Freshman football team can't be beat
Allentown High School's freshman football team has gone undefeated thus far in the season.

Allentown's Anthony Toleno tries to bring down Pennington's Anthony Gaffney during the Allentown High School's homecoming game against Pennington on Oct. 23. Left: Allentown's Sean Eccles looks to make play. Eccles connected with Matt Mueller for a 15-yeard touchdown pass to end the scoring. Allentown lost the game 15-36.

The team of nearly 40 boys had a record of 6-0 as of press time Oct. 26, and the school community couldn't be more proud of its young athletes.

This year, the team has a new coaching staff — Joe Murphy, Matt Mordas, Victor Veltre and Kevin Mulvey — led by Jay Graber.

While players commend Graber for instilling a successful program and a positive work ethic for them to follow both on and off the field, they also attribute their success to Pop Warner programs they played in prior to high school.

The team players are Tighe Blazier, Bobby Brown, Pat Clark, Markus Colin, JT Curran, Adam Dorfman, Jaren, Drialo, Mark John Duffy, Jake Failla, Dan Goodstein, Connor Grehlinger, Frankie Juba, Jake Koch, David Koons, Brandon Laday, Jake Lewis, Kevin Makiewicz, Joe Mangrella, Garrett Martin, Josh Masci, Pat McCarthy, Justin Miller, Dylan Meyers, Chi Oriji, Nick Palladino, Zach Peterson, Ernest Pitts, Ryan Raslowsky, Ray Rashawn, Jake Sandford, Drew Schreck, Jordan Shropshire, Kevin Singler, Nick Singler, Kyle Sulit, Matt Wilkins and Norman Williams.

"This group of boys just met in August, and through hours of practice and much hard work have come together as a quite a team, a team to be reckoned with," Barbara Nissinger, team parent, said.

The freshman football team demonstrated this year what seems to be great promise for the future of the varsity football team. With four games left in the season, the team looks forward to more action packed, exciting games ahead.

"We'll be cheering them on and hoping to see more wins," Nissinger said. "Hey, you never know. There is a good possibility they could go undefeated for the season. But either way we are extremely proud of this group of dedicated, hardworking young men."

The Allentown High School freshman football team has demonstrated great promise for the future of the school's varsity team.

She continued, "Allentown freshman football, we are all rooting for you, take it all the way!"