West Jessamine's football team is undergoing a culture change in their first year under new head coach Yancey Marcum. Marcum is bringing high energy to practices with music, dancing, and lots of running. This is helping the senior-heavy team buy into Marcum's system. At East Jessamine, the football team is also relying heavily on its 15-member senior class to provide leadership after a disappointing 2-8 season last year. The team is transitioning to more of a spread offense system behind new starting quarterback Skyler Rose.

1. SPORTS
August 29, 2013 INSIDE: Socials, B6Religion, B4 Classifieds, B7-B10CODY PORTER, SPORTS EDITOR, CPORTER@JESSAMINEJOURNAL.COM
dimensions of the visitnich.com bowl
BSECTION
• East, West Jessamine volleyball get county
rivalry underway Thursday as Rose, Dean, Lady
Colts’ youth lead charge against Lady Jags | B2
• Boys’ soccer teams
find offensive success
in Sunday action | B5
• Girls’ soccer teams
face tough talent in
soccerrama | B2
By Cody Porter
cporter@jessaminejournal.com
Senior Colt Devin Taylor ran wild
and rampant Friday, but it wasn't
quite enough to allow West Jessamine
to escape scot-free.
The Colts (0-1) jumped out to a 20-
7 lead just after the half, but late
drives by Scott High School (1-0) and
an inability to convert near the red
zone by West set up the Eagles for a
score with 29 seconds left, earning
them a 21-20 victory in the second
game of the VisitNich.com Bowl.
“We talked about we wanted to be
10-0, and that’s bypassed us,” West
head coach Yancey Marcum said. “I
don’t yell at kids for going as hard as
they can, and I feel we played as hard
as we (could Friday).”
Marcum, in his first game as head
coach, said while his team is “pretty
good,” he doesn’t believe they have a
firm grasp on how to win after posting
a record of 4-17 over the past two sea-
sons.
“We had some confidence, we’re
pretty good, so you saw when we get
them rallied together we started out
the game real well,” Marcum said.
“Halftime, we get them together and
come out there and score two touch-
downs real quick. What scares me is
that the past three or four years, they
don’t know how to win; they don’t
know how to keep going.”
As Marcum alluded to, the Colts
sprinted down the field in the opening
of the two halves with the ball tucked
firmly in the hands of Taylor, whose 54
yards in the Colts’ opening five plays
gave West an early 6-0 lead after he
scored from nine yards out.
And again as West emerged from
the half in a one-point deficit, they
Taylor-made victory
slips away from Colts
Jags false-start in loss to Dragons
By Cody Porter
cporter@jessaminejournal.com
East Jessamine spat and sputtered
to a 30-8 loss to the finely-tuned ma-
chine that was the South Oldham
Dragons Friday in the opening game
of the third-annual VisitNich.com
Bowl.
“Offensively, it was just like a car
missing a spark plug,” East head
coach Mike Bowlin said. “We would
see JAGS on page B3
see COLTS on page B5
PHOTO BY MIKE MOORE/MMOORE@JESSAMINEJOURNAL.COM
Scott High School's Nick Brinkman (3) scored the winning touchdown after being brought down by West's Devin Taylor just
inches into the end zone with 29 seconds left in a 21-20 win during the second game of Friday’s VisitNich.com Bowl.
Use the KY Xtra app on your smart phone on the photo above to see a video
of game action and an interview with West Jessamine head coach Yancey
Marcum. Use the app on the left side of the page to see photos of the Colts’
game against Scott High School. The KY Xtra app can be used on B3 to view
photos and video of East’s game against South Oldham High School.
EMILY
DEAN
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN KLEPPINGER
Photographs taken throughout the evening Friday at East Jessamine High School are pieced together in the
background. The photos were taken in daylight during the game between East Jessamine and South Oldham.

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June 13, 2013
SECTION
INSIDE: Religion, B4-B5 Classifieds, B5-B9 Chamber Chat, B10
CODY PORTER,
SPORTS EDITOR
CPORTER@JESSAMINEJOURNAL.COM
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FATHeR’S DAy
TRIBuTe
“The one thing when I take
my final breath that will
always shine in my life with
Haleigh, as of right now, is
her softball ... that’s some-
thing that she and I have been
able to share and will never be
forgotten.”
Doug and Haleigh Fain
“It’s basically like
having three other
dads, plus your
dad. They all
want the best
from you.”
Brooke and Kevin Dennis
Sarah and Anthony Rainwater
Haylee and Tom Hamm
I’m honest with her, and
when I didn’t think she
played as well as she
could, or made a bad mis-
take, I’ll tell her. When she
does well, I’ll tell her I’m
proud of her.
