Brighton vs Rye live score, updates, highlights from NYSPHSAA Class A state championship game originally appeared on The Sporting News.
Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.The JMA Wireless Dome in Syracuse will play host to what has the potential to be a great Class A state championship game on Friday night. Brighton, from Section V, takes on Rye, from Section I, for the NYSPHSAA high school football title in the state’s second-largest classification.Before the 2024 season, Brighton had never even won a sectional title. Now, they’re back-to-back section champs and playing for a state crown. Rye enters the game an undefeated 13-0. The Garnets are four-time state champions. They won all those titles in Class B, the most recent coming in 2023.Rye QB Carson Miller has 3,279 passing yards, a Section I single-season record, to go with 35 touchdown passes.Brighton is led by RB/LB Matthew Heininger, who will play collegiately for the University of Buffalo.The Bruins got 100-yard rushing performances from both Justin Medina and Zack Rossignol in the state semifinal.You can follow along with live updates all game long below.MORE: LeBron James’ 10-point streak ends in the most LeBron James way possibleBRIGHTON 0, RYE 0: PREGAMERefresh for latest.PREGAME- Game looks like it’ll kick at about 6:10 p.m.- As noted below, Section V as a whole hasn’t won a state football championship in any class since 2018. The Rochester-area section will have this chance and then Monroe High School in Class B on Saturday.- Don’t have to worry about the frigid New York winter outside when you’re indoors.From the JMA Wireless Dome.Brighton takes on Rye in the NYSPHSAA Class A final in about an hour. Bruins looking to make history. Section V hasn’t won a state championship in football since 2018! @brightonbruins@SecVFootballpic.twitter.com/4sBBv9uQnl— Ian Mills (@IanMillsTV) December 5, 2025- Head coach Dino Garr from Rye is the winningest coach in state history, having won his record-breaking 365th game in September.More news:Jahmyr Gibbs joins Barry Sanders in exclusive NFL historyWarriors’ Pat Spencer continues improbable journey from lacrosse to NBAToosii somehow committed to college football after a non-descript HS careerLegend Bey’s recruitment was a wildly weird oneGeorge Pickens blasted for miserable effortGoogle tells us what we already knew about Shedeur Sanders