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WINTER HAVEN — Winter Haven went 1-9 season, so there’s no doubt this spring — especially the spring game — was going to be big in setting the tone for the summer workouts and how the Blue Devils felt about themselves going into the fall. They should be feeling pretty good.
Winter Haven showed big play ability on offense, speed on defense and defeated Davenport, 41-18, at Denison Stadium.
“Absolutely we needed this,” Winter Haven coach Carl White. “We needed this. The momentum is huge in this thing right here. So you know those kids, they can walk back in school on Monday with their heads held up high and be just right. I’m proud of them.”
Here are three takeaways from Winter Haven’s victory.
It’s now Kerney’s team on offense
While Winter Haven in the fall will be dominated by sophomores, it will have senior leadership at quarterback in Michael Kerney, who replaces John Kostuch. Kerney showed finished with 154 yards of total offense, 83 yards passing and 71 rushing.
“I’m very excited to take over the offense,” he said. “I just got to keep my head up because I’m the new leader now. It’s easy though to me now because we got a lot of young guys, and I made sure to get everybody in the box as much as I could. I’m just making sure I’m keeping calm, make sure I’m reading the defense, making good plays.”
Kerney made good plays with his arm and his feet. He scored the Blue Devils’ first touchdown on a 50-yard run. He also a 67-yard…
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