Central Valley routed the Derry Area Trojans in a playoff rivalry game to see who would end up in Heinz Field this year. Final score 42-7 in favor of the Warriors.
Derry football coach Tim Sweeney said Central Valley’s greatest strength is the fact that they don’t have a weakness.
Top-seeded Central Valley piled up the yardage, and the big plays, and mercy-ruled the Trojans, 42-7, in the WPIAL Class 3A semifinals Friday night at North Allegheny’s Newman Stadium. No. 4 Derry (9-3) was seeking its second straight trip to the finals, but the Trojans could not muster offense from the start and saw two key starters go down with injuries in the first half. Derry did not register a first down in the first half as it fell behind, 42-0. Stephon Hall scored three rushing touchdowns (2, 4 and 4 yards) and quarterback Ameer Dudley threw for 245 yards and a touchdown and also ran for two scores — all in the first half. Dudley topped the 1,500-yard passing mark for the season and now has 20 TD passes.He threw an 80-yard bomb to Jawon Hall, who pulled in two deep passes and had 134 receiving yards.
“We run to the football,” Lyons said. “Our guys know their assignments and they have a lot of speed too.”
“It wasn’t just about their team speed,” Sweeney said. “It’s on me. We didn’t do enough tonight.”
Central Valley rolled up 524 yards, including 279 rushing. Jaylen Guy ran for 78 yards on 19 carries. Backup Landon Alexander added 60 in the second half. Jayvin Thompson had an interception for the Warriors.
Central Valley (11-1) will play for the class AAA WPIAL championship title at Heinz Field against the Aliquippa Quips (11-1) on 11/16/19 @2 P.M. Game broadcasted on TRIBLIVE and televised on The CW network for Pittsburgh.
The Warriors will try to win their first WPIAL championship since 2014 when they would get to the class AAA PIAA state championship. The Warriors have won 2 WPIAL championships since their inception in 2010, 2013 and 2015. Their last trip to Heinz was in 2015 where they would eventually lose. Aliquippa will try to repeat their previous Hienz Field outcome, winning and eventually winning states.
Below is a recap/ highlight video of both games. Enjoy!
Below is a recap/ highlight video of both games. Enjoy!
Let’s Go Warriors!!!!
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