2011 Football Preview

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FOOTBALL PREVIEWH I G H S C H O O L

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Ryan TimmonsFCHS

Adam Al-dbhanyWHHS

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BY LINDA YOUNKINSTATE JOURNAL SPORTS WRITER

Western Hills’ football team has a new district.

It’s keeping a goal from the past.

WHHS kicks off the sea-son at home Friday against Woodford County and plays four more games be-fore opening district play at home Sept. 23 against Bour-bon County.

“We’d like to get that first district championship,” WHHS coach Don Miller said, “to get a piece of school history.”

The Wolverines will have to do that against teams they know little about. In the lat-est realignment WHHS finds itself in a six-team district with Bourbon, Powell, Bath, Garrard and Estill counties.

The playoff format has the top four teams in each dis-

trict advancing to the play-offs. Having been in a four-team district the last fourl years making the playoffs was a given for the Wolver-ines.

That won’t be the case this season.

“Two teams will stay at home,” Miller said. “Hope-fully that won’t be us. We have an open week the last week of the season. We hope to use that to get ready for the first round. I’ve never done that before, so we’ll see how it goes.”

The Wolverines have been working on getting back into a set schedule.

“We were a little slow recovering coming out of camp,” Miller said. “That was the last week of July and we came out of camp where we had three-a-day practic-es, and we stepped into the first week of school.

“We had to get our legs under us, and be-ing back in school takes a toll as players get back on schedule for going to bed, getting up in the morning.”

The biggest issue facing the Wolverines at this point is injuries. WHHS currently has eight players who are hurt, including junior wide receiver/defen-sive back Dakota Miley who will miss this sea-son with a torn ACL.

But the Wolverines return Gabe Loman, a senior lineman who was injured early last year.

“I feel like the line will be a little more con-sistent this year,” Miller said. “We have some players back, including Gabe who got hurt early last season.

“We had to move Zach Hart to the line. He has a good body for that. He’s fit into that spot, and we’re happy with that. Trey Drury split a little bit of time there last year, and he’s doing well on the offen-sive line.

“I feel like our senior defensive line, with Lo-gan Curry and Daniel Noble at defensive end and Christian Wilkins and Gabe at tackle, our 40 front should be pret-ty solid.”

Leading the offense this year will be senior quarterback Austin Smith.

“He and Arie Slone split that role last year,”

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FOOTBALL PREVIEWH I G H S C H O O L 2011western hills

WHHS RosterNo. Player Grade Pos.1 Taylor, Jordan 12 WR/DB2 Smith, Austin 12 QB/DB3 Noel, Blake 9 RB/DB4 Williams, Cody 9 WR/DB5 Miley, Dakota 11 WR/DB6 White, Austin 11 WR/DB7 Young, Nick 9 QB/LB8 May, Austin 9 WR/DB10 Schuffett, Will 9 WR/DB11 Curry, Logan 12 TE/DE13 Cox, Ethan 11 WR/DB14 McClean, Casey 11 RB/LB20 Lockett, Nick 9 WR/DB21 Wise, Jordan 9 RB/DE22 Al-dbhany, Adam 12 RB/LB23 Nickolson, Mason 11 WR/DB25 Smith, Tanner 11 WR/DE26 Patton, Austin 9 WR/DB32 Patton, Corey 9 WR/DB33 Slone, Joshua 12 WR/DB35 Rowland, Devin 12 WR/DB40 Murphy,Cameron 10 WR/DB45 Noble, Daniel 12 RB/LB50 Drury, Trey 11 OL/DL52 Hart, Zach 11 OL / LB54 Coubert, Eric 12 OL/DL55 Clark, Hunter 9 OL / LB57 Rogers, Derrick 11 OL/DL60 Banta, Jared 10 OL/DL61 Head, Sam 9 OL/DL62 Smith, Travis 9 OL/DL63 Young, Bradley 9 OL/DL64 Turner, Lyle 9 OL/DL66 Wilkins, Christian 12 OL/DL68 Jones, Dakota L 9 OL/DL76 West, Dakota 9 OL/DL77 Criseillis, Will 9 OL/DL78 Loman, Gabe 12 OL/DL80 Fey, Jason 10 TE/ DE81 Olsen, Robert 9 WR/DB82 Pope, Shawn 9 RB/LB83 Mohr, Joseph 9 WR/DB85 Collins, Cole 9 TE/ LB

