SECTION 6 South Upstate Heads North Senior Lineman Football Jake Fuzak W E E K L Y Leads Billies October 14, 2015 Issue No. 103 54 Pages INSIDE: Backup QB Leads Devils to Victory Dotterweich Leads ‘Jacks into T-NT Night Juwan Douglas Starting for St. John Fisher Hammer PLUS: State Records Team Reports NYS Rankings Time Schedules ALSO: Orchard Park senior Ryan Paolini leads the Sideline Chatter Extra Point Quakers into a big matchup with Jamestown Section 6 Standings This Week’s Lineup: Contents OCTOBER 14, 2015 Back-up QB Leads Devils 4 ... WNY Notebook 8 5 ... Players of the Week Clarence beat Niagara Falls, 13-6, last 7 ... League Look-Ins weekend with back-up QB Niko Mullen 13 ... 2015 Notebook calling the signals. Mullen scored all the Red Devils points as he returned an inter- 16 ... Team Reports ception for a TD, kicked the PAT and also 40 ... Standings kicked 2 FGs. 41 ... Leader Board 42 ... Around The State 44 ... Campus News Jackson Leads Jamestown 9 47 ... Extra Point If Jamestown beats Orchard Park by 13 Upstate points this week, the Raiders are AA South champs. If the Raiders are going to Football win the division title and advance far in W E E K L Y Publisher the AA playoffs, they will need more big Adair Publishing games from lineman Marcel Jackson. Editor-In-Chief Mark E. Adair Business Manager Catherine M. Rutkowski 10 Senior FB Powers NT Statistician Paul Hutzler North Tonawanda will play their final Photography home game of 2015 when they host Jerome Davis, Tim Frank Tonawanda in the 106th T-NT game. The Upstate Football Weekly is published The ‘Jacks will need more productive every Thursday throughout the high school football season (August-November) by games from junior FB Joe Dotterweich Adair Publishing. Contents copyright ©2011 by Adair Publishing. All rights reserved. in the A Playoffs. This volume may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form without the prior written consent of the publisher. Address editorial and advertising corre- spondence to: Upstate Football Weekly, [email protected] Mustangs Face Albion 13 To advertise in the Upstate Football Weekly or for information regarding ad rates and sizes call (716) 433-8393. Medina still has a chance to qualify for the Class B playoffs but they must beat arch-rival Albion to do so. If Medina is Football Weekly 86 Park Lane Circle going to beat Albion, they will need a Lockport, N.Y. 14094 big night from RB Jake Cotter. (716) 433-8393 [email protected] Buffalo Bills & ADPRO Sports Coach of the Week Delaney Honored for A South Title Tim Delaney has been named the Buffalo Bills/ADPRO did it again against West Seneca East. Against the top Sports Coach of the Week after his Sparks beat West two teams on our schedule, he proved he is one of the Seneca East 39-26 last week. The Sparks clinched their top kids in the area.” third straight A South Division title with the win. Delaney also said that Brown benefitted from solid “We didn’t know that we clinched until we were on the games from the Sparks receivers. bus,” Delaney said. “We found out Lake Shore lost. The Daryl Moore had 6 catches for 161 yards and a TD. kids were excited but it wasn’t anything raucous. This is David Thomas had 6 catches for 131 yards and a TD. just the first part of the goal.” Both players recorded 7 tackles on defense. Delaney and “They both had the Sparks have great games,” their eyes set on Delaney said. “We much bigger had to move David accomplishments to running back in this season. the second half.” “We wanted to Thomas was win our Division,” moved to the back- he said. “Then we field after starter want to win Austin Neal was Section 6 and go injured. on from there. The “Austin sprained end goal is to play his ankle,” Delaney deep into said. “We hope we November.” can get him back The Sparks led for the first playoff 21-0 at the half game. He has against West been a big part of Seneca East. what we are doing Delaney said. this year.” “We gave up a Thomas rushed couple of chances for 85 yards, to score some including a 49-yard more points in the Photo by Buffalo Bills TD in the fourth first half,” Delaney South Park coach Tim Delaney was named the Buffalo Bills/ADPRO quarter. said, “but I thought Sports Coach of the Week after his team beat West Seneca East 39-26. “He ran hard we played real The Sparks clinched the A South Division with the win. and he ran down- well overall.” hill,” Delaney said. In the second half, every time it looked like South Park “Physically, he is a strong