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Danville goes 15-0 for 11th football crown
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4 Marty Warren column 5 Bowl wins 6 Win over Boyle County
Contents
7 Honoring the past 8 Tates Creek comeback 9 Sweeping the district 10 Winning at LCA 11 East Ridge, Somerset again 12 Road to Kroger Field 13 State Championship 14 State Championship
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Admirals expected return to title in 2017 By MARTY WARREN Contributing Writer
Danville entered the 2017 season with high expectations following its disappointing 24-6 loss to Christian Academy of Louisville in the Class 2A Title game last season. The Admirals lost four year starting quarterback Zach Dampier, whose 8898 career passing yards and 98 career touchdown passes were both school records, but returned eight starters on both offense and defense. Enter junior Zach Thornton, the heir apparent to Dampier at quarterback, and the Admirals never missed a beat. All he did was complete 187 of 290 passes for 2576 yards for 37 touchdowns with just five interceptions. Add to that his running ability as he gained 473 yards on 107 attempts while scoring nine touchdowns and Danville had another dimension to its offensive arsenal. D’Mauriae VanCleave wasn’t very big, but his lightning-quick speed more than made up for his size. If he able to get around the corner, he was a threat to score every time he touched the football. He had Mr. Football type numbers again this season while catching 77 passes for 1064 yards (11 touchdowns), ran for 762 yards (11 touchdowns), intercepted four passes and returned two of those for touchdowns. His ability to find
Danville senior Don Harris bites the championship trophy. openings during punt and kickoff returns caused a nightmare for special team coaches all season. His 60 yard return against Mayfield broke the Cardinals backs and opened a three touchdown advantage that they could never recover from. Hard-nosed running back Don Harris gained over 2000 yards and had 33 touchdowns during his ju-
nior and senior seasons. Whenever Danville coach Clay Clevenger needed three or four yards for a first down, he would nearly always call on Harris. He was a force on defense, too. Playing from his linebacker position, he was the team’s second leading tackler behind sophomore Darrian Bell and led the Ads’ with 9.5 tackles in the
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championship against Mayfield. Thornton had a receiving corp that averaged nearly 13 yards per catch throughout the season. Besides VanCleave, Jaleel Warren had 37 catches for 581 yards and 12 touchdowns, David Walker 39 catches for 503 yards and four scores while Tanner Ford had 21 grabs for 333 yards and seven
touchdowns. They were solid on defense, too. Despite giving up 46 points to Louisville Waggener, Danville entered the championship game having given up just seven points in its last 144 minutes of action. If you take away two scores by East Ridge against Danville’s reserves, the Admirals starting unit had given up only one touchdown to Class 2A’s highest scoring team, Lexington Christian. Sophomore Darrian Bell led the Admirals’ defense with 104 tackles and recovered a fumble for a score against Knox Central. Harris was next with 78, while Chase Tandy added 63 (also a fumble recovery for a touchdown against Knox Central), Ethan Downey 56, Christian Hill 54 - despite breaking his thumb at Pulaski County - and Walker 51. Even junior lineman Jaylon Brashear got into the act when he intercepted a pass and returned the theft 75 yards for a score against East Ridge. While the Admirals lose eleven seniors who were able to make the Class 2A State Championship twice, they still have a nucleus of sophomores and juniors that gained valuable experience throughout the season. With a solid effort in the weight room and during spring drills, there is no reason to think Team #107 can’t get back to next year’s Class 2A State Championship game.
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Ads open season with back-to-back bowl wins Admirals give Frederick Douglass first loss Danville coach Clay Clevenger didn’t know what to expect entering Saturday’s game with Frederick Douglas. The firstyear school from Lexington had only one scrimmage under its belt, but Clevenger knew it would be important to get off to a good start. The Admirals scored in 28 points in just 15 minutes, highlighted by three scores from lightning-quick D’Mauriae VanCleave, and coasted to a 36-0 win in the second game of the Bob Allen Pigskin Classic at Admiral Stadium. “We didn’t play bad by any means, but there are so many areas where we can improve,” Clevenger said. “It still early in the season. We’ll get better.”
