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9/30 at Hampshire10/7 Berkeley Springs10/14 at Jefferson10/21 at Musselman

10/28 Frankfort11/4 Mountain Ridge

Coach: Sean Biser

It’s science: Chemistry key for KeyserBY MICHAEL MINNICH

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KEYSER--Despitehaving a quality team, theend result for the KeyserGolden Tornado in 2010was 5-5. Not good

The next year, West Vir-ginia went 11-0.

Keyser would love to havea similar result come out oftheir better chemistry.

KHS made two changesto the schedule this season:off go Wayne and ShadySpring, on come Petersburgand Jefferson.

“Number one, [the move]was made for expenses andgeography,” said Biser. “Iwould have loved to havecontinued to play Wayne. Ithought that was a greatgame. I know we hadn‘t wonyet, but you know rightwhere you stand, right from

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enough to make the play-offs.

They’re doing all theright things to make thatan aberration.

“I’m pleased with theway camp’s went,” saidboss Sean Biser. “I was re-ally pleased with our sum-mer workouts. It’sprobably one of the bet-ter summers we’ve everhad in terms of atten-dance and how hard thekids worked. We’ve got agreat group of young kidswho really dedicatedthemselves to coming intothe weight room. Almostevery freshman kid came

in and spent all summerwith us. And the olderguys did, too, but I was re-ally impressed with theyounger kids. Usually thattails off as the summergoes, and the kids dribblein, but it wasn’t like that.They were dedicated fromthe word ‘go’.”

Missing the playoffshas been a motivator.

“I think there is withour older kids. I think theyrealize that we were aplayoff-caliber team lastyear, and that not neces-sarily our work ethic lastyear [hurt us], because weworked really hard, but

just the little things: teamchemistry, being coach-able...not that we didn’thave great kids, but it justdidn’t seem like it reallycame together as a whole.And I think that thesekids strive for that. Ashard as we work in theweight room, you’re notgoing to look up at thewall and have it look likewe’re Hercules or any-thing, but what they havedone is buy into every lit-tle thing that we’ve toldthem to do, and thatstarted back in the winterand has just carried overuntil now.”

Little things can add upto big things.

“Some teams click, andsome teams don’t. I’veplayed on teams like that.My senior year at WestVirginia, in ‘92, we hadprobably as much talent aswe’ve ever had there, andwe didn’t go to a bowlgame. It just didn’t click. Iremember Coach Nehlentalking about that, how itjust didn’t click, and wewere one or two gamesshy of making it, and it‘sthe same thing for lastyear. We just never jelledand got on the same cylin-der.”

2010 RESULTS

Wayne L 12-26Fort Hill L 0-24Northern W 19-6at Allegany L 20-25Hampshire W 39-6at B. Springs W 35-21at Shady Spring W 28-21Musselman L 14-23at Frankfort W 54-6at Mtn. Ridge L 20-27

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the get-go. I like that.Playing Shady...I thinkthat’s a good trade-offwith Jefferson and Shady.We’re moving to a AAAteam from a AA team andgoing to a game that’s anhour-and-a-half awayfrom one that was five-and-a-half hours away.Same thing withWayne...that was almost aseven-hour trip by thetime you stop and eat.When they played us lastyear, they came up andstayed the night. We did-n’t do that. We just got onthe bus and went over andplayed.”

Keyser played theirfirst scrimmage at Univer-sity, another new addition.

“One of the reasonswe picked up Universitywas, if we were not goingto play Wayne Week 1, weweren’t really sure who wewere going to play yet. SoI was kind of thinkingahead that, well, I want tomake sure that we’re play-ing as tough as we canget.”

“So we went out there,and I thought we did well.The kids ran the offensewell, and I was pleasedwith it. I wasn’t pleasedwith the way we finishedthe scrimmage. I thoughtwe went into a little lullthere towards the end,and I wasn’t happy withthat. We definitely have alot to work on. Defen-sively, we still have morework to do. We’re stillworking those glitchesout.”

“Our younger kids, Ithought, played really well.

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Some of our younger kidsgot out-matched by someolder kids there for a littlewhile, and they took it onthe chin a little bit, butwhen the other teambrought their younger kidsin, we did well. It was kindof different, too, becauseour older kids scrimmagedUniversity, and ouryounger kids scrimmagedClay-Battelle’s varsity andUniversity’s JV kids. So itwas like five plays, andthen you rotated.”

One of the questionsBiser will have to figureout is what to do with sen-ior Jamison Jones, his topreceiver from last year,who is very much in themix to replace graduatedtwo-year starter Tyler Biserunder center.

“Jamison is battling atthe quarterback position. Itold him the other day atpractice when he wantedto jump in at receiver: no,you are battling at thisspot. I want competition.Right now, you guys [Jonesand Cody Eversole] areeven. He brings some re-ally good things to thequarterback position. He isa great athlete. He’s fast.He’s big. He has all thethings you need, and he’sgot game experience as asenior. Those are all hisstrong points. He’s a bigbaseball player, so heneeds to work on his re-lease. He’s got a differentrelease, and we’ve workedon that. But because he’s abaseball player, he has astrong arm.”

“I’m not necessarilyworried about him at re-ceiver. He can play re-ceiver. We always tell him,we can teach him to playreceiver on the bus to the

game if we have to. He’splaying cornerback for us,too, so he’s definitely comea long way there as well.He played really well in thescrimmage the other day,was very physical. You canreally see a difference inhim.”

As for the sophomoreEversole?

“He’s a prototypicalquarterback. He works atit, he does all the littlethings. He throws a verynice ball. He’s very fast,and he’s very athletic. He’sundersized, and he’s a littleyoung yet. But we’d havehim for three years as astarter [if he won the job].I told him the same thing:they’re splitting reps rightnow, and just waiting tosee who’s going to shakeout as the starter. If hedoesn’t, then he may getsome reps at receiver.”

The bottom line is: “Iwant to be able to havetwo guys that can run ouroffense Week 1.”

It’s been a while sinceBiser has had a first-yearsenior starter at quarter-back: R.C. Pratt made onestart two seasons ago be-fore being supplanted byTyler Biser, but PrestonHartman was a three-yearguy before that.

“I think Chris Szafranplayed a little as a junior insome spots, and then hestarted as a senior. TravisMacina might have beenthe last guy, and that wasmy first year, so he mighthave played some quarter-back before that. Jamison,he did play as a sopho-more and a freshman [atthe JV level].”

“And then we’ve got JRFlint, too, who’s been tak-ing snaps in practice so we

have a third guy who’s anolder guy. We have RyanStreets and Ryan Kunisand Logan Bucklew, thoseyounger guys, but they’renot ready yet. But JR’ssuch a good athlete, weneed him at other spots.”

“We look to see, do wehave a true quarterback,and if we do, who will fitthe best for the team. Ifwe’ve got two guys thatare about even, and thisguy can help us some-where else, we’re going tomove that guy and go withthe other guy. That’s justthe world we live in as asmall school. We don’thave three quarterbackslined up working on theirdrops all year long.”

Biser’s depth chart inthe backfield has beenmade murky by an illnessthat struck the team in thesecond week of practice.

“We’ve got two guysthat were pushing forstarting positions thatwere sick and haven’t beenable to practice. Butthey’re back healthy andgoing to push a little bit.But right now, we’re run-ning with JR Flint andCorbin White and ZackJohnson battling at thewing position, and full-back has been Danny Fifeand Austin Ravenscroft,and then older kid-wise,we’re looking at CorbinWhite, if he doesn’t shakeout at wing, playing somefullback, and JR maybeplaying some fullback. Sowe’ve got some optionsthere.”

White is with the pro-gram for the first timeafter moving over fromsoccer, where he was astellar goalkeeper.SEE PREVIEW PAGE 7

# Name Pos Cl.

2 Marquel Wilson WR/DB Sr.

2 Malachi McCloud WR/DB Fr.

5 Jacob Shoemaker WR/DB Jr.

7 Zach Whiteman TE/LB Jr.

8 Cody Eversole QB/DB So.

8 Logan Bucklew QB/DL Fr.

9 Wyatt Nelson TE/LB Sr.

10 Eric Lewis RB/DB Sr.

11 Jamison Jones QB/DB Sr.

11 Hunter Kasmier RB/LB Fr.

12 Ryan Streets QB/DB Fr.

13 Lanny Johnson RB/DB Fr.

14 Isiah Bartlett RB/DB Fr.

20 Blake Ravenscroft RB/DB So.

20 Ryan Kunis QB/DB Fr.

21 Corbin White RB/LB Sr.

22 Brandon Clay WR/DB Sr.

23 Zach Johnson RB/DB So.

23 Jesse Wilson RB/DB Fr.

24 Timmy Biser RB/LB Fr.

25 JR Flint RB/LB Jr.

31 Noah Hartman RB/LB Fr.

32 Garrett Crites RB/DB Fr.

33 Danny Fife RB/LB So.

35 Dustin Lucas RB/LB Fr.

40 Michael Martin RB/LB Jr.

45 Austin Ravenscroft RB/LB Jr.

50 Jacob Mellott OL/LB So.

51 Justin Kittle OL/DL Jr.

51 Daniel Troup OL/DL Fr.

52 Colin Fox OL/DL Sr.

53 Michael Mallow OL/LB Sr.

54 Christian Smith TE/LB So.

55 Hunter Moreland OL/DL Fr.

56 Drew Roy OL/DL So.

58 Derek Wilt OL/DL Sr.

58 Alex Riding OL/DL Fr.

60 Ryan Liller OL/DL Fr.

61 Max Redman OL/DL Jr.

62 Gabe Smith OL/DL So.

63 Ryan Weasenforth OL/DL So.

64 Dakota Proud OL/DL Jr.

65 Philip Jordan OL/DL So.

65 Malik Harper OL/DL Fr.

69 Avery Costilow OL/DL Fr.

70 Iden Blizzard OL/DL Fr.

71 Brad Rotruck OL/DL So.

72 Josh Napier OL/DL Jr.

73 Tyler Iser OL/DL Jr.

73 Alec Westfall OL/DL Fr.

74 KJ Ravenscroft OL/DL So.

75 Ronnie Smith OL/DL Sr.

75 Reid Boden OL/DL Fr.

76 Josh Coffman OL/LB So.

81 Harley Yaider TE/DL Fr.

83 Matt Shillingburg WR/DB Sr.

84 Wes Nelson TE/LB So.

88 Vinny Cuthbertson TE/LB Fr.


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It’s not the first timeBiser’s gotten an immedi-ate contribution from a latearrival.

“Mark Zinn played forus a few years ago, cameout, was just an intense kid,would smack you, and wasathletic. He played split, heplayed linebacker. AndCorbin reminds me a lotof him. He’s a kid that’slifted hard. He’s put on alot of muscle in the off-season. He’s a wrestler. Ilove wrestlers. I was awrestler, and I know whatkind of mentality that theyhave. Maybe that’s an adfor wrestling, but it’s true. Ijust love them. He bringsthat mentality out there onthe field, and he’s been apleasant surprise. He’sdoing a heck of a job kick-ing, too.”

“I’m just tickled that hedecided to play full-time.He’s going to play. Hestarted against Universitythe other day, and didgreat.”

Fife, meanwhile, gotplenty of experience as afreshman on the defensiveside of the ball last year,and serves as an exampleto show the incomingfreshmen that, with theright amount of skill andwork, you can contributeimmediately.

“We’ve already identi-fied five kids that will prob-ably dress with us onFriday nights. If they’reready to handle it, they’llplay. It’s kind of like afreshmen in college thesedays. If he’s ready to play,he’s ready. Just like whenwe had Taige [Redman]and those guys....not thatthese kids are as developedas that group was, but inlimited roles, they can helpus.”

“Danny’s a prime exam-ple. He’s not even like asophomore now. He’s likea senior. And a couple ofthose kids who were soph-omores last year andplayed, like Derek Wilt andJosh Napier and JR Flint,they’re ahead of wherethey’d be just playing JV.”

“[Freshman] DustinLucas has been up runningwith the older kids a littlebit, giving us some depththere. And then at half-back, Eric Lewis has beentaking the majority of the

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reps, with JR Flint rotatingover some. And thenBlake Ravenscroft hasbeen in there, and thenTimmy Biser, a young kid,has been jumping in therewith those few sick kidsout.”

“At the split position,Brandon Clay and MattShillingburg have beentaking most of the repsthere”, with Jones provid-ing another great option ifthe quarterback battledoesn‘t fall his way.

“Tight end’s been WyattNelson and Wes Nelsonand Zach Whiteman tak-ing those reps.”

Biser has depth on theoffensive line.

“We’re hoping to playone and a half or two of-fensive lines,” he said.“Right now, tackles havebeen Colin Fox and JoshNapier taking the mostreps, and Michael Mallowand Dakota Proud atguards. Those are kind ofset.”

“Center’s the big ques-tion. Max Redman’s beenthere, Justin Kittle, andDrew Roy...those threehave been battling in there.We’ve had a little bit of aninjury bug with a coupleof those guys, so the com-petition has cooled a bitbecause of that. But whenthose guys are healthy,even if it’s going into Week2, we’ll see who the bestis.”

“Other guys that havebeen rotating in at guardare Jacob Mellott andPhilip Jordan and JoshCoffman, and then DerekWilt has been playing bothtackles, as well as Tyler Iser.And those kids are prettymuch the lead guys.”

Defensively?“We’re still searching on

defensive line. Right nowit’s Proud and Napier onthe ends, with Fox rotatingin there and Wes Nelsonrotating in there. Defen-sive tackles have beenDerek Wilt and Drew Roy,along with Justin Kittle,and then a couple offreshman: Iden Blizzardand Ryan Liller. And KJRavenscroft is gettingsome reps in there.”

“We moved ZachWhiteman to linebacker.Linebacker-wise, we’relooking at Nelson andAustin Ravenscroft andWhiteman on the strongside, and weak side has

#12 RYAN STREETS#11 HUNTER KASMIER #11 JAMISON JONES #20 BLAKE RAVENSCROFT

#21 CORBIN WHITE #22 BRANDON CLAY #23 ZACH JOHNSON

#24 TIMMY BISER #25 JR FLINT

been JR and Corbin.” “Secondary has been

Jamison and Eric Lewis,along with Blake Raven-scroft. Safety-wise, wemoved Brandon Claythere from linebacker, andhe’s done really well. Hehad two picks against Uni-versity and did a nice jobtackling and making plays.Last year, I thought thatwas a point of contentionin our defense. MattShillingburg has beenworking in there, too.”

With sure-footed LeviEbert having graduated,punter is a question mark.

“There’s nobody that’scome out and booted thefootball. We’re going tomiss Levi. A lot of thoseseniors last year had greattalents. I don’t know whomy long-snapper is, either.Tyler [Biser] started as asophomore and never hada bad snap. I’m going tomiss him at quarterback,definitely, because he knewthe offense and was aleader. We had hand sig-nals...he and I knew whatwe were talking about, andno one else did. I’m goingto miss him at snapper,too. I’ve got four qualitykids, and then a few thatare working on it, but noone has stepped up andtaken the job. That’s whatI’m looking for: someoneto say, this is my job. That’swhat I look for when I’mevaluating positions. I lookfor that guy that puts thatstamp on that position.”

Petersburg returns tothe schedule in Week 1.

“I have no idea what toexpect from them,” saidBiser. “Last year’s filmdoes me no good whatso-ever. That’s the great fearfor me: the fear of the un-known. They may comeout and run the Polecat of-fense. We have to preparefor everything with them.”

“Some coaches you say,hey, I’m going to play Al-

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legany. They’re going torun the Wing T, 4-4. Iknow Frankfort will be inthis defense, they’re going

to throw the ball a little bitmore, they’re going tospread the field.”

“But these guys...I don’t

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YEAR-BY-YEAR RESULTSCOURTESY OF ROBERT BONAR

Year W L T Coach PF PA1914 * 1 0 01915 4 2 2 H.L. Baughman 88 571916 7 0 0 152 01917 * 1 1 0 13 211918 No team due to influenza epidemic.1919 * 0 1 0 6 181920 No record of a team.1921 4 2 0 Russell R. Thompson 117 771922 * 3 - 01923 * 5 4 0 W.B. Corbin 66 651924 * 3 1 1 Benjamin Jennings 82 181925 * 5 1 1 Benjamin Jennings 39 551926 * 3 3 0 Benjamin Jennings 40 381927 9 0 0 Benjamin Jennings 205 61928 * 0 1 0 6 281929 4 3 1 Bert L. Harbert 68 541930 * 2 0 0 Bert L. Harbert 58 01931 * 1 1 0 Bert L. Harbert 19 61932 6 2 1 Bert L. Harbert 121 801933 6 3 0 Bert L. Harbert 118 771934 7 1 2 Dana “Horse” Lough 101 191935 3 6 0 Homer M. Fizer 52 1101936 2 5 2 Homer M. Fizer 38 1241937 7 3 0 Homer M. Fizer 207 821938 8 1 0 Homer M. Fizer 204 261939 2 6 0 Homer M. Fizer 69 1491940 0 8 0 John Shelton 12 1531941 1 6 1 John Shelton 57 1091942 * 1 5 0 Bob Kyle 13 1661943 8 2 1 Fred Clark 112 771944 7 4 0 Fred Clark 107 1351945 7 3 0 Fred Clark 195 721946 9 2 0 Fred Clark 225 911947 6 4 1 Fred Clark 129 981948 6 4 1 Fred Clark 121 1191949 9 2 0 Fred Clark 168 1281950 2 9 0 Fred Clark 89 3451951 4 5 1 Fred Clark 109 1331952 6 3 1 Fred Clark 173 1091953 7 3 0 Fred Clark 196 821954 6 4 0 Fred Clark 165 1101955 9 1 0 Fred Clark 208 701956 11 0 0 Fred Clark 172 461957 10 1 0 Fred Clark 224 391958 9 1 0 Fred Clark 237 311959 9 1 0 Fred Clark 236 251960 6 4 0 Fred Clark 192 1571961 8 2 0 Fred Clark 214 58

1962 10 1 0 Fred Clark 271 941963 6 4 0 Fred Clark 94 941964 6 4 0 Fred Clark 164 1461965 6 4 0 Fred Clark 170 1161966 7 2 1 Fred Clark 253 1181967 6 4 0 Fred Clark 183 941968 7 2 1 Fred Clark 237 1191969 10 1 0 Fred Clark 310 871970 8 2 0 Fred Clark 237 1151971 1 9 0 Fred Clark 112 2761972 5 5 0 Fred Clark 214 1401973 4 5 1 Fred Clark 146 1691974 3 7 0 Fred Clark 100 2511975 4 6 0 Fred Clark 148 1431976 7 3 0 Jim Thompson 228 1001977 8 2 0 Jim Thompson 171 1391978 2 8 0 Jim Thompson 34 1981979 6 4 0 Jim Thompson 183 1461980 7 3 0 Jim Thompson 247 1101981 7 3 0 Jim Thompson 182 1091982 7 3 0 Mike Calhoun 244 1811983 2 8 0 Mike Calhoun 81 1691984 8 2 0 Mike Calhoun 183 1001985 8 2 0 Mike Calhoun 249 1011986 6 4 0 Doug Jennings 191 1001987 4 6 0 Doug Jennings 159 1931988 3 7 0 Mike Marsh 84 1961989 0 10 0 Mike Marsh 40 3471990 1 9 0 Mike Marsh 33 3461991 2 8 0 Wally Mahle 125 2381992 6 4 0 Wally Mahle 217 2271993 5 5 0 Wally Mahle 149 1891994 2 8 0 Wally Mahle 156 3201995 1 9 0 Kelly Day 111 2531996 9 4 0 Kelly Day 335 1661997 8 4 0 Tom Preaskorn 250 1501998 7 3 0 Tom Preaskorn 231 931999 8 3 0 Tom Preaskorn 295 1312000 9 2 0 Tom Preaskorn 274 1222001 4 6 0 Tom Preaskorn 165 2092002 11 2 0 Tom Preaskorn 392 1742003 7 4 0 Tom Preaskorn 267 1142004 8 4 0 Sean Biser 329 1802005 5 5 0 Sean Biser 275 2002006 8 4 0 Sean Biser 307 1952007 7 4 0 Sean Biser 348 2022008 10 1 0 Sean Biser 458 752009 8 4 0 Sean Biser 322 1632010 5 5 0 Sean Biser 241 186

Total 523 340 19 (.604) 15418 11547




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By Chronology Years W L T Pct.Dana G. Lough (1934-34) 1 7 1 2 .875Homer M. Fizer (1935-39) 5 22 21 2 .512John Shelton (1940-41) 2 1 14 1 .067Bob Kyle (1942-42) 1 1 5 0 .167Fred Clark (1943-75) 33 222 111 8 .667Jim Thompson (1976-81) 6 37 23 0 .617Mike Calhoun (1982-85) 4 25 15 0 .625Doug Jennings (1986-87) 2 10 10 0 .500Mike Marsh (1988-90) 3 4 26 0 .133Wally Mahle (1991-94) 4 15 25 0 .375Kelly Day (1995-96) 2 10 13 0 .435Tom Preaskorn (1997-03) 7 54 24 0 .692Sean Biser (2004-) 7 51 27 0 .654

COACHINGHISTORY

(SINCE 1934)

By PercentageHorse Lough .875Tom Preaskorn. .692Fred Clark .667Sean Biser .654Mike Calhoun .625Jim Thompson .617Homer Fizer .512Doug Jennings .500Kelly Day .435Wally Mahle .375Bob Kyle .167Mike Marsh .133John Shelton .067

By WinsFred Clark 222Tom Preaskorn 54Sean Biser 51Jim Thompson 37Mike Calhoun 25Homer Fizer 22Wally Mahle 15Doug Jennings 10Kelly Day 10Horse Lough 7Mike Marsh 4John Shelton 1Bob Kyle 1

Once the 2011 season officially begins, current KHS coach SeanBiser will become the second-longest tenured coach in KHS his-tory. Biser will also likely pass Tom Preaskorn for second on the winslist this year.



