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Gov. Mifflin and Muhlenberg, which meet tonight for the first time in a Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 2 game, have been playing each other since 1954, when they were members of the Berks Football League (which predated the Inter-County League).

In the years since the Mustangs and Muhls have faced each other in three subsequent leagues: The Tri-County League, Section 1 of the Lancaster-Lebanon League and the Inter-County League.

Tonight’s game will mark the sixth different league format in which the two programs have faced each other (the I-C switched from an overall league to two sections for the 2001 season, and the Mustangs and Muhls were always paired together in Section 1).

The Mustangs hold a 43-18-2 series lead, with 18 straight wins.

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Wilson has beaten Cedar Crest 18 straight times but that’s hardly the Bulldogs’ longest active winning streak against a Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 1 rival. Wilson has beaten Penn Manor 30 straight times and McCaskey 20 straight times.

Cedar Crest’s last win in the series came in 2001, when Chad Henne was a sophomore. The Falcons won 21-0 in West Lawn.

The teams play tonight, at Gurski Stadium, for the 54th time. Wilson leads the series 48-4-1.

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Wyomissing can tie the Berks record for consecutive regular season wins with a victory tonight at Elco.

The Spartans are 4-0 and have won 29 straight, one short of Wilson’s record, set from 2012-15. Berks Catholic won 29 straight from 2013-15.

The Spartans are 40-3 since the start of the 2019 season.

Wyomissing has met Elco just once before, beating the Raiders 28-0 in the 2001 District 3 Class AA championship game at Cedar Crest.

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Annville-Cleona’s Phoenix Music is the Lancaster-Lebanon League’s leading rusher with 810 yards, according to stats on lancasteronline.com. He has run for 10 touchdowns, including two against Hamburg last week in the Hawks’ 39-26 win.

Hamburg’s Pierce Mason is third in the league with 727 rushing yards; he out-gained Music 270-191 in last week’s match-up.

Mason has run for 14 TDs and a scored a league-leading 16 touchdowns.

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Cam Jones returned a punt 69 yards for a touchdown and a kickoff 91 yards for a score last year in Wilson’s 49-24 win at Cedar Crest. They were among seven kicks he took to the house last season.

This season Jones, a senior committed to Holy Cross, has returned three punts for scores: A 77-yarder against Roman Catholic and 61 and 57 yards against Reading High last week in the Bulldogs’ Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 1 opener.