​Ron Busby couldn’t stop smiling.The Western Beaver head coach has done a song and dance with Steel Valley the last four years of his coaching tenure. For the past three years, the Ironmen have sent the Golden Bears packing from the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs.However, that changed on Friday night. Busby and his Golden Beavers snagged an 8-6 victory at Fox Chapel High School against their longtime foe. The win brought smiles upon all Western Beaver coaches, players and fans alike.“A lot of history in this rivalry,” Busby said. “It feels really good. The last two or three times, you think you’ve got it in the bag. But then things happen. Our kids have been resilient all year. They believed in each other, and they’ve worked. They have each other’s backs. Tonight’s just one more example in that story.”It was a tale of defenses in the quarterfinal matchup. After a scoreless first quarter, the Golden Beavers got on the board thanks to a 15-yard touchdown from quarterback Jeremiah Pratt.The junior also converted the two-point conversion attempt. Pratt finished the contest with 123 yards on 17 carries.“My line made that happen,” he said. “I just try to remind those guys to give us an opening. One play is all that we need.”Western Beaver held off any offensive attempts from the Ironmen in the third quarter. However, the Golden Bears began to falter in the fourth quarter, turning the ball over twice. Steel Valley capitalized on the first turnover, chipping away six minutes off the clock and getting quarterback Gianni Keyes into the end zone. In order to tie, the Ironmen went for the two-point conversion.Required Reading: Beaver Valley high school football WPIAL quarterfinal scoresRequired Reading: Hopewell survives upset scare from North Catholic to advance to WPIAL semifinalsRequired Reading: WPIAL high school football playoffs Beaver Valley predictionsInstead of tying the game, Keyes found himself in the arms of linebacker Braeden Mayo.Mayo said he went into the play with “full confidence.”“The whole game I was timing up the snap,” the senior said. “I just said, you know, screw it, I’m going to time that up again and go. I was able to make the play.”Pratt said that he had no doubt his defense would get it done on the two-point conversion.“I’m standing on the sidelines and I just got hurt,” he said. “I’m thinking, ‘I can get back in there’ if they don’t get that stop. I thought, if they score, I’m going back in. That was the biggest play of the game.”Busby called his defense “rock solid.”“We knew that there was a chance that it was going to come down to our defense and making a stand,” Busby said. “We talked about that at halftime. We knew that once we got the two, that if they scored, there would a two-point try from them at some point. We decided the defense that we wanted if we got in that situation. It came out just the way we wanted.”The Golden Beavers coach added that Pratt and Ma