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West Linn (Oregon) has is first state football championship after a dominating 62-7 victory against Portland Central Catholic on Saturday.
The victory caps an undefeated season at 14-0 and ends the amazing career of Tim Tawa, the best high school quarterback in state history.
Tawa, the game’s MVP, went 16-for-24 for 248 yards and two touchdowns through the air to add to his state records. He also ran for 66 yards and two touchdowns. He finishes with a career record of 35-5.
Tawa, a Stanford baseball commit, ends as the state’s career leading in passing yards with 11,337 yards, touchdown passes with 143 and completions with 714. He finished his senior season one touchdown short of the single-season record for passing TDs with 55. The record of 56 belongs to Taylor Barton of Beaverton in 1997. He threw for a single-season record of 4,397 yards as a junior.
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In the state title game, running back Elijah Molden, a Washington commit, carried the ball 10 times for 186 yards and three touchdowns.
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“I never dreamed of anything this monumental and this massive, all the fantastic things that have happened to me,” Tawa told The Oregonian this week. “I knew that the guys I had were special. And when Coach Miller was hired and we started working, I knew that the coaching staff he brought in, and he as a coach, were special.
“At that point, I knew something great was going to happen. I didn’t know that it was going to be to this extent, but I had an idea. It’s really just blown my mind how special it’s been, how lucky I’ve gotten as a young man and a player to experience it firsthand.”
