Don't want to copy and paste the whole article in today's Times-News. But it's a good one. Here is some of it.
Times-News
Nov 19, 2016
TITLES ARE ALWAYS CAPITALIZED
But the Sentinels are not only a deep and talented team, they are a veteran and savvy team as they showed again against the best team they've faced all year. Allegany head coach Bryan Hansel, of whom it can be said did a great job of eliminating the word "interim" from the conversation, all but said so.
Hansel, who guided Allegany to a 9-2 record in the first year of his first head coaching gig, believed his team could have capitalized had it caught a break or two the way it appeared to him that Fort Hill had. Yet the Allegany coach was quick to qualify his sentiment by saying, "They make the breaks. I'm not saying they get lucky by any means. They prepare and are a great team.
"I just think we needed a few breaks to go our way. We get a touchdown here, a stop there, a missed tackle here ... and we're in this game the whole way into the fourth quarter. Our kids played hard. I thought we were physical and matched their physicality. We just didn't capitalize on the chances we had."
Fort Hill was physical and played hard right along with them. But it was Fort Hill who got a touchdown here, a stop there and who didn't miss a critical tackle here, because you become the three-time defending state champion by capitalizing on the chances you have.
Perhaps the instance that best defined this came on Fort Hill's opening possession when junior Logan Johnson capitalized on what was given him by zipping 16 yards up the middle of the Alco defense on a quarterback sneak, setting up what would be the first Fort Hill touchdown of the night - a one-yard Logan Johnson quarterback sneak.
Brayden Poling's 53-yard run was rather helpful to the drive as well, but it all played together to put the Camper defense momentarily off balance, and the Sentinels capitalized for the first Fort Hill win in 23 games in which its starting quarterback was not named Graves.
It was Johnson who started the game at quarterback in place of Nathaniel Graves, who was eased back into action after being medically cleared to play after being injured last week against Northern. Graves is a player who always seems to capitalize, whether he is playing quarterback or safety. Yet it was the Sentinels as a group, as a team, as an organization, who capitalized by having a player such as Johnson start the game at a most important position, and not only settle the ship, but captain it to a tone-establishing moment.
It was a moment Fort Hill used to make clear it would have to be beaten for advancement by the Campers to occur, because Fort Hill would not beat itself. Not in this game. Not on this night.
Allegany threw all it had to the wall, but the pasta wouldn't stick. Fort Hill was ready and prepared for it, and once more it is the Sentinels who will stick and who will prepare to move along.
Times-News
Nov 19, 2016
TITLES ARE ALWAYS CAPITALIZED
But the Sentinels are not only a deep and talented team, they are a veteran and savvy team as they showed again against the best team they've faced all year. Allegany head coach Bryan Hansel, of whom it can be said did a great job of eliminating the word "interim" from the conversation, all but said so.
Hansel, who guided Allegany to a 9-2 record in the first year of his first head coaching gig, believed his team could have capitalized had it caught a break or two the way it appeared to him that Fort Hill had. Yet the Allegany coach was quick to qualify his sentiment by saying, "They make the breaks. I'm not saying they get lucky by any means. They prepare and are a great team.
"I just think we needed a few breaks to go our way. We get a touchdown here, a stop there, a missed tackle here ... and we're in this game the whole way into the fourth quarter. Our kids played hard. I thought we were physical and matched their physicality. We just didn't capitalize on the chances we had."
Fort Hill was physical and played hard right along with them. But it was Fort Hill who got a touchdown here, a stop there and who didn't miss a critical tackle here, because you become the three-time defending state champion by capitalizing on the chances you have.
Perhaps the instance that best defined this came on Fort Hill's opening possession when junior Logan Johnson capitalized on what was given him by zipping 16 yards up the middle of the Alco defense on a quarterback sneak, setting up what would be the first Fort Hill touchdown of the night - a one-yard Logan Johnson quarterback sneak.
Brayden Poling's 53-yard run was rather helpful to the drive as well, but it all played together to put the Camper defense momentarily off balance, and the Sentinels capitalized for the first Fort Hill win in 23 games in which its starting quarterback was not named Graves.
It was Johnson who started the game at quarterback in place of Nathaniel Graves, who was eased back into action after being medically cleared to play after being injured last week against Northern. Graves is a player who always seems to capitalize, whether he is playing quarterback or safety. Yet it was the Sentinels as a group, as a team, as an organization, who capitalized by having a player such as Johnson start the game at a most important position, and not only settle the ship, but captain it to a tone-establishing moment.
It was a moment Fort Hill used to make clear it would have to be beaten for advancement by the Campers to occur, because Fort Hill would not beat itself. Not in this game. Not on this night.
Allegany threw all it had to the wall, but the pasta wouldn't stick. Fort Hill was ready and prepared for it, and once more it is the Sentinels who will stick and who will prepare to move along.
