When mornings, noons and nights are spent either on a field or thinking about what you’ll do next when you get back on one, little stings more than the feeling of defeat. In the same token, nothing feels better than the chance to recoup the feeling of that loss.

The Swarming Hornets of Damascus High School have paved the way to doing just that this Thursday night against the Dundalk Owls. This year, it’s the birds. Last season, it was the Indians…

Flashback to the very end of the 2014 season…when the guys in green were handed their first loss of the season. A halftime locker room session at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore was hovered by a cloud of confidence, as the Hornets held a three-touchdown lead. But the tide turned in the final two quarters, as the one-loss Franklin Indians came back with a bang, scoring five unanswered.

But for some of those athletes, there’d be another year, another opportunity.

One could certainly say star running back Jake Funk has made the most of his senior season on the gridiron, leading his Hornets to another shot at reversing last season’s outcome. Funk says a lot of the team’s success is due to a coaching staff dedicated to building the season that this one has become.

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