Dunmore vs Carbondale Area Football Rivalry

On Oct. 2, 2015, at Dunmore Veterans Memorial Stadium, Dunmore won 46-0 on a chilly, wet night. The game story calls it Jack Henzes' 400th career win. He was 79, and the career had started 49 years earlier at Wyoming Area. The story called him the second coach in state history to reach 400, after Berwick's George Curry. The Oct. 1 Times-Tribune story had him at 399 going into that night. Dunmore was 4-1. The Bucks rushed for 338 yards and seven touchdowns. The defense forced three turnovers and held Carbondale to minus-23 yards. Dunmore started at the Carbondale 47 and drove to the 11, where Colin Holmes scored. In the second quarter Holmes ran for 13 and 3, Dominic Mesko hit Pat Reese for 12, and Garrett Murray scored from 41 yards, then from 15. The half ended 19-0. On the second play of the second half a backwards pass went over Dominic Gigliotti's head, and Murray recovered at the 1. Holmes scored again, and it was 26-0. Kyle Lasher scored from 22 and from 20. Joe Galenas scored from 66 early in the fourth. Gavin Darcy took a knee on the last play. Carbondale coach Larry Gabriel III and his players congratulated Henzes. The next game was Honesdale.

On Oct. 20, 2017, at Veterans Memorial Stadium, Dunmore won 49-0. It was a sixth straight shutout. Frank Damiano rushed for 126 yards and three touchdowns. The story had Dunmore No. 3 and Carbondale No. 10. Dunmore was 9-0 and 8-0 in Lackawanna Football Conference Division III, and the win tied the conference record of 28 straight regular-season wins. The next game was at Old Forge on Oct. 27 for the division title. Carbondale was 5-4 and 5-3. Mid Valley's 27-6 win over Susquehanna clinched a District 2 Class 2A berth for the Chargers. Jaden Hudson intercepted Dunmore's first drive. Carbondale then drove 39 yards in 10 plays and was stopped on fourth down at the Dunmore 32. Damiano scored from 5 yards on an 11-play drive. Steve Borgia blocked the next punt. Luke Yanisko ran it 24 yards to the 2, and Damiano scored. Darcy hit Noah O'Malley for a 5-yard touchdown. Dunmore later took over at the Carbondale 36. O'Malley caught a 31-yard pass to the 2, and Damiano scored his third touchdown. It was 28-0. Nate Fangio intercepted a pass, and Darcy hit him for 53 yards with 13 seconds left in the half. In the second half Borgia returned a punt 31 yards to the 4, and Caleb Kilmer scored from the 1. A photo caption has Joe Talutto returning a fumble for a touchdown, and another has Thomas Lewis intercepting a pass.

On Nov. 10, 2017, at Veterans Memorial Stadium, Dunmore won the District 2 Class 2A championship, 35-8. It was a third straight Class 2A title and a fourth straight district title. Henzes said it was four district championships for the seniors. Dunmore was 12-0 and the top seed. Carbondale was the second seed, at 7-5. Darcy was 11 of 18 for 196 yards and two touchdowns, both in the last 53 seconds of the first half, and a 14-0 lead became 28-0. Fangio caught a 25-yard score with 53 seconds left. A short punt gave Dunmore the ball at the Carbondale 45 with 19 seconds left. Darcy hit Greg McDade for 24 yards, then Steve Borgia for 21 as the clock expired. Damiano had opened with a 13-yard run less than three minutes in, and he scored from 4 yards with 4:11 left in the third. He finished with 49 yards and two touchdowns on eight carries. Cristian Buckley had 38 yards and a score on nine carries. Billy Donvito had 52 yards on eight carries. Caleb Kilmer had 47 yards on six. Dunmore finished with 451 yards, 255 on the ground. Fangio had four catches for 84 yards. Noah O'Malley had five catches for 67. Carbondale had 145 yards, 51 of them in the fourth quarter. The Chargers stopped Dunmore on downs at the 6, and Dunmore fumbled twice inside the 5. Noah Yates ran 32 yards on a fake punt. Nick Vadella scored from 9 yards with 5:37 left and finished with 79 yards on 21 carries.