I was at that game. What PV did was play mistake free football and force LOTS of turnovers (5)...very opportunistic...and good ST play. Complementary football. 4A Pottsgrove's OL and DL physically manhandled PV's. PG must have had 330+ yards rushing. PV did not run the ball...at all. But they did have 2 long pass plays which was essentially the extent of PV's offense.
PV scored on a:
-a Kickoff return to open the game
-pick-6 (PG QB threw 3 INTs). IIRC the Pick-6 was a dagger as PG was in the RZ.
-fumble-6 (Faison coughed it up twice...PV did a very good job ball hawking)
-long pass play in the 4Q where PG had them at 4th and infinity. PV's QB scrambled and found the 1 kid PG forgot about.
PV also did a really good job of keeping Faison in front of them. They must have had at least 3 "shoelace/ankle" tackles where if they missed, it would have been a long TD run. He still had 218 yards and 3 TDs. But his fumbles were HUGE.
I don't understand why PG passed when they did. If you look at their stats in the local paper they throw probably 5 times per game. I mean I guess the situation dictated it. But on almost every play they were rushing for 5-8 yards per clip. They even tried a fade pass when they went for 2. PG does have big athletic WRs. But when you can get 5 yards almost at will, why pass it? They did not need to pass to set up the run. PG ran seemingly at will.
I'm no expert but if 4A PG could run on PV like that, I don't seem the doing much in the 6A playoffs. As far as Pottsgrove, to Relayer's point they've hardly played a tight game this year. I don't think their players understood what happened to them.