Nearby: North Allegheny Crushes Coatesville to Win State PIAA Championship Title
The Tigers jump out to an early 14-0 lead and never look back. The Tigers went on to win 63-28.
It was a show along the lines of a script that Coatesville High School head coach Matt Ortega and his Red Raiders had seen before. Take the opening possession of the game, mix some run plays with a couple of timely passes and before you know it, you're celebrating in the end zone. Then when you strip the ball from the opposing team on its first possession and dart 80 yards down the sideline for a touchdown with less than six minutes expired, you have a 14-0 lead and all of the momentum that is so vital in big games. This time, however, in the PIAA AAAA state championship game the team with the 14-point lead wasn’t Coatesville. North Allegheny senior quarterback Mack Leftwich, who will be attending the University of Texas El Paso, led the …
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