Region 3-3A’s postseason picture was set going into the final week of the regular season.
Signal Mountain didn’t see that as any reason to let up on its way to the state playoffs, striking quickly and scoring often Friday night in a 42-0 home win against Sweetwater.
The Eagles – who finished second in the region with a 4-1 league record and will host in the first round of the Class 3A bracket next week – are 6-4 in coach Josh Roberts’ second season after going 4-7 last year and 2-8 in 2016.
“We’ve talked about this since the day I got here, about culture and doing things the right way,” Roberts said. “We play to our standards, and we don’t play to anybody else’s. And ours are so high, we probably won’t reach it anyway. But we came out tonight, and I said I’ll know a lot about my team after tonight.
“We came out and played the way we were supposed to.”