The York Institute Dragons’ 2-hour, 30-minute drive south to Signal Mountain on Friday was a business trip.
And the Dragons handled their business in impressive fashion.
York advanced through the first round of the Class 3A playoffs with a 35-21 win over the Eagles in a game that was not as close as the final score would indicate and way more physical than most could have pictured.
The visiting, anything-but-imagined Dragons (9-2) took the wing-T fight to the hosts, and while Signal stood toe to toe with its foe, it kept shooting itself in the foot.
“Let’s be honest, we didn’t play as well as we have been,” Signal coach Josh Roberts said after the Eagles’ six-game winning streak was stopped and their season wrapped at 6-5. “All the things – the little things – we did in the last six weeks, we didn’t do tonight.