BEST OF THE BLUEGRASS

Whitley County senior linebacker/running back Boston Bryant saw his Kentucky All-Star squad lose on the final play of the game to the greater Louisville All-Stars in the 3^rd Annual Kentucky Football Coaches Association football game at Louisville’s St. Xavier High School, 9-8.

“It was a fun three days,” Bryant said. “We went up on Thursday to get ready for the game. “We stayed in a hotel and practiced a lot. There was not a lot of free time.”

“It was something new,” he said. “We had new uniforms, played on a team with new people. It was the best of the state players.”

“It was a wild, but fun game. We lost a close game, 9-8,” Bryant said.

Bryant said he got to play on the defensive line about 20 minutes. “We rotated the line in and out and got to play about half the game,” he added.

The Whitley County star had three tackles and a sack in the game.

Bryant was just the second player from the county to play in the game. Corbin’s Matthew Taylor played in the initial contest in 2010.

The defensive play of the game came from hometown hero, Karl Roesler, a defensive lineman from St. X. Roesler blocked a 39-yard field goal attempt by Murray’s Alex Ward. It was his second blocked attempt of the day for the Louisville area team.

The Metro All-Stars took a 3-0 lead in the first quarter on a Devyn Noe field goal of 29 yards but Franklin County quarterback hit Aaron Jackson of Frankfort High on a 44-yard play for a 6-3 lead in the opening quarter. The two teamed up for the extra point as Kentucky led, 8-3.

The state seniors held on to the lead until the third quarter when Ballard’s Cam Lewis scored on a nine-yard pass from South Oldham quarterback Jack Sherry.

Woodside rallied the state squad in the closing minutes as he hit teammate Ryan Timmons, a Mr. Football candidate, with two passes and Jackson caught another setting up the field goal attempt.

Roesler said it was something he was used to doing. “I had eight or nine blocks this season and eight or nine blocks last year.”

It was the second win for the Louisville All-Stars.

Bryant will attend Wofford College next season. “We go to football camp there ever year and I got to know their coaches and really like it,’ Bryant said. “I have become very comfortable with the coaches, players and school.”

Wofford plays in the Southern Conference of the Football Championship Subdivision with the likes of Georgia Southern, Appalachian State, Chattanooga, Samford. Citadel, Furman, Elon and Western Carolina.

The Terriers finished the season second to Georgia Southern and lost in the FCS playoffs to North Dakota State last week, 14-7.