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Danville opened the season with two bowl victories: The first was a 36-0 win against the newest 6A school in the state, Frederick Douglass, in the Bob Allen Pigskin Classic. The second was a 52-28 takedown of 4A Knox Central in the Cumberland Falls Pigskin Classic at Corbin.
Danville wins turnover-filled game over Knox Central
and defensively — to survive and easily defeat Knox Central 52-28 Saturday in the Cumberland Falls Classic at Corbin. The Admirals defense forced eight CORBIN — It wasn’t the prettiest win you will ever see, but Danville turnovers — six fumbles and two inmade all the plays — both offensively terceptions — and returned three of
the miscues into touchdowns as Danville (2-0) turned a close contest after one quarter into a rout. “The defense played well again,” Clevenger said. “We were able to force turnovers and turn them into points and that’s always a good thing.”
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Hazlett the hero for Danville in win over Boyle By MATT OVERING
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Thursday night lights turned into Thursday night thrills at Admiral Stadium. Danville beat Boyle County for the second-straight year in an epic 10-7 slugfest. Ads’ kicker Nathan Hazlett scored the game-winning field goal from 45 yards away with just 40 seconds left on the clock. “It was a great football game,” Danville head coach Clay Clevenger said. “I thought both teams really competed, both defenses really did a number on the other offense. We were fortunate enough to make enough plays down the stretch to get the win.” Hazlett stepped up in a big-game situation, but it wasn’t the first time. Hazlett missed field-goal opportunities in the state championship last season. “ W hat w a s g o i n g through my head? State last year. Definitely,” Hazlett said. “I missed those field goals last year for my team. I thought I could turn it around last year but I wanted to really step up
Danville took down Boyle County 10-7 in its lowest scoring game of the season. this year and I hit that one.” “It’s funny, Jeffrey Guest, young man that’s in a wheelchair right now, he
talked to our team yesterday,” Clevenger said. “He talked about his senior year, he fumbled four or
five times, didn’t have a good game. Danville came down at the very end to bail him out. I think that
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is what these kids did for Don. Don is one of our emotional leaders. Obviously, he puts the ball on
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the ground a few times and we’ve got to fix that. But it’s a lot better that it didn’t cost us.”
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Honoring the past By MATT OVERING
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Danville’s football team warmed up against Garrard County in its usual home colors. But minutes before kickoff, the team switched into purple and gold jerseys to honor Bate High School. The momentum for a game honoring Bate High School started in the spring, when Bate Middle School was renamed to John W. Bate Middle School and there was discussion about changing the school mascot from the Bulldogs to the Admirals. Danville football coach Clay Clevenger saw that and wanted to help honor the past. He spoke with superintendent Keith Look, and Look was all for the idea of having a game to celebrate Bate High. “Bate alumni came out and voiced their thoughts about not wanting that to happen, that it’s a part of their legacy,” Clevenger said. “When that all started, that’s where we got the idea to do this. We ran it through administration and went from there. “Coach Ernest Dunn really helped me a lot with it over the last few weeks, getting it organized. Glenn Ball of the Bate alumni association, he and coach Dunn did a really good job getting people involved and getting the word out. I thought we had a really good turnout.” Clevenger said he had support from Look and the school administration, and it was coach Dunn and Ball who took the initiative and really promoted the game. Bate High School alumni met with the Danville team captains before the game and walked with the captains onto the field for the coin toss. “Hopefully people enjoyed it, I know the kids did,” Clevenger said. “They’re a part of our legacy, our history. It’s good for those guys to be honored. We had a couple granddads of our players out there, I think that adds to the excitement.” So, what happens to the jerseys now? “We’ve talked about making this an annual deal, and some of the Bate alumni talked about buying some of (the jerseys),” Clevenger said. “But I’m not sure, that’s to be determined. I’m not opposed to making it a yearly deal if it is something that interests people.”