2011 WHHS SCHEDULEAug. 19 WOODFORD CO. 7:30 Aug. 26 @Franklin Co. 7:30 Sept. 2 @Grant Co. 7:30 Sept. 9 @Owen Co. 7:30 Sept. 16 FRANKFORT (HC) 7:30 Sept. 23 BOURBON CO.* 7:30Sept. 30 @Bath Co.* 7:30Oct. 7 ESTILL CO.* 7:30Oct. 14 @Garrard Co.* 7:30Oct. 21 POWELL CO.* (SN) 7:30 Oct. 28 OPEN

HOME games in all caps* denotes district game(HC) is Homecoming(SN) is Senior Night

New district, no guaranteesNew alignment means WHHS no longer a lock for playoffs; Wolverines still confident

Miller said, “but now Austin’s going to be in charge of that. He’s running the show.”

The Wolverines played a scrimmage at Lincoln Coun-ty, a 5A school, Friday night, and they play three 5A teams to start the season – Wood-ford County, Franklin Coun-ty and Grant County.

“When you’re playing up two classes it can get into more of a numbers game,” Miller said. “If we can stay healthy these games will help us get ready for the dis-trict. We also play Frankfort High, and they’re always a top five team in Class 1A.”

The other non-district game on WHHS’ schedule is at Owen County. The Wol-verines close out the season with five straight district games.

“I don’t know a lot about the district teams,” Miller said. “We’ll be able to com-pete, and if we keep it close until the fourth quarter we’ve got a shot to win.”

The Wolverines went 3-8 last year, losing in the first

round of the state Class 3A playoffs to Elizabethtown.

Western Hills returns 21 players from that team. WHHS has 10 seniors on its 43-man roster and 22 fresh-men.

Miller had planned to play a junior varsity and fresh-man schedule this year, but with the number of injuries his team has he’s decided to forgo the freshman schedule and just play JV.

“We have 22 freshmen, and they’ll get their feet wet real quick with the JV pro-gram,” Miller said. “It’ll be good for them.”

Depth may be a problem for the Wolverines right now, but Miller is happy with his team’s attitude.

“When I look at this se-nior group there’s no quit in them,” he said. “They’re resilient. They want to win, and they’ll claw and fight. They won’t back down, and they give it all they have. I’ve been more impressed with that this year than I have in the past.”

STATE JOURNAL PHOTOS/TRICIA SPAULDING

Western Hills head coach Don Miller, center, watches as his team runs through plays during practice.

Western Hills’ Logan Curry runs the ball during practice at West-ern Hills High School.

Western Hills’ quarterback Austin Smith throws a pass as a teammate blocks during a drill.

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Aug. 19 Woodford Co. at Western Hills

Aug. 26 Western Hills at Franklin Co.

Sept. 2 Sheldon Clark at Frankfort

Sept. 9 Franklin Co. at Frankfort

Sept. 16 Frankfort at Western Hills

Sept. 23 Bourbon Co. at Western Hills

Sept. 30 East Jessamine at Franklin Co.

Oct. 17 Paris at Frankfort

Oct. 14 Bracken Co. at Frankfort

Oct. 21 Montgomery Co. at Franklin Co.

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BY BRIAN RICKERDSTATE JOURNAL SPORTS WRITER

In their long and richly successful tenures at Frank-lin County High School, for-mer basketball coach Gary Moore and football coach Tom Roberts used to talk about what they called, ‘An All Hallway team’, meaning students who may have been good athletes but chose not to come out for sports for whatever reason.

Some of those ‘All Hall-way’ kids were peers of cur-rent FCHS football coach Chris Tracy when Tracy was a student here in the late 80s (FCHS class of 1989).

Fortunately for Tracy, he doesn’t have to fight some of those battles that Moore and

Roberts did. Tracy and com-pany are getting the better athletes out for football.

