{"id":295000,"date":"2026-09-27T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295000\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:00:08","slug":"middletown-beats-rival-port-to-reclaim-erie-bell-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295000\/","title":{"rendered":"Middletown beats rival Port to reclaim Erie Bell (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"220\">MIDDLETOWN \u2013 Middletown reclaimed the Erie Bell with a 28-7 victory over Port Jervis on Saturday at Faller Field, ending the Red Raiders\u2019 two-year hold on the trophy.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"222\" data-end=\"281\">The Middies improved to 4-0, while Port Jervis fell to 2-2.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"523\">The victory marked Middletown\u2019s first win over Port Jervis since a 29-8 victory in 2023. The Red Raiders had won the previous two meetings, including a 55-21 victory last season and a 46-14 win in 2024. The Middies lead the all-time series 79-62-7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The Middletown-Port Jervis football rivalry dates to 1897, when the schools met twice. The teams did not play again until 1903 but then began a series that continued every year except 1970.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie Bell trophy was introduced in 1953, when a bell removed from a retired Erie Railroad steam engine was presented as a perpetual trophy to the winner of the annual game. In the early years, spectators often traveled by train to watch the rivalry.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDDLETOWN \u2013 Middletown reclaimed the Erie Bell with a 28-7 victory over Port Jervis on Saturday at Faller&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,121368,138,137,121369,122046],"class_list":["post-295000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-bell-game","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-port-jervis","tag-section-9-football-middletown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}