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August 30, 2010
As summer turns to fall, if you are a sports fan, chances are this is your favorite time of the year. It is for me. You have the Major League baseball pennant races heating up and heading down the September home stretch. The NFL is just about ready to launch it season. College football is ready to go. And with all that comes the fall high school sports scene. That means football, soccer, volleyball, cross country, field hockey jump to the top of that list. Myself and all my colleagues here at Prepcasts hope to bring you as much high school action as we can and cover it as well as we can. It is fun, exciting and to me, a privilege to cover the athletic skills high school students (and their coaches) provide. And provide they do! GAME DAY IMPRESSION Hopefully I will get to cover a game a week involving one sport or another. This week I was at Lindbergh for the football game with Oakville. The player that was the "Caught My Eye" award winner was Lindbergh defensive linebacker Tony Robinson. He had speed, aggressiveness, never quit on a play and his pursuit of the ball carrier was relentless. If you had the ball...you were going to be tackled! He was a Prepcasts Player of the game! Check all the Prepcasts Players of the Game for all the games of the week! TOUGH, BUT GREAT FIRST GAME. I loved seeing a first game of a season being one that is a marquee showing. When two-time defending Class 6 champion and the state’s second-ranked Hazelwood Central opened with fifth ranked (in the state) DeSmet-- that draws attention. Then, you get an exciting game that lives up to its billing-- that's exciting too. Despite six turnovers, Hazelwood Central prevailed 20-19. Michael Jordan hauled in the winning 26-yard touchdown catch From Jamal Flowers with just over three minutes to play to seal the victory. He and Flowers had another 20 yard TD catch in the first quarter. Second half injuries to key players hurt the DeSmet chances in the second half but kudos to both schools for opening the football season on a high note. If there was a crazier or more bizarre finish than the CBC-Fort Zumwalt West let me know about it. CBC had tied the game with 56 seconds remaining on a touchdown pass from Dalton Demos to Kyron Norman. The ensuing PAT by Matt Hanson put the Cadets up by a point at 34-33. But West, with the aid of two pass interference penalties and a bungled field goal attempt on third down that they managed to turn into an incompletion, rallied for a fourth down field goal from Justin Montgomery to grab victory from defeat and a 36-34 win. Another exciting win was found in the AAA conference by St. Mary's. In overtime, the Dragons posted a 24-23 road win over Lutheran St. Charles after the Cougars had tied the game with a field goal as time expired in regulation!
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