Leesport, PA — Schuylkill Valley gets Frost Bowl victory over Hamburg in high school football The Panthers force four turnovers and beat the Hawks 28-13 Hamburg's Ethan Horvath intercepts a pass intended for Schuylkill Valley's Kowen Gerner, but Gerner stole the ball from him at the 3-yard line with seconds left in the first half Friday in the Frost Bowl at Leesport. The Panthers scored two plays later. (BILL UHRICH - READING EAGLE) Hamburg’s Ethan Horvath intercepts a pass intended for Schuylkill Valley’s Kowen Gerner, but Gerner stole the ball from him at the 3-yard line with seconds left in the first half Friday in the Frost Bowl at Leesport. The Panthers scored two plays later. (BILL UHRICH – READING EAGLE) Author By BRIAN SMITH | [email protected] | Reading Eagle PUBLISHED: October 14, 2023 at 12:52 a.m. | UPDATED: October 14, 2023 at 2:17 p.m. Takeaways made the difference for Schuylkill Valley in its victory over Hamburg on Friday night in the annual Frost Bowl. The Panthers forced four turnovers, including a momentum-shifting interception that was returned 96 yards for a touchdown by Cooper Hohenadel. But there was one more takeaway that played a huge role in the Panthers’ 28-13 win in a Lancaster-Lebanon Section 5 game at Leesport. In the final 10 seconds of the first half, Schuylkill Valley’s Kowen Gerner took the ball from Hamburg’s Ethan Horvath on a pass from Panthers quarterback Logan Nawrocki, turning a would-be interception into a 50-yard reception that gave the Panthers the ball at the Hawks’ 3. After Nawrocki spiked the ball to kill the clock, he connected on a 3-yard touchdown pass to Dillon Lackner to give Schuylkill Valley a 28-7 lead with 5.5 seconds left in the first half. “I stole the ball from the defender,” Gerner said. “We scored right before the half and it just boosted our team’s confidence and brought them down before the half. It was a great way to end the half.” Hamburg (1-4, 4-4) had scored with 37.7 seconds left in the half on a 4-yard run by Tyler Shuey to make it 21-7.