Genoa-Kingston coach Cam Davekos hopes his team will be flying around the field and seeking out the football.

It helps, he said, to have a player like Owen Zaccard in the middle of it all.

“He just goes 100 miles per hour and doesn’t quit,” Davekos said. “He is a very, very intense football player when he has a job to do and when he has the ball in his hands. He never takes the foot off the gas ... which is awesome.”

Zaccard returns at both linebacker and running back for the Cogs as the team looks for a second straight playoff berth. G-K went 5-5 last season after a 4-5 campaign in 2023.

They qualified for eight of the last nine postseasons and have only missed two since 2013. The season starts Aug. 29 at home against Oregon.

Zaccard and lineman Mason McPeek are the only starters re

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