Intro Jersey Sports owned state championship football coverage is brought to you by RWJ Barnabas health for the second year Game in a row Tom's River North and pic Tech meet in the group five State final the Bulldogs look to complete a perfect season meanwhile for the Mariners there is a lot on the line they want to repeat as state champions TRN off to a great start on the first drive fourth and six Micah Ford to Jeremiah have it for a 13 yd touchdown the Mariners go up 7 nothing early now here's the first play from scrimmage for p tech offense trean Dy goes right up the gut and he turns on the afterburners how about this for response die 72 yds to tie the game up at seven all Ford and the Mariners are back up later in the first but watch out Kaden Rex tips the pass up Jordan alustin comes down with the interception that is a big turnover for the Bulldogs but the Mariners will answer back just a few plays later Jeremiah kit high points this deep shot and he hauls it in for the pick quite the first quarter here in Piscataway we're tied 77 after one mid second quarter now pic Tech is on the attack M Taylor looks for space but check out the incredible closing speed from Micah Ford what can't he do Ford gets the sack and the Bulldogs will punt away on the ensuing Drive Micah Ford back to pass he connects with who else but Jeremiah puit he goes from his own 35 to the opposite 35 with 2 minutes to play in the first half Yanni POA niis comes on and he drills a a 37 yd field goal As Time expires Tom's River North leads 107 on pcti at the break third quarter now Toms over North on the move and Ford breaks loose the Stanford commit picks up 40 yards he's tackled down at the one but no problems at all Micah for does the rest a few plays later TRN expands their lead up to 7 197 this Toms River North defense was spectacular Monday night look at this pressure Eddie sloski gets home for a huge sack this is the last play of the third quarter and it all culminates in the fourth Taylor's pass is telegraphed by Anthony Rodriguez and we've got a house call Rodriguez goes 43 yards for the picks six that is the nail in the coffin Toms River North will secure their second straight State title Post Game 2313 is the final the Mariners are the first Public School in State history to repeat as state champions Micah Ford was spectacular in the final game of his unbelievable High School career and the Mariners etched their spot in State history with an impressive win yeah it Outro was just really just worried about us and what we have control of you know that's a great team on the other side of the ball we just played you know they they played hard I got I'm getting hit every all angles you know my body feels crazy but you know um Pops to them for setting up a game like this man it's just it's just I'm in species right now I don't even know what to say and uh we really played great defense all year when you have a defense that good it keeps you in games against really good teams like tonight and uh in the end you know we were able to persevere and overcome some really really good teams and played our best ball we peaked uh late in the postseason and and and that's what you want to do no it's all about the coaching staff they give they gave us a great plan game plan we just got to execute you know they had to uh broken play in the first in the first quarter after that half time we fixed it up and we got the job done reporting from Shi Stadium at ruter University I'm J cook jerseysportszone.com [Applause] [Music]