Jake Fromm and Jack West both threw with former Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron over President’s Day weekend (Photo: Twitter)

Apparently, tossing the pigskin around with A.J. McCarron was not enough for Jake Fromm to remain a future member of the Crimson Tide.

Fromm announced Thursday on Twitter that he was flipping his commitment from Alabama to Georgia.

A four-star recruit from Houston County in Warner Robbins, Ga., Fromm noted in his announcement that it “feels good to be home.”

Interestingly, the moves comes after he was on the Alabama campus last weekend for Junior Day.

He is ranked as the No. 4 pro-style QB in the Class of 2017 and the No. 6 player from Georgia by the 247Sports Composite rankings.

He had committed to Alabama during a campus visit in October. Kirby Smart, then the Tide’s defensive coordinator, was the assistant coach who recruited Fromm to Alabama. Now the Georgia head coach, Smart offered Fromm shortly after he changed jobs.

He is the third decommit in the Class of 2017 for Alabama.

Blair Academy sophomore Andrew Merola won a National Prep championship (Photo: Vincent Carchietta, USA TODAY Sports)

Blair Academy (Blairstown, N.J.) all but wrapped up the national title Saturday by winning its 35th National Prep School Wrestling Championship in the last 36 years.

The Buccaneers won the team championship with 322 points to 288 for No. 2 Wyoming Seminary (Kingston, PA) to remain No. 1 in the latest USA TODAY High School Sports/National High School Coaches Association Super 25 wrestling rankings.

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Blair had seven individual champs — Michael Colaiocco (106 pounds), Chris Cannon (113 pounds), Carol Van Der Merwe (132 pounds), Andrew Merola (145 pounds), Ryan Karoly (160 pounds), Brandon Dallavia (170 pounds) and Chase Singletary (195 pounds).

SEM, which has finished runner-up in seven of the last eight National Prep championships, had four individual champs. In 2014, Seminary beat Blair, which snapped the Bucs run for 33 straight national titles.

The return to the top of the heap for Blair comes after it began the season finishing second to Wyoming Seminary in the Ironman in Ohio, which knocked the Bucs out of the No. 1 spot in the preseason rankings. Then in January, Blair beat the Blue Knight 35-20 in their annual dual meet.

Graham (St. Paris, Ohio) remains at No. 3 and new No. 4 Bergen Catholic (Oradell, N.J.) and No. 5 Bethlehem Catholic (Bethlehem, Pa.) flipped places to round out the Top 5.

Also shaping the latest rankings was Washington (Ill.) winning the Illinois 2A dual team title. In the semifinals, Washington beat former No. 13 and previously undefeated Mount Carmel (Chicago). Washington moves up one spot this week to No. 15.

Apple Valley (Minn.) won its 11th straight Minnesota Class AAA Team Dual Championship by beating No. 20 St. Michael-Albertville (Albertville) 31-26 in the finals, which moves AV from No. 15 to No. 14 in the latest rankings.

The final matchups have been set in the #DreamFearlessly Fan Vote and voting is underway to determine which high school basketball players will earn the final spots at the American Family Insurance High School Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championships in Houston.

Fans can vote at amfam.com/dreamfearlesslyfanvote through Tuesday, March 8 with the winners to be announced Thursday, March 10. Video highlights of each competitor on the web site will help determine the choice.

Thus far, the survivors have made it through three rounds of voting, setting up final matchups for the dunk contest, the boys three-point shooting contest and the girls three point shooting contest.

The American Family “Fearless Dreamers” will join the field of entrants that has been determined for the April 1 event that will air on CBS during the weekend of the men’s Final Four.

Here are the finalists in the #DreamFearlessly vote:

SLAM DUNK

It’s a battle of Elijah’s as Elijah Thomas from Sunrise Mountain in Arizona faces off with Elijah Pemberton from Cheshire Academy in Connecticut.

Thomas is a 6-5 guard/forward who narrowly advanced with 50.06% of the vote in the semifinal round against Carson Wilson from Owen County High (Owenton, Ky.). Thomas is ranked as the No. 3 player in the state of Arizona by the 247Sports Composite rankings and has signed with St. Mary’s (Calif.)

Pemberton is a 6-4 shooting guard originally from Yonkers, N.Y., who has signed to play at Hofstra. He won his semifinal match with 56.62% of the vote against Cameron Satterwhite of Westview High (Avondale, Ariz.). He previously played at Gilbert Christian before his family moved.

GIRLS THREE-POINT 

Sam Caruth of Faith Lutheran in Nevada squares off against Nicole Beavers from Mount Zion, Ill.

