1/24/12 - Football
Dylan Clay and Austin Lee win All-Area top honors
CUMBERLAND, MD - Fort Hill back Dylan Clay takes Times-News Area Offensive Player of The Year Award, Mountain Ridge safety Jarrod Harper shares Defensive Player of The Year Award with Sentinel linebacker Austin Lee.

1/21/12 - Football
Garrett Clay runs away with Area Player of The Year Award
CUMBERLAND, MD - Fort Hill senior finished with 1,931 rushings yards, 30 TDs, all area bests, as he led Sentinels to 12-1 record.

11/26/2011 - Football
Perryville wins battle of unbeatens, 20-14
CUMBERLAND, MD - Unbeaten Perryville overcame five turnovers, stopped the vaunted Fort Hill ground attack to knock off the Sentinels, 20-14 in overtime, in a Class 1A state semifinal game.

11/18/2011 - Football
Best in the West: Sentinels beat pesky Boonsboro 26-7
CUMBERLAND, MD - Garrett Clay was unstoppable, the offense scored four unanswered touchdowns, and the defense refused to take a back seat to anyone in a 26-7 victory over Boonsboro for the Class 1A West Region championship.

11/11/2011 - Football
FH passes Brunswick test
CUMBERLAND, MD - Dylan Clay did just about everything, the defense passed another test and the Fort Hill Sentinels moved a step closer to their ultimate goal with a 49-27 victory over Brunswick in their Class 1A West Region semifinal.

11/5/2011 - Football (Homecoming)
Clays run by Campers
CUMBERLAND, MD - Garrett Clay and Dylan Clay were at it again, terrorizing an Allegany defense for the second year in a row, running every which way to the end zone playing a combined five positions.

11/5/2011 - Football (Homecoming)
FH overpowers Allegany 50-7 to set Homecoming record
CUMBERLAND, MD - The Fort Hill Sentinels beat Allegany in a Homecoming landslide, 50-7.

10/28/2011 - Football
Fort Hill runs over Mountain Ridge
FROSTBURG, MD - Garrett Clay rushed for 289 yards and four touchdowns on 15 carries and the undefeated and top-ranked Fort Hill Sentinels unloaded on the previously undefeated and second-ranked Mountain Ridge Miners in most every facet to come out of snowy Frostburg with a 41-0 victory.

10/21/2011 - Football
FH cruises over Carrick, 51-8
CUMBERLAND, MD - Unbeaten and top-ranked Fort Hill made short work of Pittsburgh’s Carrick Raiders, scoring 30 first-quarter points on its way to a 51-8 victory.

10/14/2011 - Football
Sentinels sizzle in 62-6 win over Southern
CUMBERLAND, MD - Top-ranked and undefeated Fort Hill gained first downs on half of their offensive plays, 15 to 30, piling up 424 yards in overwhelming Southern, 62-6, Friday night at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

10/8/2011 - Football
FH routs MATHS
CUMBERLAND, MD - The undefeated Fort Hill Sentinels won their sixth game in a row with a 54-0 victory over the Maryland Academy of Technology and Health Sciences (MATHS) of Baltimore Saturday night at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

9/30/2011 - Football
Fort Hill blanks Ligonier Valley
LIGONIER, PA - Playing on grass for the first time this season, the Sentinels (5-0) struggled at times to hold onto the football but eventually found a way to run away from the host Rams.

9/24/2011 - Football
Sentinels stifle Taylor Allderdice
PITTSBURGH, PA - Fort Hill jumped quickly to a two-touchdown lead, then fought off the Taylor Allderdice Dragons through a physical first half, before turing the tables defensively in the second half to leave George Cupples Stadium with a 27-9 win.

9/17/2011 - Football
Fort Hill runs wild in 50-13 win over Perry Traditional
CUMBERLAND, MD - The Sentinels ran right. They ran left. They ran up the middle. They did as they pleased behind outstanding line play from start to finish in a 50-13 drubbing of the defending and 16-time Pittsburgh City champion Commodores.

9/9/2011 - Football
Sentinels shut out Keyser
CUMBERLAND, MD - The Fort Hill backs used their tremendous speed to turn what coach Todd Appel described as “simple plays” into big ones and the defense spun another shutout as the Sentinels ran over Keyser, 42-0.

9/2/2011 - Football
Fort Hill cuts down Silver Oak
CUMBERLAND, MD - The Fort Hill offense got to show off its vast array of weapons and the offense was able to slow down the Silver Oak Academy speed in opening the season with a 43-0 rout as the Sentinels ran over the Rams on a humid Friday night at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

1/17/2011 - Football
Garrett Clay named Area Offensive Player of The Year
CUMBERLAND, MD - Garrett Clay is the recipient of the 2010 Morton W. Peskin Sr. Memorial Award as the Area Offensive Player of the Year. The Fort Hill running back rushed for an area-best 1,434 yards and 20 TDs.

