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Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 | 11:25 p.m.
Prep Sports Now
Orange wedges, weekly $5 bet and Patriot respect
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Las Vegas Sun sports reporters Ray Brewer and Case Keefer take a look around the Las Vegas high school football scene. They give their picks for the upcoming week and discuss the merits of eating orange wedges on long gameday road trips.
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A number of Bishop Gorman backups were able to score touchdowns in a 69-0 victory over Pahrump Valley Thursday, including Nathen Starks, Tajon Allen, Kenyan Coker, Lorenzo Fertitta and Nicco Fertitta.
Gorman was able to play most of its roster after going up 35-0 late in the first quarter on the road.
“Any time you have an opportunity to play that many kids, it’s a good deal,” Bishop Gorman coach Tony Sanchez said. “Offensively and defensively, they took care of business.”
The Gaels' usual stars like Shaquille Powell and Anu Solomon had their fun early in the game. Powell had four carries for 119 yards and two touchdowns. Solomon threw for touchdowns on 4-for-5 passing and eclipsed the 100-yard mark.
Two of Solomon’s favorite targets, Ryan Smith and Jamir Tillman, found the end zone.
Defensive standouts included sophomore linemen Isaiah Nacua and Zack Singer. Junior safety Anthony Buford notched an interception.
“I know some people thought we would come out and look sloppy, but they didn’t at all,” Sanchez said. “They played well.”
Case Keefer can be reached at 948-2790 or case.keefer@lasvegassun.com. Follow Case on Twitter at twitter.com/casekeefer.
Same old comments every week. Your obsession with Gorman is borderline scary. Believe it or not the score could have been run sky high but it wasn't, what are the kids supposed to do, deliberatley fumble so that they wont score? How is Gorman cheating? They are a private school and thus able to enroll anyone that qualifies. That isn't cheating, that is playing within the rules. Magnet schools are now doing the same thing, which would actually be cheating.
Move on and find something else to constantly complain about.
SG1...i used to give you credit and at least respected your opinion but we're in week 7 now and not once have you ragged on any other blow outs. And there have been plenty. You're just mad at Gorman, mad at this town (i've read a lot of your comments not just football.. i hate vegas too but most of your comments remind me of my unhappy, miserable and always complaining about things- grandpa)
Like i've said a million times, if you complained about assumed, suspected, perceived NIAA violations by Rancho Baseball, Palo Football, Centennial Girls basketball etc.. etc... just once then maybe you wouldn't just come off as the miserable unhappy guy that exist in every town in this country and argues the public/private debate.
I hear you whine about Gorman the fact that they can offer financial assistance and aren't restricted by zones... I've yet to see you complain about Faith Lutheran or Agassi Prep.. oh wait you'll only do that when they start winning. You didn't complain when Bishop Manogue had their huge upset win over Gorman basketball at state semi final.. wait they recruit and play by different rules too why aren't you complaining then?
Nobody says you don't have an argument but you chop away at your own credibility when you're so blatantly one sided. Gorman basketball is about to dominate locally and i'll expect your rants but when for the umpteenth time this decade Centennial Girls basketball is beating other schools 78-6, 70-8, 67-11 (actual scores from seasons past) i'll know your input will be nowhere to be found.
I went to Gorman, I attend the games and I agree with you 100% that money doesn't equal class (i present Floyd Mayweather and his entire family as exhibit A) But for you to say that the class of people is complete trash is quite an assumption of an entire group of people, most of which you do not know. You can't make an ignorant comment like that and expect your valid argument to be taken seriously. Critic, but don't shoot yourself in the foot at the same time sir. You- saying that the parents at Gorman are complete trash and have no class is like me saying every non-magnet program student at Rancho is illegal, or every Canyon Springs student is on welfare and their parents have no college education. Those would be ignorant comments like the one you displayed above.
