Knights 26, Harbor Creek 9
Romeo Cooley rushed for 98 yards and three touchdowns as the Knights posted their first win of the season after three losses.
Quarterback Forrest Wested also ran for a TD and completed six of 12 passes for 75 yards.
Adie Dahl caught a pass for 15 yards and Steven Marshall had a reception for 12.
Oil City 41, Knights 34
Blake Hadley threw for two touchdowns, ran for another and scored on a 60-yard interception return.
Oil City, which finished the season with a 6-2 record, opened the scoring on a 20-yard fade pass from Hadley to Danny Yarnell. Dom Reed kicked the extra point to give the Oilers a 7-0 lead.
Franklin scored on its ensuing possession on a run by Romeo Cooley, but the conversion attempt failed.
Leading 7-6, Oil City expanded its lead to 15-6 after John Klena scored on a 2-yard run and Hadley passed to Jeff Zimoski for the PAT.
Once again, Franklin answered with a Cooley touchdown to close the gap to 15-12 entering the second quarter.
Hadley then ran for a touchdown to hike the margin to 21-12 before Cooley scored his third rushing TD to cut the margin to 21-20 by haalftime.
OIl City opened the second-half scoring on a TD pass from Hadley to Zack Switzer with Reed adding the extra point for a 28-20 lead.
Franklin came back with a touchdown from QB Nick Billingsley to pull the Knights to within two at 28-26, but the two-point conversion failed.
Oil City scored the next two touchdowns as Switzer blocked a punt and recovered the ball in the end zone before Hadley added his INT return to put the Oilers up 41-26. Reed kicked the extra point following Switzer's TD.
Franklin responded with a touchdown run from Jeff Cross and Billingsley added the two-point conversion.
The Knights also lost to the Oilers 20-0 two weeks ago.
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