By Nick Cammuso
FAIRMONT — Daran Hays had little use for any long speech at halftime of Friday’s game with Buckhannon-Upshur.
Instead Hays, North Marion’s first-year football coach, took another motivational cue with the Huskies down 7-0: Let the locker room whiteboard do most of the talking.
“At halftime coach Hays came in and drew a big old heart up on the board and told us to step it up, and that’s exactly what we did,” North sophomore lineman Tyler Phillips said. “We really didn’t make any adjustments. We just all got together and told one another we had to play better individually and as a unit.”
North did just that after the break, getting just enough offense and shutting down the Bucs’ ball-control attack on the other side for a 9-7 comeback victory.
It marked the Huskies’ first win since Week 9 of last season. In addition, it was the team’s first September victory since beating East Fairmont in 2005.
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