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    • Regardless of what he accomplishes with the rest of his life, Hrisan Dzheus will be able to tell his eventual children, grandchildren or just friends that he achieved something that practically no one else ever has: He scored a goal in a professional soccer game at just 5 years old.

      As reported by Opposing Views, and quickly disseminated across the web, the 5-year-old Dzheus completely stole the show during a testimonial match for Belarussian side Torpedo Zhodino star Vadim Evseev. With Evseev set to retire, the club hosted a final testimonial for its star, with Evseev's club rolling to a 4-1 lead.

      Yet that lead would expand in the most unlikely of circumstances when Evseev was taken off the pitch and replaced by none other than the 5-year-old Dzheus, who wasted little time before slotting in his side's fifth goal of the game.

      Yes, Dzheus was only brought on as a gimmicky thank you meant for his father, who runs an all-Russian Children's Center called Eaglet. Yes, the defense disintegrated as quicly as Moses parting the red sea, leaving Dzheus with a pretty clear take on goal.

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    • A boys youth wrestling coach in Wisconsin has been arrested on the troubling charges of soliciting oral sex from a 17-year-old boy he met at the wrestling center at which he works.

      According to Milwaukee CBS affiliate WDJT, 31-year-old Steven Springsteen-Hensel was arrested in the parking lot of an Elkhorn middle school after police officers were tipped off to the advances Springsteen-Hensel had made to a teenager by a school resources officer.

      Springsteen-Hensel, who is an Elkhorn resident, was arrested and held on bail of $15,000 and made his first court appearance in the case against him on Wednesday afternoon. Milwaukee Fox affiliate WITI reported that Springsteen-Hensel has admitted to his role in the incident, and has been banned from making any contact whatsoever with minors, as well as a blanket ban from using computers or cell phones for any reasons.

      Meanwhile, the Elkhorn Wrestling Club, for which Sprinsteen-Hensel coached along with his role running the Southern Lakes Wrestling Center, quickly cut all ties with the coach despite Springsteen-Hensel's position on the Elkhorn Club's Board of Directors.

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    • If you're a high school student in Kentucky who enjoys fishing, you'll soon get an opportunity to put your skills to the test against some of the best young anglers, after the state announced bass fishing would become a sanctioned prep sport.

      Kentucky will join Illinois as the second state to make bass fishing an official high school sport. — Gofishn. …

      As Cincinnati.com and other national media outlets reported, Kentucky will join Illinois as the second state to sponsor a high school bass fishing state championship, starting next April.

      "I think it's fantastic. The earlier the exposure to bass fishing the better," Matt Luken told Cincinnati.com. "I talk to people all the time that wished they had bass fishing in college. We can say the same thing that we wish we had it in high school."

      Kentucky's High School Athletic Association announced back in February that bass fishing, bowling and competitive cheer would be added as sports in the coming year.

      The current competitive format would have two student-anglers fish from a boat that's driven by an adult. The best five fish for each team member would be added up to determine a winner based on total weight. All fish will then be released after the weigh-in.

      "It's one of those programs that initially people kind of laugh about and go, 'Oh, you're kidding me,'" Dave Gannaway, who helped Illinois high schools get a bass fishing championship, told Cincinnati.com.

      But the sport is no joke. States like Kentucky and Illinois have been adding different sports to the usual rotation over the last couple of years. Arizona became the first state to make beach volleyball a sanctioned high school sport just last year.

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    • In 2011, Ghazaleh Sailors and Marti Sementelli made national news when they became the first two female pitchers to face off against each other in a prep baseball game. A year later, a Washington girl is proving that Southern California isn't the only place where females can make an impact while pitching overhand.

      As profiled by the Bellevue Reporter and Seattle's KING-5 TV, Interlake (Wash.) High's recently eliminated Class 2A state playoff squad featured a talented pitching staff that included one particularly notable senior: Eleanor Worley.

      Worley missed most of her final campaign — the only one spent on the Interlake varsity squad — but still got one notable start when she took the mound for Interlake's home finale against Juanita (Wash.) High. In that game, the teen who had showed plenty of moxie in rehabbing from arm struggles throughout the season pitched an impressive five innings, eventually departing after allowing just three runs and striking out a pair en route to earning what would be her lone varsity baseball victory.

