Sentinel photo by KATHY REED Mifflin County’s Brody Wolfkill (37), Landon Mazur (12), Wyatt Yoder (14) and Ethan Plank (36) defend against a kick from Shippensburg’s Gage Sauserman during a boys soccer game Thursday.

LEWISTOWN — Mifflin County’s boys soccer team lost their second game of the season as the Huskies fell to Shippensburg on Thursday, 9-1.

“One of our points of emphasis since the preseason has been we have to play through the midfield and be willing to play through the midfield not just try and send long balls that’s kind of an old mentality… and whenever we are willing to play the ball through midfield things start to generate offensively for us,” Huskies coach Keith Yoder said.

“We’re not consistent enough with it yet so through two games we’ve noted that when we do play through the midfield we are better and a stronger team. We just can’t fall back into that mentality of playing over the top.”

Mifflin County (0-2) could only get one score past the Greyhounds’ defense. That goal was scored by Kayden Hook with 24:26 remaining in the first half, cutting the deficit to within two. The score made it 3-1 in favor of the Greyhounds (2-0)

“We definitely need to keep our heads up on the first look. After they scored the first few goals we didn’t play like we should’ve. We just have to keep our heads up,” Hook said.

Gage Sauserman scored the first goal of the game for Shippensburg which gave the Greyhounds a 1-0 lead. Sauserman had four goals in the win over Mifflin County and teammate Sam Hepler matched Sauserman’s goal total, scoring four as well in the game. Carter Eckenrode scored a goal in the winning effort for Shipp.

Mifflin County showed speed on defense as sophomore Mason Allen, Dylan Liggett, Ethan Plank and Wyatt Yoder all made a few defensive plays to avoid more points by the Greyhounds.

The Huskies enter the Bulldog Bash at Big Spring on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m.