The 5-8 Caruth shot 36% on three-pointers this season and averaging 17.6 points. She advanced with 50.4% of the vote in the semifinals against Aleena Derossett from Bolivar (Mo.). Caruth finished with a game-high 28 points last weekend to help Faith Lutheran win the Nevada Division I-A state title.

Beavers stands 5-6 and shot 34% from three-point range and set a school record with 81 three-pointers this season. She averaged 9.1 points per game. She advanced with 52.04% of the vote in a semifinal against Janessa Paredes from Beckman High in California.

BOYS THREE-POINT

The final pits Drew Kelly from East Burke High in North Carolina against Ian Mumford from Keys Gate in Florida.

The 6-2 Kelly shot 47% on three this season and averaged 20.6 points per game. In the semifinals, he had a commanding victory against Derek Haber of Tekamah-Herman in Nebraska.

The 5-10 Mumford shot 52% on threes and averaged 12.2 points per game for Keys Gate. He pulled out a narrow victory with 50.96% of the vote in the semifinals against Torrence Williams of Nansemond River in Virginia.

Wali Parks had seven points in Iowa City West’s Class 4A substate final victory against Iowa City High, and these two were of the spectacular variety.

Here is the video courtesy of our friends at Courtside Films.

Here is still photograph of the play from Bill Adams, shooting for Gannett partner the Iowa City Press-Citizen.

West High senior Wali Parks (10) dunks the ball over City High senior Micah Martin (51) in the first quarter (Photo: Bill Adams, For the Iowa City Press Citizen)

The Trojans make their sixth consecutive trip to the state tournament when they face No. 3 Des Moines Hoover in the quarterfinals on March 9.

De’Anthony Melton signed with Southern California in the fall and is ranked as the No. 22 shooting guard in the Class of 2016 by Scout.com.

Watch this video as he basically goes coast to coast, dribbling around defenders, and then throws down a two-handed dunk for Crespi Carmelite (Encino, Calif.).

A teen ice hockey player has been charged with assault causing bodily injury after another player sustained a concussion in what was billed as a “non-contact” event in Ottawa, police told The Ottawa Sun on Thursday.

The name of the 17-year-old who was charged Feb. 23 is not being released. Police said the event was Jan. 17 and they began an investigation Jan. 20 after receiving a complaint.

Police said the incident occurred at the other end of the ice, away from the play. “It wasn’t a hockey play. The victim wasn’t expecting to be hit,” Ottawa police Const. Marc Soucy told the Sun.

This is the third youth hockey player to be charged in the last six weeks.

A 17-year-old was charged with assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm on Jan. 25 and a 13-year-old was charged with assault with a weapon and uttering threats after a confrontation between two youth players in a Junior A game.

Here is a unique record: Legacy Charter (Ocoee, Fla.) sophomore Gehrig Chambless is believed to have equaled a national record with four triples in a game, according to The Orlando Sentinel.

According to the National Federation of State High School Associations record book, five other players have had four triples in a game. The most recent was Todd Barker of Ehret (Marrero, La.)  in 2001.

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In order to make the Federation record book, the record will need to be certified.

Legacy beat Wildwood 32-2 and Chambless had 10 runs batted in and scored six runs.

Miles Bridges and coach Arkell Bruce post with Bridges’ banner for being selected to the Jordan Brand Class (Photo: Jordan Brand Classic)

It was Senior Night at Huntington Prep in West Virginia on Thursday night and among those in the stands was Michigan State coach Tom Izzo. Izzo was there to see Miles Bridges, the star of his star-studded recruiting class.

Bridges, ranked No. 6 in the Class of 2016 by ESPN.com, was honored with a banner during the Jordan Brand Classic Senior Night presented by American Family Insurance before Huntington Prep’s 116-59 victory against Deeper Life Academy. The team’s three other seniors took part in the presentation as well.

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Miles Bridges is surrounded by his teammates on Senior Night (Photo: Jordan Brand Classic)

A star player for H.D. Woodson (Washington, D.C.) was shot in his neighborhood hours after Woodson won a double-overtime thriller in the D.C. State Athletic Association tournament semifinals, according to The Washington Post.

Coach Trey Mines told The Post that Kavon Montgomery, 17, was in the hospital early Thursday after being shot in the back near his home in Northeast Washington. Mines said Montgomery was an innocent bystander in the incident and was released Friday morning without serious injury.

The police declined to identify Montgomery, a 6-2 senior forward, because he is a juvenile but confirmed they were investigating a shooting in that area.

