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PISCATAWAY - Amari Sabb said growing up in Glassboro that winning championships was nothing new.
But after he got his hands around a second straight state championship trophy, the senior on the Glassboro High School football team said, "It's a crazy ending to a crazy story, but we got it done."
In one of the most dominating seasons in South Jersey history, Glassboro earned a spot at the top of Group 1 in the Garden State with a 29-14 win over Cedar Grove in Sunday's championship game at Rutgers University's SHI Stadium.
Glassboro finished at 14-0, a program record for wins in a season and extended its two-year winning streak to a state-best 27 straight.
The Bulldogs registered 621 points, tying the South Jersey record set by Penns Grove in 2012. The team also posted eight shutouts, most for a South Jersey program since 1944 when Haddon Heights also had eight, according to local historian Chuck Langerman.
Amari Sabb had 161 total yards and two touchdowns on offense to go along with an interception while Glassboro's defense produced 10 sacks, including two by sack master Brandon Simmons and two for Maurice Davis Jr.
After the game, Glassboro head coach Timmy Breaker stood in front of his players as they clutched the state championship trophy and banner. When he started to get emotional, several of his players gave him a bear hug.
While seldom tested during its previous 13 games, Glassboro entered the state final as heavy favorites against Cedar Grove (10-4), the team it beat for last year's crown.
Amari Sabb caught a pair of passes in the backfield and turned them into touchdowns of 3 and 78 yards as the Bulldogs opened a 13-0 lead. On his long touchdown, Sabb made a nifty spin move to turn around a defender and found nothing but daylight en route to the end zone.
"When these lights come on, it's time for him to perform," Breaker said about Amari Sabb. "He wants the ball. ... He's the leader of the team; he's always been that guy. He's a slippery guy and I'll say this again: he's one of the best in the nation."
Despite holding a 192-16 edge in total yards in the first half, Glassboro took a 13-7 lead into intermission. The Bulldogs broke the game open in the third quarter with a pair of touchdown runs by DeLecce from 69 and 44 yards.
DeLecce, who played his scholastic football at Roman Catholic in Philadelphia last season, has been a sparkplug for the Bulldogs. He rushed for 137 yards in the state final, his second straight 100-yard game in consecutive weeks and he challenged the 1,000-yard mark for the season.
"You always hear people say that this is the best feeling of their lives, but it really is true. I can't get any better than this," DeLecce said about the state title. "The guys on this team, we've been playing with or against each other our entire lives. Now we get to celebrate together."
Glassboro's defense saved one of its best performances of the season for the state final. The Bulldogs held Cedar Creek to minus-16 yards rushing to go along with their 10 sacks.
"I love how the guys stepped up," the Eastern Michigan-bound Simmons said. "I knew I would be double- and tripled-teamed an the other linemen didn't back down. Once they started eating, they started getting their sacks, we started feeding off of each other."
Breaker called the defensive line the staple of the squad.
"They love the physicality; they love being the guys making the plays," Break said. "If the quarterback holds the ball one or two seconds, he's probably only going to have a half-second more to get it off."
Amari Sabb said it's Glassboro football.
"It's fast and physical," Sabb said when asked to define what Glassboro football is. "That's always been the motto since we were five years old."
Glassboro celebrated with its fans who made the trip to Piscataway and there was plenty more parties ready to go when they returned home.
Breaker said that the kids are already talking about next year.
"This is a football program," he said. "When this (celebration) is done, they will be back in the weight room on Monday. ... They love the challenge of next year. We'll go back to the drawing board on Monday, they'll be in the weight room and we'll be right back at this thing.
"That's the culture we have."
Game notes
- Glassboro's first touchdown came on its first possession, a drive that had two crucial fourth-down calls. The first was Davon Barr's 35-yard run off a great draw call. The second was Amari Sabb's 3-yard TD reception.
- Amari Sabb rushed for 75 yards in his final scholastic game. He has over 2,000 rushing yards and 2,000 receiving yards in his career, becoming just the second player in South Jersey history to accomplish the feat, according to Langerman. Penns Grove's Tyreke Brown had 2,221 yards rushing and 2,163 yards receiving from 2015-2018.
- Since it began playing football in 1894, Glassboro has produced seven perfect seasons - 1975, 1983, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2024 and 2025.
- Glassboro's 27-game winning streak is the second longest in program history and 11 longest in South Jersey history. The Bulldogs won 30 straight games from 2007-2009 (seventh-longest streak in SJ).
- Glassboro is the first program in South Jersey history to score 500 or more points in consecutive seasons. They averaged 44.4 points per game this season; the 12 highest total in area history, according to Langerman.