BUTLER AREA MIDGET FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Penn Street and Center Township will meet for the Butler Area Midget Football League title at 7 p.m. Saturday at Art Bernardi Stadium.
East Butler and East Side will face off in the junior varsity championship at 5.
Admission to the games will be $2 for adults, no charge for children.
<B>Center Township 31, Meridian 20 — </B>Pat Lokhaiser scored on a 49-yard run for Center Township (6-2) on the second play of the game. Doug DeFrancis added to the lead with a 57-yard scoring run in the second quarter.Meridian (6-3) scored on a 34-yard touchdown pass from Jordan Cratty to Nolan Fox.Five touchdowns were scored in the fourth quarter. Cratty threw a 26-yard TD pass to Fox and Christian Kovach's conversion kick gave Meridian a 14-12 lead. Lokhaiser returned the ensuing kickoff 75 yards for a touchdown as CTregained the lead.A 16-yard Lokhaiser scoring run and PATrun by Kolby Kriese gave CTa 25-14 advantage. Jake Olenick scored on a 1-yard run to pull Meridian within 25-20, but Kriese concluded the scoring with a five-yard touchdown run.<B>Penn Street 48, East Side 0 — </B>The Cardinals (7-1) put the game away early with four first-half touchdowns. Christian Manning returned a punt 47 yards for a touchdown and added the conversion kick. East Side (4-5) lost two fumbles that set up Penn Street scores: Keenan Barlow on a 25-yard run and Sean Hembree on a 20-yard run.Tim Butler's 50-yard touchdown run concluded the first-half scoring.Barlow ran 50 yards for a score in the third quarter and Shane Wilbert tossed a 35-yard touchdown pass to Hembree. Manning added conversion kicks after both scores. Trae Wilson scored on a 21-yard run in the fourth quarter to conclude the scoring.JV Semifinals<B>East Side 28, Penn Street 20 — </B>The teams traded touchdowns in the first half. Brandon Selfridge scored on a 48-yard run and Jeff Bailey scored on a 12-yard run for Penn Street. Keenan Krause scored on a nine-yard run and Damian Pickett scored on a 25-yard run.Selfridge gave Penn Street a 20-14 lead in the third quarter by scoring on a 28-yard run. Mike Snow added the conversion kick. Jeremy Hanford answered for East Side, scoring on a 10-yard run.Krause scored on a 52-yard run in the fourth quarter.<B>East Butler 14, Meridian 6 — </B>Garrett Goslaw returned the opening kickoff 65 yards for an East Butler touchdown. Robert Bordine extended the lead with a 39-yard scoring run in the second quarter, Derek Gengler adding the kick.Meridian scored late in the game on a 2-yard TD pass from Mark Gross to Andy Paterno.