“I was scared, but nothing went in,” Mines told The Post. “More like a flesh wound. It’s a real sour ending to everything that’s gone on so far, but luckily it wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been.”

Woodson beat Gonzaga College High 105-102 at the Verizon Center. The unbeaten Warriors (32-0) play Friendship Collegiate on Sunday and are bidding for a third consecutive D.C. title.

Cassius Stanley is 6-5 and is only a freshman, but his highlights continue to amaze.

Here is a look at mixtape from BallIsLife.com from Stanley’s freshman year at Harvard-Westlake in Southern California.

Even greater than being ranked No. 1 in the nation to Chandler (Ariz.) Basha junior quarterback Ryan Kelley is to be ranked as a dual threat.

Kelley, who committed to Oregon, is rated by ESPNas the No. 1 2017 dual-threat quarterback in the nation. It’s been tough to shed the pocket-passer label.

“I’m stoked, blessed, and I’m glad they moved me to a dual threat,” Kelley told The Arizona Republic. “I thought I was super underrated as a runner.”

ESPN lists him at 6-foot-3, 178 pounds. But Basha coach Gerald Todd said that Kelley recently was measured at 6-4 and 187 pounds.

“He has worked hard on his speed, strength, technique,” Todd said. “In the PAC (Pac-12), he’s got an opportunity to really do something, and he isn’t taking it for granted.

“When that ranking came out, he said he was going to work even harder. He has always had the arm strength and accuracy. When he was a sophomore, he was kind of gangly. Now he’s filling out and he’s getting stronger and faster.”

Kelley took part in The Opening Regional event in Los Angeles last weekend and spent time with USA TODAY Sports’ David Schmulenson in the video above.

Bishop Gorman’s Tate Martell tries to elude a tackle against Reed during the state playoffs (Photo: Jason Bean, Reno Gazette Journal)

The nation’s largest 7on7 football tournament is returning to Las Vegas this weekend with top-tier recruits dotting virtually every team’s roster.

Organizers say the Pylon Elite 7v7 Las Vegas National has attracted 120 teams in the high school division for players in the Classes of 2017, ’18 and ’19; 42 teams for seventh and eighth graders; and 13 teams for fifth and sixth graders. In all, players from 17 states as well as British Columbia will compete Saturday and Sunday.

Pylon puts on regional events leading to the national championship July 4 in Dallas, but the Las Vegas event is the biggest attraction on the circuit. The winner this weekend will qualify for Dallas.

“This event is more a national draw in terms of teams,” said Baron Flenory, the co-founder and event director for Pylon 7v7, citing teams coming from as far as Florida, Texas and Hawaii.

Pool plays begins Saturday for seeding purposes and then all the teams come back Sunday for a single-elimination event.

“This is the biggest event by a lot,” said Scout’s Greg Biggins. “To win the whole thing is really a grind. These kids are playing a ton of games on Sunday to keep advancing.”

Participation has grown in part because of Pylon’s partnership to bring 7v7 to the AAU Junior Olympic Games for the first time. The Junior Olympics are July 27-Aug. 6 and will feature a total of 72 teams divided among the three divisions.

“It’s certainly had a really good impact on participation and perception and profile of Pylon,” Flenory said. “We are the founders of the 7 on 7. We’ve putting in that work for the last decade and things are coming to fruition. The (Junior Olympics) is a confirmation that 7 on 7 is a popular sport, it’s exciting and here to stay.

“A lot of teams are very interested in the Junior Olympics. Teams are booking transportation and making plans for it.”

Heading into the Las Vegas National, here are 10 players to watch among those expected to attend. Organizers have not put out an official list of rosters as of Friday afternoon.