1/17/2011 - Football
Fort Hill's Todd Appel named Coach of the Year
CUMBERLAND, MD - For the second time in his three seasons on the job, Fort Hill head coach Todd Appel is the Coca-Cola Golden Helmet High School Football Coach of the Year.

1/16/2011 - Football
Fort Hill’s Garrett Dolly named Area Player of The Year
CUMBERLAND, MD - Garrett Dolly is the recipient of the Cumberland Times-News Area High School Football Player of the Year. The senior end, linebacker led the Sentinels to nine wins and a region championship.

12/23/2010 - Football
Dolly named First Team All-State, others receive Honorable Mention
CUMBERLAND, MD - Sentinel LB Garrett Dolly has been named First Team All-State on Maryland's Small School squad. Dolly led the Sentinels in tackles all three years he played at Fort Hill.

11/27/2010 - Football
Dunbar denies Fort Hill in final seconds
BALTIMORE, MD - Quarterback Kevin Estep sneaks into the end zone with three seconds left on the clock to give Dunbar a 20-14 victory over Fort Hill Saturday afternoon in the Maryland Class 1A semifinals at Baltimore Poly’s Lumsden-Scott Stadium.

11/19/2010 - Football
Sentinels shut down Miners, 25-0, win West Region
FROSTBURG, MD - The dominating Fort Hill defense allowed only a total of 76 yards with its sixth shutout of the season as the second seeded Sentinels defeated top-seed Mountain Ridge, 25-0, for the Maryland Class 1A West Region championship Friday night at Mountain Ridge Stadium.

11/12/2010 - Football
FH rolls over Smithsburg
CUMBERLAND, MD - The speedy Clay brothers did it again, as Garrett Clay scored four touchdowns in leading second-seeded Fort Hill to a 42-6 win over third-seeded Smithsburg in the first round of the Class 1A playoffs Friday night.

11/6/2010 - Football
Sentinels streak past Campers, win Homecoming 47-21
CUMBERLAND, MD - The special teams were special, the defense came up with some key turnovers and the Fort Hill Sentinels were able to get the ball in the hands of their speed players as they exploded in the second half to rout Allegany 47-21 in the annual Homecoming Game.

11/6/2010 - Football
Fort Hill doubles its pleasure with Clay brothers
CUMBERLAND, MD - In Fort Hill’s explosive Homecoming victory Dylan Clay diced the Campers for 126 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries, while his twin Garrett Clay ran over, through and around the Allegany defense for 97 yards and three touchdowns on 13 carries in being named co-Offensive Player of the Game along with his brother.

10/29/2010 - Football
Fort Hill storms back to defeat Mountain Ridge
CUMBERLAND, MD - Garrett Clay scored a pair of touchdowns and Joe Howser delivered in the clutch and scored the go-ahead touchdown as second-ranked Fort Hill rode a big second half to beat top-ranked Mountain Ridge, 20-16.

10/23/2010 - Football
TJ wins a thriller
CUMBERLAND, MD - Fort Hill was 45 seconds, and one yard away from a chance to knock off a Class 4A Thomas Johnson team, but the Patriots’ defense came up with the biggest stop of the night on fourth-and-one with their backs against the wall to beat the Sentinels 21-17.

10/15/2010 - Football
Clay, FH pound Southern, 25-0
OAKLAND, MD - Second-ranked Fort Hill gave fifth-ranked Southern a giant dose of Garrett Clay on offense and a smothering defense posted its fifth shutout of the year in a 25-0 win on a damp, chilly night at Southern.

10/8/2010 - Football
Fort Hill spreads wealth, slaughters Jefferson 59-0
SHENANDOAH JUNCTION, WV - Fort Hill scored at will and prevented winless Jefferson from doing much of anything at will as the Sentinels easily won their second game in a row, 59-0, Friday during the Jefferson Homecoming game.

10/1/2010 - Football
Fort Hill routs MATHS
CUMBERLAND, MD - A 28-point second quarter leads Fort Hill to a 42-0 victory over the Maryland Academy of Technology and Health Sciences (MATHS) Friday night at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

9/24/2010 - Football
Martinsburg pulls away from Fort Hill, 42-10
MARTINSBURG, WV - Running back David Gladden scored three touchdowns and the Martinsburg Bulldogs took advantage of Fort Hill mistakes to defeat the Sentinels, 42-10, Friday night at Coburn Field.

9/17/2010 - Football
Mount St. Joseph late TD pass stuns FH, 14-10
CUMBERLAND, MD - Quarterback Craig Constabile fired a perfect strike to Angelo Deshields in the corner of the end zone with just 1:22 to play to send the Gaels of Baltimore to a 14-10 win over Fort Hill Friday night at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

9/11/2010 - Football
Defense dominates as FH shuts out Keyser, 24-0
KEYSER, WV - Fort Hill rushed for 248 yards and used a stingy performance by the defense in helping the Sentinels shut out Keyser, 24-0, Saturday at Alumni Field at Tornado Alley.

