{"id":7151,"date":"2025-10-18T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7151\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T14:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:10:31","slug":"erie-versus-mullen-football-is-the-bocopreps-game-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7151\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie versus Mullen football is the BoCoPreps game of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erie football has won every league game since coach Jeff Giger took over the program 4 \u00bd years ago.<\/p>\n<p>And with the help of top-level collegiate recruits in running back Braylon Toliver and tight end Gabe Sema, the Colorado Preps 5A No. 9 Tigers (5-2, 2-0), in their second season inside the Front Range South League, are looking for it to stay that way when they host Mullen on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2025\/08\/23\/prep-football-braylon-toliver-erie-brighton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Football: Toliver &amp; Company making most of new roles for Erie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toliver, who committed to Oregon State in May, has been box-office-blockbuster good in his senior football season. After sitting out of the team\u2019s 35-23 win at Rangeview, he returned last week and totaled 192 yards of offense and three scores in a 61-34 win over Vista PEAK Prep. He&#8217;s rushed for 670 yards and has nine touchdowns, including one via pick-six.<\/p>\n<p>The win over Vista PEAK Prep (Erie&#8217;s fourth straight) was the second time this season it has surpassed 60 points (in its season opener, it beat Brighton 67-17). Against the Bison, junior quarterback Jack Arnold threw for a career-best five scores. One of them was to Sema, the Northern Arizona tight end commit, who already has three TD receptions this month.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After a great visit to Flagstaff and some tough conversations I\u2019ve officially decided to commit to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAU_Football?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@NAU_Football<\/a>. A big thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FettNick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FettNick<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimRoschmann?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TimRoschmann<\/a>, the entire staff of NAU, and of course my family and all of those that have supported me on this journey that\u2019s just\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HG5agT9Mgp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HG5agT9Mgp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gabe Sema \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f TE- 6&#8217;4&#8243; \/240lbs (@gabesema0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gabesema0\/status\/1909783156531638494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Tigers now prepare for a team still hungry for its first marquee win of the season. While the Tigers took down a talented Fort Collins (5-2) and 4A defending champ Broomfield (6-1) in consecutive weeks to end September, the Mustangs (3-4, 2-0) don&#8217;t have much to show from a daunting nonconference schedule. Good or bad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2025\/09\/26\/lincoln-hageman-erie-football-broomfield\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Behind Lincoln Hageman, Erie football stuns Broomfield in thriller<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mullen&#8217;s losses this fall are to Colorado Preps 5A No. 3 Ralston Valley, No. 7 Valor Christian, preseason top-10 Regis Jesuit and California&#8217;s Crean Lutheran, which is now 7-0. Each of the Mustangs&#8217; wins, meanwhile, are to teams currently with an identical record to them at 3-4.<\/p>\n<p>Mullen\u2019s top prospect is 6-foot-7 tight end Mason Bonner, who is committed to the University of Michigan. This season, he has 26 catches for 462 yards, a trio of scores and leads the team with 3 \u00bd sacks.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Mullen senior quarterback Cole Parsons threw for a career-most 270 yards and two scores (one to Bonner) as the Mustangs held on to beat Legacy, 28-20.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers are currently ranked ninth in the state by MaxPreps. Mullen is 20th. Erie has beaten Mullen the past three seasons, including a year ago when Toliver had a big night in a 48-13 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM MDT<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie football has won every league game since coach Jeff Giger took over the program 4 \u00bd years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,6390,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-7151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-mullen-football-preps-week-8","11":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","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=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}