North Pocono Football 2018 Season

The Times-Tribune’s 2019 preview lists 2018 at 6-5. The results under that line open with West Scranton won 27-0 and close with West Scranton winning the District 2 Class 4A playoff, 31-27. Between them the paper has wins over Western Wayne, Scranton, Abington Heights, Delaware Valley, James M. Coughlin, and Honesdale, and Wallenpaupack won 20-19.

Dolhon entered 2019 at 34-42 in his eighth season, on that preview. MaxPreps has the league line at 3-2, second in Lackawanna 1. The preview’s division line is 3-1 in LFC II.

Wallenpaupack’s 20-19 win is the Oct. 5 Times-Tribune game. Joe Ingulli scored from 14 yards on third-and-7 with one minute left. Donny Blaine drove 62 yards in seven plays without a timeout and hit Dan Walsh for a 7-yard touchdown with six seconds left. North Pocono went for two and the pass failed. Wallenpaupack, 4-3 and 3-0, shared its first Lackawanna Football Conference Division I title. North Pocono was 4-3 and 3-1. Dan Walsh had opened the scoring with a 65-yard interception return.

The Sept. 7 Times-Tribune game was 30-20 over Scranton at Trojan Stadium, a Lackawanna Football Conference Division I game. No. 7 North Pocono was 2-1 and 1-0. Scranton was 0-3 and 0-1. Donny Blaine accounted for four touchdowns, two running and two passing, for the second straight week. A 39-yard pass to Dale Moore and a 36-yard pass to Daniel Walsh made it 21-0. Halftime was 24-7. Blaine was 10 of 13 for 228 yards in the half and finished 12 of 16 for 252. Moore had six catches for 122 yards. Walsh had four for 131. Gabe Hribal had 117 yards on 24 carries. Kaleb Sherman blocked a punt and scored from a yard out six plays later, 24-14 with 1:29 left in the third. Blaine’s second 1-yard run, with 5:01 left, answered an 11-play, 56-yard drive. Nakazi Terry’s 9-yard run with 3:38 left left the two-point pass incomplete.