York High graduate Maurice Feazell has found a Division II college football home at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, becoming a fixture along the Crimson Hawks’ defensive line. But Saturday was something of a breakout party for the redshirt senior.
Feazell was named Defensive Player of the Week in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Western Division after registering 2 1/2 sacks, 3 1/2 tackles for loss, six total tackles and a forced fumble in IUP’s 31-0 rout of Clarion. He was all over the field in the shutout and provided the game’s exclamation point with a strip-sack in the fourth quarter.
The former Bearcat registered a TFL and sack in the first quarter, then teamed with Terell Williams on a second-quarter takedown. His sack of Clarion’s Anthony Guercio with under three minutes remaining forced a fumble that was recovered by Williams, giving IUP the ball at the 8-yard line and setting up the Hawks’ final touchdown of the day.
Feazell has tallied 16 total sackles, six TFLs and 4 1/2 sacks through four games this season. He is on pace to set career highs in all three categories (he made 34 tackles in 2023, had five TFLs in 2022 and registered 3 1/2 sacks in 2021). Saturday’s forced fumble was Feazell’s first since his freshman campaign. IUP is 4-0 and has allowed just over 10 points per game.
At York High, Feazell earned multiple York-Adams Division I all-star selections and was named to the Class 5A all-state team at defensive end following his senior season. The Bearcats shared two D-I titles during his career.
The Crimson Hawks have had two former YAIAA players receive PSAC weekly honors this fall. Kicker Nick Andrasi (York Catholic) was the Western Division Special Teams Player of the Week after nailing multiple late field goals in Week 2. Andrasi was 4-of-4 on extra points and made a 24-yard field goal on Saturday.
IUP will host No. 9-ranked Slippery Rock at 2 p.m. this Saturday for its homecoming game. The Rock, spearheaded by former New Oxford quarterback Brayden Long, is also 4-0 this season. Feazell has spent plenty of time chasing Long during their high school and college careers, and he’ll hope for a backfield reunion this weekend.
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Long completed 15 of 23 passes for 212 yards and two touchdowns while adding a 1-yard rushing score in Slippery Rock’s 28-23 win over Edinboro on Saturday. He’s thrown six touchdowns without an interception this season.
Elsewhere in the PSAC, East Stroudsburg receiver Randy Fizer (Red Lion) broke loose for a 92-yard touchdown catch and run during the Warriors’ 27-21 loss to No. 8 Kutztown. Fizer’s score gave ESU a 14-0 lead late in the first quarter, but the Golden Bears scored four unanswered touchdowns to take control. York High’s Trey Quinones started along the Kutztown offensive line.
Richmond linebacker Carter Glassmyer (Central York) made a season-high eight tackles and added a TFL in the Spiders’ 27-17 conference win at Elon.
Most of the York-Adams League’s FBS football players — Pittsburgh’s Kenny Johnson and Juelz Goff, West Virginia’s Jahiem White and Georgia Tech’s Abdul Janneh — were idle last weekend. Penn State QB Beau Pribula (Central York) ran for 17 yards on three carries in the Nittany Lions’ 21-7 win over Illinois.
Shepherd women’s soccer junior Lydia Gable (Kennard-Dale) earned PSAC East Athlete of the Week after scoring a career-high four goals in the Rams’ 5-0 win over Mansfield last Wednesday. Shepherd battled Kutztown to a 1-1 draw on Saturday. Gable’s seven goals and four assists this season have all come in a three-game span — she previously had three goals and an assist on Sept. 18 at Shippensburg and tallied three helpers on Sept. 21 against East Stroudsburg.
Shippensburg cross country senior Victoria Mattioli (Red Lion) is the PSAC Women’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week for the first time in her career on Tuesday. Mattioli placed fifth at the Dickinson Short Invitational, leading her team to a second-place finish.
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In Division III, Lebanon Valley men’s soccer junior Logan Hicks (Central York) was named MAC Freedom Defensive Player of the Week after anchoring a defense that allowed one goal in two blowout victories. It’s the first career weekly honor for Hicks, who has started nine of 10 contests for the Dutchmen.
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York College men’s golfer Gavin Ganter shattered the school record with his 7-under 64 at Williamsport Country Club on Sunday at the Northeast Elite Invitational. Ganter, who shot 73 in Saturday’s first round, finished in second place by two shots. The previous school record was Casey Leebrick’s round of 67 in September 2018. The Spartans’ team score of 278 on Sunday — a program record by four strokes — carried them to a fourth-place team finish.
On Monday, the school tabbed Ganter as its Spartan Athlete of the Week. He added MAC Commonwealth Men’s Golfer of the Week honors Tuesday.
Meg Kalthof was named MAC Commonwealth Women’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday after the sophomore registered a goal and an assist in last Wednesday’s 2-1 win over Salisbury. Kalthof has two goals and three assists this season for the 5-2-3 Spartans, who most recently fell 2-0 to Stevens on Saturday.
Monday marked the first time all season that York College freshman goalie Joss Metz didn’t earn MACC Defensive Player of the Week in women’s soccer. Metz had won four straight weekly awards before surrendering three goals last week (one to Salisbury, two to Stevens), which doubled her season total.
Riley Buschert tallied a goal and an assist in the field hockey team’s impressive 5-0 home rout of then-No. 11 Lynchburg on Saturday. York (7-2, ranked No. 8) had five different scorers in the victory.
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