by Stephen M. Lewis
DigitalSports Richmond
slewis@digitalsports.com
(804) 240-2191
Since Hanover's senior football players set foot on campus in September of 2005, they've made a tremendous impact on the football program.
Now seven of them are moving on to the college level: quarterback
Josh Wells, all-state linebacker
Kenny Fryman, safety
Steven Fogleman, tight end
Karlton Davis, defensive end
Josh Pritchett, linebacker
Aaron Gary and offensive lineman
Luke Herndon.
Wells is surprisingly the only Hawk that will play on the Division-I level, as James Madison snatched up the four-year starting QB and moved him to tight end as a preferred walk-on.
"It'll be fun. It'll be a new experience," said the signal-caller with the penchant for running over tacklers. "Tight end will be a little less pressure. I'll know what I have to do every play."
Fryman, Fogleman and Davis, all with scholarship ability, are headed to Hampden-Sydney, a Division III school in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.
Fryman, who made 355 tackles in his four-year career and earned all-state and all-DigitalSports honors twice, is an absolute steal for the Tigers. So is Fogleman.
He flirted with programs like Army, VMI and Liberty, but decided to go with his best friend to H-S.
"I was kind of disappointed at first," Fogleman said. "It was kind of hard to take. But I'm really happy I'm going to Hampden-Sydney."
There's no telling where Fogleman will be in his new burgundy uniform, as he started at safety, linebacker, defensive end, wide receiver, punter, punt and kick returner at Hanover.
In three years he racked up 130 tackles, six interceptions, two defensive touchdowns and four kick and punt returns for scores.
Davis, a promising TE prospect, will join the defensive stalwarts. The honorable mention all-region player had 800 yards and eight scores on 50 catches in his career.
Pritchett (92 tackles, nine sacks in two years) may join the trio at Hampden-Sydney, but is leaning toward fellow ODAC school Bridgewater.
Gary will head to Bethany College in West Virginia, and center Herndon's next stop is Southern Virginia, a NAIA school in Buena Vista.
The aforementioned players and several others took Hanover from an 0-10 team their freshman season to a Central Region champion in 2007 and a region runner-up in 2008.
Wrote Hanover coach
Josh Just: "I would also like to thank the following student-athletes from the class of 2009 for their outstanding contributions to Hanover football.
John Bell,
Ross Scarborough,
Rachel Moore,
Alex Moore,
Brice Goode,
Casey Crabtree,
Trey Hutcheson,
Bryson Kemler and
Jayquan Kates."
