Tiquan Gilmore of Torres (Los Angeles) scored seven touchdowns in a 48-16 victory against Verdugo Hills on Friday night, according to The Los Angeles Times.
The leading rusher in the CIF City Section last season with more than 3,200 yards, Gilmore scored touchdowns rushing, on a punt return, on a kickoff return and on an interception. He had 241 yards rushing.
Here are highlights from last season:
Five-star prospect Micah Parsons is ranked as the No. 1 weak-side defensive end in the Class of 2018 and the No. 5 player overall, according to the 247Sports Composite.
Parsons, a former Penn State pledge, showed why and also showed versatility as he plays offense and defense in high school.
Defensively, he was a big part of why Harrisburg (Pa.) kept defending state champion Imhotep Charter (Philadelphia) scoreless for three quarters.
Offensively, he had four carries for 35 yards and a 22-yard touchdown in which he basically came out of the pile and kept plowing to the end zone.
See the video below:
Jerry Arledge led West Monroe to the Class 5A state championship game last season for the first time as head coach. (Photo: Tom Morris/Special to the News-Star)
West Monroe (La.) principal Shelby Ainsworth confirmed that the LHSAA has suspended head football coach Jerry Arledge for four games and fined the school $5,000 for player tampering.
Isaiah George, was declared ineligible by the LHSAA. In addition to the penalties, West Monroe was also placed on administrative probation for one year.
Ainsworth said West Monroe will appeal the ruling from LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine regarding George’s eligibility, but will not challenge the fine or Arledge’s suspension.
West Monroe self-reported the player tampering violation.
“I believe Mr. Bonine has tried to be fair across the board,” Ainsworth said. “We know there are other schools that have repercussions because of similar things.
“We would love for the appeal to be successful but we’ll see where it goes.”
The LHSAA executive committee meets for the first time this school year on on Wednesday and Thursday.
Arledge declined to comment on his suspension following West Monroe’s 23-6 jamboree win over Neville.
George, a senior defensive back, transferred to Bastrop following the 2016 season before returning to West Monroe this year.
West Monroe has yet to receive a ruling from the LHSAA on the eligibility of Wossman transfer Dalvin Hutchinson, a junior defensive tackle. The LHSAA conducted interviews with school officials last week.
The Rebels could face a postseason ban if it is found to have broken LHSAA rules in the Hutchinson case. Per the LHSAA handbook, a school may be ruled ineligible for the playoffs if it is found to have committed rules violations while on administrative probation.
Wossman challenged Hutchinson’s eligibility on the principal concurrence form the LHSAA requires both schools to complete in all transfer cases.
Ainsworth said West Monroe remains eligible for the Class 5A playoffs.
“I’m surprised we haven’t heard a decision but I can still say we feel very confident about Dalvin’s situation,” Ainsworth said. “We feel terrible for Isaiah but we felt like we did what was best for the student athlete and it didn’t work out right.”
Notre Dame quarterback commit Phil Jurkovec accounted for 356 yards of offense in a little more than a half as Pine-Richland (Gibsonia, Pa.) blanked Wayne (Huber Heights, Ohio), 41-0, Sunday in the final game of the GEICO ESPN High School Kickoff.
The second half was played with a running clock because of the margin.
Jurkovec was 14 for 20 for 250 yards and three touchdowns and also ran for 106 yards and three touchdowns. The highlight run was a 64-yarder in which he pushed away a tackler with a stiff arm. That run was the game’s first touchdown.
Jurkovec also topped 6,000 yards for his career in a total of 19 games. He has 4,483 yards passing and 1,837 yards rushing.
You can’t do better than perfect, and Clemson commit Derion Kendrick had a perfect stat line this weekend: 18-for-18.
Kendrick did not have an incompletion as he threw for 324 yards as No. 11 South Pointe (Rock Hills, S.C.) won 53-0 at Nation Ford (Fort Mill).
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He had TD passes of 42, 6, 62 and 15 yards, respectively. He also scored on a 5-yard run.
