The Emmaus football team pulled away from Stroudsburg in the second half of a 48-10 win last Friday night for the Hornets’ second straight victory.

Jay Santos (16 carries, 124 yards, 2 TD) and quarterback Jerek Cooper (10 caries, 158 yards, TD) led an Emmaus rushing game that put up 320 yards on the ground against the Mountaineers.

Santos opened the scoring with a 28-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. The Mounties closed the gap with a field goal before the Hornets’ Anthony Attar scored the first of his two touchdowns in the game on an 8-yard run for a 13-3 lead.

Stroudsburg hit on a 25-yard pass for its only touchdown of the game to pull within 13-10, but Santos found pay dirt again late in the first half on a 5-yard run for a 20-10 halftime lead.

The second half was all Emmaus (2-2).

Attar recovered a fumble in the third quarter and took it 94 yards for a score and a 27-10 lead.

Cooper broke free for a 35-yard touchdown run for the first of the Hornets’ three fourth quarter scores. Ty Laird caught a 16-yard touchdown pass from Peter Sherman and Jaden Garcia capped the scoring with a 19-yard touchdown run.

Hornet place kicker Gavin Yartymyk made six of seven extra points in the game.

Robert Edwards, Asher Dougherty, Brady McHugh all had three solo tackles to lead the defense, with Edwards and Dougherty also recording one tackle for loss each. William Daves intercepted a Mountaineer pass in the win.

With consecutive wins over Reading and Stroudsburg, the Hornets have evened their record following losses to Neshaminy and Bethlehem Catholic to open the season.

They travel to Cottingham Stadium next week to face unbeaten Easton (4-0).

The Red Rovers have beaten Central Bucks West (26-20), Spring-Ford (36-3), Erasmus Hall of New York (44-32) and, in their first game against a local opponent, rolled past Bethlehem Catholic (35-9) last Friday night.

Quarterback Cole Ordway is back in charge or the Rovers’ offense this season. He’s completed 28 of 38 passes for 305 yards and six touchdowns.

Ordway also leads the team with 625 rushing yards and 11 scores on 56 carries. Senior Chris Martinez (106 carries, 530 yards, 2 TDs) accounts for most of the rest of Easton’s 1,211 rushing yards in 2025.

Senior Andrew Biddle is Ordway’s favorite target with a team-high 16 receptions and 141 receiving yards. Six different players have caught Ordway’s six TD passes this season.

While the Rovers are averaging 303 yards per game on the ground, they also pass for 76 yards per game.

The Hornets and Rovers met twice in 2024. Easton won the regular season meeting on Sept. 20 last year, 28-21 in overtime. Emmaus got revenge in the district semifinals with a 20-19 win to advance to the title game.