No points in the second half for the Owls. Wow!
No points in the second half for the Owls. Wow!
Friday Scores
Quince Orchard 21, Westminster 19
Middletown 45, Elkton 0
River Hill 29, Urbana 7
Douglass (Prince George's) 34, Edmonson 20
New Town 28, Perryville 27
Perryville goes down to New Town, I think that's a bigger upset than QO-Westminster
The first state final is set: Middletown vs. Douglass (Prince George's) in the 2A State Title game Saturday afternoon at M&T Bank
I'm in shock. Quince Orchard beat Westminster and held them to 19 pts. New Town beat Perryville. Any given Friday.
Rematch from last year. Middletown is as strong or stronger than last year. Especially on O-Line and D-Line. I hear Douglas has a much better QB than last year. Looking forward to a good game and hopefully a repeat!
Everybody is an expert after the fact. Quince Orchard beating Westminster is a big upset no matter how you look at it. I hear Westminster missed a fg for the win. I think you're reacting to the thread about Gilman and Westminster but that has very little to do with this game.
RH beat Urbana by three TD's. I don't think either team would say that they played their best. If they had RH would have won by four TD's.
Westminster got "Oregoned", is the term I would use. As in, that one loss by Oregon every year where the offense is out of rhythm, the defense plays fairly well, and the special teams cost them the game, usually by missing a FG. If not for the blocked extra point and subsequent failed 2-point conversion Westminster had to attempt, the game would have been tied at 21.
Westminster's defense held QO on 4 consecutive plays from the 3 yard line to even give them a chance to drive down field. Kern gets them to the 20-yard line and gets them a chance to kick. Here's where Westminster is a victim of their own offensive success. Their offense was so explosive that they only had attempted 1 field goal all season, and that was late in one of their blowout wins. Now Coach Wilson trots out the kicker, who has barely kicked in a game, let alone in pressure situations, to try a 37-yard FG (pretty long range for most HS kickers), in one of the highest pressure situations imaginable.
I know football sense tells you to kick the FG, but I'm not sure the higher percentage play in that situation wouldn't be a pass into the end zone, which you've practiced much more often than a potential game-winning FG.
The real answer is River Hill!!!! I know I will get shouted down because you are not allowed to say River Hill is good or that anyone on River Hill is good but the team does the one thing your supposed to do. Win and win consistently. Not even the great Gilman can make that claim! Hey GA I heard TRIP is looking for you so he can show you where the hole is he had to crawl in after all his bluster had to stop.
If you go back to the thread when Westminster beat the Wv team, I said immediately afterwards that I believed that QO and Wise would beat them. So I was way ahead of the game and called it months ago. Westminster is a system team, just like Arundel. It's a different game when you play a team that's been there ago. QO isn't as good as they were last year but they have a program that's used to being there. This is not an upset.
Perryville is one tough team...congrats to them on a great season...would love to see a Dunbar match up at the Bank
Last I checked you lost 2 games this season. Now I know for a certainty that preseason wins do not count but I did not know that in season losses did not count for Gilman!!!
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