Usually, a coach has to beg and plead to find a placekicker. Sometimes it involves begging a soccer player, sometimes it involves forcing another random player to learn how to kick. That's hardly been the case for Sherwood (Ore.) High, which used a quartet of placekickers en route to a Class 5A state championship.

That's right, Sherwood had not one, not two, but four different placekickers to parcel out kicking duties to during games in the 2010 season. In the case of the Bowmen, both Chad Pollock and Nate Montgomery served as placekickers on extra points, with Pollock and Montgomery trading off on the kicks after alternating pairs of touchdowns. Meanwhile, Taylor Bonawitz specialized in field goals, duties that were particularly important in the state title game, which was won on a field goal in overtime ... hit by Bonawitz, as you can see below.

"I knew it was coming down to a field goal, so I was just waiting for my chance to get out there and kick it," Bonawitz told the Oregonian.

Aledo (Texas) High junior running back Johnathan Gray allegedly entered the Texas Class 4A Division II final nursing a knee injury. Let's just say that if he was nursing a bum wheel, it's terrifying to think what he could do when completely healthy; the star almost singlehandedly led his team to a state title behind a championship game record-shattering performance that included eight touchdowns and 325 yards on the ground.

The eight trips to the end zone also lifted Gray to an even more impressive mark, one for rushing touchdowns in a season. The junior finished with 59 touchdowns, breaking a 57-year-old record held by former Texas prep legend Ken Hall.

The fact that he did so in a 69-34 rout of La Marque (Texas) High that wrapped up a state title for the Bearcats made the dual records all the more special. Yet that hardly registered for Gray, who was focused solely on ensuring his team accomplished the goal it set for itself at the start of the year: Winning a state crown.

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Ladies and gentlemen, we've come to a sad day: The final edition of "Instant Replay" for the 2010 high school football season. Yet, all good things must come to an end, and with the knowledge that Batesville (Miss.) South Panola High is the new RivalsHigh 100 national champion, we can rest assured that all the mysteries of the 2010 campaign have been sufficiently solved. With that in mind, it's time to look back on one final, glorious week of high school football championships, upsets and all.

• No. 3 St. Thomas Aquinas (Fla.) 29, No. 49 Plant (Fla.) 7: The Sunshine State's Class 5A title game was even more of a whitewash than anyone could have expected. After falling behind 7-6 -- the first deficit Aquinas has faced all season -- the Raiders bounced back with a vengenance, routing nationally-ranked Plant in a final audition for why they deserve a national title. In the end, Aquinas didn't get that title, but they did get plenty of respect from all corners but putting dominant

You can hardly blame No. 37 Pearland (Texas) High for pulling out all the stops in its 28-24, upset victory over No. 5 ranked Euless Trinity (Texas) High in the Class 5A Division I state championship. After all, the Trojans entered as one of the nation's most feared and balanced teams, while undefeated Pearland has been an upstart throughout its postseason run.

Besides, trick plays are all the rage, and the one the Oilers pulled off was an instant classic, as you can see below.

That's right, Pearland sold a gimmick known as "The Dead Man" play so well that it successfully got a man-on-man matchup for their blazingly fast, huge wide receiver on the outside by simply pretending a play wasn't happening. And that touchdown was absolutely essential, too. The 54-yard pass from quarterback Trey Anderson to powerful wide receiver Sam Ukwyachu gave the Oilers a 21-10 lead in the third quarter, a hole big enough that Trinity could never fully recover.

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On the opening weekend of the football season, Kingsburg (Calif.) High quarterback Garrett Steele pulled off one of the plays of the season, connecting with wide receiver Taylor Abernathy on a Hail Mary after scrambling some 20 yards in the backfield to avoid being sacked. The pass, which came with no time remaining on the clock, gave the Vikings a shocking come-from-behind victory against San Luis Obispo (Calif.) High and started them on their way to an eventual berth in the California Central Section Division III football title game against Porterville (Calif.) High.

That's where Steele stood earlier this month, facing a fourth-and-10 from his team's own 19-yard-line, with just more than two minutes remaining in his team's season. His coach, Dave Steele (Garrett Steele's uncle) told the players that the scenario was exactly like the final snap in the season-opening win over San Luis, and to go out and do it again. Amazingly, they did just that, as you can see below.

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There's rain scheduled for this year's CIF high school bowl games, which will be played at the L.A. Galaxy's Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. on Saturday. That's not the end of the world, of course, but it did provide a significant logistical issue, because the Home Depot Center doesn't traditionally allow umbrellas.

As a result, the venue, which is traditionally used for the other type of football, had to make a special exception to allow fans in the mostly-uncovered, open-air stands to bring in umbrellas to keep themselves out of the rain. According to the Los Angeles Times, CIF associate director Roger Blake confirmed that umbrellas will be allowed at the venue, though the exemption is good for only the weekend's bowl games.

The decision to ban umbrellas was made by the Home Depot Center in an effort to preserve sight lines for all paid fans. It may be a noble goal, but it's also one that is probably possible only in southern California. Needless to say, a no umbrella policy in

While we slowly take the drip out of hidden football highlights -- this is the final week of the season, after all -- we can already get more and more excited about all the dunks and deep threes on offer. Hopefully you're excited about them, too. If you're not, well, bear with us, because we're always happy to throw a high school hockey goal or two out there for you, too. Just call us a holiday hodgepodge.

• Kale Pearson, Tulsa Union (Okla.) vs. Jenks (Okla.): Union tripped up Jenks in Oklahoma's Class 6A state title game last weekend for the third straight year, thanks in large part to an outstanding performance by Pearson, who went airborne on this play to vault over a defender. Evidently that's not illegal in Oklahoma, huh?

• Courtney Chelf, Enid (Okla.) vs. Stillwater (Okla.): Buzzer beaters are always impressive, but a 60-footer in a girls basketball game? Now that's notable, which is why we're particularly happy that someone had the camera on in Enid last week.

• Jaron Davis,

If Mason Holland was already having a bad week, a look at the police report filed in the case of his attack on an official Monday night is sure to make it even worse: Holland could be charged with felony battery because of the attack.

According to the official police report of the event filed by officer Michael Snow, who was the security official on scene who pushed Holland away from referee Jim Hamm, Holland committed the crime of battery on a sports official, a charge which qualifies as a felony in the state of Florida. (The Sunshine State distinguishes between traditional battery and battery on an official). Making matters worse, the report, which was obtained by TheSmokingGun, shows that Holland is already 18, which means the high school senior could be charged as an adult, and the penalties for the action would be much more severe.

Hamm, who spoke with Snow after the attack ended the Desoto County High School game against Port Charlotte, said in the report that he didn't want the