North Pocono Football 2024 Season

North Pocono started 3-0, beating Greater Nanticoke Area, Pittston Area, and Wyoming Valley West, then lost six of the next seven. The record finished 5-6 and 1-5, fifth in Lackawanna 1.

Delaware Valley won 38-26 at Milford on Oct. 18. The Times-Tribune filed it the next morning as a Lackawanna Football Conference Division I game, Delaware Valley 38-26. Delaware Valley scored on the first play after three North Pocono touchdowns. Mike Iuzzolino had 204 yards and four touchdowns on 18 carries. The paper said he was averaging more than 11 yards a carry. He scored from 65 yards in the first quarter and from 57 in the fourth. North Pocono forced a fumble on Delaware Valley’s first play, and Tate Bowen returned it into the red zone. Chase Zimmerman’s 4-yard run made it 7-0 with 6:39 left in the first. Iuzzolino tied it on the next play, with 6:22 left. Zimmerman’s 13-yard touchdown pass to Evan Wolff made it 14-7 five seconds into the second quarter. Logan Olsommer’s 62-yard run tied it with 11:37 left in the half. Iuzzolino’s second score came with 8:29 on the clock. Zimmerman hit Cole West for 15 yards with 40 seconds left in the half. The extra point missed, and North Pocono trailed by a point. An illegal-substitution penalty gave Delaware Valley another snap, and Reagan Decker’s 33-yard field goal made the halftime score 20-24. Delaware Valley had 16 plays in the first half and only two snaps in the second quarter. After halftime a 17-play drive turned over inside the North Pocono 2. Iuzzolino’s third touchdown came with 4:06 left. Zimmerman’s 24-yard touchdown pass to West was answered one play later by the 57-yard run. Delaware Valley was 4-5 and 3-2. North Pocono was 4-5 and 1-4, a fifth loss in six weeks. Zimmerman was 17 of 26 for 171 yards and three touchdowns, and he added 43 rushing yards and a score. West had five catches for 87 yards and two touchdowns. The paper said the recent losses to Wallenpaupack and Valley View were one-score games.

The last game was Nov. 1 at North Pocono Stadium, a 41-0 win over Hamburg that the next day’s Times-Tribune called the Eastern Conference Class 4A championship. North Pocono was 5-6. Hamburg was 6-5. The Trojans ran 50 times for 263 yards and five touchdowns and held Hamburg to minus-24 yards on 23 carries. Brady Lavery had 119 yards and three scores on 19 carries, from 1, 24, and 5 yards. The first two came in the opening quarter as North Pocono built a 28-0 lead. A blocked punt and three fumble recoveries came in that quarter. For the game North Pocono forced five turnovers and blocked two punts, turned the ball over once, and allowed 81 yards. Alex Garibaldi had two sacks. The paper said Ethan Mensel and Evan Wolff also had strong games. Junior Michael Stout and sophomore Jayden Taylor scored on runs, and sophomore Chase Zimmerman hit sophomore Cole West for a 12-yard touchdown. Underclassmen accounted for 210 of 340 yards, not counting West’s 68 yards on two kick returns. The Trojans had opened 3-0 and lost six of the last seven, three of those by a touchdown. The Times-Tribune’s 2026 championship list includes an Eastern Conference Class 4A title for 2024. District 2 Class 4A is not on that line for 2024. No District 2 playoff game is on the MaxPreps log.