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East High School running back Anthony Jordan will play for the West team in the Pennsylvania State Football Coaches Association East/West All-Star Game.

In addition, Corry’s Homer DeLattre will serve as the West’s head coach in the game, which will be played May 6 at Gateway High School in Monroeville.

Grove City lineman Tony Turner will be District 10′s third representative in the game. Jordan and Turner will play for a West team that is predominately made up of players from the WPIAL.

Jordan, a 1,000-yard rusher and Erie Times-News District 10 All-Star, will play for William & Mary next fall.

Click below to see the rosters:

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In the February edition of Lake Erie Lifestyle magazine, there’s a profile on East football coach Leonard Ford.

Ford, an East graduate, recalls one of his favorite moments during his athletic career. As a junior at East in 1986, Ford remembers, he caught a pass in the closing seconds of the Warriors’ victory over McDowell at Gus Anderson Field.

“We threw the ball about 45-50 yards, and I caught it in the end zone but the refs put the ball at the 1-yard line,” he told Lake Erie Lifestyle.

I decided to look up the game in the Erie Times-News archives. Sure enough, on Sept. 19, 1986, Ford caught a 34-yard pass from Randy Baughman to the 1-yard line in the closing seconds. After a couple of penalties, East eventually scored a touchdown for a 20-19 victory.

One other interesting fact from the game: McDowell’s quarterback was current Trojans head coach Mark Soboleski. He completed 6-of-13 passes for 115 yards, including a 12-yard touchdown pass to future NFL receiver Brian Stablein.

– Jeff Kirik

The Erie Times-News and GoErie.com are continuing District 10 football preview coverage this week, leading up to Friday’s season openers. Starting Sunday, the preview coverage included Region 6, McDowell and Region 4. The coverage will continue through Thursday. Included in each preview are complete rosters for each team.

Earlier, the Times-News published the 112-page Kickoff preseason guide and posted the online Summer Huddle series on the Varsity blog.

Check out the links to the Times-News team previews:
Sunday: McDowell preview
Sunday: Region 6
Monday: Region 4
Tuesday: Region 5
Wednesday: Region 2
Thursday: Region 3
Thursday: Region 1

Friday’s scheduled football scrimmage featuring East against Dunkirk, N.Y., at Veterans Stadium has been canceled because of a scheduling conflict.

East now will participate in a tri-scrimmage with Harbor Creek and Corry, beginning at 6:30 p.m. (The Corry scrimmage was moved up a half-hour from its original 7 p.m. start time.)

Click below for the weekend’s full scrimmage schedule featuring District 10 teams:

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East’s football team lost most of its starters from last year and had to rebuild in the offseason. Levonte Ford is back as the leader of the Warriors and his brother Jauwan Ford is off to a fast start at quarterback. A new look for East this year is at running back with Anthony Jordan, a transfer from Cathedral Prep, earning carries in camp.

East is in Youngstown, Ohio this weekend for the Youngstown State 7-on-7 and is already hanging with some solid teams. The Warriors beat Latrobe 19-13 and suffered close losses to Ohio powers Warren Harding (14-7) and Cardinal Mooney (13-12). The Warriors took on two McKeesport squads but lost to the A team 13-7 and the B team 13-12.

Corry will host a 16-team 7-on-7 camp on July 30. Warren is the defending champion of the camp after knocking off East in the championship. The camp features nine District 10 teams along with several teams from New York.

– Tom Reisenweber

Register today to play the free High School Football Challenge at GoErie.com/hsfootballchallenge.

If you’re 13 or older, you’re invited to play and compete for weekly prizes and the end-of-season grand prize.

How it works: Each week you’ll log in at GoErie.com/hsfootballchallenge, where you’ll choose the teams you believe will win that week’s high school football games. There will be 20 games each week, each of them featuring at least one District 10 program.

You’ll also pick the score of the weekly tiebreaker game.

The participant who has the most correct picks — and, if needed, the score closest to the final score of the tiebreaker game — wins that week’s contest.

Each participant’s best seven weeks will count toward the contest grand prize, so you can take a week off or have a bad week and still be in the running.

With the exception of the final two weeks of the season, only games played on Friday and Saturday have been selected. The deadline to post your picks for the first eight weeks of the season is each Friday at 1 a.m. starting Sept. 3. In Weeks 9 and 10, a Thursday game is included, and deadline will be Thursday at 1 p.m.

You’ll get to compete against the Erie Times-News sports staffers (who aren’t eligible for prizes), and the winner’s name will be published every Wednesday in the Varsity high school sports special section of the Times-News.

The games already have been entered into the contest database, allowing you to make your picks now — for Week 1, or for all 10 weeks. You also can change your picks up until each weekly deadline.

If you played in 2009, there’s no need for you to register again.

