By The Daily Item

There is no doubt week 7 of high school football in the Susquehanna Valley will be remembered not only for Selinsgrove's surprisingly lop-sided victory over Southern Columbia, but also for the sheer volume of big plays.

Every game had its share of big plays and of the 10 high school games in the coverage area, there were a whopping 32 touchdowns -- more than three a game -- of at least 25 yards and there were an incredible 10 TDs of at least 70 yards.

Newport scored four TDs in a 27-0 victory over East Juniata and the shortest of its four scores was a 25-yard TD pass.

Selinsgrove and Mount Carmel, two of the area's three state-ranked teams, also turned in more than their fair share.

Selinsgrove got a 90-yard kickoff return from Kyle Reinard on the opening kickoff against Southern and then got TDs of 49 yards (interception return by Ryan Keiser) and 76 yards (Keiser pass from Cory Briggs). Keiser also caught scoring passes of 36 and 28 yards.

Mount Carmel's Justin Pellowski had two of the biggest plays of the season in the Red Tornadoes' rout of Jersey Shore. Pellowski returned a kickoff 98 yards for a score and also caught an 80-yard TD pass from Marcus Wasilewski. Both of them were area-bests this fall.

In addition to Pellowski's big plays, MCA also got a 73-yard punt return from Meyrick Lamb and a 78-yard run from Julius Demetrius.

RUNNING MEN: Establishing the run is something Danville had been trying to do for most of the season, and the Ironmen finally pulled it off in a 27-14 win over Shikellamy on Friday. And the Ironmen showed some versatile blocking in doing it.

Danville has thrown the ball 185 times through seven games. Typically, when they do run, it's up the middle for a couple of yards. But they tweaked the gameplan against the Braves' defense, running off the edge with success. The result was a 16-carry, 86-yard performance from sophomore tailback Mikeal Owens-Wright. It also opened up the play-action pass for the Ironmen, who still threw 21 times.

"I didn't think we were going to be able to run the ball as well as we did, going into the game," Danville coach Jeremy Winn said. "Watching enough film, I knew their linebackers were pretty darn good. We weren't really able to run our normal inside run game, so we were able to run off-tackle, and did a nice job getting down on those linebackers."

GUARDED EXCITEMENT: Selinsgrove led Southern Columbia 27-0 at halftime en route to Friday night's shocking 47-7 victory, and the Seals were excited to be in that situation.

Seals junior wide receiver-safety Ryan Keiser, who led the Seals with six catches for 188 yards and three touchdowns and three interceptions and one return for a TD, said, "We were real exited and we were pumped up."

But, Keiser said, the Seals knew they were not out of the woods, yet.

They knew that the Tigers had rallied from a 20-8 third-quarter deficit to beat Montoursville earlier this season.