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CONTENTS
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Mike Marsee column
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Early season bowl wins
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Danville game
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Taking down 4A’s elite
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Rolling through district
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Over the Lexington Catholic hurdle
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No threat early in playoffs
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LexCath still no match
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Rebels’ toughest test
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Return to winning
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Sensational sophomores
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Boyle puts the right pieces together to win in 2017 By MIKE MARSEE Contributing Writer
It would be so easy to start counting up: Eight, nine, 10 … After all, the young players who helped Boyle County win the Class 3A championship a week ago provide more than enough cause for optimism to spark dreams of another string of state titles for the Rebels. But let’s save that conversation for another day, and let’s take some time first to celebrate what the 2017 Boyle team became. Yes, expectations were high — they always are at Boyle — but this was a team that was coming off a 7-5 season in 2016. Yes, the talent was there — in all classes — to take this team much farther in 2017, but there was no way to know whether leaders would emerge and others would follow. A collection of good players does not a championship team make, but Boyle became much more than that by the midpoint of its regular season. The players whom coach Chuck Smith said in August didn’t truly trust each other melded to become an unstoppable force in September, October and November. Boyle became, in fact, a case study in how the parts can work together to create a highly effective whole. The Rebels were built, as every good team should be, around skilled, experienced linemen on both sides of the ball. They opened gaping holes and provided plentiful pass protection on offense and
bottled up talented backs and disrupted game plans on defense. That allowed talented but young skill players, some of whom had experience and some of whom didn’t, to wreak havoc on both sides of the ball. Boyle began to gather momentum at exactly the right time: right after its lowest point of the season. The Rebels followed what could have been a crushing loss to Danville with convincing wins over what probably were the two best teams on their schedule – Wayne County and Collins, which combined for 23 wins and reached the semifinals in a higher class. Smith said after the Danville game that the Rebels didn’t know how to win, but they sure figured it out in a hurry. The average score of their 10 wins beginning with the Wayne game and continuing through the regional finals was 53-14. This was a team that exerted its will on almost every opponent from Wayne to Corbin in the state finals – and that found a way to win the one close game it faced during that period. That kind of dominance shouldn’t go unheralded. It takes coaches pushing and prodding, knowing which buttons to push and when let things run their course. It takes players who trust in what those coaches are saying and in what the teammates on either side of them are doing. So let’s save the dynasty conversations for another day, and let’s also remember that day might never come. Next year’s Boyle team will have to find a different winning formula, and history has told us over and over that there are no guaran-
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Boyle County senior Sam Tiller celebrates the Rebels’ state title with fans at Kroger Field. tees. This should be celebrated as a season of tremendous accomplishment for the Rebels, one built not just on talent but on
the will to work together toward the best possible outcome. Whether that happens one time or a hundred times in a row, it is always extraordinary.
Rebels come out firing in two bowl victories Boyle beats John Hardin By MATT OVERING matthew.overing@amnews.com
HARRODSBURG — Boyle County wanted to come into 2017 with a statement. The Rebels did that, beating 4A John Hardin 41-6 in the Fort Harrod Bowl hosted by Mercer County. Compared to last season’s opening game, a 21-20 overtime loss to North Hardin, Saturday’s game looked like a different team. The Rebels piled up nearly 100 more yards of total offense and the defense forced four turnovers — two of which returned for touchdowns. “I think our guys really needed that,” Boyle head coach Chuck Smith said. “They’ve been wanting to come out and make a good showing, and I think they did. We had some guys step up and makes some plays, and last year that was non-existent.” Reese Smith was named game MVP for his performance on both sides of the ball. The Rebels will host Waggener in the Rebel Bowl on Aug. 26.
Rebels shake off slow start to topple Waggener, 54-19
The Rebels did just that, taking care of business to improve to 2-0 after a 54-19 victory. Reese Smith had three interceptions Photo and story by MATT OVERING and two receiving touchdowns and Tanner Crawford ran for 138 yards and three scores. matthew.overing@amnews.com Both earned game MVP honors. Boyle County head coach Chuck Smith “Reese is a big play guy for us,” coach said his team would need to contain Wagge- Smith said. “That’s what he does. He can ner’s speed to win on Saturday. never get tired of that, he’s always got to be
that guy. Tanner, I thought, ran the ball really well. Landen (Bartleson) was banged up, he tweaked his ankle yesterday. So we’ve got to get him back 100 percent.” “I thought Nick (Walker) maybe had the play of the game down here,” coach Smith said. “He got that fumble that went right in his hands and got that touchdown. We were all flat and that really got us in motion to put us up two scores. Nick is a big-play guy.”