Here are the highlights via Hudl.
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Back in 2003, Grayson Boucher left small-town Keizer, Ore., to join the And1 MixTape Tour traveling all over the world breaking ankles and taking names on the hardwood and blacktop. He knew he’d have lots to prove if he was going to live up to his catchy moniker “The Professor”; an alias he earned because he schooled the opposition on the court. Today The Professor is the most well-known streetballer in the world and it virtually unguardable. Now he’s agreed to break down flashy moves every week this summer for hoopers in a blog with USA Today.
Hey guys I’m back again to teach you guys move No. 8!
I know last week’s move, The Stiff Leg Crossover, is treating you guys well on the floor right now so let’s move on to another one of my favorites.
Today we’re gonna learn the Where You Goin’?
I gave it this name because this is the question you ask the defender after they turnaround when you get them with this move.
I like to start in the post because getting the defender to leave their feet is always easiest in the post for me.
I start with a fake drop-step and come back the other way; in the way that Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan started in the post a lot of times.
So you come back and touch the ball with your off-hand, acting as if you’re actually gonna shoot a jump shot with no room between you and the defender.
Now if someone has the confidence to pull up that close to you, chances are the defender is gonna jump. If they don’t it’s still OK because all you actually need them to do is to put their hands up.
OK, so as they’re mid-jump I flip the ball underhand underneath their right shoulder and over their shoulder. You want to flick it in the air about 4 feet.
You’ve gotta do it really fast and make sure it’s behind them so they won’t know where it is.
As they’re coming down they notice you don’t have the ball anymore and the natural inclination is for the defender to turn around while the ball is actually still in the air.
Then you either just catch the ball right back, which is still legal, or to catch the ball mid-air and shoot it from there.
The best part is when you make the shot and they turn back around and you STILL don’t have the ball.
Then they’re all confused!
Of course you have to end it all by saying, “Where you goin’?”
This one is all about timing so read this over again to make sure you’ve got it then get out there and try it until you get it down. Watch the video below because that will help you out a lot.
OK, guys well I’ve had a lot of fun teaching you some of my favorite moves this summer.
With these eight moves I know you’ll be breaking ankles and getting the crowd hype in no time.
As always, hit me up and show me what you’ve got on my pages listed below.
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INDIANAPOLIS — This whole thing, it started on the fifth floor at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health. That’s the oncology ward. This whole thing, it started in Room 6. That’s where Audrey was.
The two girls had never met, didn’t know each other, but they had so much in common. They had hiking and camping. They had community service. Photography. Cross-country running. Cancer.
Kathleen Soller went down the hall with a deck of Uno cards. A nurse at Riley had told her about the girl in Room 6. Her name was Audrey.
By the time Kathleen got to Room 6, Audrey was packing up. She was leaving the fifth floor, leaving Riley. Kathleen had learned about her too late. Audrey was going home.
When Audrey Lupton died six weeks later, Kathleen attended the memorial service at the Historic Landmarks Center. That’s where Kathleen learned how much they had in common. The outdoors. The photography.
The running.
Kathleen and her mom, Joanne Soller, left the memorial in silence.
“We both got in the car and started crying,” Joanne says. “I told Kathleen: ‘It’s like listening to them talk about you.’ She said: ‘I know.’”
Kathleen, a senior cross country runner at Roncalli, had been diagnosed two months earlier with a fast-moving form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, with tumors throughout her torso. Four rounds of chemotherapy had left her numb in places and weak all over, and with sores forming in her mouth. Her hair had fallen out. Her final season of cross-country at Roncalli was over before it could begin.
But sitting in that car, crying with her mom, remembering the girl in Room 6, Kathleen Soller made a decision:
She would run one more race.
She would run it for Audrey.
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Kathleen Soller figured she’d get a pity clap. Those are her words, by the way, and she says them with a big smile and absolutely no self-pity. Whoever finishes near the end of a high school cross-country race, they have a cheering section.
