Mifflinburg Football 2018 Season

Jason Dressler's 2018 team went 2-8. The coaching-records line is 1-4 in the division and 2-8 in the league. The two wins were 22-7 over Hughesville on Aug. 24 and 32-0 at Milton on Sept. 7. Matt Beltz wrote that the two seasons before this one had come to 5-16. No playoff game is marked on the schedule.

Beltz's EasternPAFootball account of that opener has Mifflinburg beating Hughesville 22-7 at home, the first opening-night win since 2011. Junior Gary DeGroat was 20 of 33 for 174 yards and ran for 93 yards on 12 carries. Rylee Stahl caught eight passes for 119 yards. Hughesville managed 103 yards, 35 of them in the first half, and six first downs. Robert Foltz caught a 5-yard touchdown from DeGroat to finish a 13-play, 79-yard drive. DeGroat later scored from the 3, and Eric Zimmerman ran for the two-point conversion. In the fourth quarter a Hughesville punt from the 16 went straight up after a bad snap. John Raker fell on it in the end zone. Mifflinburg's quarters were 7-0-8-7.

Cody Smith's account of Oct. 26 has Lewisburg winning 56-18 at home. Lewisburg led 28-0 early in the second quarter and had 42 points by halftime. Smith had Mifflinburg turning the ball over five times, and wrote that Lewisburg outgained the Wildcats by 65 yards, 393 to 328. Mason Breed scored from the 6. Nate Rosen caught five passes for 105 yards, including a 50-yard score from DeGroat. Michael Warren ran in from the 20 in the fourth quarter. Mifflinburg's quarters were 0-12-0-6. Lewisburg's were 14-28-7-7. At halftime Lewisburg took the Little Brown Jug for an 11th straight year, after winning 20 of 29 head-to-head events in 2017. Smith had Mifflinburg at 2-8 and done for the season.