Remove Palo, Gorman, Moapa Valley and Liberty football from this website and there goes 1/2 the people that read this section. Have you seen how many comments are posted on the Review Journal's prep website? I'd love to see the Alexa ratings to Nevadapreps compared to the HS Football section here. Nobody comments over there. The Sun has great HS coverage and I appreciate it greatly. Not just the Gorman coverage every team coverage.
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The only people that pick up the paper and see "Del Sol..Valley...Durango.. Football etc..." and care are 99% current students and parents. Palo, Basic, Gorman, Moapa, Liberty etc.. garner insterest from much more than current student parents they've got more alum etc.. that care to read.. hence they get headlines more often.
Plus if you have maybe 5-6 programs in this entire town that people outside the student body care about, and one of them happens to have gotten national recognition over the last two years, i see a perfect reason why you'd have them in the news more often than not. When Centennial girls baskeball gets 80% of the girls basketball stories, i wont complain, they should they're the dominant program that's the one people read about. Seriously like You're miserable. Go to a Del Sol home game and see how many people show up their games. If 100 people show up to a game then maybe 1 will buy the paper and read about their team. I feel for those hard working kids at schools like Del Sol, Canyon, Clark etc... they work hard, but if their own student body doesn't care who will buy a paper to read about them? I do, i keep up with all teams in town but there's relatively few in this town that keep up with High School football unless their kid plays.
If Gorman sucked like Faith or didn't exist i have no doubt you'd be on here complaining about Palo, Vegas, Centennial etc...
I'm not saying to stop posting or stop complaining but do yourself a favor and don't expect to be taken seriously when you voice your concerns like a 5 year old who wants candy. You're a grown a$$ man (i assume) present your argument as such or don't complain when you're ridiculed, ignored or dismissed as (i hate using this word) a "hater"
They are a private school, they can recruit. How about certain magnet schools that have recruited almost whole AAU teams, when it's obvious not all of those kids would have qualified or been picked by lottery. You don't complain about that. You are so sure that Gorman is cheating with athletic funding, then prove it. Sounds to me like you are just bitter. Were you or your child not accepted to the school so now you have to bad mouth them every chance you get? Grow up
Lets all be thankful that the schools that can't compete and whine all the time will be in 3A next year.....Now if your zoned for a 3A school and want to play 4A ball you can go to the nearest 4A zoned school no problem, the field is even next year, lets see if you can compete now.
"SG-no one" will continue to rant on this site. He'll continue to make base-less allegations. He'll continue to claim he's intelligent. Ha! He's just a moron on a dusty soap box. He's the only one on here who has a history of bashing the KiDS while hiding in his basement.
His comments clearly demonstrate his lack of class and only recently changed his ignorant postings and quit naming specific kids! Clearly he's someone who got picked on and laughed at in school and probably in his every day life. Maybe he's the Fertitta's butler! Makes sense though.
To all the HS kids busting their butts: keep hustling!
Just ridiculous that Pahrump is in the same division with Gorman. Not good for Pahrump or Gorman to be playing each other. Not good for Southern Nevada high school football to have such ridiculous blowouts. Like i have posted before, I believe the best solution for good competitive football would be for the Niaa to have a 10 team 5a football only cnference made up of Gorman, Liberty, Palo Verde, Arbor View, Cimmeron, Centinnial, Las Vegas, Cheyenne, Del Sol and Canyon Springs.
I don't know if Gorman cheats or not, but they certainly don't play by the same rules that the rest of the CCSD schools do. Gorman doesn't have to worry about zones, for example.
As far as the character of these people, it isn't always positive. One year, the high school I work at hosted Gorman for homecoming (oops, our mistake). After destroying us on the field, they then went back to the locker room, where they urinated on everything.
I'm sick of hearing about Gorman, personally. Nobody wants to play them. How do you think the Pahrump kids felt after losing that badly? The Sun should focus on the many great, hard-fought and competitive games between other schools rather than report on Gorman blowouts. Let us know when there actually is a competitive game, instead of a blowout that only the most arrogant players would enjoy. That's not competition, it's a crime scene. High School sports is first about learning the game and building character, NOT winning.