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Loss at Danville the turning point for Rebels’ season By MATT OVERING matthew.overing@amnews.com
Thursday night lights turned into Thursday night thrills at Admiral Stadium. Danville beat Boyle County for the second-straight year in an epic 10-7 slugfest. Ads’ kicker Nathan Hazlett scored the game-winning field goal from 45 yards away with just 40 seconds left on the clock. Boyle County opened the scoring when Reed Lanter delivered a perfect strike to Reese Smith for a 28-yard score, four minutes into the second quarter. With the score tied at 7-7 entering the fourth quarter, it was Danville who made the plays at the end of the game to earn the win. “It was a tough game, a well fought game,” Boyle head coach Chuck Smith said. “They found a way to win at the end. That’s the bottom line.” “I think our defense fought their butts off,” coach Smith said. “There at the end, we didn’t find a way to win. We had them on third and long on at least two or three occasions and they converted every time. They found a way to win and we didn’t at the end.” Coach Smith didn’t mince words when asked about this season compared to last. The scoreline may be an improvement, but he wants to see more from his team. “We were a terrible team last year,” coach Smith said. “This year we’ve got guys who are playing hard, we just don’t know how to win. That’s the end of the day, the bottom line. We don’t know how to win, and we’ve got to learn how to do that because we’ve got some big games coming up. We’ve got Wayne County next Photo by Matt Overing week, they’re a top team in their class. Can’t feel Boyle County struggled to move the ball against Danville. It was the only regular-season game and just second this season that the Rebels were held to fewer sorry for yourself too long.” than 38 points in a game.
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Boyle handles 4A elite in back-to-back games Rebels rebound with 38-14 win over Wayne County By MATT OVERING matthew.overing@amnews.com
Boyle County head coach Chuck Smith knew at the start of the week that his team had the right mindset. The Rebels came out strong against the No. 2 team in 4A, walloping Wayne County 38-14 on Friday. “It was a really good win,” Smith said. “I was really proud of the guys. The really prepared during the week. They came back on Monday and I could tell there was fire in their eyes.” Boyle lost 10-7 at Danville last week, and Smith said his team knew it could’ve been a different outcome. “They didn’t like the way that game turned out, they felt like there were things in that game that they could’ve done different after they watched the
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tape,” the coach said. “Instead of sitting around and talking about it, they came out and proved it every day in practice. They were really ready to play tonight against a really good Wayne County team. They’re a wellcoached football team.” Coach Smith said it’s the zero turnovers that made it a good night for his quarterback. “No interceptions is the key. That’s what Reed has got to do,” coach Smith said. “He has to make good decisions on the field. We’re not going to ask Reed (Lanter) to win the game for us, but he can’t lose the game either by throwing interceptions. I was real proud of him tonight, I think he wanted to come back and make a statement from last week.” With the win, Boyle improves to 3-1 on the season. The Rebels travel to Collins next week. “Tonight was a good start, we’ve got a long way to go, though,” coach Smith said.
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Above: Boyle County captains Clete Hellyer (17), Nick Walker (5), Mitchell Paycheck (75) and Will Bramel (58) walk onto the field before their game against Wayne County. Left: Reiley Colwick returns a kickoff against Wayne County.
