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SJ - Ethridge 57 from Rogers (Rush pass from Rogers) SJ - Nazario 9 run (Rush pass from Rogers) NOTE: Silas Nazario breaks Stonewall Jackson school record for touchdowns in a season. Nazario's 29 scores beat previous record of 28 by Kashuan Haley.

\"I don't know how in the heck you can beat Cabell Midland twice, said Capital coach Jon Carpenter, whose Cougars beat the Knights 42-23 earlier in the season in a high-scoring affair. \"They are as good as it gets. At the same time, it makes me want to throw up because we could be this good all year. Our kids want to win more than anybody and we have a good football team. \"I don't think there is a better football player around here in this county that I have seen, pound for pound, than Silas Nazario, Carpenter said. \"He makes plays on offense and defense. \"Our guys just did their job. I ain't no dummy. A jockey don't carry a horse. It is about players and we have got them. We played the same defense. Our guys went out and took ownership of their job, didn't try and do too much, and just trusted what they were coached to do.

\"Somebody asked me if it would have helped practicing in mud,\" [Jeremy Taylor] said, \"and I said no because practicing in mud doesn't make your backs 40, 50 pounds heavier or make your linemen grow 4 inches. They were pounding it right at us and we couldn't do anything about it. That's not to say we're a finesse team, but we're not a ground and pound team against someone of that caliber.\" \"I think we match up a little better with Capital than Spring Valley,\" Taylor said, \"but they're really good. You can stuff them five straight downs and the next thing you know, [Silas Nazario] or whoever goes 60 yards for a touchdown. Their quarterback [[Kerry Martin Jr.]] is 15 years old, and he's another [TyRhee] Pratt. That's why they're up there with the Martinsburgs and the Huntingtons and the teams like that.\" \"They're solid every year,\" [Jon Carpenter] said. \"It's funny; they never take a year off. They're the same team every year. They're always good at what they do, don't make mistakes and do what they're supposed to do on defense. They're always well-coached.\"

Being in position to pick a playoff time and date for the first time since the 2014 Class AAA semifinals, [Jon Carpenter] and coaching staff at No. 4 seed Capital (9-2) decided Sunday to play at top-seeded Cabell Midland (12-0) at 1:30 p.m. Saturday \"I remember hearing [former DuPont and Riverside coach] Dick Whitman one time about 15 years ago answering why he picked a time when he did. He said, If the championship's in the afternoon, that's what you pick, Carpenter said. Top-seeded and two-time defending state champion Bridgeport (11-0-1) again pulled away from rival and No. 9 seed Robert C. Byrd (8-4) for a 41-13 win on Saturday, and will host fourth-seeded Fairmont Senior (10-2) in one semifinal. Mingo Central, the 10-2 seventh-seed, travels to Glenhays the same night to take on No. 3 seed Tolsia (11-1). That year, the Rebels' B.J. Evans led his team to the Super Six where it fell to Wayne. Polar Bear quarterback Kyle Allard, who went on to win the Kennedy Award as the state's best player with Evans finishing second in the balloting by the West Virginia Sports Writers Assocaition, led his team to the Class AAA semis, where it lost at Martinsburg.

\"No, we're gonna ride him,\" [Jon Carpenter] said of [Silas Nazario]. \"He's worked at it; he's earned it. We're going to live and die with him. We've got some other guys coming, several young guys who are gonna be great ones. But right now, he's batting first.\" \"For my team, I would do anything,\" Nazario said. \"I would play anywhere for them. Because it's not a me' thing, it's a we' thing. So I'd do anything for them.\" \"He'll do anything you ask him to do,\" Carpenter said. \"He's a unique guy. He'd play center tomorrow if we asked him to. He's one of those rare kids that you'd want to marry your daughter and play tailback for you. He's a quiet kid, but he'd do anything for you.