      "It really wasn't any different," Worley said of pitching in a varsity game. "I'm just focused on doing my job out there."

      In fact, the only thing that may have been different was the treatment Worley received because of her hair. Unlike male players, Worley wears a braid that reaches her waist, and Juanita batters demanded that she tuck the hair into her jersey so it wouldn't be a distraction for batters.

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    • In the past two years, YouTube has brought the world great trick shot videos by quarterbacks from elementary school to college backup to the verge of the NFL. Yet all of those football trick shot films had one thing in common: They were showcasing quarterbacks.

      Now, for the first time, an innovative young man has filmed a trick shot video for his own position, long snapper, and he has produced a true gem.

      As featured on ESPN Boston and a variety of other sites, the video above was filmed by Cambridge (Mass.) Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School senior Nick DiChiara, who played football throughout his time at the school. Helped along most notably by BB&N teammate Eric Olson, DiChiara rattled off a series of trick snaps in the school locker room, in the gym, the parking lot, the baseball field and even Harvard Stadium.

      Throughout it all, DiChiara celebrates successful trick snaps as if he's just body-slammed someone in a WWE ring. Let's face it: He has the hair to pull of just such a feat.

      While DiChiara is trying to make his name as a wild long snapper, his football skill set goes far beyond snapping the ball over incredibly long distances. At BB&N, DiChiara played at wide receiver and linebacker, where he made a legitimate impact in the ISL.

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    • Sometimes it's important to remember that cheerleading can be a cruel and dangerous sport. There's ample proof of that in the video below.

      To be fair, Prep Rally has no idea who the unfortunate cheerleader who happened to either A) kick herself in the head, or B) slip in untimely circumstances, actually was. What we do know is that the video that depicts her least glorious moment — and was brought to Prep Rally's attention by NBC blog Off the Bench — was uploaded to YouTube by a teenager named Natalie Mudd, who happens to be a student at Jefferson City (Mo.) Blair Oaks High.

      Add to that the fact that the students in question have all the marks of being high schoolers working out at a high school field, and it's pretty safe to say that the video can serve as a historical document about the risks inherent in school spirit at the prep ranks.

      Naturally, the most important concern is that the unfortunate cheerleader in question avoided any kind of a serious injury. Based on her reaction — and the fact that only her butt and elbow hit the ground with any force — it seems safe to say that she at least achieved that.

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    • When you're the nation's top football recruit, schools will do almost anything to get your signature on a letter of intent. They pull out all the stops during official visits. Somehow they seem to have someone present at all of the player's high school games. They call him on the phone as often as they legally can.

      Then, some schools even go a step further, like the University of Georgia. When the Bulldogs needed to fill a vacancy for an on-campus recruiting coordinator, the Bulldogs passed over a variety of analysts in the recruiting space to hire a man who was most recently serving as the director of Under Armour football camps in the state, who happened to have one key prior role on his resume: He formerly coached the nation's top recruit, Loganville (Ga.) Grayson High defensive end Robert Nkemdiche, early in the top prospect's career.

      To be fair, Daryl Jones, the man who landed the recruiter position, is a fully qualified candidate. Before taking the reins of Under Armour's Georgia prep operations, Jones coached at different schools for 17 years. That time certainly gave Jones ample opportunities to forge bonds with other schools across Georgia and the Southeast, from where UGA draws nearly all of its recruits.

      Grayson star Robert Nkemdiche — Rivals.comGrayson star Robert Nkemdiche — Rivals.com

      Still, there is bound to be skepticism about Jones' appointment because of his relationship with Nkemdiche, an in-state recruit who might be the best prospect out of the state of Georgia in years. The 6-foot-5, 260-pound beast of a defensive lineman is considered a plug-and-play solution on the defensive line for any team with a hole, making him arguably the nation's most sought after 5-star recruit in the Class of 2013.

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    • With just three outs to go, Coon Rapids (Minn.) High appeared to be cruising to a victory against rival Osseo (Minn.) High. Two days later, Coon Rapids limped away with a loss having broken or come near a variety of state records in the process.

