The Gaels racked up 585 yards of offense as top-ranked Bishop Gorman rolled to its ninth consecutive league title with a 70-3 whipping of the Panthers for the Southwest League crown.
Football
This is my favorite week of the prep football season.
The Division I-A Southern Region playoffs begin, there are two league titles up for grabs, and all the games are Thursday because of Nevada Day.
Here is the latest Southern Nevada Football Coaches Poll.
The sign on the outside of the athletic training center adjacent to Bishop Gorman’s football field celebrates the team’s 2014 national football championship.
The final opportunity to impress computer polls and human polls and any other entity that claims to know which are the nation’s finest high school football teams each season came for Bishop Gorman on Friday night, when the Gaels hosted a perennial power from New Jersey, complete with tough kids and one of those quintessential East Coast booster/hanger-on/Jersey Guys strolling the sidelines.
Biaggio Ali Walsh didn’t score a touchdown in the first three quarters as Bishop Gorman’s football team built its lead Friday night.
But the junior running back piled up some key clock-eating yards in the fourth quarter, and his 1-yard TD run sealed a 30-16 win over visiting Don Bosco Prep (N.J.).
Bishop Gorman football coach Kenny Sanchez loves his platoon of running backs, and with good reason.
The Gaels have averaged 9.3 yards per carry this season, led by junior Biaggio Ali Walsh, who is No. 1 among area Division I players with 1,216 rushing yards.
The prep football season is winding down, and for the Division I-A teams, this is the final week of the regular season.
Here is the latest Southern Nevada Football Coaches Poll.
Tyjon Lindsey’s hearing is just fine. This is a noteworthy development considering the auditory beating he’s received the past two months from Bishop Gorman teammate Tate Martell.
A quick glance at the scoreboard might not indicate it, but Bishop Gorman’s football team had to work a little harder than expected against division foe Legacy on Friday night.
“This (stuff) is TOO easy!” After seven weeks of prep football action, I am nailing 72 percent of my picks straight-up. Three of my losses this season came last week when I missed every play in my prop bet extravaganza. (#Karma Right, Durango fans?)
Here’s the Southern Nevada Football Coaches Poll as of Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015.
Biaggio Ali-Walsh rushed for 120 yards and two touchdowns Friday as Bishop Gorman rolled to a 69-7 home win over Durango.
The computer — or maybe it’s just numbers pulled from a hat — used by the Clark County School District to create the prep football schedule typically spits out a few good matchups each week.
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