PLUM — Football coaches often speak of the need for a total team effort.

Seneca Valley's Don Holl received one Friday night.

Consider:

• Junior halfback Forrest Barnes accounted for 209 yards from scrimmage and scored all three of his team's touchdowns.

• SV's defense limited Penn Hills to just 140 yards of offense and intercepted the Indians six times.

• Kicker Michael Denny booted three field goals, scoring crucial points when the Raiders' offense stalled in the second quarter.

It all added up to a dominating 30-13 victory over Penn Hills in a WPIAL Quad-A first-round playoff at Plum High School's Mustang Stadium.

It is SV's first postseason win since November 2002 and sends the Raiders (8-2) to a quarterfinal clash with rival North Allegheny, which clobbered Fox Chapel 53-20.

“Seneca Valley didn't do anything unexpected on defense,” said Indians' coach Ron Graham. “It came down to execution and inspired play.”

Barnes scored his first two touchdowns in a span of less than five minutes of the first quarter.

He scored on a 47-yard pass from Jordan Brown on the game's first drive.

Then, following a Penn Hills punt, Barnes capped an eight-play, 87-yard drive with a 2-yard scoring run.

SV had jumped out to a 14-0 lead with just over six minutes gone from the clock.

“We were clicking good on offense,” said Holl. “Forrest does a lot of things for us. He's a pretty amazing kid.”

“I knew that execution would be most important tonight, with the loser going home,” said Barnes, who rushed for 96 yards and had 113 yards receiving. “A lot of the credit goes to Jordan, our wide receivers for blocking downfield and especially my offensive line. There's no way I could make the plays I did without them.”

Following a Jaquan Williams-to-Chaz Whittaker touchdown pass that cut SV's lead to 14-7, the Indians (5-5) self-destructed in the second quarter.

The period included a turnover on downs, a muffed punt recovered by Seneca Valley and three passes intercepted by SV's Jonathan Dorogy, Brad Gresock and Ryan McCauley.

The Raiders' offense struggled in the red zone, however, but Denny connected on field goals of 33, 24 and 35 yards to give the Raiders a 23-7 lead at intermission.

“When our defense gives us that short of a field, we have to find a way to score touchdowns,” said Holl. “But that's football, sometimes you make plays and sometimes you don't.”

The Indians never got inside SV's 20-yard line in the second half, due in large part to three more interceptions — two by Tyler Bommer and another by Gresock.

“Penn Hills has players who scare the heck out of you with their speed, but our defense played awfully hard,” said Holl. “A lot of guys were running around making plays.”

Barnes scored on a short run in the final period.

Williams picked off a Jordan Brown pass and returned it 70 yards for a touchdown with 9:42 left in the game. But the Raiders' defense stopped Whittaker on the two-point conversion attempt, keeping it a three-score game.