Former Irvington HS coach and IHS alum Darnell Grant leads West Orange HS football team to sectional title

IRVINGTON, NJ — Darnell Grant, a 1991 Irvington High School graduate and former IHS head football coach, guided the West Orange High School football team to its first-ever state sectional championship. West Orange, the No. 6 seed, defeated top-seeded and previously undefeated Phillipsburg, 28-7, in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association's North Jersey, Section 2, Group 5 state sectional championship game at Phillipsburg on Thursday, Nov. 10. It was West Orange's first-ever state championship game appearance.