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Oil City 14, Meadville 8  -- Soph Bryce Marchinke's INT with 13 seconds left preserved the win. Oilers took a 14-0 lead into the fourth quarter, but yielded a 14-yard TD pass on fourth down. 

MASH missed the XP with 3:14 to play and then kicked deep.

with 3:14 to play and then kicked deep.

The Oilers couldn't move but wisely took a safety and held of the homesteading Bulldgos with smart anagement and Marchinke's pick.

The Oilers' first TD came after a failed fake punt. Oilers got the ball on the 25; Tycen Siindlinger scored from the 12 and Oil City led 6-0 at the half.

Marchinke, who shared QB with senior Alex McIntyre, scored from the late in the third quarter and tossed to Carter Bialo for the PAT.

All and all, the punting game was not kind to MASH, and neither was the Oiler defense, which limited the Bulldogs to 108 total yards.

Led by Carter Thompson (61 yards) and Sindlinger, the Oilers, despite completing just one pass. finished with 175 yards.

Sindlinger had tackles and all-stater Blake Stevens 11 to go with a fumble recovery.

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Oil City 63, Franklin 3 -- Logan Heath returned a kickoff 97 yards right after Franklin had taken a short-lived 3-0 lead, triggering a string of 63 unanswered points. The return was the third longest in Oiler history, and Heath was not finished, catching two TD passes, one from Alex McIntyre (33 yards) and the other from Bryce Marchinke (17).

Carter Thompson added two touchdowns, one of a 63-yard run and ran for 148 yards to lead all rushers. Dylan Van Wormer also had a 57 TD, a 57-yarder.

Blake Stevens blocked a punt and recovered in the end zone to extend the lead to 12-0. That play covered 31 yards and helped Oil City take a 34-3 halftime lead.

The mercy rule went into effect soon after the second half began. 

Also scoring TDs for the Oilers were Owen McCullough on a 32-yard pick 6 and Declan Cunningham on a 7-yard run.

Oil City outgunned Franklin,  341-82.

It was the Oilers' 10th straight victory over the Knights.

2026

ABOUT THIS SITE

If you are from Anywhere, USA, and happened to stumble upon this site, Franklin and Oil City are about eight miles apart along Route 8 in Venango County, Pa. -- which is about halfway between Pittsburgh and Erie in the western part of the state.

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yardsandpoints.com (formerly venangofootball.com and then route8rivalry.com) covers the grid doings of Oil City and Franklin high schools in Venango County. It also includes the football histories of the two schools, which date back to 1896, along with that of (RIP) Venango Catholic (nee Christian and formerly St. Joseph in Oil City), which dropped the sport in the 1990s. I've recently included more stuff on basketball as well as the doings in other sports.

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Former Derrick sports editor Penny Weichel is webmaster.

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Contact pennyweichel@gmail.com if need be.

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