Gabe Duda ran for 227 yards and scored four touchdowns, leading No. 6 Honesdale to a 52-15 win over No. 8 Mid Valley in a Lackawanna Football Conference Division II game.
Duda scored on runs of 10, 72 and 25 yards, and returned a kickoff 94 yards for a score as the Hornets improved to 7-2 overall and 3-1 in Division II.
Mid Valley’s Kayden Barnauskas ran for 105 yards and a touchdown. He pushed his season rushing total to 1,057 yards.
After Barnauskas scored the game’s first touchdown in the first quarter, Honesdale reeled off the next 39 points.
Bobby MacDowell, a lineman, scored on a 2-yard run, Turk Acker added a 10-yard touchdown and Alex Valerio hit a 35-yard field goal to build a 17-7 halftime advantage.
Duda returned the second-half kickoff for a touchdown, and scored on a 10-yard run and a 72-yard run as the lead swelled to 39-7. Duda and Brayden Fritsch scored on fourth-quarter runs for the Hornets.
Dontae Joseph contributed 110 yards rushing, and Gino Patrisso and Manny Edwards each had four tackles, leading the Honesdale defense.
Paxton Grebb had a 67-yard touchdown and added 54 yards passing for the Spartans.