Belle Vernon quarterback Braden Laux threw three first-half touchdown passes two to Quinton Martin to help lead the top-seeded Leopards to a 49-6 WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal win over No. 8 Deer Lakes on The Beach at James Weir Stadium.
All Deer Lakes needed to do to qualify for its fourth trip to the WPIAL playoffs was to defeat rival Freeport in the teams’ Allegheny 6 Conference (Class 3A) finale Friday.
Slogging through the program’s longest losing skid in over a quarter century, Freeport’s football team could have packed it in last week against Valley.
Rather, with a 27-0 Allegheny 6 Conference win,.