HS Football: 5 area players honored at Mini Max Awards Dinner

Five area players, from left, Jim Thorpe's Justin Yescavage, Blue Mountain's Gaige Guers, Nativity's Noah Dolbin, Marian's Michael Gelatko and Schuylkill Haven's Leyden Hertz, pose during Sunday's Maxwell Football Club Mini Max Awards Dinner in Drexel Hill (Photo by Brook Koch-Guers).

DREXEL HILL — It wasn’t the Grammy’s, but five area high school football players got to dress their best and smile in the bright spotlights of the big city Sunday night.

Blue Mountain’s Gaige Guers, Jim Thorpe’s Justin Yescavage, Marian’s Michael Gelatko, Nativity’s Noah Dolbin and Schuylkill Haven’s Leyden Hertz were among 55 high school football players from Pennsylvania honored Sunday at the Maxwell Football Club’s Mini Max Awards Dinner.

Established in 1985, the Mini Max Awards are a prestigious honor bestowed upon the top high school football players from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The awards highlight the exceptional performances of student-athletes who have demonstrated remarkable skill, leadership and dedication throughout the season.

Guers, Gelatko, Dolbin and Hertz were each named to the Pennsylvania Football Writers’ All-State team in their respective class. Dolbin (Army) and Gelatko (Buffalo) signed NCAA Division I letters of intent in November, while Guers (Kutztown) and Hertz (East Stroudsburg) will play at the Division II level in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.

Bishop McDevitt’s Stone Saunders was named the Maxwell Football Club’s Pennsylvania Player of the Year.