“I made a comment the other day that there are not a lot of kids in the school who are not out here that I would want,” said Tracy, who’s go-ing into his second season as the Flyers’ head football coach. “And I think that’s a credit to putting a quality product together.

“Are there still some kids (who could contribute)? Probably so,” Tracy added. “But if a kid is walking the hallway who’s never played football before, there’s prob-ably a reason, whether it be discipline, grades, whatev-er...”

There are very talented athletes on the football Flyers everywhere you look, led by junior, 100-meter state champion Ryan Timmons (5-foot-10, 170-pounds), last year’s All County foot-ball MVP.

“We’ve got to get Ry-an the ball 20 to 25 times a game, whether that be from the running back position, ‘Z’ (wide re-ceiver) back position ... punt returns, kick re-turns...” Tracy said. “I think if we get the ball in his hands, we’ll be pretty successful.

“Ryan can do every-thing,” he added. “He really can. He can line up anywhere on the field and be good at it. We can formation peo-ple to get the match-ups we want with him. If somebody is going to single cover Ryan, then he’s not going to be a de-coy, but if somebody is going to really focus on him and double team him, then we have the ability to go elsewhere.”

But the Flyers have oh so much more in their athletic arsenal, including a couple of highly-touted newcom-ers - Anderson County transfer Logan Wood-side (6-3, 190, junior) and Lexington Catholic transfer James Maddox (5-7, 160, junior).

Woodside is a very formidable, physical quarterback, running back, defensive back, - you name it - while Maddox will start at cornerback and then hopefully move into some running back du-ty as the season moves on and a hand injury heals.

Senior wideout Dan-iel Anderson ( 5-8, 165), juniors Brandon Smith (5-10, 170) and Zach Grammer (5-10, 160) and sophomore run-ning back Chris Roberts (6-1, 230) are just a few of the other versatile threats for the FCHS of-fense.

“We’re blessed with skill kids,” said Tracy, whose team opens at home against Nelson County on Friday (Aug. 19). “We have a lot of them.

“We would have been fine without either one of those kids,” he add-

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FCHS RosterNO. NAME GRADE POS.2 Barnett, Malik 11 RB/LB3 Perkins, Billy 10 WR/LB4 Pedone, Josh 11 WR/DE5 Timmons, Ryan 11 WR/DB6 Oerther, Austin 9 WR/LB7 Lackey, Aaron 12 RB/LB8 Wilson, Monte 12 WR/DB9 Bowman, Zach 12 QB/DB10 Maupin, Greg 11 WR/LB11 Anderson, Daniel 12 WR/LB12 Woodside, Logan 11 QB/DB13 Jarboe, Sean 12 WR/DE14 Dean, DeShawn 11 WR/DB15 Grammer, Zach 11 WR/DB16 Owens, Amir 10 QB/DB17 Roberts, Chris 10 RB/LB18 Smith, Brandon 11 WR/DB19 Anderson, Matthew 9 RB/LB20 Aziz, Damani 11 RB/DB21 Jones, Jalen 12 WR/LB22 Peterson, Mika 10 WR/DB24 Griffin, DeAndre 12 WR/DB26 Duke, Logan 9 QB/LB27 McCaskell, Lorenzo 10 RB/LB28 Jones, Tre 10 WR/DB29 Lopez, Josh 11 WR/LB30 Durham, Zach 10 K/P32 Maddox, James 11 RB/DB33 Mitchell, Rontez 9 34 Cordones, Angelo 9 WR/LB35 Campbell, Jacob 12 WR/DB36 Wilhoite, Dylan 9 WR/DB37 Lee, Isaiah 9 40 Baeza, Josh 9 WR/DB42 Morrow, Jessey 9 WR/DB44 Douglas, Phillip 12 45 Redd, Warren 9 RB/DB49 Santeramo, John 9 WR/LB50 Sency, Trent 12 OL/DL51 Wainscott, Cameron 9 OL/DL52 Bunker, Joseph 9 OL/DL53 Northcutt, Ryan 11 OL/LB54 Bertrand, Jesse 12 OL/DL56 Monroe, Nick 12 OL/DL57 Patino, Jesus 12 OL/DL58 Graves, Jacob 9 OL/DL59 Brough, Jay 12 OL/DL60 Rebolledo, Jose 11 OL/DL61 Monroe, Neal 10 OL/DL62 Prado, Alex 10 OL/DE63 Williams, Isaiah 9 OL/LB64 Smith, Kaegan 9 OL/LB65 Anderson, Jack 9 OL/DL66 Stone, Zane 10 OL/DL67 Hudkins, Michael 10 OL/DL68 Rebolledo, Luis 9 OL/DL70 Marshall, Jared 9 OL/LB71 Poe, Kaman 10 OL/DL72 Collins, Andre 11 OL/DL73 Goins, James 9 OL/DL74 Hall, DenWan 9 OL/DL75 McCoy, Josh 12 OL/DL76 Yauger, George 11 OL/DL77 Thornton, Johnathon 10 OL/DL78 Bird, Chip 12 OL/DL79 Jackson, Galen 9 OL/DL86 Goins, Sheldon 9 WR/DB87 Palmer, Matthew 10 WR/DB88 Balazic, Hunter 10 WR/DB

