After missing last week with an injury, Mercer Mumford made his presence felt early and often for Polo in its Illinois 8-Man Football Association quarterfinal against St. Anne on a soggy Saturday afternoon at Polo.

The junior running back lost a fumble on his first carry of the game, but bounced back in a big way with 165 yards and three touchdowns in the Marcos’ 46-14 victory.

“It feels great to be out here. I missed last week, and that kind of sucked, but I was happy to hear the news that I could play today,” said Mumford, who was cleared to play on his injured right shoulder by a medical trainer Friday afternoon. “At the start of the game, I was a little nervous; I didn’t really want to take a shot to that shoulder. But once I started going, I thought, ‘I can do this, I can take a

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