The visiting Marlboro Mustangs beat the Pinelands Wildcats football team on Friday night, 41-27. The score, though, was rather deceptive. It was an exciting – and very weird – contest that wasn’t decided until late in the fourth quarter.

A large Harvest Moon rose over the eastern end zone of the Pinelands field at kickoff. It wasn’t just any Harvest Moon – colloquially called such because it is associated with the northern hemisphere’s harvest season and officially designated as the full moon…