Shamokin Football 2015 Season

PA Football News lists Shamokin 2-8 in 2015 with Pat DiRienzo as head coach and a league record of 1-1.

The Republican Herald's Nov. 6, 2015 story is Friday's Coal Bucket game at the Silver Bowl. Mount Carmel won 35-6, and the story calls it the 20th straight year. The box lists Shamokin 2-8 and Mount Carmel 6-4. Quarters are Shamokin 0, 0, 0, 6 and Mount Carmel 14, 14, 7, 0. Mount Carmel had 17 first downs and 377 yards. Shamokin had 6 first downs, 26 rushes for 102 yards, and 23 passing yards.

John Ayres scored from 2 yards after Michael Cuff intercepted Nate Shurock, and Lane Tanney scored from 59. Ayres later threw a 34-yard touchdown to Wes Shurock and a 4-yard touchdown to Allen Yancoskie. Tanney scored from 9 yards, and the extra point put the game in the mercy rule. Nate Shurock scored from 1 yard in the fourth quarter. The extra point failed on a bad snap. The team passing line prints Mount Carmel 9 of 14 with no interception. The individual line prints Ayres 9 of 14 with one interception, for 141 yards. DiRienzo said a Thomas Campbell catch at the pylon was a touchdown the official ruled incomplete.

EasternPAFootball's Sept. 19, 2015 story, by Dave Fegley, is Friday night at Kemp Memorial Stadium: Southern Columbia 49, Shamokin 27. Shamokin was 1-2 after the game. PA Football News lists the finished season at 2-8. Quarters are Southern Columbia 28, 14, 0, 7 and Shamokin 0, 7, 14, 6. Six Southern scores in the first half put the game in the mercy rule.

DiRienzo said the passing game was inexperienced. Of seven Indian passes caught in the first half, four were intercepted. Billy Marzeski intercepted the first, Austin Knepp returned the next one for a touchdown, and Cam Young intercepted the last two. Knepp said Gabe Delbo and Matt Bell pressured the quarterback on the pick-six. Nick Becker, back 14 days after leaving the opener in an ambulance with a non-throwing shoulder injury, was 6 of 13 for 155 yards and three touchdowns in less than a half. Two of those went to Hunter Thomas on screen passes, and one went to Cam Young. Drew Michaels was 2 of 2 for 47 yards. Thomas also ran 7 times for 70 yards and a touchdown. Jared Torres ran 9 times for 52 yards and a touchdown. Thomas Manley ran 3 times for 39 yards and scored Southern's only second-half touchdown. Jim Roth was the Southern coach. Southern was 3-0 and next played Danville. Shamokin was next against Selinsgrove.

Preston Burns scored from 52 yards, and the halftime score was 42-7. Shamokin left the starters in against Southern's reserves in the second half. Garrett Zalar, Isaiah Reiprich, and Marcus Dievert scored. The Shamokin rushing line, provided by Damien Scoblink, is Burns 16 carries for 136 yards and a touchdown, Zalar 5 for 35 and a touchdown, Mark Wetzel 3 for 11, Devin Pietkiewicz 4 for 9, Reiprich 1 for 8, Jake Jeremiah 1 for 2, Jake DiRienzo 1 for 1, Tom Campbell 2 for minus-1, and Ty Berge 1 for minus-4. Tom Campbell was 6 of 19 for 133 yards, a touchdown, and four interceptions. Zack Johnson was 4 of 6 for 46 yards and a touchdown. Reiprich caught 2 passes for 109 yards and a touchdown, Jeremiah 2 for 17, Pietkiewicz 2 for 14, Jake DiRienzo 2 for 10, Dievert 1 for 22 and a touchdown, and Wetzel 1 for 7.