{"id":266606,"date":"2026-08-17T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266606\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T00:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:08:13","slug":"2026-team-preview-the-allentown-central-catholic-vikings-pa-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266606\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Team Preview: The Allentown Central Catholic Vikings \u2013 PA Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" style=\"background:url( https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/d\/1ZBK8zoaHNUg_sNwmOYHtPA2hxx3bnvtE=w400 ) no-repeat center center;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size: cover;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/acchsteamprev-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-attachment-id=\"192587\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pafootballnews.com\/pfn\/2026-team-preview-the-allentown-central-catholic-vikings\/attachment\/acchsteamprev\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/acchsteamprev-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,675\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"acchsteamprev\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/acchsteamprev-scaled.jpg\"\/>            <\/p>\n<p>                        Tagged under: <a href=\"https:\/\/pafootballnews.com\/category\/district11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">District 11<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pafootballnews.com\/category\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pafootballnews.com\/category\/pfn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pfn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pafootballnews.com\/category\/team-previews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Team Previews<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-title-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pafootballnews.com\/author\/davinridall\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davin Ridall<\/a> | August 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            The Allentown Central Catholic Vikings<br \/>Head Coach: Jake Reichard<br \/>PIAA District 11<br \/>Class 2A<br \/>Eastern PA Conference<br \/>2025 Season Record: 6-6<\/p>\n<p>Key Starters Lost<\/p>\n<p>Deon Johnson<br \/>Tommy Roth<br \/>Tate Shoemaker<br \/>Luis Martinez<br \/>Luis Lantigua<br \/>Di\u2019Quiawn Leak<\/p>\n<p>Returning Starters<\/p>\n<p>Bryson Baker, K\/P, JR<br \/>Trey Torres Johnson, RB\/LB, JR<br \/>Gavin Albeck, OL\/DL, SR<br \/>Dom Johns, OL\/DL, SR<br \/>McCoy Miller, OL\/DL, JR<br \/>Harry Restino, WR\/LB, JR<br \/>Grayson Schmell, WR\/DB, JR<br \/>Tahir Edmondson, WR\/DB, JR<br \/>Lucas Hosak, TE\/DL\/LB, JR<br \/>Nate Young, LB, JR<br \/>Shahiem Roberts, WR\/DB, SR<\/p>\n<p>Key Newcomers\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Lantigua, OL\/DL<br \/>Janiel Pena, QB\/DB<br \/>Caleb Oswald, QB\/LB<br \/>Tom Kowal, OL\/DL<br \/>Quaid Eisenhard, RB\/LB<br \/>Pierce Ebert, OL\/DL<br \/>Gio Santamaria, QB\/DB<br \/>Matt Nehlsen, WR\/DB<br \/>Caden Rosner, RB\/LB<\/p>\n<p>Season Outlook<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to compete. We\u2019re going to prepare to win every football game we play, and we have high expectations for our team. We want to play fast, physical, and violent, and have fun doing it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pafootballnews.com\/allentown-central-catholic-vikings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow PA Football News on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pafootballnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@PaFootballNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tagged under: District 11, News, pfn, Team Previews Davin Ridall | August 15, 2026 The Allentown Central Catholic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-266606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}