“There’s always a pity clap for the last people,” Kathleen is telling me from Room 18 at Riley Hospital, giggling at herself. “I expected that.”
But she didn’t expect this: Hundreds of people at the finish line of the Triton Central Early Bird Invitational on Aug. 14, boys and girls and coaches and parents from other teams, all of them waiting nearly a half-hour since the winner, Jada Reedus of Franklin Central, had broken the tape in 19 minutes, 39 seconds. Here comes Kathleen Soller off in the distance, and the place explodes in noise.
Kathleen picks up the pace. She will be back at Riley the next day, back on the fifth floor, for her fifth round of chemotherapy. She will be so sore and so tired, 24 hours after running 3.1 miles, that she needs a wheelchair to get down the hall.
But right now? Right now, she’s flying.
She has been running for 48 minutes, heading for 140th out of 142 runners and a time that will be nearly twice as slow as her personal best, and she has not been running alone. Five or six Roncalli teammates, injured and unable to race, took up different spots on the course at Blue River Memorial Park in Shelbyville to hand her water or jog alongside her. Audrey Lupton’s teammates at University High in Carmel also have come, not to run but to support Kathleen. They are waiting on the course, waving signs and sitting on each other’s shoulders and chanting for a girl from Roncalli, a girl they’ve never met.
Kath-leen! Kath-leen!
Every now and then, Kathleen looks down at her right hand. In ruby red marker, she has written “AGL.” She has written “29:15.”
Those are Audrey’s initials. That is Audrey’s personal-best time.
Several days after the race, propped up in her bed in Room 18, Kathleen has tears streaming down her face. I have just asked her why she ran in the Triton Central Early Bird Invitational.
“It was for her,” Kathleen says of Audrey Grace Lupton. “I wanted her to be able to run one last race.”
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Kathleen Soller has to beat cancer first, but she’s made up her mind about that, and also about her school of choice. Her dad went to Notre Dame, and Kathleen has been to so many football games in South Bend. She’s going to Notre Dame, and that’s that.
Stubborn, this girl? You have no idea. She first noticed the cancer more than a year ago, but didn’t tell anyone. Didn’t want to complain. Didn’t know it was cancer, obviously. Asthma, maybe. Midway through the 2016 cross-country season, she’d finish a race and collapse in the arms of her mom and her dear friend, Roncalli senior Grace Murphy.
At school, Kathleen was starting to get winded just walking up a flight of stairs. Then came track season. She ran the 400. She’d always been competitive, but not anymore. Now most girls were crossing the finish line in 60 seconds or so, and there was Kathleen, barely halfway around the track.
On May 11 came one answer. A family doctor found a heart murmur, and then a cardiologist found fluid buildup in her lungs. A CT scan was ordered, and there it was: a large mass in her chest that had been pressing on her trachea, pinching it. Kathleen didn’t go home. She went to Riley. Doctors needed one biopsy to learn more about the tumor, then another, but they wouldn’t put her to sleep for the second procedure.
“They were worried my breathing would stop,” she says.
Local anesthesia wasn’t enough. The sounds of Kathleen’s screams carried down the hall, and when a Riley child-life specialist escorted Kathleen back to her room and her parents, the specialist looked sick and left. She came back 20 minutes later.
“I’m sorry,” the specialist told Joanne Soller. “That was just really hard for me to watch.”
To Kathleen, the specialist said this:
“I know those 15 minutes were hard, but they saved your life.”
A PET scan revealed four cancerous tumors.
“It just glowed all over,” Pat Soller says.
She played Uno. She met Audrey.
“I said hi,” Kathleen is telling me in Room 18. “That’s the only time we spoke.”
She’s crying now, crying for Audrey. She went to that memorial service at Historic Landmarks Center and she made that decision to run one final race for Audrey, and she scheduled her fourth round of chemo to make sure she was available the next day for Roncalli’s annual cross-country camp, a one-day event in Brown County.
Roncalli has rallied around her. There are Kathleen Strong banners on the walls and Kathleen Strong T-shirts on kids wearing Team Kathleen bracelets. Roncalli purchased a bed for her and made room in an office for Kathleen to take naps.
