ON TAP TODAY: FOOTBALL FRIDAY FEATURES PLAYOFF GAME, TWO REGULAR-SEASON FINALES (2024-11-01)

Valley Sports Report
THE VALLEY — This Football Friday features the first playoff game of the season — Athens and Shamokin, and the regular-season finales for Waverly and Tioga.

FOOTBALL
District 4, Class 4A Semifinals
4-Athens (5-5) at Shamokin (10-0), 7 p.m.: The Wildcats are coming off a 51-6 win over Sayre in the "Rusty Rail" rivalry, while the Indians blanked Mount Carmel, 21-0, to finish off an unbeaten regular season.

Athens is 1-4 against playoff teams this season, allowing 44 points per game in those games. The lone win was a 48-42 shootout against Canton.

Shamokin outscored its opponents by an average of 36.8 points to 8.9 points per game. Six of its seven wins against District 4 teams were against playoff teams, including Williamsport, Jersey Shore, Mount Carmel, and Loyalsock.

Whitney Point (4-4 overall, 1-2 Div. V) at Waverly (7-1, 3-0), 7 p.m.: The Wolverines are coming off a 48-0 win at Lansing, while the Golden Eagles dropped a 44-6 decision to previously-winless Schuyler.

Waverly is averaging 45.5 points per game, while allowing just 9. Whitney Point has been outscored by an average of 24.4 to 12.8 points per game.

The Wolverine offense is averaging 348.8 yards (178.8 rushing and 170.0 passing) per game in total offense.

Sophomore Ben Shaw has completed 72.3 percent (81 of 112) of his passes for 19 TDs, and just one interception. Senior Fletcher Good leads the ground game with 530 yards (9.1 yards per carry) and 11 TDs, and seniors Xavier Watson (36 catches, 485 yards, and eight TDs) and Kolsen Keathley (20 catches, 432 yards, and five TDs) lead the receiving corps.

Tioga (5-3, 2-0 Div. VII) at Bainbridge-Guilford (6-2, 1-1), 7 p.m.: The Tigers are coming off a 56-28 rout of state-ranked Deposit-Hancock (ranked 5th), while the Bobcats bounced back from a 49-12 loss to D-H with a 20-6 win over Newark Valley.

Tioga played old-fashioned power football last week in a game that would have made legendary coach Jim Haggerty smile. Senior Jake Browne, in his first year of varsity football, rushed for a school and Section IV record 421 yards and eight TDs, which set the school record, and tied the section record.

The Tigers pounded out 559 yards on 56 carries, and did not throw a pass against perviously-unbeaten D-H.

Browne leads the Tioga ground game with 1,070 yards and 16 TDs on 125 carries.

Tioga, ranked eighth in the state, enters the game averaging 26.8 points per game, while allowing 23 points per game. Their losses this season are to Waverly and Chenango Forks, ranked first and third, respectively, in the state in Class C, and to Delhi, ranked seventh in Class D.

B-G, ranked 15th in the State, enters the game averaging 25.5 points per game, and while allowing 18.8 per game. Their losses came to Deposit-Hancock (49-12) and Whitney Point (13-6).

Junior QB Connor Davy is one of the top dual-threats in Section IV with 1,046 yards passing, with five TD and nine interceptions, as well as 513 rushing yards and 11 TDs.

Senior Declyn Marshfield is the Eagles' top receiver with 37 receptions for 611 yards and six TDs.

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