Mifflinburg Football 2008 Season

Mark Reitz's 2008 team went 2-8. The coaching-records line is 1-3 in the division and 1-8 in the league, 1-5 at home and 1-3 on the road. The two wins on the schedule are 20-19 over Shikellamy and 21-0 at Milton. Dated losses later in the fall include 17-20 to Lewisburg on Oct. 10 and 15-31 to Shamokin on Oct. 24. Central Pennsylvania Football has the Lewisburg game on YouTube.

Kim Moerschbacher's EasternPAFootball account of Oct. 3 has Jersey Shore winning 31-10 at Thompson Street Stadium. Mifflinburg's quarters were 0-7-3-0. Jersey Shore's were 7-7-0-17. Matt Brouse ran 17 times for 68 yards and scored from the 5. Jon Himes kicked a 40-yard field goal in the second half. Freshman quarterback Barry Tomasetti was 5 of 11 for 95 yards and an interception, and he was sacked five times. Mifflinburg ran 43 times for 168 yards and threw for 95. Moerschbacher had the Wildcats at 1-5 after the game.

Todd Hummel's Daily Item story, dated Sept. 6, covers the Friday night game at Selinsgrove, a 20-0 loss. Selinsgrove held Mifflinburg to minus-13 yards. The first quarter was scoreless, and each team punted twice. Shawn Hurst, who had rushed for more than 100 yards in the Aug. 29 loss to Montoursville, fumbled on a Bryant Trautman blitz. Drew Kuhns picked the ball up at the 3 and scored. The extra point was wide, and it was 6-0 with 11:53 left in the half. Selinsgrove's first offensive touchdown came with 45 seconds left in the third, a 12-yard pass from Cory Briggs to Ryan Keiser after Keiser returned a punt 33 yards to the Mifflinburg 26. Briggs had thrown for 72 yards in the first half and been sacked twice. Selinsgrove rushed for 2 yards before halftime and 129 after it. A 10-play, 80-yard drive in the fourth, 4:41 and almost entirely on the ground, ended with Trautman's 1-yard run with 8:06 left. Briggs hit Kyle Reinard for the two-point conversion, and it was 20-0. Hummel had Selinsgrove at 1-1 and 1-0 in the conference, and called it Dave Hess's first win as a head coach.