\"He's as tough as woodpecker lips,\" said Capital coach Jon Carpenter. \"The only thing he's never done is win any of those awards, but he's the best quarterback you've ever seen. I'm just stunned and shocked. I'm amazed how tough he is. He's as tough as they come.\" \"They made some adjustments and put more guys in the box,\" said Spring Valley coach Brad Dingess, \"and it caused us to have to single block a lot. We had real good angles and were able to double-team some [early], but they beat us on single blocks and when you have to put a hat on a hat and you don't win every play, you're going to struggle to move the ball and that's what happened.\" \"It didn't take long to figure it out,\" he said. \"We were watching him in warmups. It definitely changes how they play. They're not quite as dynamic.

The Redskins get an off week after their trip to University of Charleston Stadium, but on the other side of that break is a schedule that will test Hurricane in an attempt to reach the Class AAA playoffs. After the bye week, Hurricane plays at No. 8 George Washington (3-1), is home against St. Albans (1-2), plays host to No. 9 South Charleston (2-2) and Ripley (0-4) in consecutive weeks, but then travels to play at top-ranked Cabell Midland (4-0) in the final week of the regular season. Huntington had struggled to maintain the program's recent run of solid secondaries in its first three games, but Friday's 54-0 win at Winfield might have cured whatever ailments coach Billy Seals' defensive backs might have had. F. BRIAN FERGUSON | Gazette-Mail Capitals [Silas Nazario] carries the ball during the Cougars Week 3 loss to Cabell Midland. In last weeks win over Parkersburg, Nazario was used more as a perimeter rusher, carrying only eight times for 88 yards and two touchdowns.

PARKERSBURG - It took awhile for Capital to get going Friday night, but when it did, Tyrhee Pratt again found Stadium Field much to his liking as the senior quarterback led the Class AAA No. 2 Cougars to a 49-21 win over the Big Reds. Pratt, who tied the game with a 36-yard touchdown run on Capital's second possession, accounted for 353 total yards in the win, running for a game-high 128 yards on eight carries and throwing for 225 yards and a pair of touchdowns while completing 13 of 20 passes. Parkersburg answered Pratt's first touchdown with an impressive drive that saw the Big Reds push the ball to the Capital 5-yard line with 8:14 left in the opening half. However, on second-and-goal, Capital senior Miguel \"Crunchy Bays stopped [Bradley Craig]'s early streak of eight consecutive completions with an interception in the back of the end zone, swinging momentum Capital's way.

The last time Capital lost a football game before last week, sophomore quarterback Tyrhee Pratt led what wound up being a futile second-half comeback attempt against Martinsburg in the 2013 Class AAA playoff semifinals. The most recent sting, a 21-14 home loss to Cabell Midland a week ago, exposed what Cougars coach Jon Carpenter had said a week earlier were things his team needed to quickly improve. As it turned out, Capital (2-1) didn't improve them quickly enough, Carpenter said Thursday during preparations for tonight's game at Parkersburg (0-2). \"It's like Paul McCartney. You feel like you're a star all of a sudden and that everything you write's beautiful, but it's not, you know, he said. \"We're got to get him more in space. He's the best running back we have, and we've got to use him better according to his abilities, Carpenter said. \"We might put him out at wideout some to get him out there, and do a few different things with him.

\"There's people out there to fill his shoes, and that's exciting, [Jon Carpenter] said. \"You've got Silas Nazario out there, and he's as good as anybody we've had. There's several of them out there. We'll miss Kashuan. He's kind of like Stone Cold Steve Austin retiring from the WWE. He was a character like that. The locker room is quieter without Kashuan [Haley] in there. \"Friday nights will be a little less violent when people try to tackle us, Carpenter said in reference to Haley's aggressive and contact-initiating style of running the football. \"But they're going to have to tackle Silas Nazario, and he's a different kind of back but he's still better than anyone else around, so that makes you feel good. \"I do a pretty good job of staying out of the locker room. That's what I tell [parents]). I'm not going to be here to change their kid's diapers or be dad, he said. \"I tell [my players], We're going to go as far as you lead us.' There's a lot of leadership in there.