Football

Players won’t begin football practice until July 10, but schedules for the upcoming season are complete. The Whitley County Colonels, who will be going into the first season under Coach Zeke Eier, will open the season Aug. 20 at Perry County Central. Eier’s first game in front of the Whitley County faithful will be the First Priority Bowl on Aug. 27 against Corbin. Whitley County will be back on the road on Sept. 3 against Harlan County. On Sept. 17, the Colonels will begin a three-game home stand with Bell County, followed by Pulaski County on Sept. 24 and Collins on Oct. 1. Whitley County will travel to Southwestern on Oct. 8 and play...

Several Williamsburg High School students signed to play sports with various colleges during a ceremony on May 21.

Changes other than district opponents are coming to Kentucky high school football in 2023. The Kentucky High School Athletic Association announced that the Board of Control voted to return to the pre-2019 playoff format that had teams face sister district opponents in the first two rounds. KHSAA officials noted that the board voted based upon a survey of the 225 football playing schools. Of the 167 responses received, 109 supported returning to the previous format. District one in each class will face district two, district three will face district four, district five will face district six and district seven will face district eight. If the format had been in place in 2020, Corbin would...

Mark Huddleston, who was announced at the new head football coach at Lynn Camp High School Friday afternoon, sees a ton of potential in his team. “This place is a gold mine just waiting to happen. It is in a great location. It is exciting football. There are good athletes. There always have been. There has been a ton of tradition here. When the job came open, I was like why wouldn’t I jump for it,” Huddleston said. Huddleston said that the mission statement for the program is to build men of character that will compete on and off the field for life. “A lot of people judge success by wins and...

The Lynn Camp High School Football Team now has a new head coach. “I am very excited today to announce our new head football coach, Mr. Mark Huddleston. He comes highly decorated,” Lynn Camp Athletic Director Rob Ledington said during a late afternoon press conference in the school library. Huddleston said that the mission statement for the program is to build men of character that will compete on and off the field for life. “A lot of people judge success by wins and losses. We all want to win. We wouldn’t play the game if we didn’t. True success in the program is the type of people that leave the program. I...

After it came down to West Virginia, Louisville, Kentucky, Virginia Tech and a couple others, Treyveon Longmire told Kentucky Sports Radio Friday that he has committed to play football at the University of Kentucky. Longmire said, “For the next three to four years, I will be attending Kentucky.” “Kentucky, they have touched home with me. They are like family. They keep in touch with me every day. That’s what I was looking for in a college. Kentucky has been the one that stuck out the most with that,” Longmire told KSR. Longmire is a Junior at Corbin High School. “The University of Kentucky is getting a very blessed, athletic young man and an...

With few exceptions, from the highest levels of sports down to the lowest, coaches come into a new job knowing that it is only a matter time before they are going out the door. After seven seasons at Lynn Camp, football Coach Allen Harris was the latest coach to be in this situation, announcing he will not be returning as head coach in 2021. Yes, the Wildcats went winless in 2020, losing to Williamsburg in the first round of the Class A playoffs. And while Harris has failed to get over the Williamsburg hurdle, Lynn Camp has gone 33-30 under Harris and made the second round of the playoffs multiple times. Those playoff...

After seven seasons on the sidelines, Lynn Camp Football Coach Allen Harris announced that he will not be returning in 2021. Harris went 33-30 in his tenure, but was winless in 2020. In the Facebook post announcing the decision, Harris said it is a number of things off of the field of which he takes the most pride. Among those were raising the money to complete the locker rooms and field house, purchasing the best equipment available for the players and starting a summer camp for the elementary school players. “We upgraded our facilities to match any school around,” Harris said. In addition, Harris noted that multiple players were able to go on to...

Campbell Field will be getting some upgrades and improvements in time for the 2021 football season. At Thursday’s special called meeting of the Corbin Board of Education, the board authorized Superintendent Dave Cox to move forward with the purchase of new lights for the home of Redhound Football. In addition, the board approved a contract with Insulated Roofing Contractors for sealing on the Campbell Field grandstands. Cox said the lights project will be approximately $300,000 while the sealing of the stands will be approximately $150,000. “We are using restricted money, which we can only use for facilities,” Cox said noting that each of the other buildings is either new (Corbin Middle School, Corbin...

Whitley County High School (WCHS) announced the selection of its new head football coach Wednesday afternoon. University of the Cumberlands assistant coach Zeke Eier has been selected as the new WCHS head football coach, the high school announced Wednesday afternoon on its Facebook page. “Coach Eier brings a wealth of football knowledge and experience to our program, but more importantly his enthusiasm for the future of our program and tenacity to succeed will be contagious,” said Whitley County High School Principal Julie Osborne. Eier is the 11th person to lead the Colonel program replacing Jep Irwin, who led the program for the past two years. Eier will start immediately and coach the team...