Topic: HZ: Haig Solid in Opening Performance

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By JACK BOGACZYK
HERDZONE.COM COLUMNIST

HUNTINGTON – Among the punters and placekickers coming into Marshall’s 2012 football preseason camp, redshirt sophomore Justin Haig was the known quantity … well, sort of.
 
Among four kickers competing for three jobs – kickoffs, field goals/PATs and punting – Haig was the only one with experience.
 
He was the Thundering Herd’s kickoff man last season, but with 2011 senior Tyler Warner going 12-of-15 on field goals, Haig had only two FG tries, hitting a 24-yarder in a big win at Louisville before a bad snap and worse rain at UCF doomed a 40-yard try.
 
Haig won the placement and kickoff jobs in a 2012 camp duel with redshirt freshman Trent Martin, and in Saturday’s Friends of Coal Bowl loss to West Virginia, did nothing to show that Coach Doc Holliday and his staff had picked the wrong guy.

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