kid and he’s tough to tackle.” would put the game away, the Trojans would rally to From now on, every game the Sparks play will be on close the gap again. turf, instead of the wet grass they had to contend with at “East played really well in the fourth quarter,” Delaney West Seneca East. said. “They kept fighting and they weren’t going to go “That’s what we are built for,” Delaney said. “We are a away. They are a good team and they are going to do fast team and we have fast kids. We’re are excited to be well in the post-season.” playing on turf the rest of the way.” South Park QB Tyree Brown had a huge night as he Delaney says that his assistant coaches are as completed 17 of 27 passes for 368 yards and 4 TDs. He responsible for the Coach of the Week Award as he is. set a new school record for yards passing in a single Defensive coordinator Kevin Eldridge also coaches the game. offensive and defensive lines. Bobby Dickerson coaches Brown also rushed 13 times for 126 yards and another WRs and DBs. Terrance Brooks and Nate Woods are vol- touchdown. unteer coaches who help with the LBs. “It was a wet night and he did that against a really Delaney’s father, Tim Sr., serves as team manager. good team,” Delaney said. “He’s a blessing for us,” Tim Jr. said. “He handles Earlier this season, Brown rushed for 150 yards in the everything so that we get to coach football.” Sparks loss to Canisius. Delaney and his wife Carolina have been married for 7 “He didn’t throw great against Canisius,” Delaney said, years. The couple has a son, Tim III, who is just 8 “but he showed he was one of the best on the field. He months old. 4 Alfred University Football 2015 EMPIRE 8 CHAMPIONS 2009 & 2010 ECAC CHAMPIONS 1986, 1989, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011 & 2013 2015 Schedule Sat., Sept. 5...... @ Husson University...........12:00 Sat., Sept. 12.... RPI..........................................1:00 Sat., Sept. 19.... Buffalo State * ...................... 1:00 Sat., Sept. 26.... @ Ithaca College * ............... 1:00 Sat., Oct. 3....... Morrisville State * ............... 1:00 Sat., Oct. 17..... @ SUNY Cortland * ............ 1:00 Sat., Oct. 24..... Hartwick College * .............. 1:00 Sat., Oct. 31..... @ Brockport State * ............ 1:00 Sat., Nov. 7....... Utica College * ..................... 1:00 Sat., Nov. 14..... @ St. John Fisher * ............. 1:00 * Empire 8 Conference www.gosaxons.com ‘Special K’ has HB FB QB WR Special Day for Macks OT OG C OG OT TE DE DT DT DE McKinley upset Hamburg 20-13 last weekend as the CB LB LB Macks earned their first win of the season. LB “It’s a weight off of our shoulders,” coach Ed Wilson said. “We were a lot better than our record showed. We battled SS FS every week. We had good effort. We just came up short.” McKinley trailed 7-6 at the half but rallied for 2 scores For the promotion of amateur football in WNY! after the break. “We really played well,” Wilson said. “We finally put everything together on offense, defense and special teams 2015-2016 Activities for all 4 quarters.” The WNY Amateur Football Alliance While Wilson did sponsors the following programs: not want to play “spoiler” this sea- Senior College Night son, he did take A College Recruiter Night in December some satisfaction which gives High School Seniors the that the Macks opportunity to meet with many of the threw the A South college recruiters from throughout the playoff race into tur- North-East. moil. “We got a victory Junior Combine against a good A Junior Class Combine in May which team, “ he said. gives High School Juniors an opportuni- “Now we know that ty to demonstrate their abilities to we are capable of College recruiters while participating in winning and we are football skill drills. looking forward to Youth Coaching Academy playing hard the A Coaching Academy in March to train rest of the season.” volunteer youth Coaches the proper McKinley QB technique to teach the game of football Keyon Johnson had to young players. a ridiculous day in the stat column. He Photo by Mark Adair Scholar-Athlete Award Dinner rushed 12 times for McKinley senior Keyon Johnson. A Scholar-Athlete Awards Banquet in 160 yards, includ- December to Honor High School and ing a 60-yard TD College Students for their accomplish- run. He led the Macks in passing with 8 completions for 53 ments both on the football field and in yards and a TD. He also led the Macks in receiving as he the classroom. caught 4 passes for 53 yards and another TD.