ed, referring to newcomers Woodside and Maddox. “But I think adding a physical quarterback (Woodside) and another physical kid (Mad-dox) gives depth we’re going to need in 5-A.’’

The obvious concern for Franklin County is size and experience up front on the offensive and defensive lines. Tracy says the Flyers lost three of their five starters on the O-Line.

“The good part is we did play a lot of young kids on the offensive line,” said Tra-cy, whose team finished 7-4 a year ago, losing to East Jes-samine in the first round of the playoffs. “So we do have some experience coming back. I feel confident six or seven deep on the line.”

Tracy said his team does not have as much depth on the defensive front - a con-cern for a team that was vul-nerable to the run a year ago.

Senior Jay Brough (5-10, 225) will play both ways on the Flyers’ line units. Junior Jose Rebolledo (5-8, 204) and seniors Jesse Bertrand (5-11, 215) and Josh McCoy (6-2, 290) are also in the line rota-tion on defense. Tracy is hop-ing junior Andre Collins - all 6-1, 280-pounds of him - will bounce back quickly from a back injury and help on the line.

“We’ve got a lot of speed on the defensive side of the ball, but we’re not real big,’’ Tracy said.

Anderson, junior Greg Maupin (5-11, 185) and se-niors Aaron Lackey (5-10, 180) and Jalen Jones (5-9, 165) are among the good athletes at the linebacker spots, while Maddox, senior Jacob Camp-bell (5-7, 150) and junior Damani Aziz (5-8, 170) are among several good players in the secondary.

Tracy isn’t doing any sand-bagging about his talent-ed team. The Flyers, again, could use a little more size and need some good fortune - like all teams - in avoiding injuries.

But...“We all know - we talk

about it on occasion - this could be a special season,” Tracy admits. “We all real-ly feel it could be - the play-ers included. But we have to take some time sometimes to remind them just how spe-cial this can be, and let them know you can’t afford to be wasting those things because

you don’t want to come back for a 25th reunion, saying, man, we should have done this or we should have done that.

“We have our chance.”Meaning: Now.Tracy, 41, said he played

on a high school team grow-ing up in Ohio (he moved to Frankfort in time for his ju-nior season at County) that made it far enough in the state playoffs to be alive on Thanksgiving weekend.

His goal/dream is to do that here as a coach.

“I don’t think it’s been done here (at FCHS) since 1976,” Tracy said, referring to a period, gasp, before Al Gore invented the internet. “It was just a great experience when I was a player to be able to sit down with your team-mates and have Thanksgiv-ing dinner and then go home and have the same with your family. As a coach, it’s always been a goal of mine to be able to do that with our football family and with my regular family.”

It would be extra special this year, Tracy added, be-

cause he and his wife Susan are expecting a baby around Thanksgiving. Chris and Su-san have two girls: Madison, 7, and Emma Kate 3.

Said Tracy: “I would like to be in a position to have to make a choice of going to a birth or...”

He left the thought hang-ing.

Stay tuned.