OPPONENT FIRST LAST W L T LOCATION

Allegany 1926 2010 23 61 1 CumberlandAllegany Co. 1916 1925 3 3 1 CumberlandAllegany Co. Acad. 1915 1921 3 2 0 CumberlandAlumni 1926 1953 10 3 0 KeyserBeall 1914 2004 34 15 1 FrostburgBerkeley Springs 1959 2010 13 4 0 Berkeley Spgs.Berlin Brothersvally 1948 1949 2 0 0 Berlin, Pa.Bishop Walsh 1966 1998 16 15 1 CumberlandBluefield 2004 2004 0 1 0 BluefieldBoonsboro 2006 2006 0 1 0 BoonsboroBroad Run 1972 1973 0 2 0 Ashburn, Va.Bruce 1968 1985 15 2 1 WesternportCentral Catholic 2006 2007 0 2 0 WheelingChapmanville 2007 2007 0 1 0 ChapmanvilleCharles Town 1927 1971 20 6 0 Charles TownCrescent Ath. Club 1914 1914 1 0 0 CumberlandDavis 1923 1936 6 1 1 DavisEast Fairmont 1987 1990 1 3 0 FairmontForest Park 2000 2000 1 0 0 Woodbridge, Va.Fort Ashby 1944 1946 3 0 0 Fort AshbyFort Hill 1936 2010 6 36 1 CumberlandFrankfort 1976 2010 22 14 0 Short GapFranklin 1933 1952 6 1 2 FranklinGrafton 1927 2003 3 0 0 GraftonGreenbrier East 1980 1981 1 1 0 FairleaHampshire 1964 2010 31 16 0 RomneyHandley 1925 1925 1 0 0 WinchesterHarpers Ferry 1927 1927 1 0 0 Harpers FerryHedgesville 1980 1992 7 3 0 HedgesvilleIaeger 2002 2002 1 0 0 IaegerJames Monroe 1996 2006 1 1 0 LindsideJefferson 1972 2001 7 7 0 Shen. Junct.Johnstown 1925 1925 0 1 0 Johnstown, Pa.Junior Athletic Club 1915 1915 2 0 0 CumberlandKingwood 1925 1929 1 1 0 KingwoodLaSalle 1932 1965 15 12 0 CumberlandLoyola Blakefield 2004 2005 0 2 0 Towson, Md.Magnolia 2006 2009 1 2 0 New Martinsvl.Martinsburg 1924 2000 7 20 1 MartinsburgMasontown 1946 1946 1 0 0 Masontown, Pa.Meyersdale 1927 1934 3 0 1 Meyersdale, Pa.Moorefield 1929 2008 40 11 0 Moorefield

Morgantown 1951 1987 0 4 0 MorgantownMountain Ridge 2009 2010 1 1 0 FrostburgMullens 1956 1956 1 0 0 MullensMusselman 1991 2010 10 10 0 InwoodNicholas County 1962 1962 1 0 0 SummersvilleNorth Marion 1979 1980 0 2 0 RachelNorthern Garrett 1994 2010 8 1 0 AccidentParsons 1923 1958 14 8 0 ParsonsPenn Avenue 1932 1935 3 1 0 CumberlandPetersburg 1935 2005 37 5 1 PetersburgPiedmont 1915 1943 10 2 1 PiedmontPoca 1996 2002 0 2 0 PocaPoint Pleasant 2009 2009 1 0 0 Point PleasantPotomac State 1919 1919 0 1 0 KeyserPreston 2000 2001 1 1 0 KingwoodRavenswood 2002 2003 1 1 0 RavenswoodRidgeley 1935 1975 29 9 1 RidgeleyRobert C. Byrd 1999 2000 0 2 0 ClarksburgRomney 1932 1963 17 5 3 RomneyRoosevelt-Wilson 1948 1949 1 1 0 Nutter FortSaint Francis 1934 1935 0 1 1 MorgantownSaint John's 1924 1932 2 0 0 PetersburgShady Spring 2009 2010 2 0 0 Shady SpringSherando 1993 1999 2 0 0 Stephens City, Va.Sherman 2004 2004 1 0 0 SethSouth Fork 1923 1923 1 0 0 South Fork, Pa.Southern Garrett 1955 2008 29 15 0 OaklandSpringbrook 1978 1978 0 1 0 Silver Spg., Md.Thomas 1921 1947 10 2 1 ThomasTriadelphia 1950 1950 0 1 0 WheelingTucker County 1991 2001 8 4 0 HambletonTunnelton 1927 1927 1 0 0 TunneltonTyler Consolidated 2004 2005 2 0 0 KidwellValley 1967 1977 5 1 0 LonaconingVinson 1957 1957 0 1 0 HuntingtonWayne 2009 2010 0 2 0 WayneWeir 1997 1997 0 1 0 WeirtonWestmar 1991 1999 7 2 0 LonaconingWilliam Campbell 2005 2005 0 1 0 Naruna, Va.Winfield 1969 1969 1 0 0 WinfieldWV School for Deaf 1951 1954 3 1 0 RomneyWyoming East 2008 2008 1 0 0 New Richmond

OPPONENT HISTORY

PHOTO COURTESY OFROBERT BONAR

The 1946 edition of theGolden Tornado poseson the practice fieldbehind the old KeyserHigh School.The squad was thefirst since 1927 to winnine games, defeatingthe school alumni, Ma-sontown, Fort Ashby,Thomas, Ridgeley, Al-legany, Romney,Franklin, Petersburgand losing to Moore-field and CharlesTown.1946 was the finalseason without a statechampionship game orplayoff system in thestate of West Virginia.The original photo ap-peared in the 1947Keyhisco yearbook.

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GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA

WednesdaySeptember 21, 2011

7:30 pm

The World Famous Glenn Mil ler Orchestra is the most

popular and sought after big band in the world today for

both concert and swing dance engagements. HAU is

happy to bring this outstanding group to the stage of

the Church-McKee Arts Center.

J IM CURRY’S TAKE MEHOME:

THE MUSIC OF JOHN DENVERSunday,

December 4, 20113:00 pm

Jim Curry looks much like John Denver, sounds much like

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Latshaw Productions’

THE CROONERS ANDTHEIR MUSIC

SundayOctober 30, 2011

3:00 pm

Latshaw Productions’ newest show, The Crooners and

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such as Dean Mart in, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney,

Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett and many others.

American Family

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND

TuesdayMay 8, 2012

7:30 pm

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personnel.

American Family Theater’s

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WednesdayMarch 28, 2012

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years ago with the distinct purpose of enriching l ives

through dance. Making it ’s f irst appearance in Keyser,

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2010 YEAR IN REVIEWBY MICHAEL MINNICH

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Wayne 26, Keyser 12KEYSER—The No.

4 Wayne Pioneers usedtheir running game andsolid defense to defeatthe fifth-ranked KeyserGolden Tornado, 26-12,at Tornado Alley.

Clyde Ferrell rushedfor 124 yards and atouchdown to led WHS,who are coming off of a13-1 season and a loss inthe Class AA state cham-pionship game.

Keyser’s night washighlighed by a specialteams TD by KadeemGarland and a touch-down pass from TylerBiser to Jamison Jones.

Wayne won the open-ing coin toss and electedto receive the kickoff tostart the season.

Facing third-and-13,Jake Barr picked up 17yards up the middle tomove the chains for thePioneers.

Wayne continued tochew up yardage on theground.

Five plays later, ClydeFerrell ran for a 16-yardgain to the KHS 27.

On fourth-and-6, Barrgained 14 yards to set upfirst-and-goal.

Ferrell finished off thedrive with an eight-yardrun, dragging severalTornado tacklers into theend zone for the touch-down with 4:38 left inthe first quarter.

Allen Bryant missedthe extra point.

Keyser had a 15-yardkickoff return by Jami-son Jones cancelled outby a personal foulpenalty, then lost yardageon three straight rushingplays and punted.

Starting from theKeyser 36, Wayne got a23-yard run from Bran-don Spurlock on seconddown, then Barr took itto the house from 11yards out.

The two-point con-version was no good.

Wayne led, 12-0, with1:33 left in the first quar-ter.

Wes Washington fum-bled the ensuing kickoff,but got the ball back on

an interception on thenext play.

Keyser, starting fromtheir own 7, moved thesticks for the first timeon a nine-yard run byKodie Evans.

On third-and-7, TylerBiser connected withWashington in traffic foran 11-yard gain.

After a few medium-sized runs moved the ballinto Wayne territory,Biser gained 18 yards ona keeper right.

Another Biser run onthird down set up first-and-goal, but two Bran-don Clay runs gained justthree yards, then J.R.Flint lost nine yards.

On fourth-and-goalfrom the Wayne 15, Biserwas sacked, and Keyserturned the ball over ondowns with 4:12 left inthe half.

The Pioneers pickedup three first downs andmoved the ball acrossmidfield, but were con-tent to let the clock runout and take a 12-0 leadinto the locker room.

Wayne gained 145first-half yards, all on theground, while Keyserfinished the half with 61yards.

Two runs for losssandwiched an incom-plete pass as Keyser wentthree-and-out on theopening drive of the sec-ond half.

Wayne moved thesticks once, then a per-sonal foul moved the ballall the way to the Keyser15.

Two plays later, ZachCassidy hit Corey Gilker-son in the end zone for a13-yard touchdown pass.

The two-point con-version was no good.

Wayne led, 19-0, with8:26 left in the thirdquarter.

But Kadeem Garlandreturned the kickoff 89yards to the house for

Keyser’s first score ofthe season.

Biser’s pass into theend zone for the two-point conversion was nogood.


After Ferrell gainedfive yards on first down,

Barr, Ferrell, andPaden Thompson rat-

tled off back-to-back-to-back 12-yard runs tomove the ball to theKeyser 20 with 6:31 leftin the third quarter.

Barr, Ferrell, and Barragain moved the ball tothe KHS 9, where Cas-sidy hit Thompson forhis second passing TD.

Cassidy easily con-nected with Tyler Adkinsfor the two-point con-version.


Another good returnby Garland set Keyser upat their own 40.

Keyser benefited froman encroachment penaltyon second down andEvans picked up a firstdown on 3rd-and-1.

Clay ripped off seven

yards to the Wayne 43,but a nice gain fromGarland on a reverse wasnegated by a holdingpenalty and the drivestalled.

Levi Ebert thumpedthe punt 47 yards to pinWayne at their own 5,and the KHS defenseforced a punt, which wasdowned in good positionfor the Keyser offense atthe Wayne 35.

But KHS went fouryards in the wrong direc-tion and turned the ballover on downs.

Thompson fumbledon second down,though, to give KHSsome life with 10:04 left.

On fourth-and-9,Biser hit a crossing Clayfor 11 yards, then Flinttore off 12 more stripesto the Wayne 10.

A hold moved the ball

back 14 yards, thenEvans gained ten back.

Biser then hit JamisonJones in the left side ofthe end zone from 14yards out.

The KHS QB wassacked on the two-pointconversion attempt.

The lead was down to26-12 with 6:53 left.

Ferrell ran on sevenof the next eight plays togain two first downs, but,more importantly, tickthe clock under threeminutes and makeKeyser burn two time-outs.

KHS took over theball on downs with 2:40left, but immediatelyfumbled it back on thesnap.

Wayne ran out theclock.

Wayne won last year’sgame, 22-0.

Before the game, jun-ior Meghan Andersonwas crowned Miss Tor-nado.

Anderson raised nearly$7,000 for KHS athletics.

Fort Hill 24, Keyser 0KEYSER — The

Keyser Golden Tornadomustered only six firstdowns and no points,losing to the Fort HillSentinels, 24-0, at AlumniStadium at TornadoAlley.

The Golden Tornadomanaged just 111 yardsof offense, with 50 ofthose coming on the finaldrive of the game.

Fort Hill went three-and-out on their firstpossession, as did Keyser.

The Sentinels movedthe sticks once, but theTornado defense stuffed

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Ryan Briner a yard shortof the first down marker.

Keyser took advan-tage: Kodie Evans rippedoff 19 yards on seconddown to move the balldown to the Fort Hill 39.

After two runs for nogain, KHS quarterbackTyler Biser rolled left forsix yards.

Kadeem Garlandgained the first down, buta holding penalty can-celled out the gain andKeyser punted.

Levi Ebert’s hangingboot set the Sentinels upat their own 10, then aprocedure penalty backedthe ball up to the 5.

Fort Hill gained 20yards on a Garrett Clayrush, but faced third-and-17 to start the secondquarter.

But a pass interferenceflag on Jamison Jonesgave Fort Hill new life.

Sentinels quarterbackJoe Howser pushedahead three times for an-other first down at mid-field.

After a short run,Howser hit Dylan Claydown the right side; thecatch-and-run gained 29yards down to the KHS18.

Shawn Metheny pow-ered ahead for 14 yards,then ran again for twomore stripes to the KHS2.

Garrett Dolly finishedthe drive with a run upthe middle.

Phillip Gugliano’sextra point gave Fort Hilla 7-0 lead with 8:13 left inthe half.

An illegal block on thekickoff return meant thatKeyser would start fromtheir own 10.

On second down,Evans fumbled, puttingthe Sentinels on the KHSdoorstep.

But a holding penaltyand an intentionalgrounding call putHowser in a passing situ-ation: the pass was a bithigh, went off of the re-ceiver’s fingers, and intothe waiting hands ofKeyser’s J.R. Flint.

After Kadeem Gar-land ran for eight yardson first down, Wes Wash-ington’s first touch wentfor one yard. But a hold-ing penalty on thirddown backed Keyser upten yards, and Biser’s tosson third down was in-complete.

After a short punt,Garrett Clay went 46yards up the middle forFort Hill’s second score.

The kick was good:14-0, Fort Hill, with 3:20left in the half.

Both teams wentthree-and-out on theirnext possessions.

Keyser got a firstdown on a roughing thekicker penalty, then Biserscrambled for 22 yardson the final play of thehalf.

KHS ran five plays in-side Fort Hill territory, allon their second drive,and 11 inside their own20, gaining two firstdowns, one by penaltyand one by rush.

Keyser punted withoutgaining a first down onthe opening drive of thesecond half.

Starting from the KHS44, Fort Hill drove downfor their third score ofthe game, with JaronWatkins cashing in the

pigskin on an end-around from 18 yardsout with 6:43 left in thethird quarter.

Keyser picked up afirst down on nine-yardpasses from Biser toWashington and WyattNelson, but another in-tentional grounding flagkilled the Tornado drive.

Fort Hill, starting adrive from their own ter-ritory for the first timesince early in the secondquarter, quickly remediedthat with a 17-yardMetheny run.

Two plays later,Howser tucked and ranfor 25 yards to the KHS8.

A personal foulstopped the drive,though, and Guglianocame on to hit the 35-yard field goal.

Fort Hill led, 24-0,with 11:05 left in thegame.

Jamison Jones’ kick re-turn to the Keyser 49gave the Golden Tor-nado some momentum,but they punted.

But Keyser did get theball back on a seconddown fumble at the FortHill 36, and, aided by twoWashington runs and apenalty, gained theirfourth first down of thegame.

Washington, though,fumbled it back twoplays later. Fort Hillpunted, and Keyser got16 yards from Evans tomove the ball to the FortHill 40.

The offense wasshowing life at last: twoplays later, Washingtonran for eight, then Gar-land bit off 19 down tothe Fort Hill 14.

After Washington wasstopped for no gain,Garland ran for six yards.

Keyser took a timeout,then Biser’s toss into theend zone for Levi Ebertwas incomplete.

On fourth down, hispass was deflected, andFort Hill pocketed theshutout.

Keyser has now gonethree games without arushing touchdown, dat-ing back to last season.

Keyser 19, Northern 6K E Y S E R — Ty l e r

Biser ran for a touch-down and threw for an-other as the KeyserGolden Tornado earnedtheir first win of the year,defeating the NorthernHuskies, 19-6, at Tor-nado Alley.

Jamison Jones was onthe receiving end ofBiser’s TD toss for thesecond time this seasonand finished with 131yards on five catches.

Kodie Evans ac-counted for the otherKHS score.

Northern fumbled theopening kickoff, andKeyser’s Damon Thornepounced on the ball atthe Northern 30.

Kodie Evans pickedup a fourth-and-1 downto the Northern 17 tomove the chains, thentwin five-yard runs byKadeem Garland andBrandon Clay set KHSup with first-and-goal.

But this time, theHuskies held on fourthdown, stuffing Evans forno gain at the NHS 2.

Northern was unableto move out from theshadow of their goal lineand punted.

Keyser went three-and-out on their nextpossession, with TylerBiser narrowly missingdowning Levi Ebert’spunt at the 1.

Pat Sines ran for 15yards on second down,but the Huskies went nofurther and punted.

Biser kept for 25 yardson second down to movethe ball to midfield, butwas stripped on the nextplay.

Northern, startingfrom the Keyser 36,gained seven yards ontwo rushes to close outthe quarter.

Keyser got a stop attheir own 27, then got a24-yard pass from Biserto Jamison Jones.

But KHS went twoyards in the wrong direc-tion on their next threedays and punted.

Northern gained onefirst down, then Bakerdodged several tacklersfor a 19-yard gain to theNorthern 44 with 6:31left in the half.

Sines then connectedwith Cody Rodeheaver

for a gain of 13 to movethe ball into KHS terri-tory.

The Huskies movedthe chains again withthree runs, but faced afourth-and-2 at theKeyser 25.

An incomplete passgave the ball back to theGolden Tornado with2:57 left in the half.

On third-and-9, Biserhit Jones for a gain of 39yards, then, three plays

later, kept for 20 yards tothe Northern 18.

On the next play, itwas a familiar combina-tion: Biser to Jones, overthe top, into the left sideof the end zone, with33.7 seconds to go in thehalf.

Ebert’s extra pointgave Keyser a 7-0 lead,capping a seven-play, 75-yard drive over 2:30.

Alex Baker had a nicereturn to the Northern

43, then Sines completedtwo passes for 18 yards.

Tack on a face maskpenalty, and Northernwas down to the KHS 39with 13.5 seconds to goin the half.

But an intentionalgrounding penalty on thenext play backed North-ern up.

Garland interceptedthe deep pass to end thehalf.

Keyser went three-and-out to start the thirdquarter.

Northern ran for onefirst down, then Sinescompleted a pass to JakeBosley for a gain of 11yards to the Keyser 39.

Keyser’s defense faceda fourth-and-4, and run-ning back Baker threw tobackfield mate Bosley forseven yards and a firstdown.

Two plays later, Bakeragain was called upon topass, and hit Kyle Rosen-berger for the 24-yardtouchdown.

Northern went fortwo, but Sines tripped onthe way to the end zone,and Keyser still led, 7-6,with 4:26 left in the thirdquarter.

Garland ripped off areturn to the Keyser 40,and, after an offsides flag,Biser and Jones hookedup again for 27 yards.

On fourth-and-6,Keyser benefited from anoffsides penalty, thenEvans gained four yardsto the Northern 15.

Evans then grabbed12 more stripes to the 3:first-and-goal.

Three plays later, Biserpushed ahead for thetouchdown, Keyser’s first

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TRIBUNE PHOTO BY RAYMOND BURNER (RAYMONDBURNER.COM)JR Flint (23) returns an interception against Fort Hill with the assistance of Jamison Jones (11).



on the ground this sea-son.

Ebert’s extra pointwas blocked: 13-6,Keyser, with 1:12 left inthe third quarter.

Northern gained twofirst downs, but DannyFife sacked Sines onfourth down to kill thedrive with 9:57 left.

Biser found Jonesagain for 23 yards onfirst down, and, after ashort gain on the nextplay, Garland sped for 16yards to the Northern15.

Evans gained fouryards, then Biser sixmore.

Evans finished thedrive with a five-yard runup the middle with 7:31left.

Ebert’s extra pointwas blocked: Keyser led,19-6.

Northern drove downto the Keyser 38, butSines was stopped for nogain with 4:46 to go.

Keyser’s runninggame put together theirbest drive to date: Wash-ington for three, Garlandfor seven, Evans for six,and Evans for seven tothe Northern 39.

Keyser turned the ballover on downs with 1:21left.

Aaron Nelsonsnatched it back with aninterception with 35.5seconds left, and Keyserran out the rest of theclock.

