Mifflinburg Football 2016 Season

Jason Dressler's 2016 team went 3-7. The coaching-records line is 3-3 in the division and 3-7 in the league. The three wins were 21-13 at Jersey Shore on Sept. 2, 24-21 over Shamokin on Sept. 23, and 35-6 over Milton on Oct. 21. No playoff game is marked on the schedule.

Matt Beltz's EasternPAFootball account of Sept. 9 has Loyalsock winning 37-7 at Mifflinburg, the first meeting since 2009. Loyalsock's quarters were 14-16-7-0. Mifflinburg's were 0-0-0-7. Marcus Williams caught an 86-yard screen from Connor Watkins. Cole Cavanaugh ran for 150 yards and three touchdowns, from 69, 11, and 10 yards. A Mifflinburg punt snap went out of the end zone for a safety. Hunter Webb's 43-yard catch from Watkins made it 37-0. Brayden Pierce had cleared 100 yards in each of the first two games. He finished this one with 78 yards on 25 carries and a 4-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter, a nine-play, 75-yard drive, with Ryan Oliver kicking. Josh Foster was 4 of 11 for 28 yards. Mifflinburg had 151 yards. Captains Clayton Sheesley and Cole Laubach left hurt, Sheesley with a leg injury and Laubach carted off after a hit. Dressler's point afterward was that the Wildcats did not finish plays. Beltz had Mifflinburg at 1-2.

William Albright's account of the Sept. 2 game at Thompson Street Stadium has Mifflinburg winning 21-13. Mifflinburg's quarters were 6-0-0-15. Jersey Shore's were 7-0-0-6. Jarrett Guthrie scored from 22 yards on the opening drive and finished with 119 yards on 27 carries. Josh Foster found Cole Laubach for 41 yards, and the kick failed. That 7-6 lead held until the fourth quarter. Brayden Pierce, at 20 yards in the first half, finished with 114 on 31 carries and scored from the 5. Foster ran for the conversion. Laubach then returned an interception 17 yards, and Ryan Oliver kicked. Elijah Shemory was 20 of 38 for 226 yards, a touchdown and three interceptions. Todd Sanford caught 11 passes for 136 yards. Austin Breon's 8-yard catch made it 21-13, and the conversion pass failed. Foster was 7 of 13 for 80 yards, a touchdown and an interception. The box lists 11 and 19 first downs, 36 rushes for 119 yards and 38 for 163, and 80 and 226 passing yards.