Rebels dominate line of scrimmage in big win at Collins By MIKE MARSEE Contributing Writer
SHELBYVILLE — Boyle County may not have looked sharp in every area or at all times, but the Rebels got the most important things right Friday night in their victory over Collins. Better blocking allowed Boyle’s offense to make big plays both in the running game and the passing game
in what was expected to be something of a shootout, and bottling up Collins’ best offensive player kept it from becoming one. The result was another one-sided win for the Rebels, who overcame a slow start by scoring 24 unanswered points and went on to throttle Collins 45-17. Boyle (4-1) got three touchdowns through the air and three on the ground, while Collins (3-2) got only one touchdown from quarterback J.R. Lucas, who had figured in 10 of the Titans’ 11 TDs in their first four games. And no, it wasn’t pretty in the early
going, when the Rebels went threeand-out on their first two series and the Titans scored with relative ease on their first possession. But everything worked out in the end as Boyle, ranked No. 4 in Class 3A last week, defeated the Collins, the No. 2-ranked team in Class 4A, for the third consecutive year and the fourth time in as many meetings in the series. “What was good was we found a way to win, but we didn’t look pretty at times doing it,” Boyle coach Chuck Smith said. “I just don’t think it was a pretty win, but I’ve never seen a win that I haven’t liked.”
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No mistakes: Rebels handle Garrard, Western Hills Boyle dismantles Garrard County in first district game By MATT OVERING matthew.overing@amnews.com
LANCASTER — Boyle County is off on the right foot in district play. The Rebels visited Garrard County and were comprehensive in their 48-7 victory over the Golden Lions, allowing just 108 total yards while putting up 415 of their own. Boyle head coach Chuck Smith said before the game that winning at the line of scrimmage would be one key to victory, and his team did just that. Tanner Crawford and Landen Bartleson combined for 19 carries, 184 yards and three touchdowns, while Garrard backs were stifled to 108 yards on 42 carries. “It’s always good to get the first district win,” Smith said. “I’m really proud of the guys, they were locked in, they focused and they treated it like business. It was a business-like attitude and that’s the way they approached it. They came out, stuck to our gameplan and put the win away.”
Boyle shuts down Western Hills offense in blowout By MIKE MARSEE Contributing Writer
Boyle County’s run defense has been good all season, but never better than it was Friday night. How good was it? Good enough to hold the state’s top running back to a mere 10 yards. And good enough to help the Rebels roll to their first district championship in four years. Boyle held WanDale Robinson of Western Hills covered a great deal of ground but netted just 30 feet Friday, and that turned the matchup between two of the five highest-scoring teams in 3A into a 71-14 cakewalk at Rebel Stadium that was the Rebels’ largest win in six years.
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Left: Quarterback Reed Lanter eyes his target against Garrard County. Above: Nick Walker pushes past Garrard County defender Willie Rader. Below: Boyle County cheerleaders hold a sign before the Garrard County game. Robinson covered at least as much ground laterally as he did heading forward. Boyle’s defense started with defensive tackles Wilson Kelly and Mitchell Paycheck clogging the middle and continued with defensive ends and linebackers forcing Robinson to the edge of the field. “We wanted to stop the middle and make him run sideline to sideline,” Boyle linebacker Kagen Jackson said. The victory gave Boyle its first district title since 2013 and home-field advantage throughout the Class 3A playoffs, which begin next week. “It’s a load off our shoulders, and we get to host all the playoff games here,” Jackson said. “We control our own destiny. That was one of our goals at the beginning of the year … and in order to do that we had to win the district,” Smith said. “I was really proud of the guys for achieving that goal. We’ve got other goals, though. That’s not the only goal we’ve got.”
