MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — It is perhaps unsurprising a program that has adopted a motto of ‘This Play’ has spent little time looking back on past success. For Morgantown High School and their head coach Sean Biser, a 28-21 win over Martinsburg in the Class AAAA state championship game to claim the program’s first title in two decades is a great memory. But it is one the Mohigans need to move beyond.
“To be honest with you, we haven’t talked about it, really at all,” Biser said. “Our rings came in late, so we had to do that. I was like, ‘I want to be past this already’, and that sort of thing. We don’t even talk about last year. We just talk about the expectations of what is expected in our program.”
“Winning a state title really showed us that it was possible. I think that’s only the beginning from now with Coach Biser and the future of the team,” said Morgantown senior lineman Chase Travis.
Fifteen of 22 starters from last year’s final have graduated, but several key contributors return to lead Morgantown’s title defense. As a sophomore, Maddox Twigg won the J.R. House Award as the state’s top quarterback. He accounted for 3,323 total yards and 44 total touchdowns. In the state championship game, Twigg had three touchdown runs and one touchdown toss. He also led Morgantown with ten tackles.
“It is more of a mental game with him now,” Biser said. “He has the physical tools. It is just making his reads, making the right checks and the things we need to do. Once he gets that down, we’re going to be in good shape. We’ve really focused on that a lot here in the spring and the summer.”
New starters can be found on Morgantown’s offensive and defensive lines. Senior Konnor Mott returns after being limited to just one game last fall due to injury. Fellow senior Chase Travis earned second team All-State honors last year on the D-Line.
“I have been trying to really take it upon myself to help improve our younger guys, and make it known that they can make a huge impact on the game even though they might be a sophomore or maybe even a freshman,” Travis said.
“We are not going to be as big as we were. But strength-wise and mobility and those types of things, we’re going to be better, I think, than we were last year,” Biser said.
“They have been putting in work, for sure,” Twigg said. “They are staying after practice every day. They are putting in a lot of work just doing their thing, honestly. I think they are going to be the best line in the state this year.”
Tanzer George returns as Morgantown’s second-leading receiver from 2025. But the search is on for several new running backs and receivers.
“Carson Keeling as a running back, he played some last year for us. He came in and was in the rotation,” Biser said. “We return Tanzer, so that’s huge. But then there’s a lot of other kids behind him and some new faces in our program that have to step up and we’ll see what they can do when the lights come on.”
Morgantown welcomes back one of their top defensive players from last fall. As a sophomore, Brooks King earned second team All-State distinction, playing in the middle of the MHS defense.
“He is so physical when he plays,” Biser said. “He plays with great emotion and energy. Those were keys for him last year. I think the same thing kind of like with Maddox is just his mental prep, knowing what the offense is trying to do to us. Understanding that is going to go a long way for him.”
A notable newcomer has joined the Morgantown coaching staff. Mark Yoho won the 2008 state title with Grafton and he led several high-powered offenses at North Marion. Yoho will now coach the Morgantown running backs.
“Just his knowledge of how to do the little things and the attention to detail and having the experience of being at different schools in different states, and with his long career he has had as a coach, his impact is going to be huge for us,” Biser said.
As the Mohigans pursue their seventh championship, Morgantown will face five teams that won at least one playoff game last fall, that includes Spring Mills, Jefferson and Martinsburg, the last three teams they defeated in the playoffs.
“We’ve got the weapons to do it, for sure on the line, D-Line, O-Line, DBs,” Twigg said. “All away around the field, we definitely have the weapons. We’ve just got to put our mind to it and come together as a team, get that connection strong, and I think we can go all the way.”