The Junction City Blue Jay football team completed a solid first week of practice with a public practice at Al Simpler Stadium that focused on game type situations.

Coach Randall Zimmerman said it was a good first week for his team. “I was disappointed in our conditioning today but that’s something that’s going to come.” Zimmerman added for the most part he feels good at where the team is at. “I love our attitude, kids have done a tremendous job of leading each other and holding each other accountable.”

The offensive line is important. Our offensive front we’re working on finishing. There’s some veterans up there. We’ll try to find five kids. There’s two kids that have been there, this being their third year, Calen Boller for his second year, Duke Vail for his second year, and we’ve got another spot that we’re trying to find somebody at.” Corbin Sanner is a third year starter at center and Jacob Smith is another third year starter on the offensive line.

The defensive secondary is where the least amount of experience returns, but the coach says those players are performing “tremendously well.” Aaron Hamilton, Alec Pointer, Jordan Irby and Javontez Brime were mentioned. At punter Andrew Khoury, Ethan Alcorn and Baylor Wilkey are solid and others can go there.  Zimmerman said it appears Mindy Lechuga is going to be “very accurate, maybe short field goals, maybe PAT’s, pooch kicks, but we need a deep kicker and a  long field goal guy. Might be Aaron Hamilton, could be Kazerick Smith, we’ll just keep working with them there.”

The Blue Jays have two weeks to prepare for their first game of the season which is a home contest at Al Simpler Stadium against Hays.