I might chew her
all the way
home, but when
we walk through
the door at the
house, it’s done
until we get
back on that
field again.
Y O U R N O . 1 S O U R C E F O R J E S S A M I N E C O U N T Y N E W S
East Jessamine softball winning with family bonding
By Cody Porter and Amelia Orwick
sports@jessaminejournal.com
Haylee Hamm, Sarah Rainwater, Heather
Dennis and Haleigh Fain have found a home on
the softball diamond in more ways than one.
The four East Jessamine players have shared
the field for years with their fathers: coaches
Tom Hamm, Anthony Rainwater and Kevin
Dennis; and scorekeeper Doug Fain.
With Father’s Day approaching, the dads
and daughters sat down separately to discuss
the tight-knit relationships that they have with
each other.
Finding home on the field
T
om began coaching Haylee in the eighth
grade, the latest of the coaching crew.
Doug’s path to now began in 2000, when
Haleigh was a 4-year-old. Anthony and Kevin’s
coaching began at the little league level, which
ended for Sarah with baseball as a 12-year-old.
Anthony and Tom got to know each other in
the middle of the 2000s while helping coach
opposing teams. The two created a summer
travel team by the name of the Fusion, which
began the softball coaching trek that have led
each to where they are today with their daugh-
ters.
Anthony and Kevin both played under their
dad at different stages of their athletic careers.
“I’m going to tell you, he was a lot rougher on
me than I am on her, but they won’t agree with
that,” Kevin said. “When you’re younger, you
don’t understand, but now, all three of us, we try
to stay on ours more than anybody because we
want them to do the best they can.”
Doug described things as “nepotism at
work,” in the sense that if you’re not too hard on
one in particular, it appears that you may be
playing favorites.
That idea led to each dad taking on the task
of coaching the other’s daughter, which came
after Kevin asked Tom if he would condition his
daughter, Brooke, to the point he was Haylee.
“I stay on mine pretty bad, so we decided it’s
a pretty good idea,” Kevin said.
Tom backed up Kevin’s sentiments by saying
he now motions over one of the other coaches to
manage Haylee if he is too mad at her.
“We all three have the same coaching styles,
so that’s why we get along so well, but none of us
are coaches that scream and yell,” Tom said.
“One thing I try to always do with Haylee, you
know, I’m honest with her, and when I didn’t
think she played as well as she could, or made a
bad mistake, I’ll tell her. When she does well, I’ll
tell her I’m proud of her.”
Despite how their daughters may perform,
their thoughts were one: once they step foot in
the their houses, whatever happened on the
field remains there.
“Something that I do with Sarah, if I’m upset
with her, when we leave the field, drive home, I
might chew her all the way home, but when we
walk through the door at the house, it’s done
until we get back on that field again,” Anthony
said, pointing toward the East softball field.
“I’m the same way,” Tom said. “We get off the
bus or get off the field and into my car, that’s our
10 minutes to get what’s said, said.”
The dads, in agreement, said finding the bal-
ance in talking and coaching their daughters
helps ease over whatever may have happened at
a game, because as Anthony said, “Girls wear
their emotions on their shoulder.”
“The other night after we left region,
(Haylee) beat herself up for days ... she broke
out into hives after the game,” Tom said. “I said,
‘All you can do is give it what you got, and you
gave it everything you had that night.’ I said, ‘It
wasn’t meant to be. There’s reasons for every-
thing; I don’t know what the reason was that
night, but there’s a reason.’”
Anthony, through experiences of his own
with coaching baseball, said he learned, like
Doug, it’s much more enjoyable to coach their
daughters and other girls, as opposed to boys.
“Girls, you lose them if you (yell),” Anthony
said. “My wife had to bring me to that. She said,
‘You got a little girl here now. You got girls, you
got to be more gentle and you got to take it
easy.’”
For Tom, Anthony and Doug, softball was a
learning experience that their daughters incor-
porated into their wives’ lives. However, Kevin’s
wife, Pam, like him, has played the game for sev-
eral years, allowing her to have the knowledge
to give input to Brooke about how to play.
“(Pam’s) played so much that she can talk to
Brooke away from me, Tom or Anthony doing it,
that she knows what needs to be done, and she
can get in Brooke’s ear pretty good,” Kevin said.
“She can relate to her about softball away from
us doing it.”
If the roles were reversed, Kevin said not a
lot would change for his daughter being
coached by her mom.
“Pam played for teams all over the place.
She would be on Brooke probably as hard as I
am, or worse, and she still does at times,” Kevin
said. Everybody says to me when I hit a ground-
ball, I hit it twice as hard to Brooke — my mom
and Pam and different people — and Brooke
doesn’t care, she’s used to it.”
