Phoenixville wins on Spivey late TD catch

PHOENIXVILLE 36, OCTORARA 33 » Ty Romance tossed a 57yard touchdown pass to Ahmid Spivey with 1:15 left to play as the Phantoms (1-2) knocked off previously unbeaten Octorara Friday night.

Owen Koch put together a dominant night on the ground with 248 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Romance tossed for 164 yards and found three different scoring targets in Spivey, Jackson Campbell and Hayden Tenbroeck.

Tenbroeck grabbed four passes for 78 yards and a touchdown, while Spivey hauled in a pair of passes for 75 yards and score.

The Phantoms trailed 20-7 at halftime before Koch and Campbell scored touchdowns in the third to give Phoenixville a 21-20 advantage heading to the fourth. The two teams exchanged the lead four time over the final 15 minutes.

Koch’s short run and a twopoint conversion gave the Phantoms a 29-26 lead with six minutes left. Octorara scored with 1:51 remaining to go back up, 3329, but two plays later Romance connected with Spivey for the game-winner.

BERKS CATHOLIC 47, POPE JOHN PAUL II 40 » The Golden Panthers (2-2) erased a 34-7 first-half deficit but couldn’t complete the comeback victory Friday night.

Josh Little rushed 132 yards and three touchdowns, includ

ing a 50-yard with 9:24 left in the game that capped to 27 unanswered points for PJP to tie the game 34-34.

After Berks Catholic retook the lead, Little added another TD run with 5:53 to go in the game to pull the Golden Panthers within one, 41-40. That was as close as it would get as Berks Catholic scored a long touchdown pass on its next possession before forcing a PJP punt and running out the clock.

Quarterback DJ Clarke completed 14-of-24 passes for 284 yards and two touchdowns, finding Brendan Kenning from 50 yards out and adding a 37-yard strike to Markese Williams. Williams, who opened PJP’s scoring with a 90-yard kickoff return touchdown, caught six passes for 147 yards and a touchdown. OWEN J. ROBERTS 39, READING 6 » After falling behind 6-3 in the first quarter, the Wildcats (3-1) reeled off 36 consecutive points to finish off Friday’s non-league win.

Michael Reed scored twice on quarterback sneaks, Hunter Rhoads ran in a touchdown and Avrey

Grimm broke off a 60-yard touchdown run before Raymond Bolger finish off the game’s scoring.

Carson Johnson added a field goal and the OJR defense chipped in a safety to the winning effort. DANIEL BOONE 27, CONESTOGA VALLEY 12 » Dean Rotter and Alex Vassallo connected for two touchdown passes and Ethan Kryman ran in two more scores as the Blazers (2-2) won their second game in a row on Friday night.

Rotter finished 11-of-14 for 151 yard and two touchdowns.

SCHUYLKILL VALLEY 42, UPPER

PERKIOMEN 14 » The Indians (1-3) ended their nonleague slate with a loss to the Cougars.

Perkiomen School 50, Delco Christian 6 >> The Panthers picked up from where they left off two years ago, opening their 2021 season Saturday by rolling over the Knights in 8-man football play.

Brandon Charon and Shin Yoon each scored pairs of touchdowns — Yoon with runs of two and nine yards, Charon returning a Delco punt 65 yards in the second quarter — in Perkiomen’s first action since winning the Keystone State Football

League (KSFL) championship in 2019. Drew Pickett got the roll going with a 33-yard TD reception, Drew Malone followed with an 18yard scoring run and Chris Catania added a 16-yard scoring jaunt to stake the Panthers to a 28-point halftime lead.

PERKIOMEN SCHOOL 50, DELCO CHRISTIAN 6 » The Panthers picked up from where they left off two years ago, rolling over the Knights in 8-man football play Saturday.

Brandon Charon and Shin Yoon each scored pairs of touchdowns — Yoon on runs of two and nine yards, Charon returning a Delco punt 65 yards to the end zone — for Perkiomen, whose last action was a champion finish in the 2019 Keystone State Football League (KSFL) title game. Drew Pickett got the scoring started by pulling in a 33-yard pass from quarterback Mikey Boyle, Drew Malone followed with an 18yard run and Chris Catania went on a 16-yard scoring jaunt that boosted Perkiomen’s halftime lead to 28-0.

Delco got its touchdown with a half-minute left in the game, Josh Dell’Archiprete running 23 yards around his left end.