Allegany 25, Keyser 20CUMBERLAND—

The Keyser Golden Tor-nado built a 14-13halftime lead, but wereundone by two faileddrives inside the Alle-gany 25, falling to theCampers, 25-20, atGreenway Avenue Sta-dium.

Keyser deferred tostart the game.

Allegany, startingfrom their own 33,picked up a third-and-7on a 13-yard pass fromCarter Imes to BradyEllsworth.

The Campers ran foranother first down, butstopped Drew O’Neal ayard short on fourthdown.

Keyser took over ondowns at their own 31.

After a flag against theCampers, Tyler Biserkept on the waggle for again of nine yards and afirst down.

But an illegal motionpenalty set Keyser upwith third-and-long;

Kadeem Garland wasstopped short on the re-verse.

Levi Ebert’s punt wasa beauty: Ellsworthdowned the ball at hisown 4.

Imes made a greatthrow on third-and-9,hitting Ellsworth on theleft side of the field for35 yards.

On second down,Jamison Jones did well tobreak up a pass intendedfor Ellsworth.

A drop on the nextplay brought up a punt-ing situation.

But Keyser fumbledon the first play of thesubsequent drive, settingAHS up in pole positionat the KHS 25.

The Tornado defenseallowed just four yardson the next three plays,bringing up an key playto start the second quar-ter.

Imes found CoryMcCagh for 15 yards,then Aaron Leasurepushed the pile twice toinside the KHS 1.

Imes nosed the ballacross the goal line onthird-and-goal.

Allegany led, 7-0, with10:20 left in the secondquarter, after Neil Mor-gan’s extra point.

Keyser was able to re-cover the squibbed kick-off in prime position attheir own 47.

They quickly took ad-vantage: Kadeem Gar-land made severaldefenders miss, follow-ing the blocking ofMichael Mallow to theend zone for the 53-yardscore.

The made extra pointtied the game at 7 with10:02 left in the secondquarter.

Keyser tried their ownsquib kick, with Alleganyrecovering at their own36.

The Tornado defensegot a quick three-and-out.

McCagh denied Gar-land another score, tack-ling the KHS speedsterat the Alco 45 after a 23-yard return.

Allegany got a three-and-out of their own;another good kick fromEbert dropped Alleganyto their own 10.

A host of KHS de-fenders sacked Imes atthe Alco 2 for a hugeloss on third down.

Under pressure, thepunt went out ofbounds at the Allegany22.

But Biser ran for ayard, Wes Washingtonlost four, and an incom-

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TRIBUNE PHOTOS BY RAYMOND BURNER (RAYMONDBURNER.COM)(above) Kadeem Garland (2) and Danny Fife (33) combine for a stop against Northern.(below) Wes Washington runs for a touchdown against Allegany.

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plete pass by Biser in-tended for Wyatt Nelsonbrought up fourth down.

Biser looked left forJones, but the pass wasoverthrown, and Alle-gany took over ondowns.

Madison Wolfordmade a big play right offthe bat for the Campers,going 70 yards down theleft side to the Keyser 5.

Leasure ran the balltwice to the Keyser 1,then got the call again forthe touchdown.

The extra point wasblocked: Allegany led, 13-7, with 2:29 left in thehalf.

Another good play onspecial teams fromKeyser: Jones went 35yards on the return to theKeyser 44.

Garland darted righton first down for 13yards, then, two playslater, Wes Washingtondarted left for a 40-yardtouchdown.

The extra point gaveKeyser a 14-13 lead with1:23 to go in the half.

Imes threw an incom-plete pass on first down,then lost a yard on sec-ond down.

Keyser took a timeoutwith 1:03 left in the half.

Imes found SteffanBonnett for 10 yards,bringing up fourth-and-1with 57.9 seconds to go.

Keyser took over attheir own 34 after thepunt, gaining one firstdown to end the half.

Starting from theirown 36 after a short kick-off to begin the secondhalf, Keyser went three-and-out.

On second down,Bonnett went 67 yardson a fake handoff andpitch right for an Alle-gany TD.

The Campers went fortwo, but Jonathan Moatsmade the tackle on therun left.

Allegany led, 19-14,with 9:11 left in the thirdquarter.

Garland gained 22 tomidfield on Keyser’s sec-ond play, then KHSfaked the same play andBiser sprinted up themiddle for 24 yards.

But two plays later,Biser’s pass was inter-

cepted by Seth Thomp-son, who stumbled outto the Allegany 1.

Ellsworth made a finecatch on third down togain 14 yards to the Alco18.

From there, Alleganyturned to the runninggame, gaining threemore first downs onthird-down rushes.

Leasure ran for an-other first down on thenext play, then DrewO’Neal picked up twoyards on the final play ofthe third quarter.

On third down,O’Neal, who playedquarterback for twoyears, took the pitch andhit Ellsworth for a gainof 32 to the Keyser 2.

Leasure gained one,

Imes was stuffed at theline on second down,then Leasure scored onhis third effort.

The drive took eightminutes and 48 secondsoff the clock, and, moreimportantly, Alleganytook a two-possessionlead.

Washington deflectedthe two-point pass, in-tended for Ellsworth.

The Campers led, 25-14, with 10:00 left in thefourth quarter.

Keyser barely recov-ered a short kickoff, tak-ing over at their own 26.

Garland ran for three,Biser for six, but Alle-gany got the stop onthird down and Keyserchose to punt with 7:55left.

The Golden Tornadoneeded a three-and-out,and got it, getting theball back with 5:59 to goat the Allegany 46.

The Campers werewise to Keyser’s motionrunning game, andstopped Garland for aloss of five.

After an incompletepass, Washington ran forsix yards.

On fourth down,Biser’s heave downfieldwas incomplete.

Allegany took over ondowns with 4:48 left andturned to milking theclock, punting the ballwith 2:31 to go.

Keyser took over attheir own 46, needing aquick score to makethings interesting.

Kodie Evans gained14 yards on third down,then Biser connectedwith Jones two plays laterto the Alco 25.

Biser ran for two,found Jones for five,then kept for 13 more tothe Alco 5 with under aminute to go on a run-ning clock.

Keyser used their lasttwo timeouts but losttwo yards on the nexttwo plays, but on third-and-goal, Biser con-nected with Eric Lewisfor the seven-yard scorewith 16.2 seconds left.

On the two-pointconversion, McCaghsacked Biser.

Allegany led, 25-20.Onside kick time: the

Campers recovered to

kill the game.With a win, Keyser

would have completedonly their second three-game winning streakagainst Allegany in thearea’s longest rivalry.

Keyser 39, Hampshire6

K E Y S E R — W e sWashington rushed for217 yards and the KeyserGolden Tornado de-fense, barring one longpass play in the thirdquarter, shut down theHampshire Trojans in a39-6 Homecoming win atTornado Alley.

Hampshire gained onefirst down, their only oneuntil late in the fourthquarter, on the initialdrive of the game beforepunting.

On second down, WesWashington ran for 21yards, but a block in theback took some of thatyardage away.

Two plays later, Wash-ington went left for 18yards to the Keyser 48,then gained 10 on third-and-3.

A pair of runs byKadeem Garland to theHampshire 24 moved thesticks again, then KodieEvans was stopped justshort of the goal line onsecond down.

Evans carried againfor his second touch-down of the year, butLevi Ebert missed theextra point.

Keyser led, 6-0, with2:13 left in the first quar-ter.

Hampshire startedtheir second drive withpromise, but a block inthe back and a sack byJonathan Moats forcedthe Trojans to punt onthe first play of the sec-ond quarter.

Washington got looseagain on second down,rushing for 37 yards upthe middle, then Garlandbit off 15 yards to theHampshire 19.

Washington gained 11yards on second down tothe Hampshire 5, thenfinished off the drivewith a five-yard run onsecond-and-goal.

Tyler Biser’s pass forthe two-point conversionwas incomplete.

Keyser led, 12-0, with8:47 to go in the half.

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On second down, offwent Washington againright for 22 yards.

Keyser faked a punton fourth down, andGarland gained the nec-essary yardage.

But, a holding penaltycanceled out the run, andthe Golden Tornado didpunt this time.

Hampshire wentthree-and-out, thenKeyser did the same.

But the Trojansmuffed the punt, andBiser recovered with tenseconds left at theHampshire 21.

Biser kept for eightyards, and Keyser tooktheir last timeout.

Biser connected withWashington, but thecatch was out of boundsto end the half.

Washington rushedfor 128 yards in the firsthalf, while Hampshiremanaged just one firstdown.

The senior picked upwhere he left off, rushingfor 13 yards on third-and-9 to the KHS 49.

Another third downconversion, this time viathe pass from Biser toGarland for a gain of 18.

Two plays later, thesame combination re-sulted in a score, thistime from 30 yards.

Keyser again went fortwo, and Biser foundGarland yet again.

Keyser led, 20-0, with7:38 left in the thirdquarter.

On their first play,Hampshire fumbled,with Damon Thorne andDanny Fife leading thecharge to the ball forKeyser.

Washington ran fornine, Evans for 12, andBiser for four to cap thedrive.

Biser’s pass for twowas incomplete.

Keyser’s lead was upto 26 points with 6:16left in the third quarter.

Hampshire got on theboard on a 65-yardtouchdown pass fromSpencer Malick toDenard Hartwell with4:29 left in the thirdquarter.

The kick was no good:Keyser 26, Hampshire 6.

Keyser had big runsby Washington and Gar-land nullified by flags.

The third time was thecharm: Washington’s 46-yard touchdown runwith 1:45 left in the quar-ter stood.

The extra point wasblocked: KHS led, 32-6.

Hampshire picked up

their second and thirdfirst downs, but J.R. Flintintercepted Malick’s passon fourth down at theKeyser 19.

KHS gained one firstdown before punting.

On third down, Flintpicked Malick and ran itall the way back for a 65-yard touchdown.

Levi Ebert added theextra point: Keyser led,39-6, with 4:12 to go.

Flint’s third intercep-tion in a span of fiveminutes and 18 secondshalted the Hampshiredrive again.

Keyser ran out the re-maining 2:20 to pockettheir ninth straight winin the series.

During halftime cere-monies, Gary Bradleyand Aundria Kerns werecrowned HomecomingKing and Queen.

Aaron Nelson andHannah Biser were firstrunners-up; Tre’ Rossand Marlee Whitlocksecond runners-up, andDylan Evans and BrookeMangold third runners-up.

Keyser 35, BerkeleySprings 21

B E R K E L E YSPRINGS—KadeemGarland and KodieEvans racked up twotouchdowns apiece asthe Keyser Golden Tor-nado levelled theirrecord at 3-3 with a solid35-21 win at the expenseof the Berkeley SpringsIndians.

After forcing a three-and-out on the openingpossession, Keysermoved the ball down-field with ease.

Three flags, a seven-yard run by Wes Wash-ington, a 12-yardend-around by KadeemGarland, and finally a 31-yard sprint up the middleby Kodie Evans gaveKHS a 6-0 lead with 9:22to go in the first quarter.

Danny Fife’s extrapoint added to the lead.

The Indians an-swered: on third down,Zach White hit AndrewTruax down the left sideof the field for a 65-yardtouchdown.

Zach Wise added theextra point to tie the

game with 8:30 left inthe first quarter.

A nice kickoff returnby Kadeem Garland setKeyser up at their own43.

A holding penaltyslowed the Golden Tor-nado briefly, but Wash-ington gained 17 yards toset up third-and-short.

Evans was stopped,but Washington movedthe chains with a shortfourth-down run.

Evans gained 11,Biser five, then Evanscarried twice for sevenyards each time to theBS 1.

After a KHS timeout,Evans burst in for hissecond score of theevening with 1:41 to goin the first quarter.

Fife missed the extrapoint wide: 13-7, Keyser.

Berkeley Springs gotan 18-yard rush on firstdown by Bobby Mathai,but Jonathan Moatssacked White for a lossof ten on third down onthe final play of the pe-riod.

Keyser benefitedfrom a bad snap on the

Berkeley Springs punt,but gave 15 yards backon a personal foul on theplay.

Washington was tack-led just short of themarker at the Keyser 40,and the Golden Tornadochose to punt.

White ran for 40 yardson the second play ofthe drive, but EthanLaRue recovered a fum-ble four plays later: ei-ther way, it was going tobe Keyser’s ball.

But Washingtonhanded the ball back twoplays later at the Keyser40.

Jamison Jones ap-peared to take it rightback on the next play,but was whistled for passinterference.

It came back to bitethem: White and Truaxconnected three playslater for a 25-yard touch-down.

Wise’s PAT gave theIndians a 14-13 lead with4:30 left in the half.

But Garland, aftermuffing the kickoff,went 93 yards to thehouse for a resounding

response.Evans pushed ahead

for the two-point con-version: 21-14, Keyser, atthe 4:16 mark.

After BerkeleySprings went three-and-out, Keyser had a touch-down pass from Biser toJones wiped away by aflag for ineligible mandownfield.

Garland ran for 29yards on a fake punt tomove the ball to the BS31 with under a minuteto go.

Biser was sacked onfirst down, forcing KHSto blow their final time-out with 23 seconds left.

He then hit Washing-ton twice for gains of 20and 14 yards, settingKeyser up at the Berke-ley Springs 5 with onesecond left after a Biserspike.

It was time enough:Biser rolled right andsqueezed the ball in toGarland for the touch-down.

The half wouldn’t die:Berkeley Springs wasflagged for offsides onthe first extra point try,then Fife banged thesecond attempt throughdespite being run into.

Keyser led, 28-14,heading to the lockerroom.

Keyser got an 11-yardrun from Garland and a17-yard scamper fromWashington, but eventu-ally turned the ball overon downs at the Berke-ley Springs 25 afterburning six minutes and17 seconds.

After the Indianswent three-and-out,Keyser took over at theirown 29.

The Golden Tornadogained one first down,but a sack on seconddown stunted the drive’sgrowth and forced aGarland pooch punt.

Berkeley Springspicked up a first downon a 28-yard pass fromWhite to Truax on thefinal play of the thirdquarter.

Derek Wilt sackedWhite on second down,and the Indians punted.

Evans bit off 17 yardsto the Berkeley Springs35 on second down,then two runs by CalebPiraino nosed the ballacross midfield.

Garland darted rightfor 31 yards, then Bisergained nine two playslater.

A personal foul flagmoved the ball to the In-dians 2, and Pirainocashed it in from there.

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pushed the lead to 35-14with 5:51 left in thegame.

Berkeley Springs kepthope alive with a 27-yardstrike from White toTruax with 3:20 to go.

The Indians needed astop—and didn’t get it.

Keyser 28, ShadySpring 21

K E Y S E R — Ty l e rBiser’s 6-yard touchdownpass to Jamison Joneswith 17 seconds left gavethe Keyser Golden Tor-nado an exciting 28-21win over the ShadySpring Tigers on Fridaynight.

It was Keyser’s onlylead of the game.

“We want to com-mend the kids, becausethis was a heck of a tripdown here,” said KHSdefensive coordinatorScott Furey after thegame. Keyser traveled450 miles, round-trip, tothe outpost near Beckley.“That isn’t close to some-thing you’d like to do ona weekly basis.”

Shady Spring had thegame’s first possession,and had a big run on sec-ond down partially nulli-fied by an illegal block,but still moved intoKeyser territory at the 43.

Kodie Evans stoppedCody Frye for a two-yardloss on first down,though, and a pair of in-complete passes broughtup a good punt, whichpinned Keyser at theirown 2.

On third down,Keyser quarterback TylerBiser was intercepted byShady Spring defensiveback Matt Severt, who re-turned the ball to theKeyser 5.

Two plays later, Fryecashed in the pigskin.

The made kick gaveShady Spring a 7-0 leadwith 7:48 left in the firstquarter.

Kodie Evans rushedfor a 12-yard gain onthird down to put Keyserin Shady Spring territoryfor the first time at the49, but two flags hurt theKHS drive, most notablytaking away a long third-down pass from Biser toJonathan Moats.

Wes Washington,though, gained the neces-sary 21 yards on a de-layed draw.

Keyser ran for twomore first downs to theShady Spring 1, andEvans finished the drivefrom there.

Danny Fife’s extrapoint tied the game at 7-7 with 1:01 left in the firstquarter.

On the third play ofthe Tigers’ subsequent

drive, Adam Weeks hitKevin Goodson for again of 49 yards to theKeyser 11.

Two plays later, Weeksand Goodson hooked upagain for the score onthe first play of the sec-ond quarter.

The made extra pointgave Shady Spring a 14-7lead.

Washington picked upthe first down on third-and-5, navigating the ballacross midfield forKeyser.

Two Evans totesgained another firstdown to the ShadySpring 36, and the KHSoffense kept poundingthe ball on the groundon runs by Washington,Kadeem Garland twice,and Evans to the ShadySpring 11.

But a crucial flag onthird down killed thedrive and Keyser turnedthe ball over on downs atthe Shady Spring 13.

The Tornado defenseforced a three-and-out,and Keyser set up shopat the SS 48 with 1:20left.

A botched hand-offand two incompletepasses, however, forced apunt.

Shady Spring ran outthe rest of the half.

Keyser started the sec-ond half well, moving tothe Tigers 27 on an 18-yard run by KadeemGarland.

Washington ran twiceto the Shady Spring 18,then Evans ripped off12 yards.

Evans ran for two,then found the end zonefrom four yards out.

Fife’s extra point waswide; Shady Spring led,14-13, early in the thirdquarter.

The Tigers had apromising drive brewing,but Jamison Jones pickedWeeks at the KHS 1.

Keyser was unable toget out of the shadow ofthe goal line and punted.

Shady, too, wentthree-and-out; the mis-hit punt went out at the24.

The Golden Tornadowere going in that direc-tion, also, but multipleunsportsmanlike con-

duct flags on ShadySpring on a third-downsack moved the ball 30yards upfield.

Keyser was whistledfor a personal foul a fewplays later, though, tomove the ball 15 yards inthe wrong direction andthen punted to start thefourth quarter.

“We think we left 14points out on the fieldwith little mistakes,” saidFurey.

Shady Spring droveinto Keyser territory, butthe defense held to bringup a crucial fourth-and-3.

Weeks found MattSevert for the first down,then a running playmoved the ball to theKeyser 4.

Two plays later, theTigers found the endzone on a three-yard run.

The extra point wasgood: 21-13, ShadySpring, with 5:54 to go.

Keyser needed to re-spond, and did: Biser toGarland for 52 yards tothe Shady Spring 20 onfirst down.

Washington ran for

six yards, then Evanswent up the middle forthe 14-yard score.

Keyser went for two:Evans pushed ahead forthe tying points: 21-21.

The drive took justover a minute.

Starting from theirown 35 with 4:46 to go,Frye gained 20 yards onsecond down.

But the Keyser de-fense held and forced apunt.

Beginning the drivefrom near their own 22with 2:26 left, Biser con-nected with Washingtonon third-and-10 for again of 23 yards with1:16 to go.

On third down again,Biser came through witha strike to Garland for 25yards.

Keyser took their sec-ond timeout with a freshset of downs at theShady Spring 23.

Biser ran for goodgains—and got out ofbounds, too—on back-to-back plays.

First-and-goal at theShady Spring 6: Biser toJones, touchdown, with

17 seconds left.Fife’s kick pushed the

lead to 28-21, Keyser.Desperation time for

Shady Spring: Washing-ton broke up a Hail Marypass on the final play ofthe game, and the longbus trip back to Keysersuddenly didn’t seemquite so long.

Musselman 23, Keyser14

KEYSER—AaronShiley, Josh Ferguson,and Malik Hunter eachrushed for over 100 yardsand the Musselman Ap-plemen took advantageof two key Keyserturnovers and a failedfourth-down conversionto beat the Golden Tor-nado, 23-14, at TornadoAlley on Senior Night.

Musselman wentthree-and-out on theiropening possession, andWes Washington setKeyser up in good fieldposition with a 24-yardreturn to the Musselman47.

The Golden Tornadocould not take advantage,gaining just four yardsbefore punting.

Facing fourth-and-1on the subsequent pos-session, the Applemenchose to punt.

But on first down,Washington fumbled,and Nathan Boyd recov-ered at the Keyser 36.

Using their runninggame, Musselman movedthe ball inside the Keyser5, with Malik Hunterproviding most of theyardage.

Two plays later, theApplemen cashed in forthe touchdown.

The made extra pointgave Musselman a 7-0lead with 3:26 left in thefirst quarter.

Kodie Evans gainedKeyser’s first first downof the night with a 10-yard run up the middleon first down.

Two plays later, TylerBiser connected with div-ing receiver JamisonJones for a gain of 25yards to the Musselman31.

Three straight flags onthe Applemen put KHSin the red zone, and Biserrolled out on a play-ac-tion pass and foundKadeem Garland for a10-yard score.

That, plus the extrapoint, tied the game at 7-7 with (fittingly) sevenseconds left in the firstquarter.

Musselman gained twofirst downs on theground to progress tomidfield, then Aaron Shi-ley found Darrin Zom-bro on third-and-long fora gain of 28 yards.

The drive stalled there,but Jordan Butler

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stepped on and delivereda 37-yard field goal with7:20 to go in the firsthalf.

