Allegany Campers Football: Welcome

600 WINS!

This year at Allegany, the football team will most likely achieve a major milestone as they attempt to win the 600 th football victory in school history.  The game should come in the later part of the season as the CAMPERS again take on an aggressive football schedule for 2009.

The CAMPERS are considered the most winning team in the state of Maryland high school football.  Although the teams of City College and Polytechnic in Baltimore have played much longer, there is no record of thier history to date.  Therefore, until proven otherwise, the Campers are the leaders with thier 593 wins to date.

With the talented team and players returning for this season, the CAMPERS have a very good chance to accomplish this feat this season and go even farther into the playoffs again for the 6th season in a row.

This is your chance to watch history this year at Greenway Avenue Stadium as the CAMPERS set out to get the record.  So fans, alumni, parents and all supporters, you have to be there to witness this major accomplishment and come out and cheer on the ALLEGANY CAMPERS FOR 2009. 

Wholly smokes fans!  Even though I went a spectacular 9 of 10 for the week, my average is still a mere 75% for the year.  I guess my hopes for that 80% mark is all but gone for the year...AGAIN!!!

For the year, I have gotten to 85 of 114 for the season which gives me the 75%.  My only miss was the Dunbar and Forestville game.  Forestville was leading 12-0 right before the half, but then the Poets woke up and swamped the opponent into submission.  It just goes to show you that you can't count out the Poets during the playoffs.

The first week of the playoffs though were pretty much as predicted.  Allegany and Fort Hill handled the Washington County teams as did Catoctin and Joppatowne.

This weeks is another great week of playoff football.  Even in West Virginia locally, there is two good games on tap for all us area football crazies.

Fort Hill will again host Allegany for the 1A championship, Catoctin hosts Pikesville, Dunbar entertains Forest Park and Joppatowne will face their arch rival Havre De Grace at J-town.

Other big games on tap for the weekend sees Frankfort hosting its second playoff game hosting Pikeview, Keyser travels to Magnolia, Tucker County is on the road to Weirton and Martinsburg is hosting South Charleston.

The winners this week will advance into the semi-finals of their respective state playoffs.  The Maryland 1A class is loaded with talent this year and the final 4 games should be really interesting for all to see.

It would be nice to see both Frankfort and Keyser get into their semi's as well.  Frankfort is due some sort of championship after 34 years of football.

Well...I can hardly wait to see the results of this weeks big games.  I sincerely hope that all teams come out of the games healthy with no injuries.  As usual...good luck to all the teams this weekend and on into the finals.

November 20 & 21, 2009

Allegany  24  Fort Hill  20

Catoctin  42  Pikesville  14

Dunbar  32  Forest Park  14

Joppatowne  28  Havre De Grace  14

Frankfort  35  Pikeview  20

Magnolia  28  Keyser  20

Weirton  48  Tucker Co.  12

Martinsburg  34  South Charleston  24

*  Denotes a correct guess!

HERE WE GO AGAIN!

CAMPERS & SENTINELS FOR 1A CROWN

It could be said; "Hey...this is getting old."  But for the Allegany Campers and Fort Hill Sentinel football teams, this never gets old.

The two proud traditions will once again strap on the helmets and laced up the spikes for yet another try at each other for yet another chance at the 1A West Region championship scheduled for this Friday night at Greenway Stadium.

Since the 2005 season, these two programs have fought it out on the field for bragging rights and championships in the 1A West...and this year will be no different.

This however is the first time that the Sentinel's have won back to back homecoming games since 2005 since both schools have been in the 1A division.  In 2005, the Campers won and went undefeated for their 8th state title.  The 2006 game was for the Sentinel's as they went on to face Dunbar in the finals.  2007 was the magic year of the Campers as they saw their coach go off to Iraq to serve his country and assistant coach Tim Foley guided the Blue and White to a 13-1 record and another state title chance only to loose to ....Dunbar.

Last season, in a thriller of a homecoming game, the Sentinel's got the best of the Campers by 4 points and again in the 1A region game, only to go on to lose a very close game to Dunbar again.

