Comeback kid: Warriors senior battles back from injuries, leads defense

By MIKE BEAS
Daily Journal sports writer
First Posted: October 04, 2012 - 12:56 am
Last Updated: October 04, 2012 - 12:58 am

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Whiteland senior line backer Cody Starnes performs a drill during practice Tuesday Oct. 2, 2012 at Whiteland High School. STAFF PHOTO BY SCOTT ROBERSON/sroberson@dailyjournal.net

Cody Starnes finished the 2010 season with 63 tackles, a number that would apparently be accompanied by one of those sky-is-the-limit taglines for a sophomore linebacker starting for a Class 5A football program.

The future was his. All his. But he would have to wait.

During the first practice of the 2011 season, Starnes, then a Whiteland junior counted on by Warriors coach Darrin Fisher to be the one of the team’s defensive leaders, tore his left ACL.

The subsequent surgery sidelined Starnes for the season.

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