FLUSHING FULFILLS DREAMS OF BIG TIME

By ZACH BRAZILLER
Sep 1, 2009
NY Post

The Flushing football team played 10 games last fall and won eight, several in blowout fashion. For a program that was re-established four years ago, it was remarkably fulfilling.
Instead of basking in that glow, the Red Devils focused on that last loss: a 35-0 opening-round decimation at the hands of eventual PSAL city runner-up Fort Hamilton.
Rather than let the loss marinate, Flushing used it to take another step forward as a program by joining the PSAL's Level 5 City Championship division.
"It made us want to play with all the big boys all the time," senior offensive guard/linebacker Nate Elder Salomon said.
They now have that opportunity.
Shortly after the painful defeat, as Salomon described it, coach Jim DeSantis forced his team to watch film of the shellacking. What they saw wasn't a mismatch. Sure, Fort Hamilton blew them out, but the Red Devils weren't blown off the ball, they weren't outclassed physically or even athletically. They were simply out of position or failed to execute.
"It made us realize we can play with those guys," Salomon said. "When we didn't give up bad field position, we were right there with them."

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