Shamokin Football 2012 Season

PA Football News lists Shamokin 2-9 in 2012 with Dan Foor as head coach and a league record of 2-7.

The Republican Herald's Aug. 31, 2012 story, by Leroy Boyer, is the Friday opener at Veterans Memorial Stadium: Pottsville 14, Shamokin 6, the first meeting since 2007. Aaron Kuperavage ran 13 times for 117 yards, including a 37-yard touchdown in the first quarter, and Pottsville led 7-0 early in the fourth. Mike Wythe sacked Tucker Yost on fourth-and-7 from the Pottsville 26, then caught a 61-yard touchdown from Patrick Keating for a 14-0 lead. Shamokin answered with a 14-play, 66-yard drive. Yost hit Zach Tillett for 23 yards on fourth-and-10, and Draven Miller scored from 3 yards. The final was 14-6. Pottsville had 195 yards, 97 of them rushing. The game had 21 penalties. Shamokin had 12, and Tristan Shoopack recovered two fumbles, at the Pottsville 29 and 24. Kevin Keating was the Pottsville coach.

The Herald's Nov. 2, 2012 story, by Chuck Souders, is Friday at the Silver Bowl: Mount Carmel 21, Shamokin 7, the 17th straight Coal Bucket for Mount Carmel. Mount Carmel was 6-4 and Shamokin 2-8, with District 4 playoffs the next week, Mount Carmel in Class AA and Shamokin in Class AAA. Elijah Duran scored on a 3-yard return of a Zach Tillett fumble, and the kick failed. Mike Gilger returned an interception of a Preston Burns option pass 36 yards. Dominic Farronato, a freshman in for injured quarterback Zach Wasilewski, scored from 4 yards. Yost's 6-yard pass to Tillett was Shamokin's score, and Jon Deitrick kicked. Shamokin had 121 yards. Mount Carmel had 137 and was sacked five times. Carmen DeFrancesco was the Mount Carmel coach.

The Herald's Nov. 22, 2012 story says Foor resigned that week. Shamokin finished 2-9 after Selinsgrove won 41-0 in the District 4 Class AAA first round. The Coal Bucket story has Shamokin at 2-8. The Indians lost 23 fumbles and did not rush for 1,000 yards as a team. That story lists 16-30 for Foor's four Shamokin seasons.