. After battling each other for sixty minutes, neither team could decide the issue as the two teams headed […]
LHU win over Cheyney
By BILL ALBRIGHT WesternPAFootball.net Senior Writer LOCK HAVEN — The monkey that has been riding on the back of the Lock Haven University football team for 52 straight games is gone. Saturday afternoon before an enthusiastic crowd at Hubert Jack Stadium, the Bald Eagles finally kicked the pest to the curb as they defeated the Cheyney […]
Bucktail over Carson Long
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Senior Writer LOCK HAVEN — When Bucktail met Carson Long in the regular season finale Friday night at Hubert Jack Stadium, you could color the game Red & White from the opening kickoff until the final seconds ticked off the scoreboard clock. Taking no prisoners, the Bucks completely dominated the Warriors […]
Milton Comes From Way Back to Defeat Shore
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Senior Writer JERSEY SHORE — For the first 21 minutes of Friday night’s HAC-I matchup between Milton and Jersey Shore, the game belonged to the Bulldogs as they scored 17 unanswered points to take a 17-0 lead. However, facing the 17-point deficit, the Panthers shook off the cobwebs and went on […]
Shik holds off Shore
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Senior Writer JERSEY SHORE — Although the temperatures were getting down into the frigid range Friday night, the Shikellamy Braves warmed things up in a hurry at Thompson Street Stadium in their HAC-I football matchup with Jersey Shore. Scoring on their very first offensive play of the game, the Braves ran […]
Penn State over Northwestern
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Senior Writer UNIVERSITY PARK – Any way you look at it, the Penn State football team put a big exclamation point on Nittany Lion Homecoming 2012. After leading for much of the afternoon, the Lions saw their lead evaporate into a deficit in the third period. But not to let things […]
Mifflinburg Blanks Shore in HAC-I Contest
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Senior Writer JERSEY SHORE — The Mifflinburg Wildcat football team is no longer winless. Although it wasn’t exactly a case of the irresistible force meeting an immovable object, when the ’Cats traveled to Thompson Street Stadium for their football game with Jersey Shore Friday night, something had to give. Both teams entered […]
Nittany Lions Down Navy For First Win
BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Senior Writer UNIVERSITY PARK – In a day of many firsts at Beaver Stadium, maybe the biggest and most important to the Penn State football team was the numbers on the scoreboard as it read Penn State 34, Navy 7. For the Lions, it was the first-ever win for head coach Bill […]
Shamokin over Jersey Shore
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Senior Writer JERSEY SHORE — For the first fifteen minutes of Friday night’s football matchup between Shamokin and Jersey Shore, the two teams took turns trading turnovers and touchdowns. Midway through the second period, the deadlock remained at 14-all. However, from that point on, the Bulldogs were unable to penetrate the goal […]
LHU @ ESU preview
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Senior Writer LOCKHAVEN — For the second time in ten days, the Lock Haven Bald Eagle football team will board the buses and head East on I-80. The only difference this week is that instead of continuing through New Jersey and into the Big Apple, the Bald Eagles will get off […]
Ohio knocks of Lions in Opener
BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Senior Writer UNIVERSITY PARK — Any way you look at it, it wasn’t the start to the 2012 season first-year Penn State football coach Bill O’Brien and his squad were looking for. After taking the 14-3 lead both the Lion offense and defense went South as the offense couldn’t move the ball into […]
Troy wins over Jersey Shore
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer JERSEY SHORE — Special teams play can be very important in the outcome of a lot of football games and in Friday night’s opener between Troy and Jersey Shore, that fact was quite apparent. Special team play was quite special to Troy from the outset of the game as the Trojans […]
Jersey Shore preview
BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Senior Writer JERSEY SHORE — New Jersey Shore head football coach Tom Gravish has a huge task on his hands, but the veteran mentor knew that when he took the job. However, a quick look at Gravish’s track record as a head coach would indicate there seems to be no mountain for Gravish […]
Jersey Shore Preview
BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Senior Writer JERSEY SHORE — New Jersey Shore head football coach Tom Gravish has a huge task on his hands, but the veteran mentor knew that when he took the job. However, a quick look at Gravish’s track record as a head coach would indicate there seems to be no mountain for […]
LHU Football Looking For Continued Improvement
By BILL ALBRIGHT EasternPAFootball.com Writer LOCK HAVEN — Although Lock Haven University head football coach John Allen and his Bald Eagles haven’t climbed the mountain yet, they are gaining on it, one step at a time. “Last year we took a big step in what we are trying to do and that is what […]
Penn State-Purdue Notebook
Skipping The Beaver Stadium Sidelines By BILL ALBRIGHT WesternPAFootball Writer STATE COLLEGE — A win by any means is better than any type of loss. But if you look at the entire package, Saturday’s 23-18 win by Penn State over Purdue can only be spelled U-G-L-Y!!! While the Lions had numerous best efforts in the […]
Skipping the Beaver Stadium Sidelines
By BILL ALBRIGHT WesternPAFootball.net Writer STATE COLLEGE — Saturday’s Penn State game with Iowa had just about everything. It had both good and bad plays, good and poor decisions, and even some trickery that saw Penn State placekicker Evan Lewis pick up his first career rush on a fake field goal in the first quarter. […]
Mifflinburg Blanks Shore, 19-0
By BILL ALBRIGHT WesternPAFootball.net Writer JERSEY SHORE — When Mifflinburg and Jersey Shore squared off against each other Saturday night in a Heartland Athletic Conference Division I matchup, it appeared to be a game between two teams headed in opposite directions. Going into the game the Wildcats were perfect at 4-0, while the Bulldogs were […]
