In a game heard on WBVP, WMBA and TribLive, BobBarrickman, Tom Hays and Bruce Fry had the call from Hershey Park Stadium in Hershey, PA. It was a game where Aliquippa had a 7-0 lead the whole first half and took that lead to the half. Coming into the second half Aliquippa punted on their first possession and never looked back. They built on their lead in the fourth quarter making it 35-0, where the running clock kicked in. The final score was 35-0 and Aliquippa wins the PIAA 3A State Championship.
This was Aliquippa’s 3rd football State Championship. The first coming in 1991 when the Quips topped Hanover Area 27-0 led by future N.F.L. star Ty Law and coached by Frank Marocco. The second came in 2003 when another player who would later on star in the pros, Darelle Revis, scored five times to power Aliquippa, coached by MIke Zmijanac that year, past Northern Lehigh by a score of 32-27.
Aliquippa was also the first area high school football team to ever play in a PIAA state state championship game when their nationally ranked team of 1988, led by Sean Gilbert and coached by Don Yanessa was upset 13-0 by Berwick. That was the inaugural year for state wide playoffs in Pennsylvania for football.
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