Musselman led, 10-7.Keyser turned to

Kadeem Garland on twostraight plays for 36yards, but a flag on thesecond play backed theball up to the KHS 37.

Biser and Jones gainedthat back with a 24-yardhook-up on first down,then runs by KodieEvans and Garlandgained 17 more stripes tothe Musselman 22.

Two runs gained threeyards, then Biser couldn’tfind Garland: fourth-and-7 from the Mussel-man 19.

After Keyser took atimeout with 2:59 left todiscuss their play call,Biser was flushed outand stopped two yardsshort of the marker.

Musselman gainedone first down, but faceda fourth down with 41seconds left.

Keyser took over attheir own 11 after thepunt with 29 seconds leftand ran one play to endthe half.

Starting the secondhalf from their own 33after a fair catch on thekickoff, Keyser gained 25yards on a third-downstrike from Biser toJones.

Facing another thirddown, Washingtongained 10 yards on adraw to the Musselman25.

Again on third down,KHS came through

three plays later: Biserrolled left under heat andgained eight yards.

Another big play:fourth-and-1 at the Mus-selman 2.

Biser pushed the pileforward: time for ameasurement.

The ball was inchesshort.

The Applemen gaineda third-and-6 on a nine-yard run by Josh Fergu-son to move out of theshadow of their owngoal line.

Musselman faced afourth-and-1 at theirown 34 to start thefourth quarter.

The visitors chose togo for it, and Shiley keptfor a five-yard gain.

On the next play, Fer-guson darted left for a61-yard touchdown.

Butler’s extra pointwas blocked by Washing-ton.

Musselman led, 16-7,with 11:25 to go in thefourth quarter.

Keyser needed somemomentum, and Wash-ington provided it with a24-yard run on seconddown to the Musselman49, then Biser and Jonesconnected for 35 yards.

Two plays later, Gar-land ran the ball to theMusselman 2.

After an Applementimeout, Evans scoredthe touchdown.

Fife’s extra point cutthe lead to 16-14 with9:33 left.

After a touchback onthe kickoff, the Apple-men turned to the run-ning game again, withShiley keeping for a gainof 28 across midfield to

the KHS 47.On the next play,

Hunter went 43 yards,then finished off thedrive from three yardsout two plays later.

Butler made the PAT:critical, because it madeit a two-possession leadagain at 23-14.

Musselman continuedto kick away fromKeyser’s speed mer-chants, squibbing andgiving KHS the ball attheir own 42.

Biser connected withJonathan Moats for 15yards on first down, thenused the delayed hand-off to good effect againas Washington gained 16more to the Musselman27.

Biser to Garland: 19more yards, first-and-goal at the 8.

But after Washingtonwas stopped for no gain,Biser was pressured andintercepted by MalcolmLee at the Musselman 6.

Shiley executed a greatfake-and-run, gaining 55yards to the Keyser 35.

Two plays later, hestuck another knife inthe Tornado’s hopes,gaining a first down.

Musselman did turnthe ball over downs with2:24 left, but Keyser lost11 yards to their own 11on a first-down sack andturned the ball over ondowns.

Before the game, sen-ior athletes from thefootball, cheerleading,cross country, soccer,and golf teams were rec-ognized. Senior mem-bers of the band werealso recognized at half-time.

Keyser 54, Frankfort 7SHORT GAP—

Keyser quarterback TylerBiser threw for fourtouchdowns, hitting 10of 11 passes for 208yards, ran for two scoresplus a two-point conver-sion, and kicked threeextra points as theGolden Tornadocrushed the FrankfortFalcons, 54-7, in the2010 edition of the Min-eral Bowl.

Keyser scored the last47 points of the gameand now lead the all-timeseries, 22 wins to 14.

The Golden Tornadohave now won seven ofthe last nine meetingsoverall and the last sevengames in Short Gap, in-cluding their two mostlopsided wins in the se-ries in the last two visits.

In those seven homelosses, Frankfort hasscored 38 points, orthree less than Biser putup by himself in onenight.

Frankfort managedjust 144 yards of of-fense, and went three-and-out or worse onseven of ten drives.

Frankfort went three-and-out on their firstpossession, and Keyser’sKadeem Garland jukedupfield on the return tothe Keyser 48.

The Golden Tornadogained one first downthanks to a offsides flagand a six-yard run byKodie Evans, but a falsestart penalty smotheredthe drive and broughtGarland on to punt.

But the speedy seniorfaked and went left into

open space for a gain of27 yards to the FHS 15.

On the next play,Tyler Biser picked outtight end Caleb Pirainoin the front of the endzone for a touchdown.

It was Piraino’s firstcatch of the season.

Danny Fife’s extrapoint was good, givingKeyser first blood, 7-0,with 7:02 left in the firstquarter.

The Falcons movedthe chains for the firsttime on third-and-6 on aseven-yard keeper byBrian Bills to the leftside.

Jeremy Leedom ranfor four yards and JoeyLuciw tore off six, thenfive for another firstdown.

On third-and-11, Billstook off again close to afirst down: the measure-ment spotted the ballless than a yard short.

Bills pushed the pileahead: the chain gangjogged onto the fieldagain, and Bills was safeby the length of the ball.

Leedom ran for two,Luciw for four, and Lee-dom for six: another firstdown at the KHS 14.

Luciw finished it fromthere, gaining the corneron the left side and dart-ing into the end zone un-touched.

Zachary Bradfield’sextra point tied the gameat 7-7 with nine secondsleft in the first quarter,capping a drive of sixminutes and 46 seconds.

Evans rushed for 11yards on the final play ofthe first quarter to theKeyser 37.

On second down,

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Biser connected with Pi-raino again for a gain of26 yards.

Biser then went toJamison Jones on a fadefor 22 stripes two playslater.

With a fresh set ofdowns at the Frankfort12, Evans ran for one,then for four yards.

Out of a timeout,Washington wentthrough the right side ofthe line for a seven-yardscore.

Fife’s extra point wasshort: Keyser 13, Frank-fort 7 with 8:48 to go inthe half.

On the first play fromscrimmage, Ryan Bobofumbled on the reverse:Keyser’s Damon Thornerecovered at the Frank-fort 35.

Bobo’s day got worse:on the next play, he wasbeaten one-on-one incoverage by Jones for a35-yard touchdown.

Washington wasstopped on the two-point conversion: Keyserled, 19-7, with 8:31 leftin the half.

A personal foul onthe play was enforced onthe kickoff, and Frank-fort took solid field po-sition at their own 40.

The Falcons, though,went eight yards in thewrong direction andpunted.

Keyser’s field positionwas also good: startingfrom their own 46, andGarland quickly im-proved it with a 32-yardscamper to the left onthe double handoff.

Two plays later, Pi-raino’s second TD catch

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was canceled out by a flagfor ineligible receiver.

On the next play,Washington caught atipped ball in the endzone for a 26-yard score.

Biser ran for the two-point conversion: 27-7,Keyser, with 5:48 left inthe half.

A flag for block in theback on the returnbacked Frankfort up totheir own 10.

Facing fourth down,the Falcons punted, andWashington returned theball to the FHS 35.

The Golden Tornadowent for it on fourth-and-11: Biser foundWashington, but out ofbounds.

Frankfort took overon downs with 1:35 to goin the half.

But on second down,Jones appeared to haveintercepted Bills’ pass,but the play was ruled anincomplete pass.

Still, the Falcons couldnot gain a first down andpunted.

After gaining a firstdown to open the secondhalf, Keyser had a 55-yard touchdown passfrom Biser to Joneswiped out by an illegalshift penalty.

Despite the flag, KHSused the passing game tomove the ball down thefield: Biser to Piraino for23, to Washington for 12,then on fourth down atthe FHS 18, to Jones forthe score.

Keyser led, 34-7, with7:22 left in the third quar-ter.

Frankfort went three-and-out, but a big returnby Washington waswiped out.

It didn’t matter, as theKHS offense kept rolling.

Biser found Pirainoagain for 20 yards on sec-ond down, Biser ran for11 on the next play, thenthree plays later, Biserdarted 47 yards down theleft side of the field for atouchdown.

Biser’s extra pointpushed the lead to 41-7,Keyser, with 2:36 left inthe third quarter.

Frankfort gained onefirst down before puntingon the first play of thefourth quarter.

Evans went 63 yardson first down to theFrankfort 17.

On third-and-12, Biserwent left for the 19-yardscore.

Biser’s extra pointmade it 48-7, Keyser,with 9:49 left.

Bills ran for 17 yardson first down for Frank-fort, who started themove the ball against aKeyser defense sprinkled

with reserves.Leedom ran for nine

on second down, thenBills picked up the firstdown with a gain of five.

Luciw gained 12 tothe Keyser 18, but Lee-dom fumbled after gain-ing eight yards.

Keyser’s second unittook over at their own 10with 6:39 left, but gave itback on a fumble with4:40 to go.

Frankfort could notcome away with anypoints, as Bradfieldmissed a 35-yard fieldgoal.

Eric Lewis ripped off24 yards on first downfor Keyser, then went tothe house from 57stripes away two playslater.

The extra point wasno good: 54-7, Keyser,with 1:56 left.

Frankfort ran threeplays to close out thegame.

Mountain Ridge 27,Keyser 20

FROSTBURG—TheMountain Ridge Minersbuilt a 19-0 lead and heldoff Keyser’s second-halfcomeback with a time-killing drive in the fourthquarter, defeating theGolden Tornado, 27-20,for their first-ever win inthe young series lastnight at Miners Stadium.

Keyser tried a shortkick right off of the bat,but Mountain Ridge re-covered and got greatfield position at theMountain Ridge 45.

After being flaggedfor a false start, Moun-tain Ridge moved thechains with a eight-yardrun by Drew Wintersand a ten-yard pass fromDan Strietbeck to PatLivingston.

After Winter went forno gain, Jarrod Harper’sfirst touch of the nightwent for a touchdown:42 yards down the rightside of the field.

Evan Logue’s extrapoint was no good: 6-0,Mountain Ridge, with10:25 left in the firstquarter.

Keyser gained onefirst down on a third-down completion fromTyler Biser to Caleb Pi-raino, but punted fourplays later.

Mountain Ridgepicked up a key thirddown on a 22-yard passfrom Strietbeck to Liv-ingston, then got an-other long passing playfor a gain of 30 yardsdown the left side.

Harper bit off 24yards to the Keyser 1,and Winters finished thejob two plays later.

Strietbeck’s keeper fortwo was stopped short:12-0, Mountain Ridge,with 3:28 to go in thefirst quarter.

Keyser went three-and-out thanks to a de-flected pass by AnthonySpataro on first down,but the Miners gave theball back after three un-successful running playsof their own.

After an offsides flag

on Mountain Ridge,Evans gained a yard toclose out the first quar-ter.

The Miners out-gained the Golden Tor-nado 153-21 in the first12 minutes.

Kadeem Garland’sfirst carry of the nightwent for 12 yards, butagain the Tornado stalledand punted, as Liv-ingston sacked Biser onthird down.

Strietbeck connctedwith Harper on a swingpass for 14 yards, thenHarper ran for eightmore on the next play.

Two plays later, thejunior bit off 25 moreyards to the Keyser 25.

Runs by Winters forfour, Josh Vaughn forfour, and Harper for twomoved the chains again.

But Keyser held theline there, and Logue’sfield goal had the dis-tance but not the angle:no good.

Garland gained 15yards on second down tothe Keyser 38, but Biserwas intercepted on thirddown by Harper.

Mountain Ridge tookover on their own 43 andquickly moved down thefield: Harper gained 25on second down, thenVaughn tore off 15 onthe next play.

On third-and-6 fromthe Keyser 15, Strietbeckmade a nice, high throwto Livingston in the backof the end zone for thetouchdown.

Logue’s extra point

made it 19-0, Miners,with 54.6 seconds to goin the first half.

Keyser needed somemomentum, and got it inthe form of a 76-yardKodie Evans kick return.

Biser cashed in thepigskin with a run to theleft from five yards outon the next play andadded the extra point.

Mountain Ridge stillled, 19-7.

Vaughn had a 64-yardtouchdown run canceledout on first down by aflag.

Two more flags andan incomplete Hail Maryclosed out the half.

Garland gained a firstdown to start the secondhalf, then Evans bit off12 yards on the next play.

Two plays later, Biserfumbled, but scooped itup and went 13 yards tothe left.

After a false start flag,Evans ran for 12 moreyards, then picked up thefirst down two playslater.

Garland took it fromthere on a nice fake,scoring from 17 yardsout.

Biser’s extra pointmade things more inter-esting: 19-14, MountainRidge, with 8:07 to go inthe third quarter.

But the Minersbounced right back:Harper ran for 20 yardson the first play to theKeyser 38, then severalmedium runs set up anAnthony Spataro scorefrom eight yards away.

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Strietbeck ran for two:27-14, Mountain Ridge,with 5:14 left in the thirdquarter.

Back came Evans: 66yards on first down for atouchdown, but a flag forunsportsmanlike conductmade the two-point trymuch more difficult.

Biser’s toss fell incom-plete.

Keyser’s deficit wasback down to sevenpoints, 27-20, with 4:53to go in the third quarter.

Harper gained a firstdown to midfield on apitch, then Strietbeckpushed the pile for sevenyards on a surprise quar-terback sneak.

Winters picked up thefirst down two plays later.

Harper lost six on thenext play, but gained 16back on a swing pass-and-run.

Facing a third-and-14to start the fourth quar-ter, Strietbeck was inter-cepted by Garland at theKHS 8.

Evans gained 11 yardson third-and-3 to theKeyser 26.

The senior fullbackcame through with an-other big third down runthree plays later, gainingfive yards to the KHS 38.

Keyser couldn’t repeatthe feat, though, andpunted.

Garland got off a solidboot, setting MountainRidge up at their own 25with 6:53 to go.

Harper ran for 10yards on second down,then six more on the nextplay.

Winters moved aheadeight yards to navigatethe ball to midfield.

Harper ran for fiveyards, then Wintersgained six for anotherfirst down as the clockmoved under four min-utes.

Harper ran twice forthree yards, and Keyserburned their first timeoutwith 2:47 left.

Harper gained six,bringing up a criticalfourth-and-1.

Winters did the jobafter a MRHS timeout,gaining two yards to theKeyser 28 with undertwo minutes left.

Winters gained two,and KHS took their sec-ond timeout with 1:29left.

After Harper pickedup one, the final TO wasburned.

Harper ran for twoyards, and MountainRidge took their finaltimeout facing fourth-and-5 with 40.3 secondsleft.

The Miners droppedback to pass, and the tossfell incomplete, but theofficials flagged Keyserfor pass interference, andthe game was done.

TRIBUNE PHOTO BY RAYMOND BURNER (RAYMONDBURNER.COM)Kodie Evans played well in his high school finale at Mountain Ridge.



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Coach: Kevin Whiteman

BY NATHAN HAYES

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SHORT GAP – TheFrankfort Falconsfootball team will belooking to keep theirstreak of postseasonappearances alive witha lot of new facessporting the “Frank-fort” Blue and Silverthis year.

Falcons head coachKevin Whiteman willbe replacing severalstarters off a team thatreached the West Vir-ginia Class AA quarter-finals in 2010.

“We are a very youngand inexperiencedteam.” Whiteman saidin just his second weekof practice.

“But I've been very

New faces in most places for Falcons“Damian got a lot of

time as a linebacker lastyear and has reallyworked his tail off inthe weight room to getbetter this year,” saidWhiteman.

The tailback positionup in the air after the

graduation of JoeyLuciw.

Senior Ben Brownhas been taking a lot ofreps as has junior ChrisFaidley. “Ben has a lotof experience andChris is a speedy kidthat we didn't have last

year due to an injury.” Also seeing action

the Frankfort backfieldwill be Smith alongwith Eric Wilt, a soph-omore who transferredfrom Keyser.

At split end it looksSEE FHS PAGE 35

impressed with thework ethic of our kidssince January. Theyhave been doing what-ever we ask of themand things are slowlycoming together.”

Coach Whiteman'sroster this year sportsjust eight seniors andmust fill the void of 15seniors from last yearand, of the 38 men onthe roster, 16 are un-derclassmen.

“It's always a con-cern when you comeinto a season and youhave youth and inexpe-rience. I feel like if wekeep working hardevery day and gettingthese kids believing intheir ability and eachother I think we canput it together.”

Despite the youngerkids the goals of theFalcon program havenot changed.

“I've said this beforeand I'll keep saying itevery year. As long asI'm the head coach, ourgoal as a team will be towin a state champi-onship.”

Whiteman and the

Falcons will face earlytests to find out if theyare capable of meetingtheir ultimate goalwhen the open up onthe road against Single-A powerhouse Moore-field and then hostformer AA state cham-pion Grafton.

“If we can win early,it will definitely help us.We can't start off 1-3and hope to make theplayoffs.”

Offensively the Fal-cons return just fourstarters.

At quarterback itlooks like junior ThaneCutter (6'1, 165) will beunder center whilesophomore Cole Smithhas also been takingsome early reps at QB.

In the backfield willbe Jeremy Leedom re-turning at fullback.

Leedom started all12 games for the Fal-cons last year and is abrusing force standingat 6'0, 220 pounds.

Leedom will havesome company in thebackfield with juniorDamian Morgan (6'0,200).

2010 RESULTS

Moorefield W 46-28at Grafton W 15-6at B. Springs W 36-19Northern W 54-38at Mtn. Ridge L 27-55Allegany L 21-42Petersburg W 35-13at Washington W 24-23Keyser L 7-54at Hampshire W 34-20at River View* W 32-22at Grnbr. West** L 15-21


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like a competition be-tween two juniors, Mar-cellus Hockaday andJosh McNeill.

The tight end will besenior Matt Grogg.

Grogg, a 6'2 senior,started every game forthe Falcons.

“Matt's gottenstronger and has be-come a good blockerand we have been work-ing all summer on himbecoming a better re-ceiver,” said Whiteman.

The line brings backthe most experience ofthe offensive units withthree starters.

Both starting guardssaw solid action in 2010in Cole Livingston andCaleb Logsdon.

“Cole started atguard most of the year,but went down late inthe season. Caleb gotto step in for the lastfour games and did a

posed on several occa-sions in 2010.

“We struggledagainst the pass lastyear. We're going to beinexperienced, but withthe speed we have backthere. I think it canmake up for the inexpe-rience.” Whiteman said.

Where they are notinexperienced is upfront on defense.

The D-line looks tohave Brown and Groggat the ends with Lee-dom and Minnigh clog-ging up the middle.

All four saw exten-sive action on defenselast year.

At linebacker, Cutter,

Morgan, Livingston andWilt are competing forthe three positions.

“We'll be startingwith a 4-3 base defense,but we'll mix it up a lotdepending on whowe're playing,” saidWhiteman.

The secondary doeshave a ton of youth andseveral candidates thecorner and safety posi-tions.

Smith is the only re-turning starter of theunit after playing all 12games at cornerback asa freshman.

Faidley, Hockadayalong with sophomoresTyler Crock and

Jonathan Hedrick couldall be joining Smith inthe secondary. “Allthese kids are going toget reps and when thescrimmages are donehopefully we'll be ableto see who is going todo the best job for us.”

While there seems tobe many holes forcoach Whiteman andhis staff to fill.

This is not unfamiliarterritory for the Falconprogram.

Many said Frankfortwould be rebuilding in2010 after losing a stel-lar senior class and theFalcons responded withanother trip to the play-

offs and were just yardsaway from making it totwo consecutive semifi-nals in AA.

Whiteman has al-ready become theschool's leader in play-off victories and lastyear's first round winover River View wasFrankfort's first playoffwin away from home inthe school's history.

So while there isyouth and questionmarks, there should alsobe excitement sur-rounding the Falconprogram in its quest towin the school's firstfootball state champi-onship.

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nice job finishing offthe year in our playoffrun.” Whiteman said ofhis two seniors.

At tackle returnsRyan Minnigh, a 6'0,230 pound senior whoalso started the major-ity of the games lastyear.

There will be compe-tition to see who is op-posite Minnigh at theother tackle position.

Currently juniorsRandy Riley (6'1, 215),Paul McKenzie (5'9,220), and Florida trans-fer Dallas Kesner (5'9,195) have all been tak-ing some snaps on theline.

It looks to be a twohorse race for the start-ing center position.

Two juniors, JimmyHoward (6'1, 215) andChris Bittner (5'11,160) are competing forthat spot.

