HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: HORNETS FALL AT LOYALSOCK (September 11, 2026)

Northern Tier West Sports Report
LOYALSOCK — Wellsboro fell behind Loyalsock quickly and suffered a 35-7 loss to the Lancers in non-league football action here Friday night. 

It took the Loyalsock Lancers just 17 seconds to put up the game's first points on the Wellsboro Hornets .. After returning the game's opening kickoff to the Wellsboro 47, Loyalsock's Ivan Baker ripped off a 47-yard touchdown run to put the Lancers up 7-0. 

Loyalsock struck two more times in the first quarter, once on a 22-yard pass from Dyson Dupont to Carter Brown, and the second on a two-yard run by Cayden Sones. After the game's first 12 minutes, Loyalsock held a 20-0 lead.

Baker struck pay dirt for the second time in the game on a 21-yard run with 2:04 remaining in the first half to increase the Lancers' lead to 27-0. Then later in the third, with 2:48 remaining, Matthew Rickard scored from a yard out to push the lead to 35-0 following a two-point pass from Dupont to Brown, enacting the mercy rule.

The Hornets got on the scoreboard late in the game. After a 15-yard run by junior Reed Richardson, junior Griffin Morral called his own number, broke through the Lancer defense, and raced down the sideline for a 60-yard score. Sophomore Maddon Mascho connected on the extra point, bringing the score to 35-7 with 3:37 left in the game.

Loyalsock accumulated 364 yards of total offense while they held Wellsboro to 175 yards.

Morral completed 5-of-14 passes for 54 yards and rushed 13 times for 84 yards. Richardson carried the ball 7 times for 39 yards and senior Max Mascho posted 13 yards on 4 attempts. He also caught one pass for 10 yards. Sophomore Christian Main caught two passes for 31 yards, senior Ethan Keane had one catch for 11 yards and junior Kody Enck caught a screen pass for 2 yards.

Enck led Wellsboro's defense with 10 tackles. Richardson added 8 stops and Mascho had an interception.

The Hornets (1-2, 1-0 NTL Large School Division) are back in action next Saturday afternoon at Canton.

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