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Benton High School has hired Kevin Keeton as the school’s new head football coach.

Keeton comes to Benton after serving as an assistant coach at Winnetonka High School. He’s been a coach in the Suburban League for 19 years and has been a head coach at Belton High School and Oak Park High School.

Keeton graduate from Truman High School in 1995 and played football at William Jewell College.

Keeton will be the third head coach in three years at Benton. He replaces Ben Glidewell, who spent one season with the Cardinals and went 2-8. Matt Tabor was the head coach for nine years before stepping down after the 2016 season.