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Danville wore purple and gold to honor Bate High School during the Admirals’ game against Garrard County this season.
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Admirals have close calls with Waggener, Tates Creek Admirals win shootout at Waggener, 49-46
Admirals come back to beat Tates Creek, 27-24
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LOUISVILLE — Speed versus desire. In a game that featured 904 total yards of offense and 13 touchdowns (seven rushing, six passing), Danville outlasted lightning quick Waggener 49-46 Friday night in Louisville. In what turned out to be a very entertaining contest, it turned out to be the team that had the ball last that prevailed. Waggener’s Division-I prospect Jairus Brents (Ohio State, USC, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Louisville among others are on his short list) accounted for 359 total yards (161 rushing, 198 passing) showed more team speed that Danville had seen in many years. Danville, playing without team leader Christian Hill — who broke his thumb earlier in the week and did not play— showed the desire Matt Overing/matthew.overing@amnews.com and made defensive stops Danville running back Don Harris battled injuries during the middle of the season but finished with 1,130 yards and 14 touchdowns on the when needed. ground for the Admirals this season.
Homecoming night proved to be one of Danville’s toughest games this season. The Admirals came back from 14 down to beat 6A Tates Creek, 27-24. “We battled,” Danville coach Clay Clevenger said. “That’s all you can say. It was ugly, but we battled. We kept telling them, ‘keep competing, keep competing, keep competing.’” The Admirals kept competing. Calls went both ways and both sidelines disagreed. Tates Creek finished with nine penalties for 100 yards and had a player ejected for a punch thrown; Danville had 10 penalties for 82 yards. “It was a good test against a big school, lots of numbers and a lot of athletes,” Clevenger said. “I thought our kids just competed. I thought in the first half, we got a little bit out of kilter at times. I thought we settled down at halftime, we played good football in the second half and made enough plays to win.”
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Danville cruises early in district play over Somerset, Middlesboro Ads jump out to early lead to win at Somerset, 37-26 SOMERSET — D’Mauriae VanCleave gained 207 yards on eight rushing attempts, caught eight passes for 54 yards and scored twice on runs of 77 and 84 yards as Danville grabbed a quick 14-0 lead and never trailed while defeating host Somerset 37-26 Friday night. Jaleel Warren also had a pair of touchdowns while junior quarterback Zach Thornton completed 14 of 24 passes with one interception and three scores to lead the Danville attack. “That was as good a first half as we have had in awhile, then we hit a little lull in the third quarter before we regrouped in the fourth quarter to put the game away,” Danville coach Clay Clevenger said. “(D’Mauriae) really ran the ball hard. If he can get to the corners or is able to hit a seam, he can take it to the house at any time. “Jaleel had two really big catches for us,” Clevenger said. “He has such a big body and what people don’t realize is he is an excellent blocker, too.”
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Middlesboro win sets up LCA showdown Danville’s regular starting running backs gained just two yards on two carries as coach Clay Clevenger decided to rest most of his team in anticipation of an undefeated showdown next week with Lexington Christian and the Admirals easily defeated Middlesboro 53-0 Friday night at Admiral Stadium. Danville (9-0, 2-0) will have no worse than a second seed and will host at least one home game with the easy win. The Admirals grabbed a 13-0 lead after one period and put 27 more points on the scoreboard in the second quarter to set the running clock in motion during the second half. “We started off slow on our first drive but played well the rest of the game,” the Danville coach said. “I thought our defense did a good job all night, too.” Now it’s on to Lexington with an unbeaten season and number one seed on the line. “It should be a heck of a game between two outstanding football team,” he added. “Both teams have a lot at stake. Hopefully, we can go in healthy.”
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Danville running back Don Harris bruised his way to 66 rushing yards on 17 carries in the Admirals’ first meeting with Somerset this season. Danville won 37-26.
