{"id":53860,"date":"2025-11-30T04:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/?p=53860"},"modified":"2025-11-30T04:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:50:19","slug":"bishop-mcdevitt-wins-will-defend-state-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/?p=53860","title":{"rendered":"McDevitt wins: State title next"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;overflow:hidden;height:0;max-width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"92feb9415625f6abe4f820692f644f68-vod-3ab89ad0-5e28-436d-b05d-3b04b6f8ce4b\" src=\"https:\/\/iframe.dacast.com\/vod\/92feb9415625f6abe4f820692f644f68\/3ab89ad0-5e28-436d-b05d-3b04b6f8ce4b\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay;encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Crusaders of Bishop McDevitt are returning to defend their state championship in Class 5A with a thrilling come from behind victory, 31-28 in the PIAA state semifinal against Peters Township. The game came down to the final play as the Crusaders kicked a winning field goal to edge the Indians. The state championship game is Friday Dec. 5, at Cumberland Valley High School at 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>For Bishop McDevitt, this historically treacherous venue known as Mansion Park Stadium is starting to feel like a home away from home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-29-at-11.20.58-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1932\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-29-at-11.20.58-PM.png 1932w, https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-29-at-11.20.58-PM-300x26.png 300w, https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-29-at-11.20.58-PM-1024x88.png 1024w, https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-29-at-11.20.58-PM-768x66.png 768w, https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-29-at-11.20.58-PM-1536x132.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1932px) 100vw, 1932px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While another strong WPIAL champion landed in Altoona Saturday with bad intentions and a strong-armed and strong-willed quarterback, the Crusaders punched their second straight ticket to the PIAA Championships on the final play.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, kicker Aidan Grella delivered that euphoric feeling. Grella\u2019s 24-yard field goal as time expired sealed a 31-28 semifinal victory over Peters Township.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-29-at-11.17.45-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"886\" height=\"914\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-29-at-11.17.45-PM.png 886w, https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-29-at-11.17.45-PM-291x300.png 291w, https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-29-at-11.17.45-PM-768x792.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crusaders of Bishop McDevitt are returning to defend their state championship in Class 5A with a thrilling come from behind victory, 31-28 in the PIAA state semifinal against Peters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other_sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53860"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53871,"href":"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53860\/revisions\/53871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}