By The Daily Item

Southern Columbia defensive end Ken Schetroma moved from defensive tackle before this season, leaving a hole at that position. What he didn't expect was the player that would replace him would be his brother, Tom, a freshman.

"He got a call this summer before team camp at Lebanon Valley College," Ken Schetroma said. "And one day at camp, he started lining up with the first team. He was excited and so I was I. I mean, he is my little brother."

Just to add to the excitement, on Shamokin's second drive, the Schetromas each earned a .5 sack when they got to quarterback Ed Taylor at the same time.

PRIDE ON THE LINE: The Selinsgrove defense spent most of its opening game with Mount Carmel on the field as the Selinsgrove offense sputtered. Despite that, the defense refused to allow Mount Carmel to score a third touchdown late in the fourth quarter.

The Red Tornadoes recovered a Selinsgrove fumble on the Seals' 25-yard line with 6:30 left in the game. Five runs later, the Selinsgrove defense faced a fourth-and-goal at the Mount Carmel 1. Red Tornadoes fullback Julius Demetrius was stopped by the interior of the Seals' line, giving Selinsgrove the ball back.

TAKING THE AIR OUT: The Selinsgrove offensive coaching staff might have been a bit too conservative with first-year starter Cory Briggs. The Seals didn't throw a pass on first down until there was 6:47 left in the game. It was a good news, bad news deal for the Seals, though. Briggs completed the pass for 13 yards, but the receiver fumbled it away.

SACK ATTACK: Had Warrior Run not rallied to beat Shikellamy in overtime, the Defenders might have attributed the defeat to the defensive play of Braves junior end Josh Brosious.

The 5-foot-11, 200-pounder was constantly making life miserable for Warrior Run senior quarterback Bryson Brooke. Brosious sacked Brooke three times and hurried him several more times, once getting an intentional grounding penalty.

NEW BLOOD: After his team pitched a second half (and overtime) shutout, first-year Warrior Run head coach Chris Eiswerth gave much of the credit to one of his former players at Loyalsock, new defensive coordinator Justin VanFleet. The latter played for the Lancers when Eiswerth was an assistant coach there, and later played at Susquehanna University.

NOT NEEDED: A year ago, if Danville got a two-catch, 47-yard performance from tight end Michael Smith and only six completions from quarterback Andrew Shoop, odds are it would not have been a good game for the Ironmen.

On Friday, in their season-opening win over Milton, Danville scored on three punt returns, and Aaron Clark, Jon Mrockosky and Michael Owens-Wright emerged as the complementary threats the Ironmen will need to keep the pressure off record-holders Shoop and Smith this year.

Shoop, who attempted nearly 30 passes a game in 2007, threw just seven passes and connected on six of them, including two scores.

DIFFICULT PROPOSITION: Any time a team falls behind early, you can usually assume that they're going to air it out in an attempt to catch up.

South Williamsport tried to pass in its 47-0 loss at Lewisburg on Friday, but the Green Dragons' defensive backs made that a difficult proposition.