A handful of Butler County football players will see action at Heinz Field on Saturday.

Mitch MacZura, Dan O’Neill and Tom Shanley of Cranberry Township, Patrick Phibbs of Mars, Luke Milazzo of Seven Fields and Jake Rocchi of Butler all play for unbeaten Central Catholic. The Vikings face Woodland Hills in the WPIAL Class AAAA championship game at 2 p.m. at Heinz Field.

“I’m going to be kicking on the same field as (Steelers kicker) Shaun Suisham. I can’t wait for that,” MacZura said. “Hopefully, I can help my team win.”

MacZura, a junior, has been the Vikings’ placekicker since his freshman season. Rocchi handles some of the team’s kickoff duties.

MacZura has only missed one PAT all season and has connected on three of five field goal attempts. His only misses have come from 52 and 47 yards out.

His career-long field goal is 40 yards, booted his freshman year.

Phibbs, also a junior, is Central’s long snapper.

“Mitch and I are good friends and we’ve gone to kicking camps together,” Phibbs said.

One of those was a national scholarship camp in Wisconsin. MacZura was one of the top kickers there and Phibbs was named the 10th best long snapper in the country among high school players.

MacZura’s brother, Matt, kicked for Central’s 2007 state championship team and is the starting kicker as a senior at Georgetown University.

MacZura is the second leading scorer for the Vikings this season, trailing only standout running back Luigi Lista-Brinza.

“My dream is to kick in college for a big school,” MacZura said. “I’ve gone to Oregon and Stanford for kicking sessions, won the underclassman competition at Stanford and was invited back there.

“That’s my ultimate goal, to attend school out there and kick for them.”

MacZura’s father was a soccer player.

“I’ve been kicking since I was 4,” he said. “I was invited to come down to Central in eighth grade and I won the kicking job as a freshman.”

Phibbs’ father, Bruce, was a long snapper for Southern Illinois University and was part of that school’s Div. I-AA national championship team in 1983. Phibbs’ older sister, Audra, played basketball for an Oakland Catholic team that was PIAA runner-up.

“I guess I just want to continue the tradition,” he said. “I’m following in the footsteps of my father, definitely.

“The nature of my position is to stay under the radar. I don’t want to be noticed during a game. If I am, it’s going to be for something bad.”

Shanley is a starting tight end for the Vikings and Milazzo is a backup offensive and defensive lineman.

O’Neill starts at guard and defensive tackle as a senior. He tore his ACL during his sophomore season.

“I had trouble with the knee last year, too,” he said. “It takes a while to come back from that injury.”

The 6-foot-1, 265-pound O’Neill said the team aspect makes Central Catholic successful.

“There’s a different type of bond here in that we didn’t grow up together and haven’t been playing ball together since we were little,” he said.

“We all travel so far to get there. Everybody sacrifices something that way and that’s brought us all closer together. We play for each other.”

O’Neill is hopeful of playing college football for an Ivy League or Patriot League school next year.

“But, right now, it’s a great feeling being where we are,” O’Neill said.

Phibbs agreed.

“I love the school. It’s a great school ... and we’re going to have a blast on Saturday,” he said.