WEIRTON — Two men, who were once the top players in the state of West Virginia in their respective days, will be leading their teams onto the field at Jimmy Carey Stadium Friday night.
Those men are veteran John Marshall head coach Mark Cisar, a two-time winner of the Kennedy Award in the early 90s while a player at Magnolia, and first-year Weir High head coach Quincy Wilson, who won the Kennedy Award with the Red Riders in 1998.
Their Monarchs and Red Riders will do battle in Week 2 in a clash of OVAC foes. The opening kick is set for 7 p.m.
“The GOAT, two-time Kennedy Award winner and a long-time coach here in the Valley with Union Local and John Marshall,” Wilson said of Cisar. “He’s always been receptive to me. Obviously, I was in college coaching for years, and I’ve come back and r