As stated earlier, this is the first year that one team has won back to back homecoming games since both being in the 1A classification.  The only thing that has not happened yet, is a split of the series between the two in the back to back confrontations leading to the 1A region championship.

That being said, could this be the year?  Fort Hill won the homecoming 2009 with a 17-7 win over the Campers.  The Camper defense shined on that day but could not produce any offensive threat to the staunch Sentinel defence.

The Sentinel's are undefeated and want to keep it that way, whereas the Campers are looking to end the "Big Red" run this Friday.  Both have outstanding running attacks, but the Campers just couldn't get it moving last game.  The Sentinel defence is stout and quick and the Campers are much the same...only smaller.

Both teams have potent passing games with the edge a little to the Blue and White side.  The Camper defense may be a little quicker, but the Fort Hill line is huge and strong as well.

The Camper kicking game is the real edge for the Blue as John Carpenter has set the area record for PAT's and scoring in his tenure at Campobello.  His kickoffs and punts have kept the Camper opponents deep in their own territory all season long.

Special teams could be the deciding factor in this 1A West championship game and the edge goes to the Sentinel's.  Alco seems to be amiss in the kickoff defense area and hopefully will correct that before Friday nights game.

The Sentinel's will pound the football on the ground all game long and kill you will the unexpected pass.  Now that the talented JV has come to the varisty for the Sentinel's, look for Devin Lee to be catching passes for the Big Red.

Field position will be the key in this game as well and the Campers have to maintain what they did in the first meeting.  Of course turnovers will be a big factor as the Campers gave it away to Fort Hill several times at Homecoming.

Expect a very large crowd again as both teams look to win in a highly emotional game for both schools.  Pride and bragging rights are once again on the line for the two local football giants.  It looks to be another good game.  Can the Campers pull it out...yes they can!  Will the Sentinel's dominate...yes they can!  Will it be high a scoring game...maybe!  One thing is for sure, both teams want to win, but unfortunately...only one can.

It appears to be another "barn burner" in store for the local fans.  Get there early because the "house will be rockin all night long."  Good luck to both teams and may the best team win!

YOU WANT TO SUPPORT

ALLEGANY CAMPERS FOOTBALL...

ITS EASY!

CHECK OUT THE GRID IRON WEB SITE AT;

www.alleganygridironclub.com

Click on the headline above for access to the site. 

The Allegany High School Grid Iron Club supports the activities of the Campers Football program by selling items at the Grid Iron Booth at Greenway Avenue stadium, sell lottery tickets at the games as well as the weekly programs you buy before each home game.

During all the home games, the Grid Iron has given away T-shirts and Homecoming 2005 blankets to those lucky people who simply buy a program and have the correct markings on the selected page in those programs.  These are just a few things that the Grid Iron Club does for the team.

If you would like to see the vast array of items the Grid Iron sells at the booth at Greenway, you can simply look to the left hand side of this screen and click on the Grid Iron Products section and see what all they have.  You will be surprised as to all the different items of spirit and motivational items the club carries for all Camper Fans. 

You can buy them at the stadium of course, it is so easy you'll come back often.

SO....YOU WANT TO SUPPORT ALLEGANY FOOTBALL...THIS IS IT!

A very important thing for all those who need to know, the Allegany High School Grid Iron Club supports the activities of the football team.  Items like end of season jackets, championship rings, supplying food after home games and providing funds for away game dinners.  Purchasing the "Big A" at the stadium, the 25 second time clocks at the stadium and the team run through tunnel of a few years ago.  Also, the Grid Iron is solely responsible for the football programs that we all enjoy at the stadium each and every week at Greenway and they help purchase necessary equipment when needed.  That is just a few items of interest.  So you can see how vitally important this club is to the school and team. 

An even more important item to remember is that all funds collected during the season and after the season by the Grid Iron Club, goes directly back to support the football program at Allegany High School.

So, you want to help.  That is easy.  The Grid Iron Club always needs volunteers to help out with selling programs, in the booth or just simply help out the club when needed.  At $5.00 a year dues, you can't go wrong by helping out one of, if not the finest high school football program in the state of Maryland.

SO COME ON OUT AND GIVE THEM A HAND...

YOU WON'T REGRET IT!