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Home field advantage secured after LCA win By MATT OVERING
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LEXINGTON — Danville trailed the highest-scoring offense in the state by two scores early in Friday’s contest. But no heads dropped on the Admirals’ sideline. Danville knew it had bigplay ability on its side and consistently used big plays to flip the game in the Admirals’ favor. Danville beat LCA 44-28 to take the top spot in 2A District 7 and an undefeated 10-0 record into the playoffs after a bye week next week. LCA led 21-7 early in the second quarter, but Danville head coach Clay Clevenger wasn’t worried. The Admirals have faced tough situations this season and he knew his playmakers would make plays. “I think (our schedule) prepared us when we got down, because we’ve been down this year,” Clevenger said. “That was the message, we’ve just got to keep playing, keep being physical, keep flying to the football and just keep playing. That’s the message right there. They’re a great football team, they’ve got a lot of playmakers, and we do too. We were able to put points on the board quick, that’s the great thing about it. Once we started getting some stops, we were able to get some momentum offensively. It was big.” Clevenger said the work that his team put in off of the field showed in the second half. “That’s what I told our kids at halftime. It’s 6 a.m. in January, it’s 6 a.m. in February, that’s what you’re building yourself for,” he said. “We put a lot of pride in our weight program and our conditioning program.
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Above left: D’Mauriae VanCleave breaks past the LCA defense for one of his three receiving touchdowns. Above: Tanner Ford intercepted a pass during the first half of the game. Left: Danville cheerleaders expected a win before the regular-season game at LCA.
We wanted to be there, be ready to go in the second half and I feel like we were. It’s one of those games, now we’re 0-0 at this point. The next games are our most important games of the year and we’ve got to come in
and we’ve got to keep working.” With the win, Danville will have home field advantage early in the playoffs — which includes a potential rematch with LCA. “It’s great as long as you
win. That’s the thing, at this point it’s sudden death,” Clevenger said. “Everybody’s 0-0. We’ve got to come in, we’ve got an open week and I’ve been sitting here all year wanting one. We’ve finally got it and I
think it comes at a good time for us. As long as we don’t get too happy and feel like we’ve arrived, I feel like we can keep getting better.” Christian Hill said he and his teammates know that 10-0 doesn’t mean as much as 15-0. “We’ve just got to keep pushing,” Hill said. “We’ve had a good run so far, we’ve
just got to keep going and keep the pedal down.” D’Mauriae VanCleave agreed. “We’re undefeated, at 10-0, but that doesn’t mean we have to sit back,” he said. “We have to keep pushing, just like we’re 0-0. It doesn’t really matter, we just have to keep going game by game and keep pushing.”
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Playoff time: Ads roll in first two rounds Brashear score highlights first round rout By MARTY WARREN Contributing Writer
Danville’s defense forced four first half turnovers and the Ads offense turned all four miscues into points and the Admirals easily defeated East Ridge 57-16 in the first round of the Class 2A playoffs Friday night at Admiral Stadium. The win sets up a rematch with Somerset, a 42-0 winner over Shelby Valley, next Friday at Admiral Stadium. The Admirals defeated the Briar Jumpers 37-26 on Oct. 6 in Somerset. Danville’s longest scoring drive in terms of time of possession was 53 seconds and it was that long only because the running clock started after the Admirals’ fifth score of the first half — a 75 yard interception return by 5-10, 275 pound lineman Jaylon Brashear. “That is definitely a lineman’s dream,” Danville coach Clay Clevenger said. “Most times when a lineman gets an interception it’s in the middle of the field, Jaylon had to earn his, and his teammates made sure he made it to the end zone. They set up a convoy at about midfield and he huffed and puffed all the way for the score.” Next up: A rematch with Somerset. “These two teams have a great rivalry,” Clevenger said. “We jumped on them (27-6) in the first half in the first game but we had a terrible third quarter to let them back in the game. They have improved and are putting a lot of points on the board since we played them the first time. Hopefully, we come out and are ready to play for four quarters next week.”
Danville’s D’Mauriae VanCleave gestures toward the sideline after his helmet comes off against Somerset in the playoffs.
