Aliquippa grinds out 1st Parkway Conference win, defeating West Allegheny

By: Kyle Dawson
Friday, October 3, 2025 | 11:39 PM

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Much of Aliquippa’s season has felt a bit unlike the Quips. But here they are, after a 19-7 win at West Allegheny for their first Parkway Conference victory Friday, sitting at 4-2 overall after a tough nonconference schedule and a loss in conference to New Castle last week.

“It’s been like this all year,” coach Mike Warfield said. “It might not look pretty, but as long as we check the ‘W’ column, that’s all that matters at this point. We’ll have to check to see what it looked like on tape.”

Aliquippa (4-2, 1-1) scored the first touchdown of the game just two minutes in after recovering an onside kick and working quickly downfield.

Marques Council, who missed last week’s game against New Castle, returned to action and found Qa’lil Goode for a 17-yard touchdown with 10 minutes to play in the first quarter.

After forcing a turnover on downs on Aliquippa’s next drive, West Allegheny (2-4, 1-1 1-4A) used two plays with great field position to pull even on a 41-yard touchdown run by Brodie Cornell. Cornell finished with 83 yards on 15 carries in the loss.

The score held at 7-7 until the first play of the third quarter, thanks to solid defensive work through a choppy second and third quarter. Neither team really ever came close to paydirt.

On the first play of the fourth and facing fourth-and-1 from the Indians’ 9-yard line, it was JJ Work who got the ball and took it to the end zone for a score, putting Aliquippa in front 13-7. The point after try was no good.

West Allegheny got inside the 30 of the Quips in a comeback attempt, but three holding penalties on the same play burnt the drive and Teagan Tomei’s 50-yard field goal attempt fell short.

The decisive score for the Quips came on another fourth- down play, this time a fourth-and-4 from the West Allegheny 13-yard line. It was Council finding Goode for the second time. Goode then sealed the deal with the game-ending interception that put the Quips into victory formation.

“Looking at it on the positive, I agree (it’s good),” said Warfield on the two fourth-down scores. “We keep making individual mistakes, but that’s part of the season. We just have to grind it out, keep working and winning.”

Work finished with the team lead on the ground, going for 75 yards, and Akiva Woods added 64 on seven touches.

Donovan O’Connor was intercepted twice against one completion, and Cornell was the bright spot offensively for the Indians in a game defined by the defenses.

“They’re big up front and always well coached. We knew it’d be a battle,” Warfield said. “You just gotta fight each week because it’s 4A. You have to be prepared.”

West Allegheny will play at first-place New Castle next week while Aliquippa will head home to take on Blackhawk.

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