The others say their wives have picked
things up through watching their daughters’
adoption of the sport.
see FATHER’S DAY on page B3
BACKGROUND PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN KLEPPINGER/OLD PHOTOS SUBMITTED/DESIGN BY CODY PORTER AND JONATHAN KLEPPINGER

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Jaguars turn to
veterans, ‘vanilla’
defense in ’13
Change is coming for a team that
lacked leadership in 2012.
The East Jessamine Jaguars’ football
program finished last season with a 2-8
record, its worst since a three-win result in
head coach Mike Bowlin’s first year at the
helm in 2005.
“I’ve often made the comment that
you’re only going to go as far as your seniors
take you,” Bowlin said.
In 2013, the Jags boast a 15-man senior
class.
“We’ve got a lot more people stepping up
to fill the shoes from last year that we
didn’t quite get,” senior offensive/defensive
lineman Billy Mitchell said. “More people
are taking on the challenge to be a leader,
so we’ve got several more people stepping
up; everybody’s being loud and making an
effort.”
Bowlin said the fortunate sce-
nario of having such a class is that
you have someone on the field to hold oth-
ers accountable, even during practice,
because this is the seniors’ last chance to
succeed at the high-school level.
Certain players stepping up to the task
for coach Bowlin include seniors running
back/defensive back Kahnen Leslie, run-
ning back/linebacker Jared Caudill, and
newly named starting quarterback Skyler
Rose, who returns from season-ending
ankle surgery in 2012 that limited him to
two games.
Rose received the nod to lead an offense
that is further transitioning into a spread
offense that Bowlin said his team has got
more of a taste of.
“The good news about this year is that
we’ve spent the whole offseason working on
(the spread),” Bowlin said. “Our kids, even
since before January, got out and started
throwing and catching, so they’ve kind of
just picked it up and said this is what we’re
Colts’
culture
change helping
West turn corner
T
hey’ve got athletes, experience,
size, speed, “music, dancin’,
yelling,” and lots of “runnin’.”
Put it all together and those who attend a
2013 West Jessamine football game will see
the fingerprints of first-year head coach
Yancey Marcum, whose attempt at changing
the culture for the Colts is becoming evident.
“I think the kids in the school kind of
thought that we weren’t as good as other
teams are, so I felt that they didn’t come to
our games because of that,” senior running
back Devin Taylor said.
In a matter of months, Marcum’s effect
on the team has produced an energy that his
seniors have picked up on and translated to
practice.
“We try to come out there every day
with a lot of energy and basically force-
feed it into our seniors,” Marcum said.
“Non-stop clapping, music, dancing,
yellin’, runnin’, runnin’, runnin’ every-
where — trying to feed that into the
kids, the seniors and let that trickle
on down to the younger kids.”
The Colts’ senior class consists of 20
players, who in large part will see a majority
of downs for West this coming season.
“In years past, the team hasn’t really
meshed a lot together,” senior tight end/safe-
ty Carter Hahn said. “This year, our senior
class, even during weight lifting in the off-
season, would have senior meetings … team
bonding kind of things ... That really brought
us together, and it’s really translating on the
field because we’re all brothers out there.”
Taylor added to Hahn’s thought on the
senior class’s influence in that it has
helped having played alongside one anoth-
er since league football, and now “we’re
mature enough to take on responsibilities in
H i g H S c H o o l f o o T b a l l
Sports
Devin Taylor
Skyler Rose
see WEST on page A7
see EAST on page A7
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2013 West football schedule
8/23 Scott @East 8:45 p.m.
8/30 Rockcastle Co. A 7:30 p.m.
9/6 Mercer Co. H 7:30 p.m.
9/13 Western Hills H 7:30 p.m.
9/20 East Jessamine H 7:30 p.m.
9/27 Franklin Co. H 7:30 p.m.
10/4 Montgomery Co. A 7:30 p.m.
10/11 Anderson Co. A 7:30 p.m.
10/25 Woodford Co. A 7:30 p.m.
11/1 Garrard Co. H 7:30 p.m.
2013 East
football schedule
8/23 South Oldham H
8/30 Dunbar A
9/13 Grant Co. A
9/20 West Jessamine A
9/27 Woodford Co. H
10/4 Franklin Co. A
10/11 Montgomery Co.H
10/25Anderson Co. H
11/1 North Oldham H
*All games except South Oldham are
7:30 p.m. kickoffs. The game against
South Oldham is scheduled for 6:45 p.m.
PHOTO BY CODY PORTER/CPORTER@JESSAMINEJOURNAL.COM
East head coach Mike Bowlin, left, and West head coach
Yancey Marcum, right, posed for a photo Thursday, Aug.
8, at the Jessamine County Chamber of Commerce, the
location of the VisitNich.com Bowl news conference.
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