Kathleen doesn’t talk about how hard the cancer has been on her. She talks about how hard it has been on her older brother at Purdue, Ryan, and on her younger sister at Roncalli, Lizzy. She talks about how hard it has been on her parents. She talks about how hard all of this has been for Audrey Lupton’s parents, who came to Blue River Memorial Park to watch a girl they’d never met run a race for their daughter, who died July 6 at age 17.
Kathleen talks about the date of the race: Aug. 14.
“It would have been Audrey’s first day of school,” she says, and now she’s getting emotional again, thinking about a girl she barely knew, a girl who inspired her to run 3.1 miles with four tumors in her torso.
She is an amazing young woman, this Kathleen Soller, an inspiration and an optimist who wears a bracelet that says three words – never give up – as she works on an acrylic landscape in the fifth-floor art room. She is painting a range of snow-covered mountains above a lake, and on her canvas the clouds are white and fluffy, and the skies are blue.
Grundy Center, Ia. — The blue three-ring binder in Dan Breyfogle’s office holds nearly a century worth of football scores.
The Grundy Center High School activity director flips through the fragile pages, stained brown with age, pausing at the pages that list the rivalry with Gladbrook-Reinbeck.
The first entry is 1920, when Reinbeck and Grundy Center played football. The most recent, and presumed last, is 2017. From 1968 on, the scores were recorded here by hand.
Friday had a sense of finality. Shrinking enrollment is causing Gladbrook-Reinbeck, a team that has won back-to-back state championships, to switch from 11-player to 8-player football next season. There’s no way they’ll face each other when Grundy Center still has an 11-player program.
Gladbrook-Reinbeck won 28-7, earning a place in Breyfogle’s blue book Friday.
In the Battle for the Bell, Gladbrook-Reinback went home with the hardware one more time. The result brings the series to 47-42-9, in favor of the Rebels.
“We’re going to put it in the trophy case, because no one’s taking it away,” Gladbrook-Reinbeck coach John Olson told his players in a post-game huddle.
For almost a century, the programs played in one of the longest annual rivalries in the state. It was older than Grundy Center’s high school building, which was constructed in 1957.
War, the Great Depression and weather couldn’t end the historic fall ritual between communities.
The slow trickle of dwindling enrollment did.
“We have 50, 60 or 70 less kids than we did 10 years ago,” Olson said.
Reinbeck and Grundy Center are towns located 9 miles apart. Gladbrook, which later joined with Reinbeck for the 1988-89 school year, added to the rivalry.
Friday night had a historic-last-game feel to it. Alumni from both schools were honored on the field.
For the most part, the series has been intense, but also based on respect for one another.
“Everybody in town shuts their doors and comes to the game,” Breyfogle said. “It’s definitely a part of this community.”
Des Moines East and North own the state’s longest continuous football rivalry. They’ll meet for the 115th time Sept. 15. It’s one of the longest streaks in the nation.
There’s the Highway 5 Rivalry, which will be played for the 106th consecutive year between Albia and Centerville Oct. 6.
Perry and Jefferson (now Greene County of Jefferson) will meet in the Cow Bell Game for the 90th time Oct. 13.
“Athletics thrive on rivalries,” said Heather Hook, a Grundy Center graduate who now plays volleyball at Northern Iowa.
At times, it was like the Montagues and Capulets in cleats. At others, there was gentle teasing between people in the communities.
Nearly 1,000 fans attended Friday’s game, crowding into the bleachers and ringing the chain link fence around the field.
“It’s going to be the game that people talk about 20 years down the road,” Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior Gage Murty said.
The communities share a long history outside of sports. When Reinbeck’s school board was considering reorganizing with another district, it approached Grundy Center first, said Harry Dole, a former principal who still lives across the street from Grundy Center High School.
Iowa had many more rivalries between towns years ago. A switch to district football for most classes in 1992 eliminated many of them.