On the defensiveside of the ball, Frank-fort hopes to sure up asecondary that was ex-

# Name Pos H/W Cl.

2 Thane Cutter QB/LB 6-1/165 Jr.

6 Cole Smith RB/CB 5-8/145 So.

7 Gage Shaffer QB/S 6-2/155 Fr.

9 Matt Grogg TE/DE 6-2/190 Sr.

11 Josh McNeill SE/CB 5-11/155 Jr.

15 Tyler Crock RB/CB 5-8/145 So.

18 Devin Hughes RB/S 5-9/155 Jr.

20 Jonathan Hedrick RB/LB 5-8/145 So.

21 Eric Wilt RB/LB 5-8/165 So.

22 Marcellus Hockaday SE/CB 5-8/160 Jr.

25 Chris Faidley RB/CB 5-8/160 Jr.

27 Tyler Carpenter RB/S 5-4/120 So.

30 Ritchie Dayton SE/S 6-0/160 Sr.

32 Jeremy Leedom RB/DL 6-0/220 Sr.

35 Ben Brown TE/DE 6-1/180 Sr.

37 Scott Swanger RB/DL 5-8/175 Jr.

40 Damian Morgan FB/LB 6-0/200 Jr.

44 Brady Watson FB/LB 5-6/155 Fr.

48 Chaz Muse SE/CB 5-9/155 So.

50 Chris Bittner OL/DL 5-11/160 Jr.

51 Jimmy Howard OL/DL 6-1/215 Jr.

52 Ian Mull OL/DL 5-8/135 So.

53 Trent Hamilton OL/DL 5-9/180 Fr.

56 Cole Livingston OL/LB 6-0/180 Sr.

58 Hunter Flanagan OL/DL 5-10/180 So.

60 Dallas Kesner OL/DL 5-9/195 Jr.

65 Shawn Evans OL/DL 5-10/195 So.

66 Jose Wilt OL/DL 5-6/180 Fr.

68 Caleb Logsdon OL/DL 6-1/180 Sr.

72 Andrew Day OL/DL 5-4/175 So.

74 Randy Riley OL/DL 6-1/215 Jr.

76 Ryan Minnigh OL/DL 6-0/230 Sr.

77 Paul McKenzie OL/DL 5-9/220 Jr.

79 Josh Ringer OL/DL 5-10/200 Jr.

82 Austin Mull SE/S 6-0/160 Sr.

84 Josh Sutphin OL/DL 5-8/135 So.

86 Casey Shetler OL/DL 6-1/165 So.

88 Ryan Chase TE/DE 6-1/200 Jr.

#2 THANE CUTTER #6 COLE SMITH #7 GAGE SHAFFER #9 MATT GROGG #11 JOSH MCNEILL #15 TYLER CROCK

#18 DEVIN HUGHES #20 JONATHAN HEDRICK #21 ERIC WILT #22 MARCELLUS HOCKADAY #25 CHRIS FAIDLEY #27 TYLER CARPENTER

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2010 YEAR IN REVIEWFrankfort 46, Moorefield28

SHORT GAP—Frank-fort came out strong, takingcontrol of the game earlyon with an interceptionearly in the first quarter.

Frankfort’s first offen-sive play of the game putsix points on the board withJoey Luciw scoring the firstof four touchdowns on theevening on a 26 yard runwith 10:58 still left on theclock.

Brian Bills kept the ballto add two points on theconversion, putting the Fal-cons up 8-0 in the first twominutes of play.

The remainder of thefirst quarter was a defensivebattle, with Louis Richard-son scoring the first ofthree Moorefield touch-downs with just eight sec-onds left in the quarter.

Moorefield’s BrianMitchell put the point-afterthrough the uprights, mak-ing the score 8-7.

Not to be silenced,Luciw ran the ensuing kick-off back 85 yards for hissecond touchdown of thenight as time ran out in thefirst quarter.

Zach Bradfield started aperfect performance for theevening making his firstpoint-after attempt endingthe first quarter with theFalcons up 15-7.

The Falcons controlledthe remainder of the firsthalf scoring.

Jeremy Leedom scoredhis first touchdown of theseason with a 7-yard runwith 9:28 left in the secondhalf. Bradfield again scoredthe point-after.

Bradfield lifted the Fal-cons’ spirits just two min-utes later with a successful

42 yard field goal attempt tomake the score 25-7.

The Falcons would endthe first half scoring with a65 yard touchdown pass toRyan Bobo.

The defensive battlecontinued for both teams inthe third quarter with Luciwfinally scoring with 3:55 leftin the third quarter on a 6-yard run.

Bradfield scored thepoint-after moving thescore to 39-7.

Less than 30 secondslater, Richardson scored hissecond touchdown for theevening on a 78 yard runwith 3:29 left in the 3rdquarter.

After Moorefield’s quar-terback Jordan Ours brokethrough the Frankfort linefor a 52 yard run, Richard-son scored the final touch-down of the third quarterwith just 16 seconds left onthe clock.

Frankfort struggled toget their offense going inthe fourth quarter, andMoorefield capitalized onFrankfort penalties to scoreon a 56 yard pass fromOurs to Zach Laughlin topush the score to 39-28with 8:34 left in the finalquarter.

Fortunately for the Fal-cons, onside kick practicepaid off.

Despite four attempts,the Yellow Jackets nevermanaged to retain posses-sion.

The Falcons managed tochew up the clock with sen-ior Joey Luciw scoring hisfourth and final touchdownwith just 1:40 left in thegame.

Frankfort quarterbackBrian Bills connected withhis receivers just twice in six

attempts for a total of 83yards, including one 65 yardtouchdown pass and 1 in-terception.

Luciw led the Falconswith a total of 130 yards on19 carries.

Junior Jeremy Leedomcontributed another 95yards for the Falcons on 19carries.

Frankfort 15, Grafton 6GRAFTON—Frank-

fort started the game onceagain by capitalizing on aGrafton miscue to put sixpoints on the board early inthe first quarter, but in agame plagued with injuriesand mistakes, the Falconsspent most of the night justhanging on to a relativelythin margin.

The Falcons nightstarted off smoothlyenough with junior fullbackJeremy Leedom and seniorquarterback Brian Billscombining for a first downthat was followed shortly bythree plays and a punt.

Grafton took over earlyin the first quarter andstarted to move the ballfrom the spread offense,but then threw an intercep-tion to senior Ryan Bobo,who ran the ball back to thetwo yard line.

Just two plays later, Lee-dom put the ball in the endzone on a one yard run with5:48 left in the first quarter.

The Falcons’ point-afterattempt with just 10 playerson the field was blocked.

During the ensuing de-fensive series, Leedomwould go down with a kneeinjury which would sidelinehim for the remainder ofthe game.

The Bearcats offensestruggled to move the ball

most of the evening gainingjust 17 yards on 30 at-tempts.

Plagued by penaltiesthroughout the evening,Frankfort would get the ballback deep in their own ter-ritory early in the secondquarter to then see quarter-back Bills carried off thefield after a big run that wascalled back on a hold.

The Falcons’ nightseemed in question whenthe offense turned the ballover on a fumble on the 14yard line.

Grafton would capitalizeon Frankfort’s woes, puttingthe ball in the end zone justtwo plays later on 15 yardrun from Ivy Bartlett.

The extra point attemptfell short, tying the game at6-6, with 7:49 left in the sec-ond quarter.

Quarterback Bills wouldreturn to the field on thenext series and get Frank-fort’s offense going oncemore on the ground, mov-ing the ball forward 31yards by pounding the mid-dle on nine plays frombacks Luciw and junior BenBrown.

The Falcons would turnthe ball over on downs, butthe defense would holdstrong with Grafton gainingjust one yard and puntingthe ball back to the Falconswith one minute left in thehalf.

Bills quickly connectedon a short pass that Luciwcarried 56 yards for a touch-down.

Bradfield scored the onlypoints of the second halfon a 20-yard field goal with2:06 left in the game.

A strong showing by theFrankfort defense, includ-ing six sacks and two inter-

ceptions, helped to keep thegame just out of reach forthe Bearcats throughout theevening.

Once again, Joey Luciwled the Falcons with a totalof 133 yards on offense, 77yards on 16 carries on theground and one 56-yardtouchdown reception fromBills. Junior Ben Browncontributed an additional 42yards for the Falcons on 11carries.

Frankfort 36, BerkeleySprings 19

B E R K E L E YSPRINGS—Joey Luciwhad another great game,leading all rushers onceagain with 228 yards on 19carries, three touchdowns,and two blocked point-afterattempts, as Frankfort wonat Berkeley Springs, 36-19.

The Indians took pos-session of the ball on theirown 21-yard line and im-mediately turned the ballover to the Falcons on aninterception by MichaelDeetz with just 10 secondsticking off the clock.

They would move theball just five yards beforeturning the ball over ondowns when Zach Brad-field’s 45-yard field goal at-tempt fell short.

In a first half dominatedby big plays, the Indianswould strike first, movingthe ball 80 yards on just sixplays including one 50-yardpass on third down fromquarterback Zach White toAndrew Truax.

The Indians would finishwith a one yard run for atouchdown from seniorBobby Mathai.

The point-after attemptkicker Zach Wise would begood. making the score 7-0,

Indians, with 8:50 left in thefirst quarter.

After a roughing thekicker call on the point-after,the Indians would kick theball into the end zone givingthe Falcons the ball on theirown 20 yard line.

But the Falcons wouldn’tbe easily discouraged.

Luciw broke free up themiddle for 65 yards to bestopped short of the touch-down, only to then run 11yards on the next play forthe touchdown.

Bradfield’s point-after at-tempt would tie the game 7-7 with 7:47 left in the firstquarter.

The Falcons would settlefor a 32-yard field goal fromZach Bradfield with 4:07 leftin the second quarter to takethe lead.

The Falcons seemed pre-pared to go to the lockerroom ahead, 10-7, but theIndians were not ready togive up, moving the ball 39yards on just three plays fora touchdown.

Luciw would block thepoint-after and the halfended with the Indiansahead, 13-10.

Michael Deetz ran thesecond half kickoff back tothe Indians’ 41.

Quarterback Brian Billsfinished the drive with a 17-yard keeper for a touch-down.

Bradfield’s point-after at-tempt would put the Fal-cons back in control of thegame at 17-13.

Luciw would score oncemore on a one-yard runfrom after the offensemoved the ball another 49yards on six plays to scorewith just 1:09 left in thequarter.

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Luciw would break looseagain, scoring on a 93 yardrun with 6:28 left in thefourth quarter.

The Indians would fi-nally gain some life late inthe fourth quarter, movingthe ball 75 yards on fiveplays to score with 4:11 leftin the game.

But it was too little, toolate.

Bills would seal the gameending a six-play drive witha 49-yard touchdown runwith 2:42 left in the game.

Bills completed two ofsix attempts in the air for 28yards, scored two touch-downs, and added 94 yardsof rushing on nine carries.

Frankfort 54, Northern38

SHORT GAP—TheFrankfort Falcons movedto 4-0 on the season with a54-38 win over the North-ern Huskies.

The Falcons controlledthe game, scoring each timethey touched the ballthroughout the entire firsthalf and the first eight min-utes and 26 seconds of thesecond half, bringing thescore to 34-0 with 6:51 onthe clock in the third quar-ter.

A fumble and missedonside kick would give theHuskies their first two op-portunities to score withjust 3:34 left in the 3rdquarter.

The remainder ofNorthern’s scoring wouldcome in the fourth quarter.

The Huskies won theopening coin toss andelected to receive, but laterturned the ball over ondowns on the Frankfort 10.

The Falcons would thenmarch 90 yards on sevenplays with four first downs.

The drive ended withquarterback Brian Bills run-ning from 12 yards out fora touchdown.

The Falcons would con-tinue to control the game inboth directions throughoutmuch of the remainder ofthe first half, scoring ontwo more drives of 70 and90 yards to post 21 first-half points.

Frankfort’s offensive at-tack would also yield firsthalf rushing touchdownsfor senior Joey Luciw andjunior Jeremy Leedom.

Frankfort’s balanced of-fensive attack racked up254 first half yards.

The Falcons defensestopped the Huskies twiceon downs in Falcon terri-tory in the first half.

The Falcons offensiveunit would retake the fieldand control of the game inthe second half, returningthe kick off to the North-ern 36 yard line.

The offense thenmarched the ball the re-maining 36 yards on eightplays, with Leedom scoring

his second touchdown ofthe evening on a 3-yard run.

Just two plays later,Luciw would intercept apass from Sines and itlooked as though the Fal-cons were ready to put anend to the game early in thesecond half.

Leedom scored againthree plays later on a 5-yardrun, putting the score at 34-0.

After an exchange ofpossessions, the snap wentover Frankfort punter MattGrabenstein’s head, and theHuskies finally put theirfirst six points on the boardon the fumble recovery.

The two-point conver-sion afterwards would begood and the score wouldmove to 34-8.

A penalty on the point-after attempt would movethe Falcons back 15 yardsand set the Huskies up forfirst of several (and onlysuccessful) onside kick at-tempts.

The Huskies executedthe kick perfectly and re-covered the ball on the Fal-con 39 yard line.

Just four plays later, AlexBaker would score his firstof two rushing touch-downs on the evening.

The Huskies wouldcome up short on thepoint-after attempt bring-ing the score to 34-14 with1:54 left in the third quarter.

Luciw would return theensuing kick-off to theHusky 29 yard line.

On the following playLuciw would weave his waythe remaining 29 yards tohis second touchdown ofthe evening, putting thescore at 41-14 with 1:31 leftin the third quarter.

The Huskies wouldclose out the quarter with afour-play drive that netted14 yards before time ex-pired.

With 12 minutes to playand new life in the North-ern stands, the Huskiesmarched 56 yards to scoreanother touchdown on a 40yard pass from Sines toCody Rodeheaver.

A pass on the two-pointconversion would bring thescore to 41-22 with 10:58left in the game.

The Falcons were notyet finished moving the ball59 yards on eight plays.

Luciw would score histhird and final rushingtouchdown of the eveningwith just 7:40 left on theclock from five yards out,with Bradfield adding thePAT.

With time slipping awayfrom them the Huskieswould again move the ball60 yards only to be broughtup short by the Falcons de-fense on the 20 yard line.

Frankfort’s second teamoffense would then take thefield briefly being forced topunted the ball away with2:50 left in the game and acomfortable 48-22 lead.

But the Huskies werenot ready to call it a night.

Alex Baker would scorehis second touchdown ofthe night on a 60 yard runwith 2:24 left in the game.

With the two-point con-version, the score wouldmove to 48-30.

For Frankfort, quarter-back Thane Cutter wouldconnect with Ryan Chaseon a screen on third downfor a 46-yard touchdown,making the score 54-30with 1:29 left in the half.

After Bradfield’s kickended in a touchback, theHuskies would move theball 80 yards for one finaltouchdown on a 15-yardtouchdown pass.

For the fourth week in arow, Luciw led all rusherswith 158 yards on 24 carriesand three touchdowns.

After several weeks outdue to injury, Leedom cameback ready to run, rackingup 143 yards on 16 carriesand three touchdowns.

Quarterback Bills wouldend the evening connectingon 4 of 7 pass attempts for54 yards and one rushingtouchdown.

Mountain Ridge 55,Frankfort 27

FROSTBURG—In thebattle of the unbeatens, theMountain Ridge Minerscame out on top with anoverwhelming 55-27Homecoming win over theFrankfort Falcons.

After 24 minutes, duringwhich the Miners had pos-session of the ball for onlyeight minutes, they sent theFalcons to the locker roomdown 28-14 in a half high-lighted by costly mistakes.

The Falcons would winthe opening toss and electto receive.

After moving the balljust nine yards in threedowns the Falcons chooseto go for it on fourth-and-1 from their own 36 yardline.

But the Miners’ defenseheld and the Falcons endedtheir first series turning theball over on downs.

In the words of CoachKevin Whiteman, “Thingswent downhill from there.”

Quarterback Dan Striet-beck, who would throw aperfect 7-for-7 for 132yards, started the night witha 27-yard completion to PatLivingston.

Josh Vaughn would thenfollow with a nine-yard runfor the Miners first touch-down.

Frankfort senior JPTwigg would block thepoint-after attempt, bring-ing the score to 6-0 with9:48 left in the first quarter.

The Falcons answered,driving the ball 80 yards on17 plays with five firstdowns to score their firsttouchdown of the evening.

The Falcons convertedtwice on third down andonce on fourth-and-inchesbehind the running of jun-ior Jeremy Leedom andsenior Joey Luciw.

On third-and-long,

Brian Bills would connectwith senior Michael Deetzfor a first down.

After attempts fromLeedom and Luciw to drivethe middle of the Minersdefense from the 5-yardline, the Falcons handed theball on third down to wingback Deetz for a 7-yardtouchdown run around theright side.

Zachary Bradfield’spoint-after attempt wouldgive the Falcons the lead forthe first and only time at 7-6 with 4:15 left in the firstquarter.

But the Miners wouldanswer quickly when seniorJarrod Harper received theensuing kick-off at the 3-yard line and ran the lengthof the field for the secondMiner touchdown, bringingthe score to 14-7, Miners,with 4:02 still left in the firstquarter.

The Falcons then strug-gled to move the ball goingthree-and-out on their nextseries of downs.

The Falcons would holdthe Miners with no gain onthe first two plays of thesecond quarter.

But Strietbeck would an-swer with a 25 yard pass toHarper for a touchdown,the first of five touchdownpasses on the evening forthe Miners.

Later, Strietbeck wouldagain connect with Harperon a 9-yard pass for his sec-ond touchdown of theevening.

Miners kicker EvanLogue would then put thepoint-after attempt throughthe uprights bringing thescore to 28-7 with 2:52 leftin the half.

The Falcons would fi-nally move to the air withjust two minutes left in thehalf, driving the ball 58yards on 11 plays to scoreon a pass from Bills toLuciw with just 15 secondsleft on the clock.

Bradfield’s kick wouldmake the score 28-14, Min-ers, at the half.

After the half, the Min-ers would take the field andswiftly move the ball 74yards on 10 plays.

Harper would score histhird and final touchdownfor the evening on a 10 yardrun, bringing the score to35-14, Miners.

The Falcons fumbled,then the Miners offenseproved to be too much forthe Falcons.

They rolled right backdown the field 60 yards onseven plays, including a sixyard pass from Strietbeckto junior Anthony Spatarofor a touchdown.

With 2:11 left in thequarter, Logue’s point-afterattempt would make thescore 42-14.

The fourth quarterwould continue the Miners’Homecoming celebrationwith two plays for 25 yards,including another 16 yardtouchdown pass from Stri-etbeck to Spataro.

The point-after attemptby Logue would be blockedbring the score to 48-14.

With time running outon the Falcons, the offensewould quickly move the ball65 yards on two plays, in-cluding a 47-yard touch-down run from seniorLuciw.

With 10:11 left in thegame the score moved to48-21, Mountain Ridge.

Jeremy Leedom led theFalcons with 88 yards on 14carries. Luciw would beheld to just 76 yards on 10carries.

Allegany 40, Frankfort21

SHORT GAP—TheFrankfort Falcons came upshort on Homecomingnight, losing 40-21 to theAllegany Campers.

On the Campers’ firstplay from scrimmage, asweep around the right sideof the Falcons line, runningback Madison Wolford ranthe ball 65 yards for atouchdown.

Kicker Neil Morgan’spoint-after attempt wasgood bringing the score to7-0, Allegany, with 10:02left in the first quarter.

The Campers scoredagain in the opening quar-ter on a drive of 10 plays,this time on a 9- yard passfrom quarterback CarterImes to Brady Ellsworth.

The Falcon standswould finally come fullyalive when senior JoeyLuciw would break freethrough the left side of theCampers line and put theirfirst points on the board ona 73 yard touchdown run.

Zachary Bradfield’spoint-after attempt wouldmake the score 14-7.

The Campers wouldswiftly move the ball thelength of the field on justsix plays with three firstdowns.

Fullback Aaron Leasurebroke through the Frank-fort line and pushed the ball64 yards before being rundown by senior JP Twigg atthe Falcons 7-yard line.

The Campers would fin-ish the drive with a 2-yardtouchdown run from DrewO’Neal.

Morgan’s point-after at-tempt would make thescore 21-7.

The Campers would fin-ish the half by driving theball 75 yards on 10 plays.

Imes connected withEllsworth again for a 4-yardtouchdown pass.

The PAT was blocked byJP Twigg to hold the scoreat 27-7 with just one minuteleft in the half.

The Campers’ strong of-fensive showing continuedin the second half.

Allegany would slow thegame down, moving theball 80 yards in 16 plays.

Leasure would end thedrive with a 2-yard touch-down run.

The point-after attemptmade the score 34-7 with

6:02 left in the 3rd quarter. The Falcons moved the

ball 80 yards on eight playsbefore the end of the thirdquarter.

Luciw scored his secondtouchdown of the eveningon a 2-yard run to begin thefourth quarter.

Bills would score thetwo-point conversion on akeeper, bringing the scoreto 34-15.

After a failed onside kickattempt, the Camperswould move the ball 56yards on seven plays toscore their final touchdownof the evening on a 3-yardrun from Neil Morgan.

Luciw blocked the PAT.Thane Cutter scored on

a 1-yard run as time ran out. Luciw again led the Fal-

cons with 133 yards rushingon 12 attempts.

Frankfort 35, Petersburg13

SHORT GAP—TheFrankfort Falcons movedto 5-2 on Senior Night atFalcon Stadium with a 35-13 win over the PetersburgVikings.

After a sloppy first quar-ter, Frankfort moved theball 66 yards on just fiveplays for the first of foursecond-quarter touch-downs.

Senior Ryan Bobo brokeaway for a 48 yard run butwas chased down inside the20 yard line.