Danville wins defensive battle against Somerset By MARTY WARREN Contributing Writer
Danville’s defense limited Somerset to just 158 yards while the Admirals had trouble putting points on the scoreboard, and the Ads held onto a hard-fought 19-0 win over the Briar Jumpers Friday night in the Class 2A Playoffs at Admiral Stadium. The win sets up a rematch against Lex-
ington Christian, a 42-12 winner over Prestonsburg, next week at Admiral Stadium. Danville (12-0) handed the Eagles their only loss of the season, 44-28 on Oct, 20. Somerset (7-5) put the pressure on Danville from the opening kickoff when Josh Cornett took the kick from his own eight and rambled all the way to the Danville 20. Somerset quarterback Mason Reese connected for 18 yards with Zach Childers to the Ads’ 3, but the Admiral defense rose to the occasion and took over on downs on their own seven after a screen pass to
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Childers went for a four yards loss. “We settled in and played pretty good defense the majority of the game,” Danville coach Clay Clevenger said. “We allowed some big plays, especially in the first half with our special teams and that kept us backed up and with bad field position.It was one of those grind it out games. It wasn’t one those great throwing games with the field conditions and weather, plus Somerset does a really good job against the run. All of that played into it. They played great defense and fortunately we did too.’
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Admirals on a mission Quarterfinals, semifinals not a problem for Danville By MATT OVERING matthew.overing@amnews.com
It didn’t take long for Danville to prove that its first win over Lexington Christian Academy was no fluke. The Admirals did more than that, though, putting a running clock on the Eagles in a 49-7 blowout. Danville quarterback Zach Thornton was the beneficiary of a blitzing LCA defense, throwing for 287 yards and four scores. He also ran in two one-yard touchdown runs, accounting for all but one of the Admirals’ scores. “There’s no question, he’s coming on as a quarterback and his feet make him dangerous,” Danville head coach Clay Clevenger said of Thornton. “We’ve got to get him to keep his eyes down the field a little bit longer when he feels some pressure.” Danville’s defense did the most damage, limiting the highest-scoring offense in the state to just seven points. From the first drive of the game — a three-and-out for LCA — Danville’s defense set the tone. The Admirals will travel to Glasgow, 40-14 winners over Monroe County, in next week’s state semifinal game. “It’s a great feeling,” Thornton said. “We’ve just got to keep working, keep practicing hard and keep doing what coach tells us to do.”
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GLASGOW — Fourteen down, one to go. Danville scored the first three times it had the football and never looked back as the Admirals (14- 0) punched their second-straight trip to the Class 2A State Championship with a surprisingly easy 43-0 win over host Glasgow. D’Mauriae VanCleave scored three times while senior running back Don Harris gained 105 yards on 12 attempts and scored twice. Junior quarterback Zach Thornton continued to improve with each game while connecting on 12 of 19 passes for 229 yards and two scores. With the win Danville will face an old nemesis, Mayfield, next Saturday Photos by Matt Overing Left: D’Mauriae VanCleave and David Walker celebrate a touchdown against LCA in the play- at 1 p.m. for the state title at Kroger Field. Mayfield defeated defending offs. The Ads won 49-7. State Champion Christian Academy At top: Jaleel Warren runs past an LCA defender on his way to the end zone. of Louisville 21-14. Above: Brennen McGuire catches a pass against LCA.
