MSA Sports Saturdays Scholastic Starz for Week Six

By: HSSN Staff
Sunday, October 9, 2016 | 9:34 AM

Some of the Homecoming Queens at high schools in Western Pennsylvania are selected by way of vote, while other winners are decided randomly by whichever rose they select. Three schools celebrated homecoming weekend with Saturday high school football games instead of on the traditional Friday night. Here are the performers who may not have selected the correct rose, but they were definitely a thorn in the side of their opponents.

Jordan Castelli and Bryan Milligan – Canon-McMillan

Some coaching staffs spend the week trying to figure out the best way to game plan against the opposing defense. Is it better to pound it on the ground or attack through the air. The answer Saturday for Canon-McMillan coaches was simple…lets do both. Quarterback Jordan Castelli connected on 14 of 24 passes for 324 yards and three touchdowns while running back Bryan Milligan rushed for 191 yards and took four to the house as the Big Macs crushed the host Shlaer Titans 43-7 in a Class 6-A Non-Conference game.

Darius Wise – Beaver

After a brutal four week stretch against some of the top teams in Class 3-A, Beaver returned home for their traditional Saturday night Homecoming game and winless Ellwood City paid the price. Coming off their first loss of the season, Beaver quarterback Darius Wise connected on 6 of 9 passes for 160 yards and a pair of touchdown tosses of 30 and 20 yards, plus he rushed for 119 yards and scored two more times on jaunts of 4 and 68 yards as the Bobcats blanked the Wolverines 49-0.

LaVaughan Hawkins – Sto-Rox

While there were many exciting chapters to the Class 1-A Big 7 Conference story between Sto-Rox and Western Beaver, S-R’s LaVaughan Hawkins wrote the preface and then completed the book by penning the epilogue. Hawkins rushed for 191 yards and scored three touchdowns, including his 66-yard run in the first quarter that opened the scoring, then he closed the scoring and the game with a 97-yard interception return as the Vikings snapped a two game skid with a 36-26 victory over the host Golden Beavers,

Austin Scott – Bishop Canevin

Austin Scott played two roles for Bishop Canevin on offense Saturday night, he was the quarterback in either the shotgun or pistol formation, or he was the decoy flanker when the team went wildcat. However trailing by five with less than two minutes left, he took over at QB for good and capped off a night in which he was 14 of 24 passing for 161 yards with his second touchdown pass of the night, a 26-yard scoring strike with five seconds left to give the host Crusaders a thrilling 33-30 Class 1-A Eastern Conference win over the Imani Christian Saints.

Tags: Beaver, Bishop Canevin, Canon-McMillan