The Mechanicsburg Wildcats will square off against the Shippensburg Greyhounds at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are still undefeated (Mechanicsburg has 12 wins dating back to last season, while Shippensburg has nine).
Last Friday, everything went Mechanicsburg's way against Hershey as Mechanicsburg made off with a 42-21 win. Fans of the Wildcats have seen this all before: every one of the games they've played this season has ended in a blowout of 20+ points.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Eli Reider and Cameron Sweeney. Reider had a great game and threw for 234 yards and four touchdowns while completing 76.9% of his passes. Meanwhile, Sweeney was balling out in the loss, rushing for 65 yards and a touchdown on only seven carries, while also throwing for 79 yards and a touchdown on only seven passes.
Meanwhile, Shippensburg didn't have too much trouble with Northern York on the road on Friday as they won 28-14. Given the Greyhounds' advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania football rankings (they are ranked 82nd, while the Polar Bears are ranked 259th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Among those leading the charge was Brady Maciejewski, who punched in two rushing scores, and also threw for 52 yards and a touchdown.
Mechanicsburg pushed their record up to 9-0 with the victory, which was their sixth straight at home dating back to last season. As for Shippensburg, their record is now an identical 9-0.
Mechanicsburg came up short against Shippensburg when the teams last played back in October of 2023, falling 14-7. Can Mechanicsburg avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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