“The landscape of Iowa high school football has changed,” Breyfogle said.
But hype and anticipation of the matchup between the Rebels and Spartans hasn’t. Grundy Center placed a sign in the school weightroom counting down the days to the game from 100. The dry erase board was wiped and renumbered daily. On game day, it was left blank.
The season opener thrilled students from both schools.
“You could almost compare it to homecoming,” said Sadie Cahalan, a Gladbrook-Reinbeck cheerleader. “The football players are nervous, the cheerleaders are excited, the students are eager to get to the game Friday.”
Gladbrook-Reinbeck player Mason Skovgard was agitated before the game, his father said.
“He paced back and forth for about 15 minutes before we got him to calm down,” Erik Skovgard said.
Players from both teams looked forward to the rivalry for years.
Senior Jordan Hook of Grundy Center saw older players as heroes.
“It was one of my biggest football thrills, looking up to them like they were rock stars,” Hook said.
At the end of the game, Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s 24th consecutive victory dating back to 2015, Mason Skovgard heard the bell ringing as teammates carried it off the field, for what appears to be the last time.
“It sounds really, really good,” Skovgard said.
Tim Shaw’s had a lot of great moments playing football. He competed in a state championship. Started at linebacker for Penn State. Found a role in the NFL as a devastating special teams member.
But nothing — nothing — felt as gratifying as Saturday night. Back at Livonia’s Clarenceville (Mich.) High School, where’d he become a prep star, budding actor and friend to nearly everyone in the community.
Now, here he was, three years after being diagnosed with ALS, settled into a golf cart parked next to the chain-link fence that hugs the football field, smiling and welcoming hundreds of friends and classmates.
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They wanted to shake his hand, to tell him they loved him, to say hello and that they were praying for him.
His first grade teacher swooped in for a hug. His auto shop teacher did, too.
His best friend, whom he met in elementary school, slid next to him on the golf cart for a while. He’d driven up from Cincinnati to be here, next to the grass where Shaw used to set state records for touchdowns and Mandee Garcia used to watch.
“I was actually a cheerleader,” said Garcia.
He had the best seat in the house, at least when he wasn’t somersaulting girls into the Friday night air.
That Shaw, an all-state running back and the best athlete Clarenceville ever produced, became best friends with a male cheerleader tells you something about how comfortable he was with himself. He didn’t want to live the stereotypical jock life.
“I wanted to be different,” he said.
And so, on some winter afternoons, he left basketball practice early to make rehearsal for the school’s spring musical, “Anything Goes,” — he was the lead.
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And after several years of earning A’s in science, in math, he signed up for the school’s auto mechanics class so he could see how the equations he’d mastered revealed themselves in 3D.
He did this despite some who wondered what a future valedictorian might gain from a class that taught a trade. He didn’t care. He just wanted to learn. Meet folks who were not like him. Build relationships.
“I tell you what, I don’t know why I did either of those things, but I love diversity,” Shaw said of his interest in plays and cars. “I love being well-rounded. My parents always encouraged us to try anything that interested us. (And) I wanted to have different friends.”
No wonder then so much of the Clarenceville community funneled onto the football stadium grounds Saturday night to honor him. To serenade him, while he stood on the track at halftime as the school’s athletic director emceed a ceremony to name the stadium after Shaw.
tanding isn’t easy for Shaw, 33, these days. Walking is even harder. So when he made his way from the golf cart to the track to start the ceremony, the crowd howled, then fell silent when he eventually stepped to the mic:
“Family. Team. And community,” he began. “Those are the three things that I learned the most about when I was running up and down this football field.”
Shaw, who was forced to retire from the NFL in 2013 when his muscles began to betray him, spoke for a couple of more minutes about his love of Clarenceville, as humble as ever.
“It’s never been about me,” he told them, the same message he gave to the current team in the pre-game locker room. “I can’t believe this is happening.”
Kevin Murphy, the school’s athletic director, first thought of renaming the stadium after Shaw several years ago, before diagnosis.
