Elmore County facing questions entering Cantrell’s second season

File / Tallapoosa Publishers Elmore County will be looking to get back into the playoffs for the first time since 2011.

Elmore County is losing more than three-fourths of its scoring production and returns only 17 percent of its total offense from last season but the Panthers are entering the 2019 season with confidence. ECHS coach Jordan Cantrell saw 17 seniors graduate from his first team in Eclectic and now he’ll be forced to work with small group of players but he believes it is ready to compete.

“We’re all more comfortable here,” Cantrell said. “Now we have some guys coming back that we’ve grown close to and they know the expectations. Not a lot of experience but they’ve turned into a gritty group and we’ll take that going forward.”

Caleb Turrentine is a sports writer for Tallapoosa Publishers Inc.