Have fun, and good luck to the contestants and all the teams they’re pulling for.

Under the guidance of Leonard Ford, the East football team went 5-4 last season, the Warriors’ first winning season in more than 20 years. However, the Warriors lost a big senior class, including standout quarterback Gary Brown. Jermaine Thornton will play QB for East this season, and in this video he’s shown throwing during a recent passing scrimmage. Ford talks about the team’s prospects for the season:

Photo galleries are now available from the Girard-Fairview and Corry-East games.

Readers can view or purchase photos from the two games.

Here are some nominees for the Breakout Player of the Week. Remember, the winner will be honored in Friday’s edition of the Times-News. Vote for your favorite in the poll at the upper right.

Let us know if we missed a worthy candidate. We’re limiting nominees to one per school, and no winner can be nominated again.

Gary Brown, East: 11-of-21 passing 174 yards; 17 rushes, 127 yards, TD

Jared Burger, Union City: 24 rushes, 176 yards; TD runs of 4, 10 and 54 yards

Corey Dunton, Cambridge Springs: 65 yards rushing, 2 TDs, including game-winner in third overtime; 3 receptions for 33 yards; 77-yard kickoff return for a TD

Kevin Green, Strong Vincent: 9 rushes, 156 yards; TD runs of 80 and 30 yards

Richie Kolesar, Fort LeBoeuf: 13 rushes, 92 yards; TD runs of 1 and 34 yards

Jared Lane, Fairview: 17 rushes, 114 yards, TD in return from hamstring injury

Cory Lee, General McLane: 27 rushes, 180 yards

Justin Wiley, Cathedral Prep: 15 rushes, 108 yards; TD runs of 1, 3, 3, 5 and 27 yards

Four photo galleries from District 10 games are now available for viewing on GoErie.com.

Check out photos from Thursday’s Cambridge Springs-Mercyhurst Prep game, and Friday’s Cathedral Prep-East, Girard-General McLane and Fairview-Fort LeBoeuf games.

All photos are available for purchase.

There were several football standouts this weekend. You pick the best. Or, let us know who we missed.

Casey Pace, RB, Fort LeBoeuf, 15 rushes, 179 yards, 2 TDs

Scottie Frisina, QB, Corry, 15-of-20 passing 250 yards, 2 TDs; 9 rushes
104 yards, 3 TDs

Justin Wiley, RB, Cathedral Prep, 18 rushes, 82 yards, TD; 3 catches
90 yards, 2 TDs

Shyquawn Pullium, QB, Cathedral Prep, 10 rushes, 120 yards, 2 TDs; 92 passing yards, 2 TDs

Zach Greenawalt, QB, McDowell, 16 rushes, 120 yards, 2 TDs

Pat Pascarella, RB, Bradford, 16 rushes, 242 yards, 4 TDs

Matt Sleppy, DB, Iroquois, 42-yard fumble return for winning TD

Cory Lee, RB, General McLane, 12 rushes, 108 yards, 2 TDs

Cody Crosby, QB, Eisenhower, 21-of-30 passing, 315 yards, 2 TDs

Gary Brown, QB, East, 10-of-13 passing, 195 yards, 3 TDs; 5 rrushes, 29 yards, TD

Josh Williams, RB, Girard, 7 rushes, 108 yards, TD runs of 65 and 23 yards

Here are some candidates for the top honors this weekend:

Brandon Akins-Jones, Strong Vincent: 7 rushes, 129 yards, TD runs of 1, 61, 9 and 38 yards.

Gary Brown, East: 7-of-10 passing, 107 yards, 2 TDs; 6 rushes, 61 yards, TD

Jordan Elchynski, North East: 22 carries, 131 yards, 2 TDs

Zach Greenawalt, McDowell: 11 rushes, 178 yards, 2TDs; 57-yard TD pass

Aaron Horton, Mercyhurst Prep: 12 rushes, 165 yards; TD runs of 12, 35 and 60 yards

Dakota Schultz, Saegertown: 9 rushes, 102 yards, 3 TDs

Corey McWilliams, Fort LeBoeuf: 5 catches, 109 yards, 2 TDs (now has six TD receptions in three games)

Trevor Litwiler, Linesville: 21 rushes, 174 yards, 3 TD; 5-of-9 passing, 106 yards, TD

Jordan Kerner, Fairview: 7 rushes, 100 yards; TD runs of 11 and 63 yards

Jared Burger, Union City: 23 rushes, 164 yards, 2 TDs

Shyquawn Pullium, Cathedral Prep, 7 rushes, 225 yards, TD runs of 54, 69 and 72 yards, 4-of-8 passing, 73 yards, 2 TDs

There were many other worthy performances this weekend — more than we can list here. Who would you vote for? Who did we miss? Let us know.