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Danville wins 11th state title
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LEXINGTON — Danville has nothing else to prove. The Admirals went the distance, finishing their marathon season undefeated after a 35-21 victory over Mayfield in the Class 2A State Championship on Saturday at Kroger Field. Senior D’Mauriae VanCleave continued his tear through the playoffs on his way to game MVP: He had four touchdowns — two rushing, one catch and one punt return — and intercepted two passes. VanCleave is a member of a senior class that, for the past three years, took another step toward a state championship. “The senior class, we went to semi-state sophomore year, state last year,” senior David Walker said. “I feel like we just used that as practice, we
finally got our opportunity again and we had to capitalize on that. It feels pretty great.” “This senior class, this is a different Danville team,” senior Jaleel Warren said. “I think this senior class is the best group that I’ve ever played with my entire life. I just feel like we were all focused and we came in here and got the job done.” Danville’s defense continued to stymie the Mayfield offense, and late in the second quarter, the Ads executed a two-minute drill to push their lead to 21-8 at halftime. Another player who stepped up when the lights were brightest: VanCleave. “What’d he do today? On the biggest stage, and really since the playoffs started, he’s upped his game to another level,” Clevenger said. “He’s a playmaker. I think there’s a lot of schools in the state right here that are being awful dumb not recruiting him harder than they are. That’s for sure.” Mayfield would score twice in the fourth quar-
ter, but one as time expired, to finish the game. Last season’s title defeat drove Danville all season, Warren said. “It made us more hungry. We wanted to come out and win,” he said. “We knew what we had to do to not have that same feeling that we had last year.” Clevenger praised his senior group for coming in after that loss ready to get back to the state finals. “It’s a special bunch of kids that bought in and really worked hard,” the coach said. “The seniors, a lot of them were for four years and they zeroed in, starting in January after having that bad taste in our mouth from last year. It went to work then and carried over.” Walker said there’s no question about the Danville program now. “I just hope people start respecting us now, 15-0, there’s nothing else anyone can say. It’s perfection. We’re state champs.”
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Stars come out
VanCleave, Hill dominate for Admirals in title game By MIKE MARSEE Contributing Writer
LEXINGTON — D’Mauriae VanCleave had the big plays. Christian Hill had the brute force. The two Danville seniors were masters of disruption in distinctly different ways Saturday at Kroger Field as they helped the Admirals end a long championship drought. VanCleave and Hill accounted for many of the biggest plays in Danville’s 35-21 victory over Mayfield in the Class 2A title game, a win that gave the Admirals their 11th state championship and their first in 14 years. “There’s nothing that tops this – at all,” Hill said. VanCleave was named the game’s most valuable player, an easy choice after he put up 218 all-purpose yards and scored four of the Admirals’ five touchdowns. Hill, however, was every bit as valuable in his own right, as he wreaked havoc
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D’Mauriae VanCleave runs a punt return for a touchdown as teammate Christian Hill (back left) celebrates on his way to the end zone. on the Mayfield offense from his nose guard position throughout the afternoon. They shined on the
state’s biggest stage, leading the Admirals to the victory they couldn’t get when they reached the 2A finals last year in Bowling Green, only
to lose to Louisville Christian. VanCleave made one big play after another for Danville, scoring twice on
rushing plays, once on a reception and once on a punt return. He also intercepted two passes. “He’s really turned it up these last six or seven weeks, He’s just a gamebreaker,” Danville coach Clay Clevenger said. “(Assistant) coach (Kyle) Singleton was talking about having some shot plays, and I just said, ‘Give it to 7, because that’s our shot.’ Every time he touches it, he’s a threat.” “He’s unstoppable. Period,” Hill said. VanCleave finished his senior season with 82 catches for 1095 yards and 14 touchdowns, and he had 762 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns on 72 attempts. Hill did plenty of pushing. Mayfield’s offense outgained Danville by 7 yards, but a unit that averaged 205 rushing yards through its first 14 games was held to 76 by the Danville defense – including just 41 through the first three quarters.
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Hill was at the heart of that effort, driving through the line to get to Mayfield’s quarterbacks and running backs. “I was getting help from the front seven. They were getting pressure on the other sides of the ball, and it opened up my lanes to get to the quarterback,” he said. Hill had only two solo tackles and two assists Saturday, but his impact on the game was undeniable. “Nobody’s blocking Christian Hill. Nobody,” VanCleave said. Hill has been a force for the Admirals’ defensive front all season long, and Clevenger said he has been even more forceful since taking up permanent residence at nose guard for the postseason. “Christian’s been that war dog all year for us on the D-line,” Clevenger said. “We moved him to nose and kept him there at the start of the playoffs, and it’s what made our defense come alive.”
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