Boyle makes statement in win over LexCath
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Boyle County wasn’t spooked by the big stage on Friday the 13th. The Rebels finally won their big game, beating Lexington Catholic 48-17 to end a four-game skid to their district rival. “Really even more important than beating Lexington Catholic, we learned how to win a big game,” Boyle County head coach Chuck Smith said. “We’ve been talking about it, working towards it, putting work in towards it but we haven’t executed it until tonight. That’s what I’m most proud of, these guys found a way to win the game.” The Rebels’ second possession lasted just four plays, when Landen Bartleson finished a 76-yard drive with an 11-yard touchdown run. Bartleson and fellow running back Tanner Crawford feasted behind a dominant offensive line: Both averaged nearly 10 yards per carry. As a team, the Rebels amassed 401 yards on the ground on 43 carries. “Keys to the game, I thought our offensive line was just outstanding,” coach Smith said. The Rebels entered halftime with a 13-10 lead. From there, it was all Rebels. Boyle would score the next 28 points. But the halftime team talk wasn’t awe-inspiring, coach Smith said. He just wanted his team to stay the course, and good things would come. “I just told them to keep playing hard. That’s all we needed to do, keep playing hard,” he said. “I thought our star players were stars tonight. They stepped up. Great players always play big in big games and our guys did. That and I thought our defense played lights out.” The Rebels took advantage of speed on the outside through the air and on the ground. Reese Smith finished with five catches for 82 yards and two scores through the air and three carries for 22 yards on the ground. Nick Walker had two carries for 14 yards and seven catches for 61 yards. The scary statistic for Class 3A, however, was zero turnovers. “That’s the key, that’s part of learning how to win a big game that we’ve talked about,” coach Smith said. “Every big game that we’ve lost, we’ve had three to five turnovers. You just can’t win big games like that. That was one of the things we needed to do in order to win a big game.” Coach Smith also noted senior Mitchell Paycheck — who played both ways on Friday for the first time all year — as a player who set the tone. “He played his heart out,” coach Smith said. “We didn’t know he was going to play both ways till Wednesday, Ned Stephens got hurt in practice and wasn’t able to play. Mitchell stepped up and played his heart out, he’s one of our leaders.”
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Above: Reese Smith makes a move past a Lexington Catholic cornerback during the two teams’ regular-season game. Left: Boyle County students dressed to scare on Friday the 13th in October.
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Run the clock: Rebels roll in first two playoff games Comets no match in round one By MATT OVERING matthew.overing@amnews.com
Boyle County’s defense pulled no punches early on against West Carter in the first round of the state 3A playoffs. The Rebels scored on a punt block and safety in the first three minutes and had a running clock after one quarter, finishing with a 47-14 first round win. “I thought the guys had a good week of practice and it carried over to the game,” Boyle County head coach Chuck Smith said. “We came out and took care of business. It’s hard to say how well you played, but I felt like we played pretty well till we got the score out of hand. I think the JV guys picked their game up a little bit and I thought the varsity played pretty good.” Coach Smith praised his senior leaders for stepping up, both in preparing for the game and in their play on the field. “I think the seniors have really bought in to what we’re trying to get accomplished here,” coach Smith said. “Their leadership has been really good. Not just good, really good. I’m really proud of them. We’ve got to keep those sophomores and juniors keeping pace with them.”
Rebels rout Western Hills The Boyle County machine is rolling. Boyle throttled Western Hills for the second time in a month, taking out the Wolverines 62-14 on a cold night at Rebel Stadium. The Rebels ran 33 run plays for 371 yards and scored eight
times on the ground. Western Hills had just 167 yards of offense on 49 plays. “I thought our offense played really well, they came out and really were in-tune, timing was down, execution was great and I thought they did a really nice job,” Boyle County head coach Chuck Smith said. Western Hills struggled to gain yards from the start on a tough Boyle defense. After Western Hills three and out on the opening drive, Boyle scored on a 23-yard play action pass, Reed Lanter to Nick Walker. “We wanted to come out and fire a shot because it kind of gets us going, gets our momentum up,” Walker said. “When we get our momentum up it’s hard to stop us. We got that O-Line, our O-Line is probably the best in the state. When we’re running and have the passing game going, it’s hard to stop us.” Photos by Matt Overing Boyle would score again Boyle County running backs Landen Bartleson (above), Tanner Crawford and Blake Biggs (below) were three Rebels that enjoyed dominant on its next possession a nine- performances against West Carter and Western Hills in the first two rounds of the state 3A playoffs. yard run from Landen Bartleson. Walker said that everyone on the team has the same mentality: Win a state title. “We knew it was going to be cold, we just want a state championship,” he said. “We all have the same mentality out here. We’re really, we’ve got a good team this year and everybody depends on each other. If we get that machine going, it’s hard to stop us.” The Rebels will have another rematch game next week against Lexington Catholic. The Knights took down Garrard County 56-16 on Friday. “It’s going to be a tough game. When there’s only eight teams left, anybody can win,” Smith said. “They score so many points, that’s what will make it so difficult. We’ve got to play our best football to beat them.”
