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Friday, Sept. 17, 2010 | 12:48 a.m.
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Bishop Gorman High 63-0 victory Thursday against visiting Sierra Vista was the appetizer to the school’s biggest game of the season next week.
The Gaels travel to Northern California to face De La Salle High, which won a national record 151 consecutive games from 1992 to 2003 and has four times won the national title in the last 12 years.
“We talked about how this compared to a heavyweight fighter,” Gorman coach Tony Sanchez said. “We told them that if you win and play well, you will get a shot at a title. This is a fight (against Sierra Vista) people expected us to win. This was our last week to sharpen up.”
Shaquille Powell had 180 yards and four touchdowns on eight carries and quarterback Anu Solomon completed 8 of 10 passes with three touchdowns. Gorman, like it did last week in a blowout win against Clark, held its first string out of the second half.
Jamir Tillman, one of six sophomore offensive starters, added three catches and a touchdown. Senior Evan Zeger also had a receiving touchdown.
“Last week (against Clark), I didn’t think we played well at all,” Sanchez said. “Tonight we played well.”
I hope Sanchez can iron out the wrinkles by next Saturday. Penalties in the first half is what killed us against Hamilton. Last night is was easy win but waaaay too many stupid penalties for a team of this quality. Those same mistakes can't be afforded against De La Salle. They've lost less than 30 times since the 80's. C'mon gorman get it squared away go up to Concord and bring back some credit to Vegas
It's going to be EPIC.
Does anyone know if the Bishop Gorman - De La Salle game will be on tv in Las Vegas? Thanks!
It's on the CBS College Sports Network @ 8:30 p.m. on Sat. 25th with replays on Sunday:
Cox - ch 333 SD
DirecTV - ch 613
Dish - ch 152
Thanks very much!
I heard that VegasVegas posted a comment and that it contained NO racist references! I had to see it for myself to believe. Maybe there is hope. Is it possible? However, his dislike for student athletes has no bounds. Why don't you stop insinuating that you have some kind of "insider" knowledge and spill? Or is the best you have innuendo? Hmm...
VegasVegas is correct with his first comment. There are also players on the basketball team at Gorman who were held back at least once in Middle School as well, which makes them older than their "peers" of the same grade level. Their best player failed the 7th grade and should be a Senior. It happens all over the country, sometimes intentionally sometimes not. I do believe that there is a maximum age to play high school athletics under NAIA which is 19 so holding anyone back too much wouldn't help at a certain point.