{"id":286189,"date":"2026-09-15T02:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286189\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T02:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:26:17","slug":"hs-football-lackawanna-football-conference-week-3-awards-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286189\/","title":{"rendered":"HS FOOTBALL: Lackawanna Football Conference Week 3 awards \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Lakeland's Jackson Pochas\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789439174_750_STT-L-GAMEFACE-0911-5.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1908932\" \/>Lakeland\u2019s Jackson Pochas<br \/>\nOFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK<\/p>\n<p>JACKSON POCHAS<\/p>\n<p>Lakeland<\/p>\n<p>He had four carries for 94 yards and two touchdowns, caught one pass for a 46-yard touchdown, and completed all five of his passes for 84 yards and two touchdowns in a 49-28 win over Lackawanna Trail.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Scranton Pep's Finn Mulligan (SUBMITTED PHOTO)\" width=\"1288\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STT-L-lfcawards-03.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"1913777\" \/>Scranton Pep\u2019s Finn Mulligan (SUBMITTED PHOTO)<br \/>\nDEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK<\/p>\n<p>FINN MULLIGAN<\/p>\n<p>Scranton Prep<\/p>\n<p>Had double-digit tackles for a defense that limited Fairfield Prep to 53 yards rushing on 19 carries in a 20-7 win. He also had an interception.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Montrose's Brayden Heaton (SUBMITTED PHOTO)\" width=\"1086\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789439175_242_STT-L-lfcawards-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1913779\" \/>Montrose\u2019s Brayden Heaton (SUBMITTED PHOTO)<br \/>\nHIDDEN HERO<\/p>\n<p>BRAYDEN HEATON<\/p>\n<p>Montrose<\/p>\n<p>Lineman had 11 tackles, two fumble recoveries for touchdowns, 2.5 sacks, and a forced fumble in a 55-6 win over Columbia Montour Vo-Tech.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Valley View's Braden Loff (SUBMITTED PHOTO)\" width=\"400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STT-L-lfcawards-02.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"1913780\" \/>Valley View\u2019s Braden Loff (SUBMITTED PHOTO)<br \/>\nSPECIAL TEAMS<\/p>\n<p>BRADEN LOFF<\/p>\n<p>Valley View<\/p>\n<p>He connected on a 46-yard field goal to break his school record of 45 yards he set last week, made a pair of extra points, and had four touchbacks on kickoffs in the Cougars\u2019 17-7 win over Wilkes-Barre Area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Carbondale Area's Chayse Roche. (SUBMITTED)\" width=\"1536\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STT-L-ChayseRoche-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1913799\" \/>Carbondale Area\u2019s Chayse Roche. (SUBMITTED)<br \/>\nPLAY OF THE WEEK<\/p>\n<p>CHAYSE ROCHE<\/p>\n<p>Carbondale Area<\/p>\n<p>He blocked a punt, collected it, and scored the Chargers\u2019 game-tying touchdown in the second quarter, shifting momentum in a 14-7 win over Crestwood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"North Pocono's Cole West\" width=\"550\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STT-L-lfcdiv1allstars-05.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1505878\" \/>North Pocono\u2019s Cole West<br \/>\nSTATS OF THE WEEK<\/p>\n<p>COLE WEST<\/p>\n<p>North Pocono<\/p>\n<p>He had 66 yards rushing and a touchdown, 53 yards receiving and a touchdown, returned an interception 45 yards for a touchdown, and added a kickoff return of more than 30 yards to set up a touchdown in North Pocono\u2019s 42-0 win over Honesdale.<\/p>\n<p>GAME OF THE WEEK<\/p>\n<p>Delaware Valley 13, East Stroudsburg South 10<\/p>\n<p>Devin Estevez scored the game-winning touchdown with 20 seconds remaining in the game, lifting the Warriors to their first win of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakeland\u2019s Jackson Pochas OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK JACKSON POCHAS Lakeland He had four carries for 94 yards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-286189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286189","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=286189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}