2008 Season Archives
1/26/2009 
  - Football
  Ten 
  Fort Hill players named to All-Area First Team
  CUMBERLAND, MD - 
  The 32-member first team chosen from nominations from area coaches has players 
  representing six schools. Maryland Class 1A runner-up Fort Hill has the most 
  first-teamers with 10. 
1/23/2009 
  - Football
  Fort 
  Hill tackle Caleb Morris named co-Defensive Player of the Year
  CUMBERLAND, MD - 
  A pair of all-state defenders, Keyser linebacker Taige Redman and Fort Hill 
  tackle Caleb Morris, the co-recipients of the Pepsi-Cola Area High School Football 
  Defensive Player of the Year 
1/17/2009 
  - Football
  FH’s 
  Todd Appel named Area Coach of the Year
  CUMBERLAND, MD - 
  Fort Hill’s Todd Appel the recipient of the Coca-Cola Golden Helmet High 
  School Football Coach of the Year Award.
1/16/2009 
  - Football
  Marcus 
  Lashley named Area Offensive Player of the Year
  CUMBERLAND, MD - 
  Fort Hill senior led area in rushing, scoring, Sentinels to region crown. 
12/10/2008 
  - Football
  Teams 
  like this one are one of a kind
  Saturday’s 
  state championship game in Baltimore played out to be a once-in-a-lifetime game.
12/6/2008 
  - Football
  Sentinels 
  lose a hearbreaker to Dunbar in the final seconds
  BALTIMORE, MD - 
  Dunbar touchdown, two-point conversion with two seconds left beats Fort Hill, 
  20-19 in State Championship Game.
11/28/2008 
  - Football
  Sentinels 
  dominate Joppatowne, 28-0, to advance to state title game
  CUMBERLAND, MD - 
  Marcus Lashley pounded for 200 yards and a touchdown and the swarming Fort Hill 
  defense came up with four turnovers as the Sentinels shut out Joppatowne, 28-0, 
  Friday night to advance to the Maryland Class 1A championship game.
11/21/2008 
  - Football
  Fort 
  Hill does it again, beats Alco 21-14
  CUMBERLAND, MD - 
  The Fort Hill Sentinels proved they could run the ball against Allegany with 
  three long scoring drives and came up with big defensive stops in a 21-14 victory 
  over the Campers for the Maryland Class 1A West Region championship on a cold 
  and breezy Friday night.
  
   11/14/2008 - Football
  Fort 
  Hill roars past Boonsboro
  CUMBERLAND, MD - 
  Marcus Lashley ran for two touchdowns and Eric Howser threw for two more as 
  top-seeded Fort Hill rolled to a 35-0 win over fourth-seeded Boonsboro in the 
  opening round of the Maryland State regional playoffs.
11/8/2008 
  - Football
  HOMECOMING: 
  Fort Hill 26, Allegany 22
  CUMBERLAND, MD - 
  Howser's one-yard sneak with 18 seconds to play wins instant classic for Sentinels.
11/8/2008 
  - Football
  HOMECOMING: 
  Friendship wins the day for Fort Hill
  CUMBERLAND, MD - 
  Hard work, faith and friendship. They all combined to produce a 26-22 Fort Hill 
  victory over Allegany Saturday afternoon at Greenway Avenue Stadium in one of 
  the most exciting games in the 80-game history of Fort Hill-Allegany football.
11/1/2008 
  - Football
  Fort 
  Hill wins nailbiter over Mountain Ridge
  CUMBERLAND, MD - 
  Mike Durr came up with the big play at the end of the first half, and Marcus 
  Lashley and Garrett Dolly did the same in the second as third-ranked Fort Hill 
  edged fourth-ranked Mountain Ridge, 24-21.
10/24/2008 
  - Football
  Howser 
  passes FH over Northern, 42-7
  ACCIDENT, MD - Fort 
  Hill showed the shotgun formation two weeks ago against Jefferson, but used 
  it as their base offense Friday night to pile up the yards and points in a 42-7 
  win over Northern.
10/17/2008 
  - Football
  Fort 
  Hill over Douglass
  CUMBERLAND, MD - 
  The Fort Hill Sentinels capitalized on Frederick Douglass mistakes and turned 
  in perhaps their best defensive performance of the season in a 14-12 victory 
  on Friday night at Greenway Avenue Stadium.
10/10/2008 
  - Football
  FH 
  defense jams up Jefferson, 38-6
  SHENANDOAH 
  JUNCTION, WV - Third-ranked Fort Hill used an oppressive pass rush and a diverse 
  offense to slug the Jefferson Cougars with a 38-6 pounding Friday night in Cougar 
  Stadium at Jefferson High School.
09/26/2008 
  - Football
  FH 
  outlasts Cambridge, 36-28
  CUMBERLAND, 
  MD - In a thrilling game that had a little bit of everything, it came down to 
  Fort Hill’s Sam Walker batting down a fourth-down pass in the closing 
  seconds to nail down the Sentinels’ 36-28 victory over Cambridge-South 
  Dorchester on a rainy Friday afternoon at Greenway Avenue Stadium.
09/19/2008 
  - Football
  FH 
  wins by forfeit, Dunbar coach takes team off the field with the lead in protest
  CUMBERLAND, 
  MD - An unusual ending led to familiar outcome Friday at Greenway Avenue Stadium. 
  Two exciting pass plays, one to start the game, and two textbook drives were 
  completely erased from existence when Fort Hill won the strangest game at Greenway 
  in over a decade, 2-0, by forfeit.
09/12/2008 
  - Football
  TDs 
  in fourth lift Tornado over Sentinels 13-7
  KEYSER, 
  WV - Jeremy Green had deeper pockets than Fort Hill’s defense when it 
  came down to big plays as the senior running back led Keyser to a 13-7 win over 
  the Sentinels Friday at Stayman Field.
09/5/2008 
  - Football
  FH 
  comeback stops City, Sentinels’ rally to win Appel’s debut, 14-6
  CUMBERLAND, 
  MD - In a game where Fort Hill had two touchdowns nullified by penalties, Sam 
  Walker got the one that counted when he scored on a 26-yard run with 3:36 left 
  as the Sentinels defeated Baltimore City College in Todd Appel’s debut 
  as head coach on a warm Friday night at Greenway Avenue.