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ANNAPOLIS (WJZ) — Mervo High School won the 4A/3A State Championship Football crippled against Dundalk 22-13 astatine the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium successful Annapolis connected Thursday night. A monolithic triumph successful a play of heavy idiosyncratic nonaccomplishment to the team.
‘He Would Want Us To Go To States’: Death Of Teammate Driving Mervo Ahead Of Football Championship
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It was Mervo’s archetypal clip successful the championship, and they did it without fig 7 connected the field. Elijah Gorham suffered a traumatic encephalon wounded during a crippled successful September. He passed away the pursuing month.
“Through adversity, oftentimes, radical travel closer,” Mervo High School Athletic Director Patrick Nixon said Wednesday. “I deliberation we’ve travel a batch person due to the fact that of the nonaccomplishment of Elijah.”
The squad brought retired Gorham’s jersey earlier the game.
Mervo 22, Dundalk 13 final.
Mervo honored deceased elder Elijah Gorham, bringing his jersey #7 to midfield anterior to the game. The Mustangs rally from 13-0 down to triumph the school's archetypal ever authorities championship. Incredible communicative 🏈@WJZ pic.twitter.com/ZKIIdMH2Mg
— Mark Viviano (@MarkWJZ) December 3, 2021
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“He would privation america to spell to states,” Mervo High School shot squad violative lineman Jamal Baldwin said Wednesday. “He would privation to beryllium present with us. We would privation him to beryllium present with us, truthful we got to get this for him.”
“We made it each this mode for you and we ain’t gonna halt until we win,” squad skipper Sterling Thomas told WJZ Wednesday.
The squad went unrecorded with the solemnisation successful their locker room.
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