Expand<\/a><\/p>\nOn the golf course, the senior helped the Chiefs reach the Lackawanna League Class 2A final. He shot 35 with one birdie in a 142-151 win over Mountain View in the quarterfinals and 1-under 32 with an eagle and a birdie in a 132-145 victory over Mid Valley in the semifinals. He also shot 5-over 77 at Elkview Country Clube to tie for third in Class 2A in Lackawanna League pre-district qualifying.<\/p>\n
Then in a football matchup against Riverside, Rosenkrans took over as emergency quarterback after Jackson Pochas suffered a serious injury. He had 57 yards on six carries, five catches for 40 yards, threw a 27-yard touchdown pass and had an interception at the 1-yard line late in the first half to halt a scoring threat as Lakeland defeated the Vikings, 33-20, to improve to 6-0 overall.<\/p>\n
Family: Father, Dave; mother, Leah<\/p>\n
Coaches: Gary Yagelski, golf; Dave Piwowarczyk, football<\/p>\n
What was it like having to take over as quarterback, especially in such an emotional situation?: It was terrible what happened to Jackson. I was just glad my team has faith in me, my coaches, all 11 guys on the field. I was super proud of the way I played, but I couldn\u2019t do it without my coaches, my offensive linemen and my skill guys. After he went down, our motto was just \u201cDo it for No. 1.\u201d I almost felt like he was playing with me out there. I was just trying to be myself out there making plays and thankfully we got a win.<\/p>\n
Had you ever played quarterback before?: B team (in youth football) one year and that was it.<\/p>\n
Describe your interception that stopped a Riverside scoring threat late in the first half: (Riverside quarterback) Brayden Rose is a phenomenal athlete. He was rolling out all over the place. I was just trying to read his eyes. His eyes were going toward the middle and I just tried to make a play on the ball. Thankful enough I made the play, stopped the drive and kept them from scoring. It was huge momentum going into halftime and great for our team.<\/p>\n
The team has overcome a lot of injuries to be 6-0. What has been the key?: We have a really resilient group. From the coaching staff to every guy on the roster. It\u2019s dreadful to see guys go down with injuries, you wouldn\u2019t want to wish that on anyone. It\u2019s just our mentality. We\u2019re down a guy or two, but the next guy steps up. We have faith in our guys, especially guys who have never played a varsity snap. They\u2019re going out there making plays, you couldn\u2019t be more proud, especially me as a senior. Our motto is \u201cBe resilient and grab the rope.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier this season, you became the program\u2019s career reception leader: That means a lot, not just to me but the entire community, my family and my teammates. I couldn\u2019t do it without any of them. I have to thank coach P (Piwowarczyk), my entire coaching staff, my golf coaching staff for letting me do both (sports). Chris Washko was one of the best receivers ever to come out of Lakeland, I have so much respect for him. Breaking a record like that means so much to me. But I just want to dedicate it to my teammates, especially the guys I played with before and the guys I play with now.<\/p>\n
Thoughts on your play on the golf course: I definitely have been hitting it better as the year went along. I\u2019m not going to lie, I devote a lot of my skills to my teammates for having my back. I got a little down on myself at the beginning of the year and they just picked me up every match. I\u2019m playing with guys I love; they\u2019re some of my best friends out there. Enjoying what we\u2019ve succeeded as a team and me individually. It\u2019s awesome to see our team in the league final against Scranton Prep. We couldn\u2019t ask for anything more being 16-0. Making pre-districts was super nice because we had six guys who made it. It\u2019s a goal to make it to states and if our team could make it that would be awesome. But at the end of the day, it\u2019s been a really fun season. I couldn\u2019t ask for anything more. I\u2019ve had a blast.<\/p>\n
How do you handle playing two sports in one season?: It\u2019s definitely not easy. But I thank both the football coaches and the golf coaches. A lot of it relies on communication. The nice thing is people respect my decision if I go to football or if I go to golf, knowing the situation. As best I can I try to make it to both, especially if it means staying late or talking to coaches during school. Everything happens because they allow me to do it and I couldn\u2019t thank them enough.<\/p>\n
Other sports I play: Basketball, track<\/p>\n
Favorite teams: Chicago Bears, Duke basketball, Sacramento Kings, Philadelphia Phillies<\/p>\n
Favorite food: BBQ wings<\/p>\n
Cake or pie: Cake<\/p>\n
Favorite school subject: Science. The thing that fascinates me is not everything in science has been discovered yet. There\u2019s a lot more to be discovered. How everything works and why it works and how it\u2019s made up, that\u2019s what fascinates me.<\/p>\n
Athletes I admire: Growing up, I\u2019d definitely say my cousin Tony Harding. He played basketball in high school and worked super-hard. Just his work ethic. He would constantly be in the gym. I\u2019ve just always looked up to him. His sister Madison, too. She worked her butt off in high school and ran track at Lehigh. Her work ethic to play a Division I sport was phenomenal. What she did in college was just awesome to look up to.\u00a0Also Lebron James and Michael Jordan. Two of the GOATs in my opinion in basketball. How they present themselves and talk to the media and how they play. They just present themselves in a way I\u2019ve tried to do my entire life. And I\u2019d probably say Scottie Scheffler in golf. I love the way he presents himself, how good he is as a player and the way he worked as a junior golfer and the way he talks about his family all the time. I just love a guy like that.<\/p>\n
Superstitions and rituals: I only have one and it\u2019s for all sports. I\u2019ve worn the same underwear since freshman year, every single game I\u2019ve played. All my teammates know the pair of underwear I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n
If I could have any superpower it would be: Teleporting. I want to travel the entire world. I wish I could go there right now and be able to come right back.<\/p>\n
One word to best describe me: Happy<\/p>\n
App I use most on my phone: Instagram<\/p>\n
Funniest teammate: Rocco Spataro. He\u2019s always the guy that cheers us up, especially if we\u2019re down. Even if it\u2019s something stupid, he\u2019s always making us laugh.<\/p>\n
Three people I\u2019d like to have dinner with: Lebron James, Kevin Durant, my grandma in heaven, Diane Adams.<\/p>\n
Future plans: I think I\u2019m going to attend Susquehanna University and play golf. I\u2019m going to study three years of engineering there and do their 3-and-2 plan and attend Columbia University and get a degree in chemical engineering and hopefully become a nuclear engineer.<\/p>\n
Will you miss playing football?: Big time. Not moreso the playing, but definitely being with the guys every day. That\u2019s a bond we\u2019ll have forever and forever be connected.<\/p>\n
Did you try to find a school that would let you do both?: I kind of ruled out football. I love playing it, but I\u2019ve always wanted to play golf in college since I was a freshman in high school. So I kind of looked for golf schools. But football will always be there. It was a great time in high school to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakeland\u2019s Chase Rosencrans tees off on the first hole during the match against Mid Valley at Scott Green\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[7804,305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-300646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-athlete-of-the-week","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\/300646","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=300646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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