• Najee Harris, RB, Antioch, Calif.: The No. 1 player in the Class of 2017 according to Scout, Harris is an Alabama commit who was one of only two juniors on the American Family Insurance ALL-USA First Team last fall. He will play for Sacramento-based TMP Elite. “He’s a running back, but he’s still a dominant player in 7 on 7,” Biggins said.
• Josh Falo, TE, Inderkum (Sacramento): The No. 6 tight end in the class also will play for TMP Elite. He recently got some attention in scouting circles when he said Cal was sending him 10 letters per day.
• Tate Martell, QB, Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas): The Texas A&M commit who earned an invite to the Elite 11 last week at the Los Angeles Regional is back on his home turf now. Among his teammates with 702 Elite are his Gorman teammates RB Biaggio Ali-Walsh and Brevin Jordan.
• Stephen Carr, RB, Summit (Fontana, Calif.): Carr will play for the defending champions Ground Zero and is ranked as the No. 2 running back recruit in the nation. He is committed to USC, at least for now.
• Thomas Graham, CB, Rancho Cucamonga (Calif.), Olaijah Griffin, CB, (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Jaiden Woodbey, S, St. John Bosco (Bellflower, Calif.). Ground Zero will have an elite-level defensive backfield with this trio. Graham is ranked as the No. 4 corner in the 2017 class, Griffin and Woodbey are both four-star prospects in the Class of 2018.
• Chaz Ah You, S, Westlake (Saratoga Springs, Utah): He is ranked as the No. 6 safety in the class and the No. 1 safety in the West by Scout.com. He will be among the key players from Team Utah.
• Darnay Holmes, CB, Calabasas (Calif.): He is ranked as the No. 1 cornerback in the nation and the No. 2 player at any position in the state of California by the 247Sports Composite rankings. Holmes is highly coveted with a number of West Coast schools leading his list heading into his planned June announcement. He will play for ProWay Training and could be the best defensive player at the event.
• Tyjon Lindsey, WR, Centennial (Corona, Calif.): The former Gorman receiver returns to Las Vegas and will be part of ProWay Training. Lindsey was named the MVP at wide receiver in last weekend’s The Opening regional in the Los Angeles area.

The players from Bloomington and Grand Terrace were ready to determined the CIF-Southern Section Division 6 girls soccer title Friday. And then suddenly there was no game and Grand Terrace was named the champion by forfeit.

The reason: Bloomington was determined to have used a player who was ineligible due to academics and she had played in the previous four rounds of the playoffs, according to the Sun Bernardino Sun. That prevented officials from simply advancing Bloomington’s semifinal opponent into the final against Grand Terrace.

“It’s just a circumstance where the only result is (for) them to forfeit and us to be declared the champion,” Grand Terrace coach Ryan Pacheco told The Sun. “Now, we’ll take it. And I’m sure as time goes by that the girls will appreciate it, but it’s not the way we wanted to do things.”

Pacheco said after the forfeit was determined, his players said they wanted to play the game anyway given the rivalry between the schools.

The title was the first Southern Section crown in school history for Grand Terrace and the team advanced to the state regionals on Tuesday.

“It was an oversight, an ineligible player,” said Bloomington athletic director Chris Brickley. “It’s really hard.”

Grande Terrace lost twice to Bloomington in the regular season.

Miller Grove (Lithonia, Ga.) won six consecutive state titles before falling short of the ultimate prize a year ago. But Miller Grove is back.

The No. 24 team in the Super 25, Miller Grove won the Class AAAAA state title Friday night 50-48 against Allatoona (Acworth) at the Macon Coliseum. Aaron Augustin had 16 points, four assists and four steals and UConn-bound All-American Alterique Gilbert had 15 points, four assists and five steals.

Miller Grove’s Naquante Hardy made a layup with 2:37 left to break a 44-44 tie and give the Wolverines (30-2) the lead for good. But they didn’t secure the outcome until Colin Young’s steal with five seconds left.

Allatoona was unable to get off a shot on its final possession.

A year ago when Chapin faced Lexington in boys lacrosse in South Carolina, star midfielder Jack Enright’s life changed.

A freak collision in a March game and Enright crumpled to the turf. He wasn’t moving. Paramedics rushed to the scene and took him to the hospital.

Doctors determined he had broken his neck and had damage to his spinal cord. He could not move from the waist down. The diagnosis was that he would have a 10 percent chance to walk again.

But through determination, a fighting spirit and support from his community and beyond, Enright was able to stand months after the accident. He was home by July and he attended the first day of his senior year in August.

Chapin and Lexington played lacrosse again Friday night.

Enright, in his wheelchair, and the team captains from Chapin went to midfield at halftime. Players from both teams lined the sidelines. Fans in the stands, the players, the officials — everyone applauded.

Enright rose from his wheelchair and acknowledged the crowd.

Enright is continuing his senior year at Chapin. He hopes to be able to go on the senior trip to Mexico this spring, he told Fox Sports. He already has been accepted to Clemson.

“What I’m aiming for is to get back to normal, to how I was,” he told Fox Sports last fall. “And hopefully act like this whole thing never happened.”

Osiris St. Brown from Mater Dei (Santa Anita, Calif.) is ranked as the No. 13 wide receiver in the nation and the No. 10 player in the state of California regardless of position by the 247Sports Composite rankings.

His brother, Amon-Ra St. Brown, is a sophomore who already has five offers from Notre Dame and Alabama, among others.

If the last name sounds familiar, their older brother is a freshman wide receiver at Notre Dame. Their father, John Brown, twice won Mr. Universe and won Mr. World three times.

