By Dan Weber

NKyTribune sports reporter

All Cooper coach Randy Borchers wanted after last week’s second straight loss to open the season for his defending Class 5A finalists was a little more time.

“Three weeks,” he said, looking to the start of district play.

But with a non-district game Friday against cross-town Union rival Ryle, the No. 2 overall team in the state according to one ranking, Cooper’s players knew they didn’t have three weeks.

What the 0-2 Jaguars had was a chance to redeem themselves this week against the rough-and-tough Class 6A Raiders in front of a standing-room-only crowd at Ryle.

What they did was exactly that in a 20-13 win by upping their physicality to meet the Raiders’ power ground game – and 230-pound Indiana commit Jacob Savage. Not that there was any oth

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