2020 36 Blitz: Grant County Braves

DRY RIDGE, Ky (WTVQ) - It's been a tough two years for grant county, but the braves have shown improvement in the Jacob Morris era.

Now heading into year three they have a more experienced group.

Our next stop on our 36 blitz tour takes us to grant county.

The braves have improved the win total the past two seasons..

Abc 36's austin miller reports that now they have their eyes set on a winning record coming into 2020.

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But the braves have shown improvement in the jacob morris era.

Now..

Heading into year three..

They have a more experienced group.

"three years ago we went 0-10, the next year 3-7, last year 4-6, so we're slowing improving.

We're just hoping to build.

Last year with us being so young, " "now we're going into a season where we're not necessarily the little brother anymore.

Last year with us being so young, they were going up against kids quite a bit older, so we're closing a gap there.

Now, how much we're really closing, we'll find out."

Grant county brings back ten starters on offense..

Including quarterback connor knipp.

But..

There's also plenty of excitement for the defense.

"we're doing some things a little bit differently on defense that's going to allow us to use some faster kids and let them run, so the defense might end up being a little bit bigger of a strength than our offense."

While the pandemic has created uncertainty for teams around the state..

Morris doesn't believe it will affect how ready his team is for week one of the season.

"i don't think there's going to be a big difference between game one this year and game one our first two years, as far as performance-wise."

"with everything going on, i'm just ready for games.

I'm ready for competition and all of that, just working with my teammates, build together and all of that."

With an experienced group coming back..

Capturing a winning record for the first time since 2008 isn't out of the question for grant county.

"i think our kids would be really happy with getting a couple of district wins maybe, but that's going to be real tough."

"our conference is pretty hard.

They have really good teams in it that are always really good every year, but we're a lot older and stronger this year.

We're going to be pretty good this year."

"we just need to have our communication down, work as hard as we can every day at practice, get ready for gamedays.

I think we'll have it."

In grant county..

Austin miller..