Brian Bills would scorethe touchdown on a 1-yardkeeper.

Zach Bradfield’s point-after attempt was good,bringing the score to 7-0,Falcons, with 9:46 left inthe half.

Junior Jeremy Leedomended the next FHS serieswith a 17 yard touchdownrun.

A muddle huddle passfrom Bradfield to Bills forthe two-point conversionmoved the lead to 15-0.

After a blocked punt byJP Twigg, the Falconswould score immediatelyon a 10-yard keeper by Bills.

Bradfield’s point-afterattempt would bring thescore to 22-0.

Bills’ second completionof the evening was a 17yard pass to senior WesleyRiden playing tight end forhis first touchdown of theyear.

Bradfield’s successfulpoint-after attempt wouldmake the score 29-0.

Joey Luciw blocked afield goal to end the half.

Just eight plays into thesecond half, Luciw wouldscore the final FHS touch-down on a 21 yard run.

The Vikings got a two-run TD run from TannerEye and a 18-yard touch-down pass to Alex See tocap scoring.

Frankfort clearly domi-nated the offense tallying398 yards of total offense.

Luciw would again leadFrankfort’s rushing attack

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with 64 yards on 10 carries. Bills had a perfect

evening, completing 6 of 6passes for 115 yards and 1touchdown.

Frankfort 24, Washing-ton 23

CHARLES TOWN—Frankfort rallied for a stun-ning 24-23 win on ZachBradfield’s 35-yard field goaland blocked the potentialwinning kick in their first-ever visit to the WashingtonPatriots.

On the first play fromscrimmage, Patriots runningback Tyler Collier ranthrough the right side of theFalcons defense and scam-pered 74 yards for a touch-down.

The point-after attemptwould go wide and the Fal-cons would start off in thehole, 6-0, with 47 minutes40 seconds of football stillleft to play.

Collier would again findthe Falcons’ end zone fromone yard out.

After one of the Falconslined up in the neutral zone,the Patriots pushed forwarda yard and a half for the twopoint conversion, bringingthe score to 14-0 with 7:41still left in the first quarter.

After the time ran out onthe Patriots in the first quar-ter, the Frankfort defensestiffened and force the Pa-triots to turn the ball overon downs on the Frankfort3.

With the Falcons’ back-field lining up in the endzone, a miscue on first downwould force a 2-yard loss.

On second down and 12from the one-yard line, thePatriots defense would scoretwo points on the safety,stopping the Falcons in thebackfield.

The Patriots would take

advantage of Frankfort’swoes and push the ball upthe field for their finaltouchdown of the eveningon a 6-yard run from seniorMalcolm Newman, bring-ing the score to 23-0, Patri-ots.

But the Falcons weren’tready to throw in the toweljust yet. After taking over atmidfield, Bills would keepthe ball on third down andbreak through the middleof the Patriots line to putthe Falcons on the boardwith 4:33 left in the firsthalf.

Bradfield’s successfulpoint-after attempt wouldbring the score to 23-7, Pa-triots.

The Falcons came ontothe field during the secondhalf a changed team.

After receiving the open-ing kick-off, Jeremy Lee-dom and Brian Bills wouldmove the ball 68 yards onsix carries.

Bills scored on thekeeper from one yard out tobring the score to 23-14,Patriots.

Just two plays into thefourth quarter, Leedomwould score on a 22 yardrun to bring the Falcons towithin two points, 23-21.

Frankfort defender BenBrown would come up witha key hit, forcing a fumbleon Bradfield’s squib kick atthe beginning of the fourthquarter.

After Bradfield’s fieldgoal, Washington drove theball back inside the Falcon20 yard line to set up the goahead field goal attempt.

The Falcon defense con-tinued to shine when theyblocked the attempt as theclock ran down.

The Frankfort offensewould take over on downs.Leedom continued to driveGiving the Falcons the firstdowns needed to run outthe clock for the win.

Just three plays later,

Bradfield would seal thewin with a 35- yard fieldgoal, giving the Falconstheir first and final lead ofthe evening at 24-23.

Junior Leedom wouldlead all Falcon rushers with136 yards on 18 carries. Billsadded 96 yards on 12 car-ries.

Keyser 54, Frankfort 7(see page 27)

Frankfort 34, Hamp-shire 20

R O M N E Y — T h eFrankfort Falcons clincheda playoff spot with a 34-20defeat of the HampshireTrojans.

After receiving the open-ing kickoff, Frankfort sen-ior Joey Luciw broke loosearound the left side of theHampshire line to move theball forward 38 yards to theTrojan 15 yard line.

Just three plays later,Luciw would score the firstFrankfort touchdown ofthe evening with 10:24 re-maining in the first quarter.

HHS quarterbackSpencer Malick’s secondpass was picked off byRyan Bobo, giving Frank-fort the ball back quickly ontheir own 20 yard line.

In a first half that wasmarred by three Falconturnovers, Frankfort wouldmove the ball 29 yards onjust two plays before fum-bling the ball back to theTrojans on their own 38yard line.

Frankfort’s offensewould capitalize on the en-suing defensive stop, mov-ing the ball to theHampshire 1 in just sixplays.

Quarterback Brian Billskept the ball going over themiddle for the final yard toscore the second touch-down of the evening.

Luciw scored on a two-point conversion aroundthe end to make the score

14-0 with 1:40 left in thefirst quarter.

Frankfort would theneat up much of the secondquarter on their longestdrive of the evening, hold-ing the ball for nearly sevenand a half minutes, drivingthe ball 54 yards on 14 playsbefore turning the ball overon downs on the Hamp-shire 25 yard line.

The Trojans would notgo down easy, driving theball back 75 yards in sevenplays to score their firsttouchdown of the eveningon a one-yard keeper byMalick with just 1:15 left inthe half.

Frankfort would againstrike fast on their first pos-session of the second half,moving the ball 65 yards onjust four plays.

Bills scored his secondtouchdown of the eveningon a 13-yard run, puttingthe Falcons ahead 20-7 afterthe Trojans blocked Brad-field’s point-after attempt.

With plenty of time leftto play, the Trojans put to-gether another scoring driveof their own, twice con-verting on third down, theywould drive the 64 yards on12 plays before Malickscored on a 2-yard run.

After the PAT, Frankfortled, 20-14.

But just two plays laterLuciw scored his secondtouchdown of the eveningoff a 52 yard run, bringingthe score to 26-14 Frank-fort.

This time, it would bethe Trojan offense thatwould strike quickly, mov-ing the ball 60 yards on justfive plays and using up onlytwo minutes and seven sec-onds.

The Trojans began thefourth quarter with a oneyard touchdown run fromsenior fullback Ryan Wilsonto keep the Falcons withinreach at 26-20.

Leedom would score the

final touchdown of theevening on a six-yard runafter a series of penaltiesthreatened to stop the Fal-cons short inside the Trojan10 yard line.

With seven minutes offootball left, the Trojansseemed ready to fight it outto the end.

But after giving up 62yards on 10 plays, a seriesof miscues forced the Tro-jans from the 3-yard lineback to the 13, where theFalcons defense heldstrong, forcing the turnoveron downs.

After a fumble with aminute left, the Trojanswould take to the air in alast ditch attempt to score.

Once again, senior RyanBobo would come up withthe pick off that wouldclinch the game.

Luciw led the Falcons inhis final regular seasongame with 154 yards on 15carries, moving him into thesmall group of Falcons torush for over 1,000 yardsduring their Falcon career.

Leedom would tack onanother 104 yards on 16carries in the game.

Quarterback Bills wouldcomplete 3 of 5 passes toadd an additional 47 yards.

No. 11 Frankfort 32, No.6 River View 22

BLUEFIELD—TheFrankfort Falcons earnedtheir first playoff road winin school history, defeatingthe River View Raiders, 32-22, at Mitchell Stadium inBluefield.

The team also set a newhigh water mark by defeat-ing the first top ten teamsince the seventh-ranked1994 team defeated the No.10 Ravenswood Red Devils.

Finally, this team be-comes the first in schoolhistory to score post-seasonwins in consecutive seasons.

This was River View’sfirst appearance in post-sea-

son play in it’s first year as aschool.

River View is a consoli-dation of McDowellCounty single A schools BigCreek and Iaeger, bothschools with establishedfootball programs whooften saw post-season play.

In a year where Frankfortstruggled at times with thepass, both on offense anddefense, it was a balanced at-tack that gave the Falconstheir first post-season roadwin.

Beginning the game witha fumble on the first playfrom scrimmage, the Fal-cons pushed the Raidersback and when the kickerfumbled the punt, juniorBen Brown would tacklehim on the 1 yard line, giv-ing the Falcons the ball withoutstanding field position.

Brian Bills kept the Fal-cons’ first snap and punchedit in for a 1-yard touchdownrun.

The Falcons scored twowith a muddle huddle passfrom holder Ryan Bobo tofreshman Cole Smith, givingthe Falcons the lead at 8-0after just six seconds of of-fensive play.

On the next series, theFalcons would move the ball49 yards on 9 plays.

But the Raiders wouldget their first break whensenior Joey Luciw coughedup the ball as time ran out inthe first quarter.

But the Raiders whoa’swere far from over.

They would fail to capi-talize on the fumble, return-ing the favor on a fumble oftheir own just three playslater.

Four plays later, junior Je-remy Leedom would punchthe ball into the end-zonefrom just two yards out togive the Falcons a 14-0 leadwith 8:51 left in the first half.

The Raiders were not

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ready to pack it in though,finally settling their first halfjitters.

The Falcons would havedifficulty containing full-back Trey Bailey and thepassing game of quarter-back Cody Underwood.

This time out theRaiders would drive the ball71 yards, going 3-for-3 onthird down conversions.

Bailey would put theRaiders on the board with a1-yard touchdown run.

Underwood connectedwith wingback RonaldLockhardt for the two pointconversion, bringing thescore to 14-8, Falcons withjust 2:43 left in the half.

With momentum ontheir side, the Raiders wouldturn to their potent passinggame and drive 55 yards toscore their second touch-down of the game with onesecond left on the clock.

The two-point conver-sion would give them theirfirst lead of the game at 16-14 after time ran out.

It seemed the Falconswere in trouble.

They would come out ofthe locker room and movethe ball just six yards afterreceiving the second halfkick off.

Frankfort’s defensewould come up with amuch needed stop, forcingthe Raiders to punt just 57seconds later.

Once again, Raiderspunter Joshua Blankenshipwould struggle, this timeending the series with a netloss of seven yards when hewas forced to fall on thebobbled snap on his ownsixteen yardline.

Five plays later, Leedomwould put six more pointson the board for Frankfortwith a 6-yard touchdownrun.

The two-point conver-sion would fail, giving the

Falcons a narrow lead at 20-16 with 6:23 left in the thirdquarter.

But, the potent Raidersoffense would come to lifeagain.

Driving 71 yards on just6 plays and scoring on a 4yard run from Underwoodwith 4:37 left in the thirdquarter.

Underwood’s pass forthe two point conversionwould be knocked downgiving the Raiders just a 22-20 lead.

Frankfort would takeover on their own 30 yardline after Joey Luciw fieldedthe ensuing kick-off.

The Falcons moved theball 70 yards on 12 plays,twice converting on thirddown.

Leedom would score hisfourth touchdown of theevening on another 1-yardrun.

With 10:47 left in thegame, the Falcons againtook the lead at 26-22 withlots of time left on theclock.

The Frankfort defensedesperately needed to comeup with a stop.

The Raiders offenseagain started to move theball, moving 15 yards on sixplays before the Falconscame up with an intercep-tion by senior safety Bobo.

This interceptionsparked the Falcons offenseto drive 43 yards on fourplays including a 30 yardpass to Luciw to convert onthird down.

Leedom’s final touch-down of the evening wouldcome on a run from 12yards out.

Leedom led the Frank-fort rushing attack, chalkingup 90 yards on 19 attemptsand four touchdowns.

Bills added an additional64 yards on 10 carries and54 yards passing, going 3for 5 on the day.

Luciw racked up another68 rushing yards on 15 car-ries and 30 yards on a cru-

cial pass and run late in thefourth quarter.

No. 3 Greenbrier West21, No. 11 Frankfort 15

FAIRLEA, W.Va.—Doesn’t it seem like it al-ways comes down to aquarterback sneak onfourth down in the play-offs?

Greenbrier Weststopped Frankfort’s BrianBills on fourth-and-goalfrom the 3-yard line with4:13 left to preserve a 21-15win against the Falcons inthe second round of theWVSSAC Class AA quar-terfinals at Greenbrier EastHigh School.

“We lined up in thewrong formation,” saidFrankfort coach KevinWhiteman of the crucialplay. “It’s a formation welined up in the whole after-noon. I’m not blaming thekids...it looked like [Green-brier West] got penetrationup the middle. We liked theplay call. Brian Bills did agreat job...I’m so daggoneproud of him, and thewhole team. We justthought that play was therebecause we’d been success-ful all day. We thought we’dgo for it, and we didn’t getit.”

Frankfort dominated thesecond half, not allowing afirst down on defense untilthe final possession of thegame, but came away withonly three points on of-fense despite having the ballfor 16 of 24 minutes in thesecond half and mountingtwo good drives.

“I’m drained emotion-ally. I feel horrible for ourkids,” said Whiteman.“They battled so hard. Theygave everything. I askedthem before the game tofight for every inch, everyplay. And they did that.”

After a series of punts tostart the game, GW’sDylan Trout carried on fourstraight plays for two firstdowns to the Frankfort 30.

Three plays later, Green-brier West scored on acatch-and-fumble, but aholding flag wiped away thebizarre score.

From the FHS 12, twoTrout totes covered the restof the distance, with thescore coming from sevenyards out with 1:21 left inthe first quarter.

Cameron McQuain’sextra point made it 7-0,Cavaliers.

A solid return by JoeyLuciw was canceled out bya face-mask on Frankfort,backing them up to theirown 23.

On second down, quar-terback Brian Bills kept leftfor a big 28-yard gain, mov-ing the ball into GreenbrierWest territory.

Luciw ran for eightyards, then Jeremy Leedomlost one on the final play ofthe first quarter.

Bills continued to run ef-fectively, going six yards tothe left for a first down.

Luciw then found hisfooting, rushing for six,then ten to the GW 20.

Facing third-and-6 aftera sack and a completed passto Luciw, Bills kept andspun for a nice gain and afirst down.

Third and goal from the5: Luciw followed Billsaround the left side for atouchdown.

Frankfort’s passing at-tempt for two points off ofa fake fell incomplete: 7-6,GW, with 7:30 to go in thehalf.

The Falcons’ difficultiesto defend the pass rearedtheir ugly head again: a 62-yard touchdown strike fromChase Fitzwater to Mc-Quain gave the Cavaliersthe momentum back.

McQuain added thePAT: 14-6, GW, with 5:37left in the half.

After a touchback, Lee-dom was stopped for nogain on third-and-1, andFHS chose to go for it onfourth down.

But Bills was immedi-ately tackled for a four-yardloss, and Greenbrier Westhad prime field position.

Trout wasted no time,cashing in the pigskin with a25-yard run on first down.

McQuain’s PAT wasgood: 21-6 with 3:41 left inthe half.

After Frankfort ran for afirst down, Bills and Luciwconnected for a 30-yardgain to the Greenbrier West38 on third down with 1:49to go.

Bills was suddenly hot:hitting Cole Smith for four,Luciw for two, and Smithfor 10 before an incomple-tion with 32 seconds left.

Bills then found Luciw,who got out of bounds fora gain of 11 and a firstdown at the GW 11.

Bills ran for no gain,then the Falcons wereflagged out of a timeout forillegal procedure.

On the next play, Billspicked out Ryan Bobo, whokept both feet in-boundson the right side of the endzone for the score.

“We were hoping wecould get some passes tokind of loosen them up abit. Brian did a great jobfinding Bobo in the endzone. Ryan wasn’t the pri-mary read on that pass play,and he happened to findhim and hit him,” saidWhiteman.

Again, Frankfort tried topass for two, but Trout in-tercepted the ball.

“We gave the kids thegreen light and theythought they saw some-thing and went for it. Youcan’t fault that,” said White-man of the failed conver-sions.

Frankfort trailed, 21-12,with 15.4 seconds left in thehalf.

The Frankfort defensegot a three-and-out to startthe second half and settheir offense up at theirown 29.

Leedom carried for

three yards, then Bills ranagain for five and nine,gaining a first down at theFHS 46.

Bills picked up anotherthird down with a nine-yardrun, then rushed for 11stripes on second down tothe GW 26.

Leedom carried for five,Luciw for four, then Lee-dom moved the ball closeto the marker—a measure-ment spotted the ballinches short.

This time, Bills camethrough, and the Falconshad a fresh set of downs atthe GW 16.

Two runs for no gainand an incomplete passbrought up another deci-sion, and on came ZachBradfield to try a 33-yardfield goal.

The attempt was good,and with 1:39 left in thethird quarter, it was a one-possession game: 21-15,Greenbrier West.

The Falcons took eightminutes and 23 seconds offof the clock, running 16plays.

A good kickoff returnset the home team up ingood position at their own42, but GW went three-and-out again, with a goodpunt pinning FHS at theirown 14.

‘The defense did a greatjob,” said Whiteman. “Wedidn’t make many adjust-ments at halftime. We justtried to get them fired up.We did make some offen-sive adjustments, as far asour formations, and that re-ally paid off. We were ableto move the ball runningthat unbalanced formationand I don’t think they werelining up properly to it andit was helping us get someholes in there.”

Again, the FHS runninggame was in gear.

Luciw chewed off nine,then Leedom gained 14 fora first down.

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P E T E R S BU RG - -The Petersburg Vikingswill be on their fourthhead coach in as manyyears when they take the

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Newly tasked withturning around a pro-gram that has made theplayoffs just once(1993) is Jeff Dodd,who comes to PHSafter one year as thefreshman coach atMadison High School,near Cleveland.

Before that, Doddwas a defensive linemanat Baldwin-Wallace Col-lege in Ohio, famous(or infamous) for beingformer Ohio Statecoach Jim Tressel’s alma

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a week before the sea-son started and replacesformer Vikings starMatt Vance, who is nowan assistant coach atPendleton County.

“I took a teaching jobhere—seventh gradesocial studies,” saidDodd. “I just got on theInternet looking for ateaching job, camedown here, and just bychance I got the coach-ing job.”

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Petersburg hasaround 35 players: 12seniors and “probably”10 juniors.

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With such a smallroster, the younger play-ers will be asked to pitchin immediately.

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“I know they have apretty successful foot-ball program, a bigschool, nice facilities,”said Dodd. “It is what itis, and if we prepareright, and work hard, wecan go toe-to-toe withanybody. That’s the wayI feel.”

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1 Hunter Warner WR/DB Sr.

2 Corey Pool QB/FS Jr.

3 Bret Reel WR/DB So.

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Six for Luciw, four morefor Bills, two for Luciw,nine for Bills—two moremovements of the sticks.

Luciw ran for seven tothe GW 35, then Leedomplunged for six more andyet another first down.

Bills and Luciw eachgained four, bringing up thefirst third down of thedrive.

Leedom gained the nec-essary two yards, plus an-other: first down at the GW18.

Bills for six, Leedom forfive: first and goal at the 7.

Rolling left, Bills pickedup two yards, then Leedomdid the same up the middle.

Big play: third-and-goal,ball at the GW 3.

Bills was wrapped uptrying to push forward: nogain.

Frankfort took a timeoutwith 4:17 left in the fourthquarter.

A crucial call on fourth-and-goal: Bills rolled rightand was quickly sacked fora seven-yard loss.

Greenbrier West tookover on downs with 4:13 togo.

Jabez Fleming carriedtwice for 14 yards and afirst down.

Frankfort took a timeouttwo plays later with third-and-4 looming.

Fleming carried for thefifth straight play—andgained the first down.

With the clock undertwo minutes, Frankfort’sodds were slimming.

They got some help on apersonal foul flag, but theFalcons were out of time-outs.

Greenbrier West ran twomore plays and took a time-out with 8.8 seconds left onfourth down.

FHS needed a miracleon the punt return, butGW’s coverage was good,and Bobo was tackled aftera negligible gain as time ex-pired.

Frankfort ends the sea-son at 8-4.

“It’s just unfortunatethat we got stopped on the3-yard line. I think thatwould have been the nail inthe coffin. We would havebeaten them by a point. Wewould have been in thesemifinals. No one wouldhave ever dreamt that. Noone thought we’d go thisfar.,” said Whiteman.

“To come down hereand battle this undefeatedteam like we did and almostknock them off was phe-nomenal. It shows the char-acter of our team. Theydidn’t quit.”

“It’s demoralizing. Itfeels just as bad as [losing inthe semifinals to] Waynelast year. I still think thatthis is great for our pro-gram to make it to the sec-ond round. There’s a lotthere to build on,” saidWhiteman.

“But to be that close andnot get there is a killer.”