Everyone wants to be a Flyer

Franklin County has no trouble finding athletes who want to play football

2011 FCHS SCHEDULEAug. 19 NELSON CO. 7:30 Aug. 26 WESTERN HILLS 7:30 Sept. 2 @Letcher Co. Central 7:30 Sept. 9 @Frankfort 7:30 Sept. 16 SCOTT (HC) 7:30 Sept. 23 @W. Jessamine* 7:30Sept. 30 E. JESSAMINE* 7:30Oct. 7 @Woodford Co.* 7:30Oct. 14 @Anderson Co.* 7:30Oct. 21 MONTGOMERY CO.* (SN) 7:30 Oct. 28 OPEN



Franklin County’s Chris Roberts, left, tries to run past teammates during practice.

Franklin County head coach Chris Tracy instructs Daniel Anderson during a drill.

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BY JOSH RAYMERSTATE JOURNAL SPORTS WRITER

Ask for his season outlook, and Frankfort High football coach Craig Foley will give you the honest truth.

His team went 9-4 last season and racked up almost 500 points, but the coach has some concerns heading into the 2011 season.

“We’re going to strug-gle some this year,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of new kids in new places.”

Even with the lacking ex-perience, don’t expect the Panthers to ease into the year by playing cupcake teams.

“I was kind of foolish and beefed our schedule up just to try and prevent the same thing that’s happened in the playoffs – breeze through our district and then run in-to Beechwood and we can’t get by them,” Foley said.

In order to reverse his team’s postseason misfor-tune – which includes two losses to Beechwood in the

past three seasons – Foley went for broke with this sea-son’s early slate of games.

Opening up with New-port, FHS begins a tough non-district slate that in-cludes Rockcastle Coun-ty, Sheldon Clark, Franklin County, Western Hills and Lexington Christian.

The three district games against Paris, Bracken Coun-ty and Eminence will be where the Panthers punch their ticket to the postsea-son, but the daunting nature of those first six games isn’t lost on Foley.

“That could be murderer’s row for us,” he said.

Murderous as the sched-ule might be, Foley sees the early games as a great way to challenge his offense, which will be led by running backs Kaleb Leach and Tim Davis, wide receiver Aaron Jackson, tight end Jesse Dunmire and lineman Jacob Perkins.

Foley also hinted that three freshman might see

significant playing time: lineman Matthew Col-lins and running backs Jalen Acree and Jalen Washington.

But Foley has a clear idea of who will carry the offensive load.

“We’re going to rely on Aaron and Kaleb in the skill positions,” he said. “Big time.”

That just leaves the issue of who will be throwing and handing the ball off this season for FHS, and unfortu-nately for Foley, find-ing his quarterback has proven difficult thus far.

“C h r i s Haw k i n s was the heir appar-ent last year,” he said. “He played a lot of the backup games. Right now he’s got the step up on Desaud Gilkey, who transferred in.”

Gilkey has struggled with being converted to quarterback but Foley said it’s also been dif-ficult finding the right playbook for his two sig-nal callers.

While he was origi-nally intent on using one set of plays for both

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FOOTBALL PREVIEWH I G H S C H O O L 2011frankfort high

FHS RosterNo. Player Grade Pos.2 Jalen Washington 9 WR/RB/DB3 Desaud Gilkey 12 QB/RB/DB4 Kaleb Leach 12 RB/DB5 Chris Brooks 9 RB/LB7 Tony Headley 12 WR/OLB9 Tre Winkfield 10 WR/OLB10 Aaron Jackson 11 WR/DB11 Jesse Dunmire 12 TE/LB12 Tim Davis 12 RB/LB16 Dre Scott 10 18 Jeffrey Quire 9 QB/DB20 JJ Jones 10 RB/DB21 Jalen Acree 9 RB/DL22 Chris Hawkins 11 QB/DL23 Isaiah Jackson 9 WR/OLB27 Aron Headley 11 WR/DB30 Drew Forkner 10 WR/OLB32 Zach Perry 12 K/K44 DJ Washington 11 TE/LB50 McKinley Stonewall 10 OL/DL52 Trevon Washington 11 OL/DL53 Jackson O’Daniel 10 OL/DL55 Abe Claxton 9 OL/DL58 Josh Boone 9 OL/DL60 Raheem Maxwell 11 OL/DL61 Anthony Walle 10 OL/DL64 Morgan Campbell 9 OL/DL65 Monty Pemberton 12 OL/DL66 Mathew Collins 9 OL/DL67 Stephen Walton 12 OL/DL70 Jacob Perkins 11 OL/DL74 Trevor Williams 11 OL/DL

