By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter

bnimmons@thepccourier.com

CENTRAL — Following a 2-9 season as freshmen in 2017, the Daniel High School football team’s senior class faced stilted expectations in the coming years.

However, in the three years since, the team has thrived under head coach Jeff Fruster, including Friday night’s 52-14 win over Belton Honea-Path that clinched the Western 3A region title and the Lions’ second straight region crown — a feat the program last achieved in 2012 and 2013.

“He never wavered,” Daniel senior linebacker Jacob Hendricks said of Fruster. “He stared adversity right in the face and said, ‘We have the guys to

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