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After four weeks, Phoebus' won-loss record is right where we expected it to be. But performance-wise, the Phantoms haven't looked like a state championship team. In fact, they've looked beatable. Why? Phoebus coach Stan Sexton believes his guys are too concerned with keeping the program's 49-game winning streak intact. And his message going into Saturday's showdown against Bethel (4-0, 3-0) is simple: Get it out of your mind. "Not that we want it to be over — we want it to continue," Sexton said. "But the fun of the game doesn't seem be there anymore. They're playing not to mess up, and when you do that, ultimately you're just...

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After four weeks, Phoebus' won-loss record is right where we expected it to be. But performance-wise, the Phantoms haven't looked like a state championship team. In fact, they've looked beatable.
Why? Phoebus coach Stan Sexton believes his guys...

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"To the seniors, you...

Time was when kickers weren't offered college scholarships right out of high school. There were exceptions here and there. But for the most part, they were brought in as walk-ons and given a chance to earn one down the line.
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It's a beautiful spring afternoon, so the doors to Phoebus High's gymnasium are open to let the sunlight in.Athletes are doing their thing — a girl is running baseline to baseline for layups, and the football players are lifting weights. Off in a...

Imagine you're Eric Enderson, Phoebus' sophomore place-kicker. You had made two field goals earlier, but with little room to spare.
And now, with the game on the line, you're lining up from 34 yards.
But here comes the flag. Delay of game, which...

When Jarod Brown ran into Jeremy St. Pierre in the fall of 2007 at Grafton High, Brown wasn't expecting an unofficial football recruiting pitch.Shoot, Brown didn't even know if this football thing was really for him. As a first-year kicker in 2007 on...

Technically speaking, he's the new kid on the block. Although everyone understood from the outset that Stan Sexton was anything but new to the Phoebus football program.
He had, after all, been an assistant under Bill Dee for 14 years. But in the four...

AaAssistants | The common denominator for these programs is continuity in the coaching staff. Danny Mitchell and Alvis Mann have been Mike Smith's right-hand men at Hampton for the better part of three decades. New Phoebus coach Stan Sexton wisely kept...

The Phoebus sideline during the Phantoms' annual battle against Hampton is hardly unfamiliar territory to Stan Sexton. The role he played on that turf Friday night, however, was something new.Sexton, who spent 14 years as an assistant to longtime...

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