Mifflinburg Football
Mifflinburg Football 2002 Season
- Record
- 11-1
- League
- 6-0 division, 9-0 league
Head coach Mark Reitz. Beat Saucon Valley 41-14. Lost to Blue Mountain, 13-17.
The coaching-records table has 2002 at 11-1, 6-0 in the division and 9-0 in the league. The team site lists District IV 2002 with 2025 as its district championships. The only loss on the schedule is the last game, 13-17 against Blue Mountain, marked as a playoff and a state playoff. District IV's champions table lists the 2002-03 Class 3A title as Mifflinburg, Shamokin.
Before that, Mifflinburg beat Saucon Valley 41-14 in a game with the same playoff marks, shut out East Stroudsburg North and Central Columbia, and beat Selinsgrove 21-14 and Lewisburg 47-7 on the road. Dates on this schedule are not filled in. The school district history says the team lost at districts to Blue Mountain. The score on the team schedule is Mifflinburg 13, Blue Mountain 17, in the game marked state playoff. Matt Beltz, writing up the 2025 final for EasternPAFootball, said that 2002 title was shared with Shamokin because the district did not play a tournament, and that Mifflinburg went to the state bracket after a 10-0 regular season. A 2002 Class AAA bracket posted by d9sports puts the Nov. 15 game at Mifflinburg Area High School and prints Blue Mountain 17-13 beside a Mifflinburg record of 11-1. The PIAA results compilation then has Blue Mountain, the No. 11, losing the Nov. 23 quarterfinal at Hershey to Lower Dauphin, 20-7.
Notable games
Saucon Valley · W 41-14
Marked playoff and state playoff.
Lewisburg · W 47-7
Away. League game.
Selinsgrove · W 21-14
Away.
Blue Mountain · L 13-17
Marked playoff and state playoff. The only loss.