Articles by Fletcher Long

About Fletcher Long
Two-time winner of Kentucky Press Association awards for excellence in writing and reporting news stories while Managing Editor of the Jackson (KY) Times-Voice

Tyson Martin, a 2026 RB/LB, leading his classification in several statistical classifications @TysonMartin246 @CavernaFootball @minguabeefjerky @1776Bank @840WHAS @KyHighFootball

January 15, 2024 Fletcher Long 1

Tyson Martin from Horse Cave, Kentucky is an example of a growing trend across the Bluegrass of high school football stars making significant contributions in all three phases of a football game. The 6’1,” 190-pounder led his classification in rushing this past season and contributed mightily in every phase to include the 3.5 GPA he logged in the classroom. Enjoy the feature. Friday Night Fletch.

The exploits of Ulysses as heroic as ever- @BradynNiemeyer @EvanDennison1 @Linknky @minguabeefjerky @840WHAS @1776Bank

January 13, 2024 Fletcher Long 0

Ulysses Porter was a freshman running back in ’23 and only saw action in eight (8) of the team’s 11-games. In spite of this, he still came perilously close to eclipsing a thousand yards. This guy looks poised to render as “heroic” a performance of the remaining three years of his high school career as the character whose name he bears. Enjoy the feature. Friday Night Fletch.

Jak Lindsey maybe the first, three-time, @1776Bank Revolutionary Player of the Week in the Award’s history! @JakLindsey24 @SrHighFootball @minguabeefjerky @840WHAS @PrepSpin @KyHighFooball @SIU_Football

January 12, 2024 Fletcher Long 0

We have had a few, two-time Revolutionary Players of the Week. Jak may well be our first three-timer. Lindsey is a mountain of a man who made our All-State football team and is headed to Souther Illinois for a little Division 1, FCS, football. Enjoy this feature and don’t forget to celebrate with us the services, people, and financial products which have caused a revolution in Kentucky’s banking industry. Friday Night Fletch

Storm Warning: Issac Earl is Le Petit Caporal of the football program at Central @HopkinsCentral @evans02_mike @Yfnmcnary @minguabeefjerky @1776Bank @KyHighFootball @kyhighs @PrepSpin @MaxPreps @840WHAS

January 11, 2024 Fletcher Long 1

Isaac Earl is a QB who is shorter than most people seem to want. However, that doesn’t mean he isn’t the perfect field general for the Storm’s offensive attack. He has been very effective running the offense in his first two seasons and there is no reason he won’t enjoy similar success over the course of his junior year. Enjoy the feature. Friday Night Fletch.

Giaonni Hunter from Shelby County is the @minguabeefjerky Protein-packed Performer of the Week @SCR_football @hunter_giaonni @1776Bank @KyHighFootball @840WHAS

January 10, 2024 Fletcher Long 0

Giaonni Hunter has accomplished way more in the sport of football than just figuring a way to fashion a surname with 4 of its seven letters being vowels. Hunter is among the commonwealth’s very best RB/LB tandems. He plays for 4A Shelby County and he is on plenty of radars, particularly with a 3.83 GPA. Enjoy this feature and don’t forget to #SavorTheFlavor. Friday Night Fletch

All Sage Dawson (Boyle County/Air Force Academy) does is win, win, win no matter what @SageDawson @CoachHaddix11 @Coach_Thiessen @minguabeefjerky @KyHighFootball @1776Bank @840WHAS

January 9, 2024 Fletcher Long 0

Sage Dawson led his team to a 15-0 finish and a title playing among the more difficult schedules in the commonwealth. He threw four over 2,500-yards, 29-TDs through the air, and was only picked off 5-times. He was his District’s and Classification’s Player of the Year and made our Large School All-State Football team. Enjoy the feature. Friday Night Fletch

Kylan Combs from Breathitt County…the ‘Mayberry’ in the Kentucky Mountains @combs_kylan @BreathittFB @minguabeefjerky @1776Bank @840WHAS

January 7, 2024 Fletcher Long 1

This player has made every All-Whatever Team available to him in his short HS career and figures to keep making these teams. He has the nose for the football one would expect from a kid whose dad (Shorty Combs) is considered a mountain football legend and former EKU linebacking star. Kylan is also among the brightest and nicest kids the Appalachias has to offer. Enjoy this feature. Friday Night Fletch!

Steve Partin will be searching for Light and Truth in New Haven, CT @StevePartin @yalefootball @coach_smcgowan @CoachRenoYale @DBucknerKC @840WHAS @minguabeefjerky @1776Bank

January 6, 2024 Fletcher Long 0

Steve Partin only got nine-games of run in ’23. We don’t know why he missed the other two games. With him signing with Yale of the “Ancient 8,” Ivy League, FCS, Division 1, we can’t imagine the problems was academic. This kid has used football to achieve the ultimate in distinction. He may be President of the US or a Supreme Court Justice one day. That is what a degree from a Yale or Harvard carries along with it. Enjoy this feature.

Friday Night Fletch.

Jackson Edens, from Webster County High, is the @1776Bank Revolutionary Player of the Week @minguabeefjerky @840WHAS @WebCoFootball

January 5, 2024 Fletcher Long 0

I don’t know whether or not you have noticed but the football fortunes of the Webster County program are on the decided “up.” Jackson Edens played a huge part in those reversal of fortunes this past Fall and figures to be prominent again in ’24. Enjoy this feature and don’t forget to celebrate with us the services, people, and financial products which have caused a revolution in Kentucky’s banking industry. Friday Night Fletch