Osiris and Amon-Ra took part in The Nike Opening regional event in the Los Angeles area last weekend where USA TODAY Sports’ David Schmulenson caught up with them in the video above.

Three senior football players at Conestoga High in suburban Philadelphia were charged in a hazing incident involving a freshman, prosecutors said Friday, according to Philly.com.

The football team took part in weekly rituals in which players considered certain sexual behavior allowed. Prosecutors say the team called it, “No-Gay Thursday.”

Prosecutors say the assault took place in October when two of the seniors held the freshman down and the third penetrated his rectum with a broom handle. The players were charged with assault, unlawful restraint, making terroristic threats, and related offenses. All were charged as juveniles.

Thomas P. Hogan, the Chester County district attorney, told Philly.com that he did not charge the players with a sex crime after consulting with the victim and his family.

The victim, who told his father of the assault last month, is no longer enrolled at the school.

The school district said in a statement that will be open an investigation that will include looking at the “level of supervision by the coaching staff.”  Football coach John Vogan has been suspended, the district said. When contacted by philly.com, he said he could not comment and referred question to the school district. Prosecutors said the coaching staff said they were not aware of the hazing rituals.

Prosecutors said “No-Gay Thursday” has been taking place for at least three years. Among the alleged incidents were upperclassmen putting their genitals on younger players’ heads, forcing student to strip to their underwear and cleaning the locker room and smacking students on their butts hard enough to leave marks.

MACON, Ga. — The organization in charge of the Georgia high school basketball championships admitted that 14 winners were crowned on a court that wasn’t set up to standards.

The Georgia High School Association (GHSA) released a statement Saturday evening that they had seen reports circulating that the goals were set up in the incorrect position at the Macon Centerplex where the day’s championship basketball games took place. Those reports, it turns out, were correct.

But GHSA officials said that the games were still fair.

“The goals were the same distance into the court at both ends of the floor,” said GHSA Executive Director Gary Phillips. “The playing conditions were exactly the same for both teams on the court and for all of the 14 championship games that were played. So I can’t see any reason we would consider changing the outcomes.”

The Marietta Daily Journal was the first to report that the stanchions that hold up the baskets were placed roughly 1 foot farther back from regulation.

Ernie Yarbrough, the GHSA’s coordinator of basketball, told the Daily Journal that officials were made aware Saturday afternoon of the discrepancy. He said because the tournament was running behind schedule, they opted against fixing it because it would take an hour to move the stanchions.

Phillips said that GHSA staff watched the games very closely to check for any “appreciable effect” on the shooting or play of the teams. The staff didn’t notice any issues and said teams involved still performed well from the free throw line.

“While this certainly was not an ideal situation or one that we wanted to happen, we think the conditions were fair for all the teams,” Phillips said. “We have plans to make sure this never happens again, but we have no plans to change anything that happened this week in Macon.”

Yarbrough said officials from the Macon Coliseum were responsible for setting up the court.

According to the Daily Journal, the 28 teams over three days shot 59% from the free throw line and 20% on three-pointers.

Contributing: Christopher B. Buchanan, 11Alive

Linton-Stockton (Linton, Ind.) won its fourth consecutive section title in Indiana, but it took overtime — and lots of them.

In the end, Linton’s Pierce Jackson hit a three-pointer at the buzzer in the fifth overtime for the 43-40 win against South Knox (Vincennes, Ind.) that set off the celebration.

Here is another angle in slow motion:

With the win Linton-Stockton (23-3) will advance in the Indiana state playoffs.

The Duncanville (Texas) girls basketball team won its third state title in four years and finished the fifth perfect season with an easy 76-42 victory against Dekaney (Spring) in the UIL 6A final in San Antonio.

Duncanville, ranked No. 2 in the Super 25, posted a 39-0 record to go along with unbeaten seasons in 1989, 1990, 1997 and 2013, according to The Dallas Morning News. Duncanville was so dominant that its closest game was nine points.

The season ends for Duncanville here because the UIL does not allow its teams to participate in events beyond the state championship, so it is not eligible for the DICK’S Sporting Goods Nationals in New York.

Zarielle Green was named the game’s Most Valuable Player with 25 points, six rebounds and five assists. Ciera Johnson, a McDonald’s All American headed to Louisville, had eight points and 14 rebounds. Madison Townley had 14 points and eight rebounds.

In what might be the most amazing stat of the game: Dekaney was 3 for 34 from the field in the first half. And there is no doubt that is a good team. Dekaney entered at 37-1, winning 37 in a row after losing the opener.