Marsh to continue football career at Pearl River Community College

Morgan City High School football standout Kevon Marsh has elected to continue his football career at Pearl River Community College.
Marsh, who has sent in paperwork to the school, talked about his decision Friday with local media.
He liked the culture at the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, school and said people there were friendly.
“It feels like I’ll fit in to their program and (their) coaches are friendly and understand my situation,” he said.
Marsh said his future teammates accepted him, too.
He said he liked being at the school even though he has only been once.
“It felt like home,” he said.
Marsh, a Morgan City High standout, concluded his senior season with 837 yards on 134 carries and eight touchdowns, while catching five passes for 29 yards and another score in Morgan City’s wing-T offense.
He will transition into a spread offense at Pearl River.
“They use a lot of fast guys,” he said. “That’s why they asked me to go down there because they like my speed. They will like me to play running back and to play a little bit in the slot, too.”
Morgan City coach Scott Tregle said that while Pearl River does operate out of the spread, they run the ball a good bit.
“They do a lot of jet sweeps, counters off the sweeps, and they throw it to them out the backfield and the slot,” Tregle said.
While he ran the ball most of his time in Morgan City’s offense, Tregle said he didn’t see the transition as a problem, noting Marsh has improved from his junior to senior year and was able to work on his pass-catching skills during the summer with the Tigers’ 7-on-7 work.
“And if he needs work, he’ll be there working on it,” Tregle said.
Marsh’s character is something that Tregle praised Friday, calling him one of the best kids he has coached in his approximately 20-year
career.
Marsh showed his work ethic on teams that struggled at times, too, finishing this season with a 2-8 mark.
“He’s never missed practice,” Tregle said. “The whole summer workouts, he’s never missed a day. He would beat me there, beat the other
coaches there. Sometimes, if his truck wasn’t running, he’d run there from Siracusa, so he’s just a special kid.”
Tregle said that he hopes that the two-year route at Pearl River will eventually lead Marsh to a four-year school, “because I think he’s
that caliber of a player.”
Marsh said it is a special opportunity to continue on the collegiate level.
“It feels like I’m one of the lucky guys to make it out of Morgan City and go play something that I love,” he said.