Through the first wall: LexCath beaten again By MIKE MARSEE Contributing Writer
The wall has fallen. Boyle County has had many successes since Chuck Smith returned in 2014 for his second stint as its coach, but the Rebels hadn’t been able to push past the third round of the postseason. That changed Friday night at Rebel Stadium, as the Rebels leveled Lexington Catholic 57-15 and steamrolled into the Class 3A semifinals. The Rebels scored on their first five possessions to secure a mercy-rule victory that got them over a hurdle that has been too tall in recent years. “It’s been a hump for us,” Smith said. “Our motto this year is ‘Through the Wall,’ and we just wanted to get through that wall and over that hump. I’m proud of the seniors, but I’m not satisfied, and I know they’re not satisfied, either.” Boyle (12-1) racked up 487 yards and got little resistance from Lexington Catholic (7-6) in the most
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lopsided game in what has become one of the most compelling series in the state since the teams first crossed paths in 1997. “We definitely won the game before we even left the locker room,” offensive lineman Mitchell Paycheck said. “We were locked in. It’s such a big rivalry, both teams play at a high caliber when we play each other, and I think we just came out more ready to play.” Smith agreed that the Rebels were ready for this one. “They were focused, they were locked in, and they had a game plan and they weren’t going to be denied that game plan,” he said. “They’ve been practicing hard, really, since that last game. They’re practicing like a championship team, and they’ve just got to continue to do that.” Boyle stands one win away from the chance to play for a championship. The Rebels will play next Friday at Elizabethtown (12-1), which rolled into the semifinals with a 52-6 victory at Caldwell County. Photos by Shannon Colwick
Above: Head coach Chuck Smith speaks with his team after beating Lexington Catholic for the second time. Left: Tanner Crawford fights his way through the Knights’ defense. Below: Reiley Colwick looks upfield during the Rebels’ game against Lexington Catholic.
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Turnovers the difference at E-town By MIKE MARSEE Contributing Writer
ELIZABETHTOWN – When Clete Hellyer came down with the ball in his hands, he knew exactly what it meant: Boyle County was going to the state finals. Hellyer helped Boyle take the last step of a long, hard road back to the finals Friday night when his interception with 28 seconds to play sealed the Rebels’ 14-7 victory over Elizabethtown in a Class 3A semifinal. It was the second of two crucial fourth-quarter interception that gave visiting Boyle its shot at a champion-
ship – and it was the first time Hellyer had ever felt this way. “I’m absolutely ecstatic,” Hellyer said. “It’s one of the best feelings I’ve ever had in my – it’s the best feeling I’ve ever had in my entire life.” Kaden Gervacio knew exactly how his teammate felt. Gervacio’s interception at the E-town 18-yard line with 4:28 remaining set up the winning touchdown, which came on a 1-yard run by Landen Bartleson with 2:26 to play. “It was amazing, just this rush of energy I had,” Gervacio said. “I just couldn’t stop screaming. It was awesome.” Hellyer’s interception two minutes
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Above: Reese Smith holds up six fingers in celebration after scoring the game’s first touchdown at Elizabethtown in the state semifinals. Right: Boyle County celebrates receiving a trophy at Elizabethtown. The Rebels won 14-7 — the closest scoreline Boyle would have in a win all season.
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later secured Boyle’s spot in the state finals. Boyle (13-1) will play Corbin (13-1), a 21-20 winner over Central on Friday, for the Class 3A title next Friday at Kroger Field in Lexington. It will be the Rebels’ first appearance in the finals since 2010 – their most recent championship season – and the first since coach Chuck Smith, whose teams won five consecutive championships from 1999-2003, returned to Boyle in 2014. “It means the world to me,” Smith said. “Every Boyle County kid should have a chance to experience it. But experiencing it is not enough. We want to win it. We’re not done yet.”
