VERMILLION COUNTY, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Over the last few days, the lights have shone down on the football fields at North and South Vermillion High Schools, not for a game, but to remember a coach.

After a battle with cancer, Ben Blank has passed away.

This football season was Blank's second as an assistant coach with South Vermillion. Wildcats Head Coach Corey Miller said Blank came to practice every day, ready to help others, and kept his personal life to himself.

"He told me that being here was his way to escape everything else", Miller said. "This is his church and coaching football was how he got away and escaped all that other stuff."

Before Blank arrived at South Vermillion, he spent a decade as an assistant football coach at North Vermillion. Head Coach Brian Crabtree said their

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