It's Friday across Kentucky and that always means football in the fall. Now, in the closing days of winter, that again means football for many high schools (that are not out for snow). Spring practice started this week for most teams.The Kentucky High School Athletic Association allows teams to practice football in the spring once basketball seasons for both girls and boys are over.
Football coaches have 15 school days from the end of basketball season to get in 10 football spring practice days.
Crittenden County started this week. Players were issued gear Tuesday and workouts began yesterday. The Rockets are without head coach Al Starnes right now, however. He had a third spinal surgery Monday. Everything went well and he's expected to be back on the field to some limited degree next week. In his absence, coach Vince Clark is at the helm. Coach Starnes has suffered from chronic back and neck pain for years, a least partly due to the licks he took while playing football at Murray State.
This year, Crittenden is expected to have a good season as most of its regulars return from last season's 4-7 squad. Despite a poor start last fall, the Rockets won 4 of their last 5 games and took Mayfield to the edge in the playoffs before losing by three points.
RB Jeramie Sorina, RB Rodney Robertson, LB Gaige Courtney and QB J.D. Gray will be the building blocks on which this year's team will be formed. They are all in camp this week and Sorina just finished a very successful outing at the Nike Camp in Georgia. He finished among the top 20 out of hundreds of potential college recruits.
The inset photo is of Sorina (4) and Gray (14) tracking down a Caldwell player last season.