      The Osseo baseball team — Osseo BaseballThe Osseo baseball team — Osseo Baseball

      As reported by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Osseo eventually eked out a 6-5 victory against Coon Rapids in 19 innings, the final three of which were played two days after the original game ran out of sunlight after 16 tense innings.

      By the time it was over, the regular-season matchup had spread across more than five hours of game time and set four state records: Most at-bats by a team (Osseo came to the plate a whopping 68 times), most at-bats by a player (six hitters batted nine times), most sacrifice bunts (Coon Rapids completed five) and most strikeouts by a player (an Osseo batter tied the state mark with five Ks).

      When the teams met to conclude the original game two days after it was postponed by darkness, both squads had to honor their original lineups, including all of the pitching and position switches that had come before darkness fell. That made things rather interesting.

      Fitting for the drama that preceded it, when the game finally did reach its final frame, Coon Rapids loaded the bases with just one out in the bottom of the 19th only to end the game by hitting into a double play.

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    • A controversy has erupted in Texas over a softball play on which a seemingly impossible feat occurred: An umpire appeared to rule a runner safe and out on the same play, and he never changed his mind in what the newscaster below is calling "one of the dumbest rules in high school sports."

      As reported by the Dallas Morning News, Texas powerhouse softball program Plano (Texas) East High reached the Class 5A Region I semifinals thanks to a narrow, 3-2, eight-inning victory against area rival Flower Mound (Texas) High. Yet Plano East, which has since moved on to the regional finals, almost never even reached extra innings because it appeared that Flower Mound won the matchup with a walk-off hit, going so far as to celebrate the monumental victory until Plano East catcher K.K. Stevens walked up and tagged out Flower Mound's Kelly Powell, who thought she had just scored the winning run.

      Here's what happened: With two outs in the seventh inning, Powell came sliding in to home. Stevens tried to apply a tag on Powell during a play at the plate, but she missed. The umpire gave a safe signal.

      That safe signal sent the Flower Mound team into delirium as it celebrated what it assumed was a berth in the regional semifinals. That's when Plano East coach Karen Kalhoefer walked over to Stevens and told her to tag Powell. She did so, and the umpire signaled out, ending the frame and sending the elimination game into extra innings, where Plano East scored and advanced.

      So, what was the umpire signaling if he threw up the safe sign? As it turns out, he was actually doing his job. According to Article 9 of the National High School Federations Baseball Rulebook, if a runner misses the plate, an umpire is instructed to hesitate slightly. If no one applies a tag, he then is supposed to signal safe. However, if the defending team then appeals the safe call and either tags the runner or touches home plate, the umpire is then to call the runner out.

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    • There will never again be a team called the Braves, Chiefs or Indians in the state of Oregon, after the Northwest state officially outlawed all mascots connected to Native American themes in a State Board of Education meeting.

      The Roseburg High School gym — Portland OregonianThe Roseburg High School gym — Portland Oregonian

      The decision to ban Native American-based mascots came as the result of a 5-1 vote by the state Board of Ed and will require some 15 schools to change their mascots. Additionally, all schools which refer to their teams as the Warriors will also have to scrub all references to any Native American customs from school insignia.

      According to the Portland Oregonian, the decision to ban Native American mascots came after six years of debate on the subject. While there is still a five-year grace period before the rule kicks in, State Board Chairwoman Brenda Frank, who is a Klamath Tribe member, said she was emotional about what she clearly considered to be a landmark decision.

      "I'm overwhelmed, but I'm holding back on my emotions -- I have a meeting to finish," Frank told the Oregonian. "It's been a long time coming."

      While the decision to get rid of all Native American mascots may seem like a simple issue of political correctness, it also brings with it significant economic issues at a time of extreme financial distress for many of the state's school districts.

      The back of a Molalla High dugout — Portland OregonianThe back of a Molalla High dugout — Portland Oregonian

      According to one school -- Molalla (Ore.) High -- the effort to rid itself of all insignia related to its existing "Indians" mascot could cost the school district hundreds of thousands of dollars.

      Meanwhile, Molalla principal Randy Dalton insisted that no one in the school's surrounding community took offense at the school's choice of a mascot.

      "I'd be hard pressed to find somebody who would want to bring shame to the Molalla Indian Tribe," Dalton said. "There's a lot of tradition here. It's a very respectful community that wants to do the right thing."

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