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2013 Football Preview: Rockcastle County
ROCKCASTLE COUNTY, Ky (WYMT) - The Rockcastle County Rockets are coming off a 2-9 season last year finishing 4th in Class 4A district 6.

Head coach Scott Parkey is in his 5th year with the rockets and says last season was disappointing for the team, but they never quit..

"We want to improve the main this is as long as were improving from now all the way through the playoffs as far as we go it doesn't really matter. We obviously want to win a state championship but at the same time we want to continuously steadily improve each week," said Coach Parkey.

Senior Quarterback Corey McPhetridge agrees with coach and stresses the importance of encouraging their batch of young guys coming in this year.

"We have a lot of young guys that are going to step up for us this year and probably play a lot. It's important for them if they mess up or doing anything wrong, just to encourage them because they don't have a lot of experience. We're going to have some older guys who don't have a lot of experience either, that are going to have big roles this year and it's important to encourage them with the adversity does come," said McPhetridge.

Senior running back and linebacker Brandon Jones acknowledged last years struggles, but said it won't hold the team back, if anything it will serve as motivation to be better.

"I think this season were going to be a lot more focused on winning a lot more mature about whatever we don't do, what we feel like we need to do. more focused team," said Jones.

Back in 2011 Rockcastle County won the district. This season they are motivated to get back to the basics to bring some W's to the team and of course bring home a district championship.