Oct 9, 2025 By Rob Burchianti 4 min read

It’s pick your poison with the Albert Gallatin football team this season.

Opponents who chose to try to halt the Colonials’ strong inside ground game, led by Tee Guesman, are likely to get burned on the outside by Adam Pegg. Focus on stopping Pegg from getting to the corner and that opens the door for Guesman, who scored a school-record seven touchdowns in a win over Allegany in Week Five.

Now defenses have found they have to be wary of run-heavy AG through the air as well with quarterback Bronx Jamison.

Pegg scored five touchdowns in Albert Gallatin’s 62-27 win at Clear Spring in Maryland on Friday with two coming on passes from Jamison.

Pegg added touchdown runs of 1 and 11 yards and a 30-yard interception return in racking up 30 points and moving into a tie for second place in the Herald-Standard Touchdown Club standings with Guesman at 108 points.

Jefferson-Morgan’s Deakyn DeHoet still kept his grip on the top spot by pulling in a trio of touchdown passes from quarterback Triton Farabee and also turning a botched extra-point attempt into a two-point conversion run in a 37-19 win over Beth-Center.

The dangerous DeHoet’s TD receptions covered 65, 29 and 80 yards.

DeHoet’s lead is 30 points as he upped his total to 138 on the season.

Pegg, like Guesman last week, scored the first three touchdowns of the game in the first quarter, with the first two surprising the Blazers by coming through the air.

Those were the only two passes Jamison threw but they went for 92 yards.

“Jamison went over 100 yards running the ball, too, for the first time this season,” AG coach Drew Dindl pointed out. “He’s building a lot of confidence so when the opportunity presents itself I know I can trust him to put the ball up. He’s been doing a good job.”

Jamison hasn’t thrown much but his statistics are startling. He’s completed 14 of 19 passes for 329 yards and eight touchdowns.

“Defenses are always so worried about stopping the run with us with Tee and Adam, and Roman (Smith) and Bronx and the other guys, it really helps to be able to take advantage of that and hit some big passes, kind of put that in defenses minds, too.

“Jamison plays a big part in the success Tee and Adam are having. And, of course, so does our offensive line.”

John Woodward, who suffered a first-quarter ankle injury and was limited offensively the rest of Jefferson-Morgan’s win over B-C, remained in fourth place in the TD Club standings at 74 points. Southmoreland’s Jackson Mickens moved into fifth place at 72 points after running for a pair of touchdowns in the Scotties’ 41-0 win at Yough.

Jefferson-Morgan, Albert Gallatin and Southmoreland all improved to 7-0 in Week Six.

Rounding out the top 10 in the TD Club standings are California’s Malachi Peak in sixth with 66 points, Waynesburg Central’s Teagen Crouse and Frazier’s Derek Diamond tied for seventh with 48 points and West Greene’s Joel Rizor and Southmoreland’s Dawson Wolfe tied for ninth with 44 points.

The only one of that group to score last week was Peak who had touchdown runs of 13, 24 and 33 yards in the Trojans’ 50-0 win at Carmichaels.

Belle Vernon’s Chace Petrosky was the biggest mover with his four-touchdown, 339-yard rushing performance in the Leopards’ gut-wrenching 36-35 loss to Chartiers Valley. Petrosky had one TD going into the game but now has 30 points and jumped up into a tie for 20th in the standings.

Lurking just outside the top 10 with 43 points is, surprisingly, a kicker. The Scotties’ Liam Smith booted two more field goals in Week Six to give him an area-leading six on the season and 43 points overall.

There were three more kickoff returns for touchdowns among local players making it 14 overall in 2025. The Colonials’ Bobby Panos is the only one with multiple TD returns, bringing back one 90 yards against Clear Spring for his third of the year. That gives Albert Gallatin four kickoff returns for scores with Pegg taking one 90 yards back earlier in the season.

Also returning kickoffs for touchdowns last week were Connellsville’s Linkon Keller for 89 yards and Brownsville’s Max Dieudonne for 71 yards.

Keller is the only local player with kickoff, punt (72) and interception (55) returns for TDs.