Eli Heidenreich hauled in a pair of touchdown passes on the night for the Blue Devils, who led 21-7 at the half.

Daniels threw three touchdown passes and ran for a score. Tecza scored four touchdowns on runs from 2, 1, and 1 yards and a 3-yard pass from senior quarterback Joey Daniels. “It made us so fired up, and it stayed there all week long,” he said. Senior tailback Alex Tecza said it was the perfect motivation for his team. I made them bow down to North Allegheny all week long,” Palko said. “I knew and I made sure all my players knew as well. Lebanon broke open a one-score game in the second half, outscoring North Allegheny 30-6 and coming away with a convincing 51-20 victory to stay perfect on the season at 6-0, 3-0 in Class 6A play.Ĭoach Bob Palko laughed when asked if he knew his team had not beaten North Allegheny since 2005, The Blue Devils will not have to bow down any longer. Since that time, they had lost 11 straight games to the Wexford powerhouse, being outscored 358-118 during the losing streak.

That year - 2005 - was the last time the Blue Devils had beaten the Tigers. The banner said just “2005 bow down” and was hung low so as to force each player to duck under it to enter the locker room. Lebanon Blue Devils had to bow down to a banner strung across the entrance to their locker room all week long leading up to their Friday match-up with the North Allegheny Tigers.

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