9/3/2010 - Football
21-point third quarter leads to 35-0 win over Surrattsville
CUMBERLAND, MD - The Sentinels, up 14-0 after a bit of a lethargic first half, scored three touchdowns in the third quarter and dominated the second half in a 35-0 victory over Surrattsville on a warm, breezy opening night Friday at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

8/18/2010 - Football
Queen City Quad Saturday at Greenway
CUMBERLAND, MD - The Fort Hill Sentinels will host the second Queen City Quad Football Classic Saturday at Greenway Avenue Stadium, beginning at 3 p.m., with proceeds benefitting The League for Crippled Children.

1/3/2010 - Football
Vincent honored as area's best defensive player
CUMBERLAND, MD - Fort Hill senior lineman also named second-team all-state, defensive POY of Homecoming.

11/20/2009 - Football
Alco rally shocks FH, 35-14
CUMBERLAND, MD - In probably the biggest turnaround in the long series, the second-seeded Allegany Campers came back from a 14-0 deficit to roll over the top-seeded an previously unbeaten Fort Hill Sentinels, 35-14, for the Maryland Class 1A West Region championship Friday night at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

11/13/2009 - Football
FH rolls easily over Smithsburg, 45-0
CUMBERLAND, MD - In a game that Fort Hill head coach Todd Appel described as a chance for just about everybody on the team “to get a piece of the pie,” the top-seeded and unbeaten Sentinels rolled over No. 4 Smithsburg, 45-0, Friday night at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

11/7/2009 - Football
HOMECOMING: Fort Hill's big plays, defense beat Alco
CUMBERLAND, MD - The talent-laden Fort Hill defense shut down almost everything the potent Allegany offense tried and the top-ranked unbeaten Sentinels beat the Campers on a perfect Saturday afternoon for football at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

11/7/2009 - Football
HOMECOMING: Defenses rule at Greenway
CUMBERLAND, MD - Two big runs. Two tough defenses. One big win and a perfect regular season for the Fort Hill Sentinels.

10/30/2009 - Football
Loaded Fort Hill rolls over Mountain Ridge
FROSTBURG, MD - The top-ranked and unbeaten Fort Hill Sentinels showed they have a lot of weapons in their bag of tricks with a resounding 51-7 victory over No. 5 Mountain Ridge Friday night at Miners’ Stadium.

10/23/2009 - Football
Sentinels shut out Thomas Johnson 12-0
FREDERICK, MD - On a rainy Friday night in Frederick, the Sentinels used a dominating defense to beat Class 4A Thomas Johnson 12-0 in the muddy trenches.

10/17/2009 - Football
Fort Hill rolls past Southern
CUMBERLAND, MD - Top-ranked Fort Hill did all it needed to do in the first half to build a 35-0 lead, then waited out the second on a running clock and remained unbeaten with a 35-0 victory over the Rams Saturday evening at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

10/9/2009 - Football
Fort Hill rips Jefferson
CUMBERLAND, MD - On a breast cancer awareness night with his players wearing pink wrist bands, Fort Hill head coach Todd Appel had to be tickled pink with the all-around play of the unbeaten top-ranked Sentinels in a 55-7 rout over Jefferson on a rainy and windy Friday night at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

10/3/2009 - Football
FH slams Silver Oak
CUMBERLAND, MD - Kwam Kassim scored a pair of first-quarter touchdowns and top-ranked Fort Hill substituted freely from the get-go in a 49-6 victory over Silver Oak Academy in high school football Saturday night at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

9/26/2009 - Football
Fort Hill mauls Bulldogs
CUMBERLAND, MD - Sentinels roll, 41-14, in battle of unbeatens.

9/19/2009 - Football
Lee leads Fort Hill to 22-12 win over Mount St. Joseph
CUMBERLAND, MD - In a battle between two top 25 teams in the state, the Sentinels prevailed 22-12 over Mount St. Joseph of Baltimore with Devin Lee running for a touchdown, throwing for a touchdown and picking off a pair of passes.

9/12/2009 - Football
FH's fast start KO's Keyser
CUMBERLAND, MD - The quick-strike Sentinels, with seven plays covering more than 20 yards in the first half, built a commanding 26-0 lead and beat Keyser 29-8, in front of a near full house at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

9/6/2009 - Football
Fort Hill shuts down Surrattsville
CLINTON, MD - Dakota Welsh ran for 164 yards and Colton Sibley scored a pair of touchdowns as Fort Hill kicked off its season with a dominating 37-15 victory over over Surrattsville on a sunny, hot Saturday afternoon.

8/20/2009 - Football
An early look into Queen City Quad Classic
Thank God it's Football, and to get the season rolling, the Fort Hill Sentinels will host a four-team football scrimmage this Saturday, Aug. 22 at Greenway Avenue Stadium with the Queen City Quad Preseason Classic to benefit The League for Crippled Children.

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.