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Boyle County wins 3A title
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LEXINGTON — The Boyle County senior class were freshmen when Chuck Smith returned to coach the Rebels. From day one, they knew that they’d win a state championship. The Rebels beat Corbin 40-21 in the Class 3A State Championship Friday at Kroger Field. Boyle led from its first drive and didn’t look back. “We knew that we were going to get it done,” senior Mitchell Paycheck said. “We had confidence all four years and we never had a doubt in our mind that
we weren’t going to get one in our senior year. We knew from the beginning.” Adjustments were made in the second half, and coach Chuck Smith said that he didn’t doubt his senior class. “These kids have never won one,” he said. “I just wanted, so bad, for them to win a state championship. Because they worked so hard for it. They put in so much time, it’s unbelievable how much time they put in, it’s unbelievable how hard they practice. “This senior group got it. It’s a lot of things, you’ve got to outwork people, you’ve got to outplay people, you’ve got to put your heart and soul into every-
thing that you do. These guys bought into it back in January.” It goes back further for the seniors. “I’ve been at it since the third grade with all of them,” senior Sam Tiller said. “They’re my family. We’re going to be brothers for life. This is just proof of all of the hard work that we did this year, to get to this moment. I love them to death.” Coach Smith had high praise for Paycheck and his senior classmates, who took Boyle’s “Through the Wall” motto to heart and won the Rebels’ first state title since 2010. “They’ve done it all,” the coach said. “They set out early in the year, really after
the Danville game, they wanted to bring relevance back to the Boyle County football program. They wanted to get us back into the conversation, and really, they didn’t even talk about it. I just knew it. I felt it whenever I was around them. Nobody understands how hard they go out every day, and we drive them into the dirt, practicing hard. They come back the next day looking for more and asking for more. And when they do that, you know you’ve got a chance.” It’s Boyle County’s eighth title and sixth under coach Smith, who had a simple message as he left the field. “We’re back. We’re back.”
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Stud sophomores lead Rebels back to the top Photo by Addison Coffey
By MIKE MARSEE
Boyle County sophomores Reese Smith (left) and quarterback Reed Lanter starred on the big stage for the Rebels against Corbin.
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LEXINGTON — Not so very long ago, Reed Lanter and Reese Smith were just a couple of third-graders playing pitch-and-catch for Woodlawn Elementary School. There must have been times Friday night when the game seemed just that simple to them again. There was Lanter, lofting the ball downfield with the poise of a seasoned quarterback. And there was Smith, making catches all over the field. And there were two of the biggest reasons why Boyle County returned to the top of Kentucky high school football. Lanter threw five touchdown passes and Smith caught three of them – and scored four times in all – as Boyle rolled to its eighth state championship with a 40-21 victory over Corbin in the Class 3A title game at Kroger Field. “We’ve been together since third grade, and it just feels like second nature to throw him the ball now,” Lanter said. Lanter completed 16 of
24 passes – including seven of his first nine – for 223 yards, and he was named the game’s most valuable player. Smith caught five of
those passes for 120 yards, and he picked off two passes thrown by Corbin’s Cameron Sizemore. To say the two sopho-
mores rose to the occasion on the biggest possible stage would be a gross understatement. “They did, and both of
them like that big stage,” Boyle coach Chuck Smith said. The only thing better than making so many big plays in such a big game might have been celebrating the Rebels’ first championship since 2010 – the same year Lanter and Smith were in the third grade. “This is by far the best feeling I’ve ever had in my life,” Lanter said. “I’ve been looking forward to this since third grade playing Woodlawn football, and to finally do it is a dream come true.” Reese Smith said Chuck Smith tried to describe what it would feel like if Boyle were able to win, but even the description of a man who had led teams to victory seven times before didn’t match the reality. “Coach Smith was saying all week there’s no better feeling to look around and
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be the best team in the state, and he’s right: no better feeling in the world,” Reese Smith said. “They tried telling us, but we didn’t know. There’s no comparison. You can’t describe it.” It’s also difficult to describe just what Smith and Lanter and several other sophomores meant to Boyle’s success this season and in its win Friday. Reiley Colwick reeled in a 35-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter to salt the game away, and he also had an interception of his own. Landen Bartleson ran for 88 yards and caught a touchdown pass late in the first quarter that gave the Rebels a 21-7 lead. . And other second-year players filled key roles as well. “We’re young, but we’re experienced now that we’ve made it this far,” Smith said. Lanter said the sophomores were motivated in part by the seniors who had been trying to put Boyle back on top even longer than they had. “It’s the accountability of the seniors. You don’t want to let them down,” he said. “After that, we’re all brothers.”
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