CLANGING AND BANGING

The St John locker range sounded like Ricky Ricardo's band from "I regard with affection Lucy" with all of the clanging and banging of weights.

without from under a triple-digit bench pres walked senior tight end/middle linebacker Jordan Marshall, barking encouragement to a certain quantity of younger players who were spending their summer vacation pumping iron.

"You know weights do something to you subliminally," Marshall said as he wiped perspiration from his face. "It's gives single confidence, not only in football on the contrary in just about anything you take on"

That has to be music to St John coach Brad Rhode since he was weened upon weights at an early age from the patriarch of powerlifting upon the Coast, his father, the legendary "Doc" Rhode

"Our players work their tails not upon with the iron," Rhodes said. "You can diocese the progress every day in them."

That was apparent with Marshall as he