The Aliquippa Quips win the PIAA State Championship!!

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.

Listen to Bob Barrickman’s Recap here:

Kessel, Letang score twice, lead Pens past Islanders

 

 – 12/6/18 9:48 PM
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By DAN SCIFO ,  Associated Press
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Kris Letang and Phil Kessel each scored twice, and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the New York Islanders 6-2 on Thursday night.

Kessel also had two assists, Sidney Crosby scored his 15th goal and had two assists, and Riley Sheahan scored his fourth goal. The Penguins have won two straight and five of eight following a slump in which they won once in 10 games.

Jake Guentzel had three assists and established a career-best six-game point streak for Pittsburgh.

Casey DeSmith made 19 saves to win for the fifth time in six starts.

New York’s Anders Lee scored for the fourth straight game, his 11th of the season. Brock Nelson’s 10th was a short-handed goal for the Islanders, who have one win in their last five games.

Thomas Greiss stopped 16 shots through two periods before he was replaced by Christopher Gibson, who made six saves.

After Letang scored on a give-and-go with Derick Brassard, Nelson tied it late in the first period. It was the fourth short-handed goal allowed by Pittsburgh in five games and its league-worst eighth this season.

Letang scored again with 29 seconds left in the period on a slap shot from center point.

Sheahan batted the rebound from Evgeni Malkin’s shot to make it 3-1, and Kessel scored twice in a six-minute span later in the period. Crosby and Guentzel assisted on both goals, and Crosby added his own goal in the third period.

NOTES: Crosby has points in 15 of his last 17 games against the Islanders, and Malkin has points in 16 of 20 versus New York. … Penguins F Patric Hornqvist left the game after the first period for undisclosed reasons. … Penguins F Dominik Simon missed the game because of a lower-body injury. … Islanders G Robin Lehner skated Thursday but was not available to back up Greiss. … Pittsburgh has won four of its last five home games. … G Matt Murray and F Matt Cullen both skated prior to the game for Pittsburgh.

UP NEXT

Islanders: Visit Detroit on Saturday.

Penguins: Begin a three-game trip Saturday at Ottawa.