Monroe makes City of Rochester high school football history in NYSPHSAA Class B state final originally appeared on The Sporting News.
Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.Monroe High School put on a show for the entire City of Rochester.On Saturday, about 90 minutes east at the JMA Wireless Dome in Syracuse, the Red Jackets claimed the NYSPHSAA Class B state championship. They’re the first high school state champion ever from the Rochester City School District.Look how much it meant to them:STATE CHAMPS! ⁦@RoeFootball_⁩ pic.twitter.com/oyWnD317Hd— Paul Gotham (@PickinSplinters) December 6, 2025MORE: LeBron James’ 10-point streak ends in the most LeBron James way possibleIt was a bit of a wild game against Sleepy Hollow. Neither team scored in the first half.And then, in the third quarter, Monroe erupted for 28 points.The Red Jackets would go on to win, 34-0.Jermaine Montgomery opened the scoring with a 19-yard rushing touchdown.Then it was Pooty Cunningham running it in from 4 yards out.The big play followed, 58 yards from Cunningham to Oregon commit Messiah Hampton.NYS Class B: Pooty Cunningham to Messiah Hampton, 58 yards. 4:44 left in the third. ⁦@RoeFootball_⁩ 20-0. pic.twitter.com/EvSgeO3uz8— Paul Gotham (@PickinSplinters) December 6, 2025Ray Garcia and Luis Falu each added a rushing touchdown before the game was done.Monroe isn’t known as a football powerhouse. The school had a 30-year stretch without football before it was reinstated a decade ago.Now, they spent most of the season ranked No. 1 in the state, and they proved that ranking correct on Saturday.Monroe, with the entirety of Rochester behind them, have climbed all the way to the top of the glorious, state championship mountaintop.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