“He kept telling me it wasn’t time,” said Murphy.
Every year, when Shaw would return to Livonia to run his free football camp at the school, Murphy would ask again and Shaw would decline. Until this past June, when he finally agreed.
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“He’s our greatest athlete, our most famous alum, he’s made donations and done so much for the community,” said Murphy. “It just fit.”
Murphy had to ask the school board to waive a rule that said facilities couldn’t be named after individuals unless they were deceased. Murphy and the community wanted Shaw to be a part of the night.
“He’s done so many good things for everybody else,” he said.
In some ways, the night was overwhelming for John. He thought about how his son used to be before the disease. He thought about the nature of the ceremony, and that it usually comes to those after death.
“It does seem strange,” he said, pausing to compose himself.
And yet?
“For me, (while) he has some amazing sporting accomplishments, it’s more about the person he is and the character he is. That’s what people remember him for and still do.”
That’s why Tim’s auto shop teacher, Greg Dix, has hopped on his Harley-Davidson with his wife the last three years and driven to Nashville to spend time with Tim.
“I only had him for one class,” said Dix, “and I don’t care a thing about football, but I love that kid.”
And that’s why Gary Steiner drove from Clinton Township on Saturday night, even though he doesn’t know Shaw personally. All he knows is what it feels like to get run over by him.
“I was standing on the goal line and Tim plowed over me,” said Steiner, who played free safety for Macomb Lutheran North. “After he scored he leaned over, stuck out his hand, and asked me if I was OK?”
“No,” Steiner told him.
Of course he wasn’t. His pride had been hurt.
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Still, that moment stuck. How could one of the best backs in the state in the last 25 years be so humble and thoughtful?
He wanted to meet him. Wanted to honor him, too. He wasn’t the only opponent to pay respects Saturday night. Which says plenty about who Shaw is, too.
Steiner had waited until late in the third quarter to approach Shaw and, by then, it was dark. The stadium lights lit up the players on the field but everyone else sat and walked in the shadows.
“From the very beginning we all followed his lead,” said Garcia. “And even though he can’t walk or talk like he used to, he’s still the same guy. We’re still following him.”
Shaw, who’s a Christian and has traveled the world to do mission and volunteer work, used to say that football was the platform God gave him. Now he says that platform is ALS.
That’s true in a sense, as Shaw has written a book, “Blitz Your Life: Stories from an NFL and ALS Warrior,” and has shared his story the last several years to help raise awareness of the disease.
But some don’t need platforms to make a connection. Some have that gift from the start.
“Life, no matter what you do, is about relationships,” said Shaw. “Some of those last a long time. Some are very short. (But I never) wanted to waste time. I don’t want to be fake. I want to (be) real.”
Saturday night, several hundred folks let him know how real he has always been, giving Shaw one of the best moments of his life.
“Very few people get the opportunity to be shown how much they’re loved,” he said. “That’s what I’ve been shown here. It’s very humbling.”
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – A case that slogged through the state court system for more than seven years closed Friday after Bartholomew McInerney, a former baseball coach at St. Rose High School who pleaded guilty last month to exchanging sexual texts with his players in what was said to be an attempt to discourage premarital sex, was sentenced to time served.
Under the provisions of a plea deal McInerney agreed to with the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, McInerney, 51, was not sentenced to probation or required to register as a sex offender after he pleaded guilty last month to 10 counts of fourth-degree child endangerment. However, on Friday, McInerney was sentenced by Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Pedro J. Jimenez to 18 months in prison.
But McInerney received credit for the 872 days he had already served behind bars for an original conviction that was overturned, Jimenez said. That meant the 18-month sentence handed down Friday was already completed, and McInerney, of Spring Lake, was free to go.
McInerney was not required to register as a sex offender because he pleaded guilty to a low-level fourth-degree crime, McInerney’s lawyer, Edward Bertucio, said previously.