2011 FHS SCHEDULEAug. 20 @Newport 7:30 Aug. 26 ROCKCASTLE CO. 7:30 Sept. 2 SHELDON CLARK 8:00 Sept. 9 FRANKLIN CO. (HC) 7:30 Sept. 16 @Western Hills 7:30 Sept. 23 @Lexington Christian 7:30Sept. 30 OPEN Oct. 7 PARIS* 7:30Oct. 14 BRACKEN CO.* (SN) 7:30Oct. 21 @Eminence* 7:30 Oct. 28 @Danville 7:30


2011 BROADCAST SCHEDULEFroggy 104.9 FM

Aug. 19 Woodford Co. at Western Hills

Aug. 26 Western Hills at Franklin Co.

Sept. 2 Sheldon Clark at Frankfort

Sept. 9 Franklin Co. at Frankfort

Sept. 16 Frankfort at Western Hills

Sept. 23 Bourbon Co. at Western Hills

Sept. 30 East Jessamine at Franklin Co.

Oct. 17 Estill Co. at Western Hills

Oct. 14 Bracken Co. at Frankfort

Oct. 21 Montgomery Co. at Franklin Co.

* All Games will be broadcast on Froggy 104.9 FM

* All Games will be on Friday nights with

the pre-game starting at 7:10 p.m. Kickoff at 7:30

* This schedule subject to change.

* Will broadcast home playoff games beginning 11/4

Panthers are keeping it simpleNew players, new positions and a tough schedule mean no time to relax for Frankfort

quarterbacks, Foley came to realize that he wasn’t playing to Hawkins’ strengths and decided to implement new plays more tailored to his skill set.

The outlook is a little brighter on defense, where the Panthers return more ex-perience but will still rely on Jackson, Leach, Davis and Dunmire to lead the charge.

“Most of our kids aren’t going to come off the field too much,” Foley said. “They’re going to play every down on offense, defense and special teams.”

Foley emphasized that with so many players going three ways, the coaching staff had to take a new ap-proach with the playbook.

“As coaches, we’re not go-ing to make it too complicat-ed,” he said. “We can’t over-load our kids. With kids play-ing three ways, they’re not going to remember what they have to do on offense. We’re going to pick a few basic plays on both sides of the ball. We hope to master a few things that we do well.”

That simplified game plan will be tested early in the sea-son, especially against in-town rival Franklin County on Sept. 9.

“Franklin County’s abso-lutely loaded this year,” Fol-ey admitted. “I’ve seen some polls where they’re ranked high in 5A.

“That’s our homecoming game, on top of that, so hope-fully the kids will play with a little more enthusiasm,” he added.

But when it comes to the ballyhooed City Champion-ship between FHS, FCHS and Western Hills, Foley doesn’t buy into the hype.

“Too many people get caught up on being city champs – who cares? What’s it get you? A t-shirt?” he asked with a smile.

While he admits the play-ers put more stock in beat-


Frankfort High head coach Craig Foley goes over plays during practice at Leathers Field off Holmes Street.

Frankfort’s Desaud Gilkey hands off to Tim Davis as he runs plays as quarterback during practice at Leathers Field.

ing in-town rivals than the coaches do, Foley just hopes those games will expose some weaknesses his team can correct before district play.

The Panthers’ season, he said, will be judged by how many games they play, not how many wins they accu-mulate in the regular season. Nor will it be judged by the preseason rankings, many of which have FHS ranked in the top 10 of the state in Class 1A.

“It’s nice for the kids to open up and see,” Foley said of the rankings. “We hold it over their heads and say ‘you’ve got some expectation on you at this point.’ But no-body remembers where you start out, just where you end up.

“We’re going to base our season on how many weeks in November and December we’re playing,” he added. “If we can come out of the regu-lar season healthy, we should be in good shape.”

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