Photos by Luke Bender

By Dom Reed

LEWISTOWN – The  Mifflin County Huskies welcomed in the Lower Dauphin Falcons on Pawsitive vibes night at Mitchell Field.

“I thought we did well we controlled the ball a lot in the second half. We get down there we can’t take on the ten yard line to win the game possibly because we take three personal fouls for unsportsmanlike,” said Mifflin County Coach Shane Breon. “That’s what I just told the kids. We talk about that all the time about the standard of excellence.”

“You treat everyone with respect on the football field and we didn’t do that tonight and it costed us the football game.  We have to clean that up. It’s been popping up here and there all year and tonight it exploded, its just ridiculous.  I’m  proud of the kids.  They played hard. That’s a good football team. They basically shut out Hershey.  They are a good defensive football team. We moved the ball well. We couldn’t get it down there that one time and that was the difference of the football game.”

Lower Dauphin scored first on its opening drive of the game as the Falcons did it with their running game.

Gerald Sanders showed his athleticism to eventually find the endzone on a 16-yard run.

Mifflin County could not match scores with the Falcons.

MIfflin County was plagued with penalties on the drive via a pre snap penalty and a holding call.

Lower Dauphin got to quarterback Chase Hartung. Matteo Cangialosi would be credited with the sack on Hartung resulting in an empty possession for the Huskies.

Mifflin County’s  Landon Haigh was at his best in the first half as Hartung looked his way often.

Mifflin County trailed Lower Dauphin 6-0 at the end of the first quarter.

The Falcons’ second drive seemed as though everything would go their way. Braeden Heckard looked Brandon Fritz’s way. He dropped the ball as the ball would go back to Mifflin County.

The Huskies got on the board Hartung would find Haigh for a touchdown.

Mifflin County Brendon Noerr’s extra point would be successful to give Mifflin County the advantage 7-6 with 42 seconds remaining in the first half.

The Falcons would later put a drive together. Fritz connected on a field goal to take the game into the half with Lower Dauphin leading Mifflin County 9-7.

Mifflin County got the ball to start the second half. The Huskies had good plays from Cyrell Green and Dupree Reed on big plays but the Huskies were unable to turn them into points.

Both defenses played well keeping it to a low score game.

Mifflin County had a chance to grab the lead late on a field goal try from Noerr but the Huskies would be penalized for an illegal substitution that would back the ball up.
Mifflin County would come up empty again. The Huskies had one more chance late where Mifflin County used their receiving talent driving down the field Mifflin County would have multiple after the play penalties backing the Huskies back to a third down and 40. Hartung would look Green’s way and it would fall incomplete.

Mifflin County’s defense would fail to hold the Falcons defense Mifflin County would fall to Lower Dauphin 9-7.