McInerney, known as “Coach Bart” when he taught at St. Rose from 1994 to 2007, had been convicted in 2010 on 10 counts of second-degree child endangerment after prosecutors said McInerney encouraged his players via text to masturbate and talk about their sexual activity, sometimes in exchange for money. McInerney was sentenced to 18 years and became an inmate at Southern State Prison in Bridgeton.
While incarcerated, McInerney appealed for a new trial and won in appellate court when judges determined the trial judge gave confusing instructions to the jury. McInerney was released from prison Oct. 11, 2012.
The new trial was scheduled to begin next month. But before it started, McInerney entered a plea deal with the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Along with the conditions of the deal that let McInerney avoid probation and registration, he would also not serve more time than what he had already served.
The case was brought to Middlesex County Superior Court because of the “complicated history of the case,” Bertucio said previously.
“This was not an easy resolution for the state,” Meghan Doyle, a Monmouth County assistant prosecutor, said in court Friday. “The state’s position is the defendant did take advantage as to what the role was as the victims’ coach. However, I think for the first time during this whole process, the victims’ rights have to come first, and it’s because of their position in this case that the state entered this plea.”
Prosecutors said McInerney engaged in sex talk with his players for his own sexual gratification. Bertucio said that was not the case, and that McInerney talked about sexual activity with his players to steer them away from premarital sex and did not seek any kind of sexual thrill.
Bertucio said at the time of the guilty plea in July that negotiations had been taking place for a while, and that the plea deal would help both McInerney and his former players move past a drawn-out legal battle.
USA TODAY High School Sports is bringing back Super 25 Computer regional rankings in football this season as selected by Ken Massey with weekly rankings in five regions — East, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest and West.
SUPER 25 COMPUTER RANKINGS SEARCHABLE BY STATE
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EAST
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Connecticut, Vermont, Virginia, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine.
SOUTHEAST
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina
MIDWEST
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin
SOUTHWEST
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas
WEST
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming
Jatavious Harris, a three-star Tennessee wide receiver commit, showed one of the reasons why he had 26 reported offers with a leaping catch for Baldwin (Milledgeville, Ga.).
The catch came in a season-opening, 14-6 victory against Amboy-LaMoille (Amboy, Ill.).
Here is a video and still photos of the grab.
I'm coming for everything they said I couldn't have
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— Jatavious Harris (@screamtaaye) August 26, 2017
Bag secured
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— Jatavious Harris (@screamtaaye) August 27, 2017
Ir was a rare Tuesday high school football game in Florida, thanks to the weekend rains, but it was memorable for Anthony Cole of Cape Coral.
Cape Coral pulled off a 17-2 statement victory against South Fort Myers, and well, Cole left an impression on at least one would-be tackler.
As seen in the video below from Hudl and the Instagram series of photos by Gannett partner The News Press in Fort Myers, Cole’s hard running knocked the helmet off a defender.
The Super 25 football schedule for games of Aug. 31 to Sept. 2. All times Eastern.
RANKINGS: Super 25 Expert | Super 25 Computer
1. Mater Dei, Santa Ana, Calif. (1-0)
Friday vs. No. 3 Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas), 10.
2. IMG Academy, Bradenton, Fla. (1-0)
Saturday vs. No. 11 Centennial (Corona, Calif.) in San Diego, 10:30.
3. Bishop Gorman, Las Vegas (1-0)
Friday at No. 1 Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.), 10.
4. St. Thomas Aquinas, Fort Lauderdale (1-0)
Friday vs. Piper (Sunrise), 7.
5. St. John Bosco, Bellflower, Calif. (0-1)
Saturday vs. Garces Memorial (Bakersfield) at Mission Viejo, 11.
6. Lake Travis, Austin, Texas (0-0)
Friday at Judson (Converse), 9:30.
7. De La Salle, Concord, Calif. (1-0)
Friday vs. No. 18 St. John’s College (Washington, D.C.), 10.
8. South Pointe, Rock Hill, S.C. (2-0)
Friday at Rock Hill (S.C.), 7:30.
9. Centennial, Corona, Calif. (1-0)
Saturday vs. No. 2 IMG Academy (Bradenton, Fla.) in San Diego, 10:30.
