O'Hara Will Bring Experience to 2011 Football Season

The 2010 O'Hara Celtics football team climbed all the way to the State Quarterfinals which was quite an accomplishment inasmuch as there were only five seniors on the roster. _____ In addition to Raphael Spencer who holds school records, the 2012 squad will have to proceed without the talents of Jake Chichuk, Josh Bonello, Jimmy Clark, and Lowell Thomas who will be graduating in the Spring. _____ The leadership roles will shift to others who helped carry the team through the challenging past season. ____ Quarterback Jake Fortin is 9th in O'Hara's top ten passers in career total yards with 1,114 on 67 completions (which is 7th in total number of career passes). _____ In the category of top ten passers for a single season, he is 5th in total yardage with 1,092 yards. _____ Brandon Dennis holds the O'Hara record for most yards gained as a pass receiver in a single game, and caught 25 passes for a total of 556 yards this year; only nine former Celtics caught more than 25 in any one season. ______ Julian Gidley kicked 33 extra points for O'Hara this year, tying Bryce Scovill for 3rd place for a season, and has increased his career total to 66 for 3rd place with a full season coming up. _____ Of course, Raphael Spencer who led the Celtic offense will be missed. _____ His career total rushing yardage is 3,642 yards second only to Matt Patterson's 5,396 which is the school record. _____ In his senior year he gained 2001 yards and a year ago gained 1,454 yards, good enough for 2nd and 6th places for single season output. _____ But where Spencer really excelled was in the scoring! _____ He scored more career points than any other Celtic with 372 and scored 180 in each of his junior and senior years, tops among all O'Hara scorers through the years. _____ In addition to the scoring of Spencer, Brandon Dennis had 54 points this season on 9 TD catches and Brett Coatney had 48 points on 8 rushing touchdowns.