UNION MILLS – Don’t call it a rebuild.
“I don’t look at it like that,” South Central coach Tony Wallace said of the upcoming season. “I’ve had less and done more. In ‘21, I had two (returning starters) from the ‘19 squad because we didn’t play in ‘20, and we went to semistate. That got the groundwork set for ‘22. We’ve got an eighth grade class coming in next year that’s going to be decent. The future’s very bright.”
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