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2010 RESULTS

Jefferson W 50-28Hedgesville W 37-14Allegany W 23-19at Hampshire W 35-21Frankfort W 55-27at R’dale Baptist W 41-9at Northern L 14-26at Southern W 28-0at Fort Hill L 16-20Keyser W 27-20Northern* W 16-9Fort Hill** L 0-25

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FROSTBURG--TheMountain Ridge Minerschecked off a lot of boxesin their fourth year as afootball program in 2010.

First win over countyrival Allegany? Check—thanks to an early 17-0lead and Drew Winters’late TD run.

First trip to the play-offs? Check—and as thetop seed, no less, after an8-2 regular season.

First playoff win?Check—a 16-9, come-from-behind defeat ofNorthern to pay back oneof those two regular sea-son losses.

First player to sign a Di-vision I scholarship?Check—Jarrod Harper,the News-Tribune Playerof the Year in 2010, will beattending West Virginia

next fall.But there are still two

items left on the list, andthey’re very closely related.

Win a 1A West Regiontitle.

Beat Fort Hill.Last year’s regional

championship game, a 25-0 Fort Hill win, ran theSentinels’ record againstthe Miners to 5-0, and theylook to be the biggestroad-block to Coach RoyDeVore’s veteran squadthis season, too.

Harper was a revelationas a junior after seeingsome action as a sopho-more, racking up 1,860 all-purpose yards, 15 rushing

touchdowns, two receivingtouchdowns, and one re-turn for a score, and beingnamed second team all-state as a defensive backafter picking off 12 balls.

And the best is yet tocome, according to De-Vore.

“He’s gotten stronger.He’s gotten faster. He’s gotanother year of experienceunder his belt,” said De-Vore. “I think all of thatcombined is going tomake him an even betterplayer last year.”

“It’s huge,” said De-Vore of the example andimpact having a DivisionI-caliber player has on his

team. “Having a kid likeJarrod who has beenblessed with a lot of natu-ral talent and has workedto make himself even bet-ter has gotten himself andus good exposure. That’ssomething that the kidsthroughout the schoolscan look and say, this iswhat I want to do. Jarroddid it, I can do it. It’s a bigincentive for our pro-gram.”

Fullback Drew Wintersand top receiver Pat Liv-ingston are gone, but mostof the other skill playersfrom last year’s team areback, led by backs An-thony Spataro and Josh

Vaughn and quarterbackDan Strietbeck.

“Dan’s had a good pre-season,” said DeVore. “Itreally is nice to have a re-turning starter there. Danis an intelligent athlete andhas a good arm. He’s foot-ball-smart. He’s got all thequalities you need to havein a quarterback.”

Winters, though, is a bigloss on both sides on theball.

“He’s a leader. Hisbiggest, best quality was hisleadership, and we’ll missthat. At fullback, he was al-ways a threat, and at line-backer, he ran our defense

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for us. But he’s moved onto Gettysburg, he’s incamp, and we wish himthe best.”

Vaughn will step intoWinters’ shoes at fullback,while Spataro will helpHarper shoulder the loadat halfback.

Josh Fitzergald andJustin Jeffries will be theplayers to watch at re-ceiver.

“And then we’ve gotmost of our line back,”said DeVore. “We feelgood about where weare.”

On the defensive sideof the ball?

“Our line has a lot ofkids back. We’re missingJaccob Miller and CodyAppel. Linebacker-wise,we have Jason Wrightback. He’s a very smartfootball player. He was astate wrestling champion.We feel pretty good withwho we have right now.”

“We’re really happywith the progress we

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made this week,” said De-Vore. “We had a lot ofpractice sessions. We wentearly, 5 o’clock in themorning, all week.”

Mountain Ridge’s sta-dium is also completeafter three years of work,with the final piece, an en-tranceway with storage onthe school side of the sta-dium, now in place.

“It’s really a beautifulplace. We’re very blessedand fortunate to have sucha nice facility,” said De-Vore. “I think it really setsoff the whole stadium.”

“I think the advantageof playing on turf is thatwe’re able to practice on itthroughout the week. Ithink having a place topractice when the weatheris bad is huge. Plus, whenwe practice early in themorning, we can comeover here and turn thelights on, and, if we needto, we can practice atnight. And since there aretwo other stadiums in thearea [in Cumberland andKeyser] means that weonly have two or threegames on grass. It’s a big

variable. You know if youplay on turf, it can be slip-pery at times if it rains, butit’s not going to be muddy.You can adjust your game-plan accordingly.”

And when you’ve got aburner like Harper in yourbackfield, a fast, clean sur-face is a definite plus.

“When you have turf,if you have speed, that re-ally helps out. And thekids love to play on it.”

Maryland’s practicewindow always opens laterthan West Virginia, but thegap was nearly two weeksthis year: a concern forDeVore, especially sincethe Miners open at Jeffer-son and at Hedgesville thisyear.

“Our backs are againstthe wall a little bit in termsof preparation,” said De-Vore. “We remind ourkids every day that we’vegot to make our time atpractice quality time.”

“It’s a little bit of a chal-lenge making sure thatthey eat right. The bus tripis always a challenge be-cause you’re on there fortwo hours. It’s not the

most ideal situation forpre-game, but the goodpart is that those kind oftrips really help bind ateam together, startingwith a little bit of adversityright off the bat. Our firstthree games are away, andwe know we’ve got to takethem one-by-one, but wegot off to a bad start twoyears ago and never reallyshook that. It haunted us,losing to Jefferson,throughout the season.”

Add the always-toughCumberland duo of FortHill and Allegany, plus aNorthern team trying tobuild on a postseason ap-pearance of their own,and the likes of Keyserand Frankfort, and it’sgoing to be a tough roadfor Mountain Ridge.

“We can’t lose manygames and qualify for theplayoffs,” said DeVore.“Fort Hill is a premierprogram. Our kids wantto do it. We all want to doit. We need to mentally getover that obstacle and getsome confidence that wecan play with them.”

Only four spots are

available, and the road forthe Allegany Countyteams is obstructed by thefact that most of theteams in adjacent Wash-ington County won’t playthem, and often steal aplayoff spot or two beforegetting pounded in thefirst round.

So, there will likely bethree playoff spots, atmost, for Allegany, FortHill, Mountain Ridge, andNorthern to fight for, andmaybe even two.

“Years ago, there was abig disparity in numbers in1A, and I could see thatteams wouldn’t want toplay teams that were big-ger than they were. Butnow the numbers are lev-eling off. Most of thoseteams in WashingtonCounty are bigger than weare in terms of studentnumbers. I just think thatthe state needs to look atthe whole playoff system.They need to fix it, be-cause it’s not fair to ourkids.”

If the teams from thispart of the state were, say,near Baltimore?

“They’d fix it in a heart-beat. There’s teams thatdidn’t have a winningrecord last year that werein the playoffs. It’s ridicu-lous. They have to makeeverybody happy down-state. I don’t think theyworry too much aboutus.”

“We can’t be lookingahead to our big rivals far-ther down the schedule,”said DeVore. “We have totake it one game at a time,and practice hard all week,and come ready to playevery week. We can’t takeanything for granted.”

And, as the regular sea-son champs last year, thetarget is on the Miners’backs.

“The teams that webeat, they’re out to get usback. We were sort ofunder the radar last year,because people felt we hadsome good players, but itwas a matter of puttingeverything together. Butthis year, the word’s out,”said DeVore. “I thinkthey’re going to be muchbetter prepared for us thisyear.”

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Hampshire TT ROJANSROJANS8/26 Preston9/2 at Elkins9/16 Southern9/23 at Mountain Ridge

9/30 Keyser10/7 Northern10/14 Musselman10/21 at Hedgesville

10/28 Washington11/4 at Frankfort

Coach: Darren Grace

2010 RESULTS

at Preston W 14-6Bishop Walsh W 47-28at Southern L 14-35Mountain Ridge L 21-35at Keyser L 6-39Northern L 19-26at Musselman L 0-35Hedgesville L 24-48at Washington L 28-33Frankfort L 20-34

Hampshire hopes to improve after 2-8 yearBY MICHAEL MINNICH


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ROMNEY--With ayoung team, and comingoff of a 2-8 season, it’sgoing to be an uphill bat-tle for the HampshireTrojans and Coach Dar-ren Grace in 2011.

But, Grace is pleasedwith his team’s efforts sofar in practice, especiallyhis young players.

“The freshmen havecome in really excited,and anxious to be a partof the program,” saidGrace. “We have 24

freshmen on the roster.I’d like to see that a littlehigher, but it’s not bad.”

The team scrimmagedJefferson in their first ac-tion of the year.

“It went okay. Weneeded a lot of improve-ment. I think they scoredthree times and wescored once, so we needsome work on the defen-sive side of the ball.”

Hampshire has theadvantage of playing sixhome games this year.

“We had six on theroad last year, so it’s niceto be home and onlyhave to travel fourtimes,” said Grace. “Ilook at it like we can winthem all. If you don’t dothat, then you should getout of the game. You al-ways know that there aregames that are tougherthan others, but ourschedule’s a pretty goodschedule. Even the AA

teams are pretty tough,and we’ve got to come toplay week in and weekout.”

Spencer Malick re-turns at quarterback, butmay not be there thisyear.

“We’re looking to himfor leadership,” saidGrace. “He’s probablygoing to play quarter-back some, but he’s alsogoing to move into thehalfback role a little bit.Hopefully he’ll also leadus in the secondary.”

“Caleb M. Landis andDane Heavener havebeen sharing the repswith Spencer [at quarter-back]. We’re not surewho’s going to start forus against Preston in theopener.”

“All three of thosekids have their strengthsand weaknesses, but ifthey’re not going to playquarterback, they’re

going to play somewhereelse,” said Grace.

Grace has two re-turnees on his offensiveline.

“Tyler Hott playedsome tight end for usand Josh Snyder startedfor us. He’s moved fromtackle to a guard,” saidGrace. “Other than thatwe’re all new, with guyscoming off of the JVteam or guys that didn’tstart on the varsity level.I think we have size andstrength; we just need toget a little bit more expe-rience under our belt,and you can‘t do that be-sides playing.”

Hampshire lost eightstraight games after a 2-0start, with injuries a keyfactor in that.

“We lost all three ofour running backs atsome point in the year,but most teams have in-juries. You’ve just got to

deal with them and plugsomeone else in.”

A new field house anda new scoreboard adornthe HHS campus.

“It’s well past due,”said Grace. “This year,we have 69 kids, andwe’ve dressed as many as70 in the old facility,which is only supposedto hold 40. It wascrowded, it was hot, noair conditioning. Theweight room was toosmall to work all of ourkids out in. So it’s beengreat having a new dress-ing room, a new score-board, and now we’regetting new lights.They’re not hooked upyet, but we’re working onthem. It’s been great forthe kids.”

Hampshire’s geogra-phy is unique amongAAA schools.

“I have a kid thatdrives 35 minutes just to

get to school every day,so you’re talking aboutover an hour of drivingtime to get to practiceand back or to schooland back, so we’ve gotthem strung out all overthe place. It does cutdown on the number ofkids that are able to play.Some parents can’t af-ford to drive them inhere. So it is a challenge,but if a kid wants to play,there’s another peoplearound that they can finda ride, but, again, it doeslimit us a little bit.”

As for expectationsfor this year?

“My goal is to winevery ball-game and takeevery one of them at atime. As a coach, youwant to get in the play-offs and have a chance towin a state champi-onship. If you don‘t setyour goals high, then youcan’t attain them.”



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1 Nick Rohrbaugh SE 5-11/120 Jr.

2 Dane Heavener QB 5-10/140 So.

5 Davon Mcilwain SE 6-3/158 Sr.

8 Shane Barrett QB 6-11/155 So.

9 Dale Bryson SE 5-10/140 So.

10 Trevor Largent SE 6-0/140 Jr.

11 Spencer Malick QB 5-11/176 Sr.

12 Caleb Landis WB 5-10/160 Jr.

14 Caleb M. Landis QB 5-10/163 Jr.

21 Charlie McDonald WB 5-10/155 So.

22 Brandon Timbrook HB 5-10/139 So.

24 Lucas Powers RB 5-5/135 So.

25 Dylan Kesner SE 5-9/135 So.

26 Hunter Rutherford HB 5-11/178 Sr.

30 Tyler Hott TE 6-3/185 Sr.

32 Dylan Pepper HB 6-0/166 Sr.

33 Jacob Bean FB 5-10/205 So.

34 Dalton Clower FB 5-9/196 So.

35 Ryan Cannan HB 5-10/142 So.

40 Trenton Daniels G 5-11/233 Jr.

42 Cole Davis FB 5-11/186 Sr.

45 Desean Thomas TE 6-3/185 Sr.

50 Michael Dee G 5-10/185 So.

52 Hunter Kesner C 6-0/221 Jr.

53 Dennis Hammons G 5-7/158 So.

54 William Burgess G 5-10/190 So.

55 Steven Hannas T 6-1/220 Sr.

58 Robbie Paugh G 5-10/220 Sr.

61 John Inskeep T 5-10/221 So.

62 Seth Brooks G 5-9/170 Jr.

63 Bo Long G 5-10/228 So.

64 Jacob Orndorff TE 6-3/175 So.

70 Zach Reynolds RB 6-3/255 So.

73 Stuart Fessler T 6-4/230 Sr.

75 Thomas Haines C 6-4/253 Jr.

77 Josh Snyder G 6-0/222 So.

80 Nick Baldwin SE 5-10/151 Sr.

81 Levi Moreland TE 6-3/200 Jr.

82 Dakota Payton SE 5-8/150 Sr.

84 Charlie Baldwin TE 6-3/175 Sr.

86 Logan Hill TE 6-3/230 Jr.

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9/30 at Ligonier Valley10/8 MATHS10/14 Southern10/21 Carrick

10/28 at Mountain Ridge11/5 Allegany (12:30 p.m.)

Coach: Todd Appel

Expectations, tradition come with theterritory for defending regional champsBY MICHAEL MINNICH


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CUMBERLAND—Another year, anothergood football team comingoff of the assembly line

for Coach Todd Appel andFort Hill.

The defending 1A Westchamps are hard at worktrying to reach the goalthat’s in front of every FortHill team: a state champi-onship.

“The kids are striving toget better. They have agood work ethic aboutthem. There’s not a lot offoolishness. They’re ontask and listening to theircoaches. There’s a lot ofteaching. So I think, with

that, coupled with somegood athletes that we have,means that we could bepretty good. But you neverknow about things, be-cause of your schedule andpossible injuries,” saidAppel.

As always, the Marylandschools started practicelater than West Virginia;teams like Keyser, FortHill’s second opponent,had 11 practice days in be-fore the Sentinels were al-lowed to take the field.

“I spoke with [Keyser]Coach [Sean] Biser theother day at media daydown at Hagerstown, andhe said they fared prettywell at University, and wegot confirmation of that,

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so they’re ahead. They’vealways been ahead. And weget them right after theirbye, so they can preparefor Fort Hill for two weeks.We just have to do every-thing right,” said Appel.“We can’t control it, so wedon’t worry about it. We’lltry to do the best we canwith what we have.”

Appel has plenty ofhorses back from last year’s1A West championshipteam.

“Of course we have theClay twins. Nothing againstDylan, but Garrett’s thefullback, and usually atFort Hill, the center of theoffense in the fullback. Heplayed well on both sidesof the ball last year, as wellas Dylan. Garrett was of-fensive player of the yearfor us, and I think theother guys are looking tohim for that leadership rolein practice. We have someother kids that are leadersthat other people don’thear about, like Lance Full-wood and Austin Lee andDJ Jolley and Nick Greiseand kids that play the of-fensive line or didn’t getmuch playing time last year.So we have a strong seniorclass. I think we have 22 ofthem. We hope that there’ssome good leaders thatemerge. We’re seeingglimpses of that.”

Unlike many programsaround the area, that sen-ior class is slightly largerthan normal, Appel said.But there’s a flip side tothat.

“It doesn’t sound goodif there’s not many largesenior classes out there.That means that their jun-ior classes are loaded.That’s something that we’ll

have to deal with next year.I think it’s typical for FortHill to have around 20. Sothis is a good group ofkids.”

With declining numbersacross the board in thearea, Fort Hill’s ability tofield a freshman, a JV, anda varsity team has gonefrom run-of-the-mill tonice advantage.

“You just have tobe...and this is funny com-ing from me...organized.You have to have a plan inplace and just try to keepthe kids coming: havesome fun things to do dur-ing the off-season, havesome rewards set up. Rightnow we have 106 kids inour program. We have 47freshmen, and we have 20JV kids, mostly sopho-mores, and actually twosophomores that are onthe varsity roster now, andwe have 38 varsity kids. Sowe’re very fortunate tohave those numbers at a1A school. Fort Hill hasabout 750 students, so oneout of every seven kidsyou see in the hallway is afootball player. We’re veryfortunate to have that.”

Assume that half of thestudents are female, andthat ratio gets even better.

“We’ve got a great tradi-tion here. For these guys torun down those steps andbe on the turf and be inthe new stadium, it’s a nicefeeling. With the good, youget the bad, because youexpect to win here at FortHill, and we work hard atit.”

That tradition literallysurrounds Appel in his of-fense: framed newspaperclippings, photographs,and trophies serve as aconstant reminder of the589 games that his pro-gram has won in 75 years.

“It’s nice. If the kids

win, we put their pictureup. If they get player ofthe year, we put their pic-ture up. So it’s nice for thekids to see that and be ableto aim to be that kid on thewall. They want to be ateam that wins a lot ofgames and lose very littlegames. It’s good motiva-tion. They don’t want to let75 years down.”

After going through aperiod of constructionand renovation last year atGreenway Avenue Sta-dium that closed one sideof the bleachers for mostof the season, it’s back tobusiness as usual at one ofthe storied high school fa-cilities in the area.

“Thank God, because alot of revenue was lost lastyear because the stadiumwas unfinished. We weren’table to accommodate bothsides until the MountainRidge game in Week 9.There were still a lot ofpeople that came thatwould have come withtwo-sided bleachers, butyou lost concessions. Weonly had five home gameslast year, so the revenuewas down. But this year,we have everything builtup the way it was supposedto be, and Mr. Lewis, ourprincipal, is probablyhappy because we can getthat revenue,” said Appel.“And it looks wonderful.We told the kids at themeeting that they shouldfeel honored to play herebecause we have the bestof everything.”

The Sentinels have atough schedule, as usual,both in terms of level ofcompetition and level oftravel: only four localschools (Keyser, Southern,Mountain Ridge, and Alle-gany) are on the docket.

“We’d like to play moreof a local schedule, but it

just doesn’t fit. I thank theKeysers and I thank theSoutherns and I think theMountain Ridges. Ofcourse, Allegany’s notgoing anywhere. We havesome tough newcomers.We have Perry Traditionalout of Pittsburgh, which iskind of a magnet schoollike Dunbar is in Balti-more. They say they’re veryathletic. They attract all thebest athletes in Pittsburgh.That’ll be our third gameof the season. MountainRidge is a tough team. Al-legany is going to sneak upon some people. Peopleare saying they’re not goingto be vcry good, but Ithink they’re going to bereally good. You have thetwo other Pittsburghschools, Taylor Allderdiceand Carrick, and thenwe’ve got Ligonier Valley,from near Idlewild Park,and they’re a tough, small,

Pennsylvania school that’llcome right at you and hityou. We have our chal-lenges this year. You haveMATHS and you have Sil-ver Oak, and both thoseteams are much-improvedthan they were a couple ofyears ago. It’s a challenge,but these kids like chal-lenges.”

Once again, the Wash-ington County schools,who fight with the schoolsin Allegany and Garrett forplayoff spots, are prettymuch absent from localschedules.

So, it’s possible that FortHill could have the bestteam in the area, go, say, 7-3 with this difficult slate,and be on the outsidelooking in.

“I’m going to be honestwith you. I think the statecontributes to that. Theyhave a region-based play-off system. And those

teams in WashingtonCounty, they try to havethe least amount of lossesthat they can on theirschedule, and if that meansnot playing MountainRidge, Allegany, and FortHill and hoping that thoseteams have to play atougher schedule wherethey have more losses, andthey can get in the backdoor, they’re going to to doit, because the playoff sys-tem’s set up that way. Iblame them, but I don’tblame them, becausethey’re playing the systemexactly the way it is andwe’re getting penalized fordoing all the right thingsand trying to build yourprogram the right way.That’s just the way it is. It’snot fun, because our regu-lar season is like a playoff.”

That 10-game “play-off ” begins with SilverOak on September 2.

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BY NATHAN HAYESTRIBUNE CORRESPONDENT

CUMBERLAND–The Allegany Campershope to rebound off ofa disappointing 5-5 sea-son in 2010 and returnto the Maryland 1Aplayoffs in 2011.

Coach Tom

Preaskorn’s Camperswere young in 2010 andwere forced to play sev-eral sophomores.

That plays into Alco’sadvantage this year witha junior class returningwith a year of varsityexperience under theirbelts and higher goals toachieve.

“The goal here at Al-legany is to always qual-ify for the playoffs andthen go as deep into thepost-season as possible”said the Camper headcoach.

“We have a good,strong nucleus of jun-iors this year.”Preaskorn said

Return to playoffs the goal for AlcoMost notably of the

returning juniors isstarting quarterbackCarter Imes.