10. DeMatha Catholic, Hyattsville, Md. (0-1)
Friday vs. Avalon School (Gaithersburg), 7.
11. Chandler, Ariz. (1-1)
Friday at Pinnacle (Phoenix), 10.
12. Brentwood Academy, Brentwood, Tenn. (2-0)
Friday at John Paul II (Hendersonville), 8.
13. Allen, Texas (0-0)
Friday vs. Cedar Hill, 8:30.
14. St. Joseph’s Prep, Philadelphia (0-0)
Friday at Jesuit (Tampa), 7:30.
15. Miami Central, Miami (1-0)
Thursday vs. Booker T. Washington (Miami), 7.
16. Grayson, Loganville, Ga. (1-0)
Friday vs. McEachern (Powder Springs), 7:30.
17. Bergen Catholic, Oradell, N.J. (0-0)
Saturday vs. DePaul Catholic (Wayne), 1.
18. St. John’s College, Washington, D.C. (1-0)
Friday at No. 8 De La Salle (Concord, Calif.), 10.
19. Ben Davis, Indianapolis (2-0)
Friday vs. Pike (Indianapolis), 7.
20. St. Joseph Regional, Montvale, N.J. (0-0)
Saturday vs. Deerfield Beach, Fla., 2.
21. Hewitt-Trussville, Trussville, Ala. (0-0)
Friday vs. Callaway (Miss.), 8
22. Bingham, South Jordan, Utah (2-0)
Friday at Herriman, 9.
23. Trinity, Louisville (2-0)
Saturday vs. Moeller (Cincinnati), 1.
24. Pearl, Miss. (2-0)
Friday vs. Northwest Rankin (Brandon), 8.
25. American Heritage, Plantation, Fla. (1-0)
Friday vs. Liberty (Henderson, Nev.), 7:30.
Luke McGuire of No. 23 Trinity (Louisville) has been voted the Super 25 Top Star for games of Aug. 24-27 by readers of USA TODAY High School Sports.
McGuire ran for five TDs in a 42-41 win at Warren Central (Indianapolis) as Trinity knocked off Indiana’s top two big-class programs of the past 15 years. The Rocks beat Carmel in the season opener.
McGuire’s five scoring runs were capped by the eventual game-winner that gave Trinity at 42-35 lead. Trinity scored 35 second-half points.
He had 125 yards on 23 carries in the victory.
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McGuire is the first of the weekly winners and will be part of voting for Super 25 Top Star of the Season in December. Players are only eligible to be named the weekly Top Star once during the season.
Holly Neher of Hollywood Hills (Fla.) made history Thursday night when she became the first girl to throw a touchdown pass in a varsity tackle football game in Florida.
On just her third snap from center, the tiny junior hit Alexander Shelton for a 42-yard score in a 21-7 loss to Hallandale.
MORE: Holly Neher is 5-2 and isn’t shying from playing quarterback
She completed her second pass for 24 yards and finished 2 for 4 for 66 yards. She also absorbed two roughing the passer penalties, according to the Miami Herald.
A North Carolina football team has “adopted” the players and families from a high school team in Texas that was impacted by Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath.
As reported by The Charlotte Observer, East Rutherford High School in North Carolina is raising money and collecting clothes and other donations to send to Dickinson High in Texas. Dickinson’s coach and some players are currently staying in a shelter after damage to their homes.
East Rutherford will wear Dickinson High’s logo on their helmets. East Rutherford beat South Caldwell 47-7 on Wednesday.
The Observer said the idea came from the father of one of East Rutherford’s players. The father has a friend who works in Texas.
It’s a big weekend for football at Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.), as the Monarchs are the No. 1 team in the Super 25 and host three-time defending champion Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas).
But there’s always time for some hoops: Here is Harvard commit Spencer Freedman, ranked as the No. 15 player in California in the Class of 2018, having some fun at the gym with a trick shot.
When regular 3 pointers become boring… 🤷
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