Silver Oak by the numbers

[TDHelmick]

From what I gathered listening to WCBC.

Silver Oak amassed 550 yards of offense. Their QB was 8-11 passing for 462 yards and 6 TD passes. He also ran for another TD.

Alco won the time of possession 33 minutes to 15 minutes.
Alco fumbled 6 times and lost 5. Silver Oak lost 1 fumble.

The score was 18-7 at the half. Silver Oak opened the 2nd half by scoring 4 times in 5 offensive plays.

Coach Hansel did not back away from the post game interview and sounded respectful in his assessment. He took the blame but did go on to say his team would not beat the Braddock Warriors playing like that. He also challenged his players saying he just wanted to compete next week at Keyser and that he needed to find 11 guys that wanted to get on the bus to compete as well.

The WCBC broadcasters Rock and Jim called this the worst loss in Alco football history. I can't go back far enough to say I agree or disagree with that but they made a few comparisons to other tough losses. Based purely on how bad Alco must have performed they were sincere about the analogy.

Alco has cancelled their JV game at Southern for Monday night. This is the 3rd straight week they have cancelled. I am assuming FH will need to find a replacement game for their annual JV homecoming game.

I am feeling bad right now about it all. I went through this myself back in 1983 with FH. It's not fun when you have pride and a long standing tradition of excellence. Honestly, it is good to see that no one is happy about any of this.

Since summer this has been a complete nightmare for the Campers in regards to kids quitting and getting injured. All on top of being record thin in the participation numbers to begin with. I do see light down the tunnel. It may take a few more seasons so hang tough Big Blue.

 

[CumberlandHSFB]

From what I gathered listening to WCBC.

Silver Oak amassed 550 yards of offense. Their QB was 8-11 passing for 462 yards and 6 TD passes. He also ran for another TD.

Alco won the time of possession 33 minutes to 15 minutes.
Alco fumbled 6 times and lost 5. Silver Oak lost 1 fumble.

The score was 18-7 at the half. Silver Oak opened the 2nd half by scoring 4 times in 5 offensive plays.

Coach Hansel did not back away from the post game interview and sounded respectful in his assessment. He took the blame but did go on to say his team would not beat the Braddock Warriors playing like that. He also challenged his players saying he just wanted to compete next week at Keyser and that he needed to find 11 guys that wanted to get on the bus to compete as well.

The WCBC broadcasters Rock and Jim called this the worst loss in Alco football history. I can't go back far enough to say I agree or disagree with that but they made a few comparisons to other tough losses. Based purely on how bad Alco must have performed they were sincere about the analogy.

Alco has cancelled their JV game at Southern for Monday night. This is the 3rd straight week they have cancelled. I am assuming FH will need to find a replacement game for their annual JV homecoming game.

I am feeling bad right now about it all. I went through this myself back in 1983 with FH. It's not fun when you have pride and a long standing tradition of excellence. Honestly, it is good to see that no one is happy about any of this.

Since summer this has been a complete nightmare for the Campers in regards to kids quitting and getting injured. All on top of being record thin in the participation numbers to begin with. I do see light down the tunnel. It may take a few more seasons so hang tough Big Blue.

If this doesnt equal worst loss in program history then I dont know what does. I mean Christ SILVER OAK almost hung 60 on Alco. Isnt that supposed to be the other way around. They'll have trouble staying within 40 points in games the rest of the way. This isnt fun to see, but its survival of the fittest in the current climate.

 

[beall02]

The most earth shattering stat to me was the sheer amount of yards that Allegany gave up versus the pass. How do you give up over 400 yards in the air at the high school level?

 

[TDHelmick]

The most earth shattering stat to me was the sheer amount of yards that Allegany gave up versus the pass. How do you give up over 400 yards in the air at the high school level?

Coach Hansel addressed that in the post game interview. He said he tried multiple coverages from loose man to deep cover 2. They just could not cover the SOA receivers deep. We saw FH give up that much against Cathedral Prep. Granted that was a team of much higher caliber but in today's spread it definitely happens...just not against SOA who was shut out last week.

It's obvious Alco had coverage issues from day one. Then you lose a corner with injury and the best safety has to move to LB due to injury and coaches are left trying to plug in sophomores that have never played a varsity game.

 

[BrianH1974]

I will set the line at Keyser -44 points.

If this same Alco team shows up it literally could be 77-0.

 

[cumbfanatic]

Allegany secondary is bad and has been for years, they are never in position to make plays.

 

[4R341]

Nobody's saying it, but isn't at all possible SOA does have athletes and have reached a point in the season where their passing game is clicking? Why is that so hard to believe?

 

[LinemenWinGames]

Nobody's saying it, but isn't at all possible SOA does have athletes and have reached a point in the season where their passing game is clicking? Why is that so hard to believe?

SOA has one really tall, big and fast WR, #8. They have a second fast and medium sized WR. After watching video, Allegany was burned on a quick hitch for about 60 yard and then just straight fly patterns down the sideline where the CB fell down one time and the the over the top coverage was slow and late. There where 2 or 3 other bombs where there were no Allegany players within 7 yards and 10-15 yards of the receivers. Allegany had absolutely zero pass defense against SOA. The SOA QB scrambled one time for about a 50 yard TD.

Allegany’s running backs were having balls ripped right from them. Several times the balls were not even fumbled, just taken. On Alco’s first series the refs missed a SOA player taking the ball away and ruled the RB down.