Imes started all 10games as a sophomorelast season and the leftyhad great success by theseason’s end.

Also coming back forthe Campers in thebackfield will be juniorMadison Wolford.

Wolford was mainly awingback last season,but took some carries athalfback, which is wherehe will primarily line upthis season.

Senior Ryan Morganhas been getting the ma-jority of the reps at full-back trying to replacesenior Aaron Leasure.

Morgan struggledwith injuries for most of2010.

On the line theCampers bring backsome experience withthe DeStefanos, Aniellioand Antonio, who sawsome action throughoutlast season as well as bigGarrett Maiers.

Maiers, 6’3, 256, as asophomore started onthe defensive line, butshould see more actionon both sides of theball.

“We’re going to bebig on line this year.”Preaskorn said. “Wearen’t as quick as wewant to be at this pointwith some of ourpulling and techniques,but we are going to bebig.”

The defense still hadseveral question marksduring the Campers’

first week of practice. “We know we’re

going to have size upfront with the same kidsfrom the offensive line,but we’re young at line-backer and young in thesecondary. There are alot of kids who couldsee the field there.”

Both Morgan andWolford saw playingtime at the linebackerposition last year, butare two of just a fewthat got much experi-ence on defense.

The Campers’ 5-5record from 2010 was abit deceiving because ofthe schedule theyplayed.

That schedule fea-tured four playoffteams locally as well as

St. Albans from D.C,Chestnut Ridge, whowas a strong team fromPennsylvania, and, mostnotably, Red LionChristian Academyfrom Delaware that hasseveral Division I col-lege athletes.

The schedule gets atad easier for Alleganyin 2011.

They still play St. Al-bans and ChestnutRidge, but Red Lion hasbeen replaced withCalvert Hall, a 2Aschool in Maryland thathad a 2-8 record in2010.

Allegany opens theirseason on Sept. 2 on theroad in Oakland inAMAC play againstSouthern.

After extensive renovations last year to Greenway Avenue Stadium, a new facade and bleachers onthe Greenway Avenue side of the stadium are complete, although some work continues near thescoreboard end.



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Bishop Walsh back from the brink for ‘11BY MICHAEL MINNICH


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CUMBERLAND--As recently as May,there wasn't going tobe a football team atBishop Walsh HighSchool this fall.

But, with new coachGeno Taylor in place,the Spartans are look-ing forward and are op-timistic about thecoming season.

Taylor comes overfrom Mountain Ridge,where he coached de-fensive backs last year,and is the 14th differ-ent head coach in the45-year history of theprogram.

He also had exten-sive coaching experi-ence in multiple sportsat his alma mater of Al-legany.

He replaces MikePage, who resignedafter three years at thehelm to take an assis-tant coaching job atFort Hill.

BW went 9-1 inPage's first year, butdropped to 6-4 in 2009and 1-9 last year.

"We've had some re-ally good days," saidTaylor of his summerpractices. "We had onerough one. Every-thing's really comingtogether now, though.We had some playersthat were on vacationthat had to go do somethings out of town,"said Taylor, who is upto 27 kids on his roster."It's a new system thatthey're learning. Forsome of the kids, it's

the third system thatthey're learning [at thehigh school level], sothey're working hard atit. We're working prettyslow, a couple of playsa day, but they're reallypicking it up now."

As for what hehopes to accomplishwith his new system?

"I want to balance itout. They threw awhole lot for the lastthree years or so, oreven further back thanthat. I think that makesthe game a little longerwhen your numbers arelow. So I want toshorten the game downa little bit. I've got a re-ally good running backcoach in [Rob] Shew-bridge, a good runninggame going, and I'vegot a good quarter-back, so I might as welljust use what whatwe've got."

As for how the pro-

gram was kept alive?"I worked really

hard. So did mycoaches. I had to dosome things, and I havea lot of people that Iknow in town. So theycalled me and asked ifthey could come andmeet with me, andonce they met with me,they started coming.So, from 13 [players] to27 in two-and-a-half-months...that's prettygood. They said they'vefinally got to use 11players on both sideson the ball. They'reused to going half-line,and the first day the ex-citement was very, veryhigh."

"Greg Hendershot'sbeen my leader fromthe first time I methim. I usually don't dothat so early, but if youmet him, you'd under-stand why I made hima captain. We have

other captains on ourteam, but Greg's beenthere. He doesn't missthe weight room at all.I think it's exciting thathe just does what hedoes. And he's a verygood quarterback. I'mhoping that he gets toplay a college some-where. and I'm work-ing my butt off tomake sure that hap-pens."

With BW's programin flux, athletic directorJim Zamagias in-formed the schools ontheir 2011 schedulethat they may have tolook for other days.

And, since the pro-gram wasn't declared"saved" until earlyJune, this year's sched-ule will not be a fullone.

"It was only six[games], but Hancockis back on it, so I ap-preciate them calling usback," said Taylor."And right now we'restill looking for twohome games, becausewe only have threeright now. The kids aregoing to need the extraplaying time. We'reyoung. We only havefour seniors, so it'sgoing to work out re-ally well," said Taylor."My program's goingto keep running. We'regoing to get the youngones in there, and ifthat continues, it'sgoing to be a goodthing for the school."

"We play a couple oftough teams out there,'said Taylor. "Ran-dolph-Macon, Saint

James will be good. Idon't know muchabout Avalon, which isour first game, but Iknow they run theWing-T, and that'swhat we run. So that'sgoing to be very inter-esting."

With no localschools on the sched-ule, the Spartans willbecome veteran travel-ers.

"The best thing todo is make sure they'rehydrated heavy andthat they get a goodmeal in the night be-fore. We also have tomake sure we leaveearly enough that wecan get down there andreally stretch out andget our bearings. That'sgoing to be big," saidTaylor.



BY RICHARD KERNSTRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

OAKLAND – SteveSavage is looking to con-tinue a trend that hasseen his Southern Ramsimprove their recordeach season during hissix-year tenure as headcoach, with the teamaiming in the upcoming2011 campaign to makethe playoffs.

“I'm not satisfied withmediocre,” Savage said.“We've got shoot for theplayoffs.”

The Rams, who opentheir season Sept. 2 athome against Allegany,are coming off a 5-5mark last year. WhenSavage took over theteam, the Rams hadposted back-to-back 1-9seasons. His first yearsaw the team improve to2-8, followed by two 3-7seasons, and then 4-6and finally last year'seven finish.

Given their longstring of losing seasons,a .500 mark would becommendable in itself,but the coach said thatrecord could have beeneven better if a few playshad gone their way intight games.

“We were eight pointsaway from being 7-3,”Savage said of last year'srecord. “A few breaks

Southern RR AMSAMS9/2 Allegany9/9 Moorefield9/16 at Hampshire9/23 Berkeley Springs

9/30 Tucker County10/7 at Petersburg10/14 at Fort Hill10/21 at Mountain Ridge

10/28 Silver Oak Academy11/4 Northern

Coach: Steve Savage

here and there and we'reprobably talking play-offs.”

Leading a veterancoaching staff that hasbeen with him throughmuch of his time at thehelm in Oakland, Savageis not content to counton good fortune tomake the difference thisyear.

Numbers alone bodewell for the Rams thisseason, with more than70 young men trying outfor the team. “That's 12-15 more than what wetypically start with,” hesaid. “I'm happy withthat.”

More than just thesize of the squad, thosetrying out for the teamare more experiencedand knowledgeable as aresult of playing in a re-vitalized communityyouth football league,which for several yearshas played against stiffercompetition in Cumber-land.

Sophomores andfreshmen on the teamhave come up throughthat youth league, play-ing together under thesame system employedby the Rams. “We're far-ther ahead than we'veever been,” Savage said.

When the whistleblows to start the sea-son, Savage expects theRams to mount a potentrunning attack, with nu-merous players able tomake a mark from thebackfield. “We've gotseven backs capable ofcontributing in a bigway,” he said.

The coach singled outZack Knotts as an espe-cially strong threat.“He's had a really goodoff season,” Savage said.

On the defensive side,the Rams will field astrong linebacker corpsand deep secondary,with “seven or eight kidsinterchangeable” inthose positions, Savagesaid.

The coach also sin-gled out Josh Wotring, a6'3'', 230 pound defen-sive end who attended arecruit camp in New Jer-sey over the summer. Atthe end of camp,Wotring was ranked13th among 160 invi-tees.

Savage said Wotringwill help anchor the linefor both offense and de-fense.

As for the Rams' chal-

lenges this year, thosesame front lines are thecoach's biggest cause ofconcern, with youngerplayers being asked tostep up and fill gaps leftby departing seniors.“We're young up front,inexperienced,” he said.“We've got to make a lotof progress quickly.”

Savage is cautiousabout overly optimisticexpectations for the2011 Rams, noting that

“Rome wasn't builtovernight.” Still, aftersteadily improving overhis first five years to lastseason's 5-5 mark, con-tinued progress wouldleave the team knockingon the playoff door atthe close of the regularseason.

“Last year was cer-tainly an improvement,”the coach said. “We ex-pect that pattern to con-tinue.”

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Northern HH USKIESUSKIES9/2 Smithsburg9/9 at Williamsport9/16 Keyser9/23 Frankfort

9/30 at Clear Spring10/7 at Hampshire10/14 at Mountain Ridge10/21 Allegany

10/28 Berkeley Springs11/4 Southern

Coach: Phil Carr

BY NATHAN HAYESTRIBUNE CORRESPONDENT

ACCIDENT– Noteam in the AMACbrings back morestarters and more expe-rience than Phil Carr'sNorthern Huskies.

Northern returnsseven starters on eachside of the ball from a2010 team that sur-prised most in going 6-4 and qualifying for theMaryland 1A playoffs.

In total the Huskieshave 15 seniors.

“All these seniorshave been playing to-gether a long time,”Carr said. “Having thisnumber of seniors hasbeen really nice. Wehave good leadershipand that helps us out alot.”

The Huskies startedslow in 2010 with a 1-3start, but rallied to winfive of their last six, in-cluding an upset winover then undefeatedMountain Ridge, boost-ing the young Huskiesinto the post-season.

“(Making the play-offs) was real key. Anytime you can get intothe playoffs, especiallyin our region, is tough.It was a big boost to ourprogram.”

It also led into morehunger and desire forthe 2011 season.

“(Last year) led to agood turnout in the offseason with weight lift-

ing. These seniors feellike they started some-thing and now theywant to finish it.”

Offensively North-ern sports a set of skillplayers that exceeds anytheir 15-year headcoach has seen.

“This is the bestgroup is skill kids I'veever had,” said Carr.

They are led by theirquarterback, seniorPatrick Sines.

Sines, a three-yearstarter, broke North-ern's single season pass-ing record with over1700 yards in 2010.

“It's nice to have akid like Pat who knowsthe offense. The thingswe throw at him, he rec-ognizes right away,”Carr said of his signalcaller. “He got a lot ofconfidence as the yearwent on and because ofthat we knew he wouldmake the right deci-sions.”

Sines threw the ballmuch more than typicalNorthern quarterbacks,but Coach Carr won'tbe going too far awayfrom his double wingand split veer optionthat has been the stapleat Northern for quitesome time.

“We threw the ballmore last year, but wedon't want to get awayfrom what we do. Wearen't always going tohave a talented quarter-back like Pat, who can

throw the ball, so wehave to know how torun as well.”

The two main ballcarriers for Northernwill be the same duothat took the majorityof the carries last sea-son in Josh Mason andAlex Baker.

Mason, also a three-year starter, led theHuskies in rushing lastyear with over 800 yardsfrom the fullback posi-tion.

“Josh is a tough run-ner and was a big key toour success last year andhe's also one of ourbest blockers too.”

At halfback Bakerwill be starting for thethird year in a row forNorthern as well.

“He's athletic, he cando a lot of nice things,he even threw a coupletouchdown passes forus last year on trickplays. Plus he can be atough runner.” Bakercleared the 600 yardmark for the season de-spite injuries slowinghim down in multiplegames.

The third runningback position is still incontention betweensenior Tyler Owens andjunior Jeremy Bender.

“Tyler's a good run-ner and got some expe-rience last year, butBender can give usmore of a threat as a re-ceiver.”

Which brings us to

receiver, where North-ern returns a pair ofproductive senior passcatchers in Kyle Rosen-berger and Cody Rode-heaver.

Rosenberger led theteam with 600+ yards in2010.

“Kyle has greathands, he caught a lotof balls in traffic andmade some big playsdown the field.”

Rodeheaver led theAMAC in receptionsand also broke North-ern's school record forcatches in a single sea-son.

“Cody is more of apossession receiver, wesend him over the mid-dle and he make a tonof nice plays” Carr said.

The only area of theoffense not with over-whelming experience isthe line.

Northern returns twostarters and anotherthat saw limited actionin 2010.

At right tackle willbe their most experi-enced lineman in ZachMeyers, a three-yearstarter.

“I think Zach has theability to be one of thebest lineman in thearea,” said Carr.

On the other side ofthe line at left tackle willbe senior Justin Durst.

Durst started overhalf the games in 2010and played in all ofthem.

Huskies looking to finish what they started

At right guard will besenior Shawn Kamp.

“Shawn played someguard last year and he'sdoing a good job so far.He's nice and quick andworks well beside Mey-ers.”

At left guard will be abattle between seniorZack Friend and juniorShawn Snyder.

“Friend brings moresize and strength at 220pounds, while Snyder issmaller at 180, but isquicker and has reallygood technique.”

Rounding out theNorthern offense atcenter will be seniorDan Sisler.

The Husky defensewill have many of thesame faces as the of-fense in their 4-3 base.

Most of the newfaces are on the D-Line.

Senior Zach Merrilwill be the right endalong with Owens at onthe left side.

Junior Aaron Broad-water joins Meyers asthe two defensive tack-les. At linebacker willbe Mason, Baker andKamp.

The Secondary con-sists of Rosenbergerand Bender and corner-back along with Rode-heaver and ChrisMurdoch at safety.

Murdoch led theHuskies with seven in-terceptions last season.

Coach Carr will belooking for a strongerstart to the 2011 cam-paign.

“We have to get offto a good start. Westarted 1-3 last year andour one win was on thelast play.”

On their seasonopener on September 2against WashingtonCounty foe Smithsburg:“This first game is like aplayoff game right offthe bat. They were aplayoff team last year.”



Moorefield YELLOW JACKETSYELLOW JACKETS8/26 at Wirt County9/2 Frankfort9/9 at Southern9/16 Tucker County

9/23 at Warren Co.9/30 at Berkeley Springs10/14 at East Hardy10/21 at Petersburg

10/28 Pendleton Co.11/4 Calhoun Co.

Coach: Josh See

2010 RESULTS

Bishop Walsh W 48-40at Frankfort L 28-46Southern L 7-55at Tucker Co. L 23-44St. Marys L 13-34Berkeley Springs W 33-21East Hardy W 49-19Petersburg W 31-0Pendleton Co. L 23-31Tygarts Valley W 22-0

BY MICHAEL MINNICH


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MOOREFIELD--Forthe first time since 2006,and just the third timesince 1994, the WVSSACplayoffs happened lastseason without the name“Moorefield” in the ClassA bracket.

But Yellow Jacketscoach Josh See has beenvery pleased with theprogress of his team sofar.

“I installed more [ofthe plays] than I thoughtthis group was capable of.They’ve actually pro-gressed a lot better thanany time that I’ve had sofar. Only having six,seven days of practice,we’re actually a lot furtherahead this year than wewere in week two andweek three of last year,”said See between drills ona rainy Tuesday morning.“I’m not scared to start afreshman. If he’s goodenough to play, he’ll play.It makes it a lot easieronce you start installingthe next year. They retaina good bit of it. We’vehad to fix some minorthings, but they’ve done areally good job.”

See was pleased withhis team’s effort on arainy first day of contactdrills.

“A lot of excitement,but you get that everyyear. Some unexpectedhitters, which is always agood thing. You’re a littlebit nervous on that firstday, but once you gothrough those drills, andeveryone survives it, youmove on and start playingin football.”

The team has beenpracticing early in themorning to avoid the Au-gust heat.

“I think if the heat’snot a factor, we can learnfaster. That’s one morefactor that we don’t haveto worry about. We’ll go

the first 10 days in themornings to try and in-stall the basics. And thenwe’ll move to the heat inthe afternoon and startacclimating to it for ourfirst game.”

Despite not makingthe playoffs, Moorefielddid finish strong, winningfour of their last five, in-cluding a 49-19 victoryover eventual quarterfi-nalists East Hardy.

“Last year, we were re-ally banged up across theoffensive line. We hadguys playing out of posi-tion, and we struggled toput a line together eachweek. So finishing likethat was a plus going intothis year. The seniors thatwere juniors last yearhave really given us greatleadership all summerlong. They’ve got moreguys in the weight roomthan we have for the longtime.”

See pointed out twoplayers in particular asworth watching.

“Louis Richardson isreturning. He had 19rushing touchdowns, 15or 1600 yards rushing,great linebacker, just agreat kid. I think he’s gota 4.3 GPA, wants to be adoctor. He’s just one ofthose guys that you wishyou had 25 of them.”

“Another one is ZachLaughlin. Zach’s got 19career interceptions. Andthey’re taking on theirsenior year because theyknow it’s their last onehere. They’re challengingthe other guys and reallydoing a great job. The en-

tire senior class has donea great job. We vote forour captains, and wevoted for four guys, butthose seniors are still outthere leading and keepingthe guys pumped up.”

Moorefield will have asolid passing game tokeep defenses from key-ing on Richardson.

“We’re moving Zach[Laughlin] outside, andDeSean Brown is a greatreceiver also. They bothhave good hands. We’rehoping that we canloosen up the defense. Ifthey don’t take care ofZach and DeSean, we’regoing to throw to themuntil they loosen up, andthen we can run Louis.It’s the same philosophythat every coach has: youdo one to set up theother.”

Moorefield will playonly four games at homethis year.

“It’s a great challenge,”said See. “Going on theroad, we’ve figured outsince the Coach [Alan]Fiddler days. I don’t wantto give anything away.”

It’s going to make animpact off of the field,too.

“Football carries theother sports [financially],and the monetary valueof only having fourhome games is detrimen-tal to all of your otherprograms. But the bot-tom line is, you still wantten games for your boys.”

Being in a regionwhere there aren’t a lotof small schools affectsMoorefield’s ability to

have a consistent sched-ule.

“That, and the successwe had back in the 90sand early 2000s still givesus a reputation. Thesesmaller schools don’twant to play us. It stinks.We’re traveling fourhours [to Wirt County] toplay that first game, andplay a team that’s reallygood. We won’t shy awayfrom many teams. It’sanybody, anywhere, any-time.”

“Coach Fiddler taughtus, and we believe it tothis day, your schedule isgoing to make youtougher. You’re going tolose some games on thefront end, but once youget to schools that are ac-tually your size, thenyou’re going to rollthrough those schools.”

See said that his teamwas able to make someprogress in the three-week summer practicewindow.

“You hope the guyscan get here, but theydon’t always. Installation-wise, we really don’t do awhole lot. We just kindof draw plays in the dirt.But it’s important to getthose guys out of the airconditioning, off thecouch, and into theweight room and dosome things like that, getthem to compete a littlebit.”

Work schedules also

make it difficult to re-quire athletes to give upthree weeks in June andJuly.

“We try to do our bestto do one in the morning,one in the evening, andhopefully if we have acompetition somewhere,everybody can make it.”

Early projections fornext year’s WVSSAC re-classification haveMoorefield right on theline between stayingClass A and moving upto Class AA, but See isn’ttoo concerned.

“They’ve said we weregoing Double-A foryears, but I’m goodfriends with the middleschool principal and ourprincipal, who just re-tired, and they both saidthat we’re going to staySingle-A. Either way,we’re already pretty muchplaying a Double-Aschedule, so it wouldn’tmake much differencefor the football team. Ithink we’ve had morekids out this year thanwe’ve had for quite a longtime, maybe since ReedWilliams was here. We’reup to 47, 49 boys, and wecan play with that, we’vejust got to get the guys inthe weight room a littlebit more.”

Williams, the formerMoorefield and West Vir-ginia linebacker, is still intouch with his almamater.

“He spent all summerhere. He’s helping his dadand his family out on thefarm, but he’s going backto WVU. He got somescholarship money, andhe’s going back for histhird bachelor’s degree,”said See. “Very intelli-gent. Probably one ofthe smartest I’ve everhad. When I had him inclass, I made sure that Ihad all my homeworkdone so he didn’t makeme look stupid. He actu-ally did a youth camphere to get the elemen-tary-age kids involved,and we had a good time.He’s still around. He stilldoes what he needs to doto help the program.”

Williams’ story is agreat motivator to thecurrent Yellow Jackets.

“Absolutely. The kidsremember Reed at WVU,they don’t rememberReed here. The freshmenon this team were fiveand six years old whenReed was a senior here,”said See. “You kind ofsee that star-struck lookfrom the kids when Reedcomes back around.They all want to bearound him, and that’sgreat.”

Moorefield opens atWirt County on August26 before opening theirhome slate against Frank-fort in the Falcons’ firstgame of the season onSeptember 2.

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