ERIE | The Regis Jesuit football team struck first in its visit to Erie Friday night, but couldn’t sustain the momentum and saw its season come to an end.
The 21st-seeded Raiders got the jump on the 12th-seeded and host Tigers in their Class 5A first round state playoff contest on an early field goal by senior Jack Manthey, only to come up empty offensively for the rest of the contest in a 20-3 defeat.
Coach Danny Filleman’s young Regis Jesuit team (which averaged more than 27 points per game in the regular season) was limited to single digits for the first time all season as it finished with 4-7 record. Erie (7-4), meanwhile, moved on in the bracket into a matchup with fifth-seeded Valor Christian (8-2), which had a bye in the opening round.
Updated Class 5A state football playoff scoreboard and schedule, here
It was the first time Regis Jesuit hadn’t made it into at least the second round via win or bye in a full season (minus the 2020 season where only eight teams made the postseason) since 2011.
The Raiders got off to a good start against Erie, as they converted their second possession of the game into points. A 50-plus yard drive reached the red zone with help from a chunk play on a completion from sophomore quarterback Luke Rubley to junior Cade Filleman, but was halted with an incompletion on third down.
Manthey converted with a 36-yard field goal that gave the Raiders a lead that lasted into the second quarter until Erie’s Colt Heil — part of a rotating quarterback duo with Jack Arnold — got into the end zone from 12 yards out.
The Tigers threatened to score again on their next possession, but Cade Filleman laid out to intercept a tipped pass and get the ball back for Regis Jesuit, which had a successful series going the other way that ended when Manthey’s 47-yard attempt was blocked by the Tigers’ Achilles Powers. Erie’s Noah Brisnehan missed his own field goal try off the crossbar on the final play of the second quarter to keep it a four-point game.
Neither team scored in the third quarter as Regis Jesuit had a turnover on downs on its best possession, while the Tigers launched a drive at the end of the period that eventually resulted in a short touchdown pass from Arnold to Owen Collard.
The only interception thrown by Rubley came in the fourth quarter and it set Erie up for a sealing scoring drive, which culminated with Arnold’s short touchdown on a keeper.
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2025 CLASS 5A STATE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS (1ST ROUND)
Nov. 7 at Erie High School
(12) ERIE 20, (21) REGIS JESUIT 3
Score by quarters:
Regis Jesuit 3 0 0 0 — 3
Erie 0 7 0 13 — 20
SCORING
First quarter
Regis Jesuit — Jack Manthey 36 yard field goal, 4:52
Second quarter
Erie — Colt Heil 12 yard run (Noah Brisnehan kick), 8:28
Fourth quarter
Erie — Owen Collard 1 yard pass from Jack Arnold (Brisnehan kick), 11:03
Erie — Arnold 5 yard run (kick blocked), 7:48
RUSHING
Regis Jesuit: Joe Pron 9-44, Benjamin Bacon 9-42, Colt Jones 1-(minus 5), Luke Rubley 4-(minus 11)
PASSING
Regis Jesuit: Rubley 13-26, 110 yards, 1 interception
RECEIVING
Regis Jesuit: Jones 5-47, Cade Filleman 3-36, Dahntay Kouahi 2-15, Tyler Henry 2-6, Logan Singer 1-6
