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,.