Marion Local's quarterback Adam Bertke, 11, gets hit by Cameron DeBevoise while throwing a pass. Bertke threw for 166 yards and also rushed 27 times for 102 yards.

MASSILLON - Why should the final game be any different? For the last three weeks the Marion Local Flyers' football team had to hang on with white-knuckled grips just to stay alive in the Division VI playoffs, and they survived . . .