Looking to return to the state championship game tonight for the first time in twenty years.
But the lions had to topple a dynasty to get there.
Red bank entertained alcoa in the state semis.
The tornadoes have won 18 state titles, including the last five in-a-row.
No score 1st quarter.
Alcoa qb caden buckles...doesn't buckle under pressure.
Scrambles and heaves it to mr. anderson.
Brayden anderson with the grab at the one yard line.
From there it's the give to running back ahmauud sankey.
It's 6-0 alcoa.
Still 1q, and alcoa with a gie- normous hole.
Easy money for sankey on this run.
It's 13-0.
First play of the second quarter.
Lions quarterback joseph blackmon to kell eddins.
Hey...hey...that's a red bank touchdown to make it 13-7.
Game on.
Not for long though.
This is ronald jackson for alcoa.
He busts through on a 45- yard touchdown run to make it 20-7.
Alcoa is going back to the 'ship again as they win 42-7.
Top ranked south pittsburg entertained coalfield.
Both teams undefeated.
Plenty of fireworks in this one....all for south pittsburg though.
First snap of the game.
Yellow jackets seth lowe fumbles it.
Ball on the turf, and javien beene falls on it for the pirates inside the coalfield 30.
South pitt cashes in a few plays later.
Give to de'andre kelly.
He goes three yards for the touchdown.
It's 7-0.
Next pirates series.
Hunter frame bounces it outside.
He adds a cut-back move, and he's gone.
Frame goes 36-yards for the touchdown to make it 14-0.
The pirates scoring cannon got a workout tonight.
Frame played like his hair was on fire.
Second quarter, he's just drifting.
Then he runs over a kid.
Frame in the open field.
How bout a little juke and jive.
And it's all speed from there.
69- yards to the house.
It's 21-0.
It went from bad to worse on this play for the yellow jackets.
Gio davis rips the ball away and rumbles some 20 yards for the touchdown.
Davis by the way recently picked up a scholarship offer from the vols.
It was 35-0 at the half.
Pirates are going to the state title game with a 42-0 romp.
Meigs county traveled to trousdale.
Third year in-a-row these teams have met in the state semi-finals.
Will meadows is a mr. football finalist...and he shows it on this run.
He just bulls his way through the yellow jackets defense for a huge gain.
Meadows had a big night for the tigers.
Meigs county gets on the board first.
Dillon brown sends it through the night...and thru the up- rights.
3-0 tigers.
Later in the second quarter, this is meadows just blowing right up the middle.
How bout a 58-yard touchdown run, and meadows was jacked.
So were the tigers.
They win 16-13 to go back to the state finals for the second straight year.
A failed two-point conversation with 1:30 to play in the fourth quarter was the deciding factor in South Adams' loss to Covenant..
It's not often you see a team make a run to the state finals after finishing the regular season three games under .500, but Bishop..
