Tanner Garry called a timeout and huddled his team.

Time was dwindling at the end of the first half, and Fort Cherry’s rout of Monessen on Friday night at Jim Garry Stadium was already underway.

But there was still history begging to be written.

After scoring two touchdowns to that point — one on a 50-yard quarterback keeper on Fort Cherry’s third play from scrimmage and the second on a 9-yard scamper roughly midway through the second quarter — senior Matt Sieg was on the verge of breaking the all-time WPIAL touchdown record.

His career tally was up to 117, tied with what Sieg called “legends” in Clairton’s Lamont Wade and Tyler Boyd. With one more score, he’d stand alone. It simply became a matter of when. In the huddle, Garry let the offense know.

“Every single kid said, ‘We’re gonn

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