Gentry High baseball’s slugging infielder Kylon Bush put ink to paper last week and signed to play for Arkansas Baptist College.
The decision comes after an outstanding tenure with the Rams, and it also comes at the beginning of what many around the Rams program hope will be a long winning tradition.
The Rams put together their first winning season in 2018 since the 2007 season.
Though the 2019 season did not go as planned for the Rams, who fell to New Hope two weeks ago in the first round of the playoffs, Head Coach Timothy Holmes believes he has built the foundation for a winning team for years to come.
“I came in and tried to give the kids a different mindset, and the kids bought into the program,” Holmes, a former Gentry High graduate said. “This is the result of the kids buying into the program.”
Holmes is a former Ram, and he said his passion is baseball. After coaching in Leland for 15 years, he said it was time to come home and give back to his hometown.
“Gentry has always had athletes,” Holmes said.
Now that those athletes have come out to play, and they have bought into Holmes’ philosophy, the coach said the best is yet to come.
Like many high school football coaches in the Delta, Holmes has been building his program without lights on his field, which on many spring afternoons, means his team cannot play B games.
Those B games often help to develop young talent.
“We just make the best with what we have, with the facilities we have,” Holmes said. “We’re in the process of getting some upgrades to our facilities, and the kids just want to play baseball.”
Holmes is joined in the dugout by assistant coaches Roosevelt Matthews and Eddie Ivory.
