Billy Splain | September 27, 2026
Bishop Guilfoyle and central met at mansion park in a heavyweight battle between 2 ranked teams. Slugfest only lasted one quarter. The marauders intercepted Dragon quarterback Jesse Muthler four times and pulled away for a 42 – 7 win. BG Quarterback Justin Wheeler piled on 241 Yards of offense, threw two touchdown passes and ran for one, Intercepted Muthler twice, and caught a two point conversion pass to lead the Marauders to the win.
Things didn’t start off easy for the marauders either After Wheeler got his first interception Bishop Guildford drove from the 25 to the central 4 yard line but a fumble at the one gave central the ball back. Central didn’t score but won the field position game at this point with a 62 yard punt.
Starting at their own 28 Bishop guilfoyle March to the end zone and with eight minutes 44 seconds left in the second quarter Keegan Hewitt cross the line from six yards out, Carter Boling kicked the point after and make it 7-0
Keegan Hewitt goes 60 yards in the marauders take a 7 to 0 lead with 844 left in the second quarter @KeeganHewitt_ @BGMarauderFball pic.twitter.com/Q7IafWXV4X
— Pennsylvania Football News (@PaFootballNews) September 26, 2026
On central’s next drive Nick Taddei get the second BG interception and it too failed to produce any points for the marauders.
Put on central’s next position Wheeler got his second interception of the night and BG turned it into points with a 44 yard field goal by Boland giving the marauders a 10 -0 lead at halftime.
Carter Boland kicks a 44 yard field goal to make it 10 to 0 BG with just three seconds left in the first half pic.twitter.com/sQSiFiHJq3
— Pennsylvania Football News (@PaFootballNews) September 26, 2026
BG took the second-half kickoff it could only get to the 15 yard line. Another Boland field goal made it 13-0. Central followed up with their best drive of the night. Starting at their own 20 they drove to the 50 and then Muthler found Semaj Musei the flats. The speedster did the rest, avoiding tackles and sprinting down the sidelines to the end zone for a 45 yard catch and run TD. 13-7 was as close as the Dragons would get.
Jesse Muthler hits Semaj Musei and the speedy back does the rest going 45 yards to make it a 13 – 7 game BG still leads, 239 in the third quarter@MajMusei @CentralDragonFB pic.twitter.com/uxpyyKKFZm
— Pennsylvania Football News (@PaFootballNews) September 27, 2026
BG erupted both offensively and defensively after the Dragons score. Landon Schellenberger threw a 24 yard pass to Monroe gates, Wheeler ran for 24 yards then capped the drive with a 2 yard touchdown run. He also hauled in the two point conversion making it 21 to 7. The very next play Declan Peterson jumped up in front of a Muthler pass for the 4th interception of the night for BG. Wheeler ran it in from 13 yards out and the marauders pulled away.
Declan Peterson gets an interception on the next play and Wheeler again goes right in from 13 yards out. 28-7 BG. 11:36 fourth. @JWheelerftbl @BGMarauderFball pic.twitter.com/k1D9oWL8XK
— Pennsylvania Football News (@PaFootballNews) September 27, 2026
On their next drive Wheeler found Evan schimminger wide open for 53 yard touchdown Hewitt would tack on another touchdown to close out the scoring.
After the game head coach Justin Wheeler had high praise for his son and his defense. “He’s just a real athlete, and tonight he stepped it up big time period he played very well considered our defense. Our defense played lights out all night long giving us good field position and of course the turnovers helped”.
BG travels to Tyrone next Friday. Central will visit Huntingdon.
Box Score courtesy John Hartsock
Bishop Guilfoyle 42, Central 7
SCORE BY QUARTERS
Central 0 0 7 0—7
Bishop Guilfoyle 0 10 3 29–42
SECOND QUARTER
BG—Hewitt 6 run (Boland kick), 8:44.
BG—Boland 44 FG, 0:03.
THIRD QUARTER
BG—Boland 31 FG, 5:38.
C—Musei 50 pass from Muthler (Marks kick), 2:39.
FOURTH QUARTER
BG—Wheeler 2 run (Wheeler pass from Shellenberger), 11:56.
BG—Schimminger 53 pass from Wheeler (Boland kick), 9:38.
BG—Hewitt 14 run (Boland kick), 1:29.
TEAM STATISTICS C BG
First downs 8 21
Total yards 229 468
Rushes-yards 19-73 46-274
Yards passing 156 192
Passing (comp.-att.-int.) 10-20-4 12-18-0
Punts/avg. 4-37 2-41.5
Fumbles-lost 1-1 1-1
Penalties-yards 4-25 7-70
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING: Central: Muthler 3-51, Musei 10-17, Myers 1-3, Schenk 5-2. Bishop Guilfoyle: Hewitt 23-136, Wheeler 17-127, J. Gioiosa 4-14, Shellenberger 2-(-3).
PASSING: Central: Muthler 9-18-4-151, Schenk 1-2-0-5. Bishop Guilfoyle: Wheeler 7-12-0-114, Shellenberger 5-6-0-78.
RECEIVING: Central: Musei 3-63, Dickson 3-16, Schenk 2-59, Marks 1-13, Loucks 1-5. Bishop Guilfoyle: Schimminger 6-119, Gates 2-40, Wheeler 2-28, J. Gioiosa 2-5.