Waxahachie star David Martinelli celebrates his playoff no-hitter — Twitter

It’s a common over-exaggeration to say that a player knocked off an opponent singlehandedly. Except it wasn’t much of an exaggeration for a regional playoff baseball victory in Texas, where a starting pitcher threw a no-hitter and scored the only run of the game with a solo homer.

Now that is a one-man show.

As reported by the Waxahachie Daily Light, and brought to Prep Rally’s attention by USA Today, Waxahachie (Texas) High ace David Martinelli turned in one of the dominant baseball performances of the season at any level in a Class 4A regional playoff game against McKinney (Texas) North High. Pitching against the top overall seed in the state playoffs, the senior threw a no-hitter, dominating an offense with an abudance of power. Then he provided power of his own, socking a solo home run in the third inning which he then made stand up for a memorable victory.

“The pitch sunk a little more than I thought it would so I got my hands extended and I got it with the sweet spot of the bat and I knew it was gone off the crack of the bat,” Martinelli told the Daily Light of his home run. “I still wanted a couple more runs because I was getting nervous, but it was a great team win.”

Of course, Martinelli himself made sure that he didn’t need any more runs. Instead, all he needed was himself, as he used what was described as a “filthy breaking pitch” and an overpowering fastball to consistently set down a lineup which entered with a collective .354 batting average.

Kentucky hoops recruit Marcus Lee, who is also a volleyball superstar — Rivals.com

If you haven’t heard of Marcus Lee yet, don’t worry, you will.

Lee is a dominant and versatile post player who hails from California, where he has spent his high school career starring for Antioch (Calif.) Deer Valley High. At 6-foot-10, Lee has the size and athleticism to be a legitimate NBA prospect within a year or two if he lives up to the expectations that come along with picking a John Calipari program.

Yet Lee isn’t focusing on basketball at the moment. That’s because he’s just as committed to his second sport: volleyball.

As noted by MaxPreps, Lee isn’t just one of the best basketball players in the country, he’s also one of the best volleyball players. He was forced to miss the first third of the volleyball season due to his involvement in national basketball all-star games (he played in both the McDonald’s All-American Game and Jordan Brand Classic), but Lee has still emerged as one half of a twin-towers wrecking crew for Deer Valley. Lee has racked up 154 kills across a shortened season, averaging 3.8 kills per game, with Deer Valley racking up a 40-1 record.

Lee’s partner up front, 6-foot-4 Jordan Ewert, has averaged 4.7 kills per game for the Wolverines.

As the season rolls along, Lee keeps improving on the volleyball court as well. In the California Interscholastic Federation North Coast Section Championship, Lee racked up 15 kills to lead Deer Valley to a 25-15, 24-26, 25-16, 25-15 victory against Amador Valley (Calif.) High, earning the first sectional boys volleyball title in school history. You can see Lee in action against Amador Valley earlier this season in the video directly above.

17-year-old Lee Su-Min, who is averaging 139 pitches per game — IBAF.org

In American baseball, managers talk about pitch counts as if they’re a death sentence. Once a player has reached a certain number of pitches, he’s out. End of story. That’s particularly true in high school and youth baseball, where athlete’s bodies are still developing and the long term health of their arm may be more fragile.

There are no such concerns in Asia, which helps explain why one superstar teen pitching in South Korea is making national headlines at home while setting off blaring alarm bells in the U.S.

As reported by the Yong Hap news agency, Daegu (S.K.) Daegu Sangwon High School pitcher Lee Su-Min set a new national prep record with 26 strikeouts in the course of a 10-inning game. Lee through all 10 innings of the matchup against area rival Daegu (S.K.) High School, allowing just three hits and three walks in a 2-1 victory.

In the process, the 17-year-old starting pitcher threw an astounding 162 pitches. Perhaps ironically, given Lee’s remarkable control, his team won on a walk-off walk in the bottom of the 10^th.

While Lee’s 162 pitches would make anyone concerned, they’re only a small part of his worrisome overall workload. Again according to Yong Hap, the teen is averaging 139 pitches per game in 2013.

For his part, Lee claims that he has felt no arm problems despite the high pitch counts, perhaps because he gets five off days -- one more than a standard MLB workload -- between starts. Still, 139 pitches is an awful lot to put out even over the course of a week.

His manager seems to realize that such a lofty pitch count may not be able to last, either. Daegu Sangwon manager Park Young-jin told Yong Hap that he is already considering using Lee as a closer rather than a starter during the second half of the season just to keep him healthy.

A high school senior who was involved in a sexual relationship with a fellow high school basketball teammate is now facing felony sexual assault charges, and she and her parents insist the criminal complaint against her stems solely from her partner’s parents being opposed to homosexuality.

Kaitlyn Hunt, who faces felony sexual assault charges for a homosexual relationship — Facebook

As reported by the New York Times and a wide variety of other outlets, 18-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt has been charged with lewd and lascivious battery after she admitted to having a sexual encounter with a former girlfriend at Sebastian (Fla.) Sebastian River High, where both Hunt and her alleged victim are students. Hunt admitted that the pair had a later sexual encounter at the school and at least one sexual encounter in her bedroom when her then-lover had reportedly fled her own home.

While both teenagers were students at the same school, their relationship was brought under legal review because of age differences. While Hunt is an 18-year-old senior, her partner was a 14-year-old freshman. Florida state laws prohibit an 18-year-old from engaging in a sexual act with anyone 16 or younger, and because her age qualifies her as an adult, Hunt is now facing hard felony charges.

The pair reportedly met while playing for the Sebastian River basketball team, and their relationship began shortly thereafter. The two proceeded as many teens would in a relationship and did not encounter trouble -- legal or otherwise -- until the younger teenager’s parents were told about the relationship by one of the basketball team's coaches, and then decided to alert authorities about the age discrepancy.

For his part, Hunt’s father insists in an online petition that his daughter is being persecuted purely because of she is involved in a homosexual relationship. The ACLU has also chimed in to offer their two cents that Hunt is being brought on charges because of her sexual orientation.

“Kaitlyn’s girlfriend’s parents are pressing charges because they are against the same-sex relationship, even though their daughter has stated that this is a consensual relationship,” Steven Hunt wrote. “Now she’s been expelled from school and is facing serious felonies — all because she is in love.”

Not only did Elk Grove (Calif.) Franklin High upset The Sacramento Bee's top-ranked prep baseball team, but junior star Sean Nicholson made Davis (Calif.) High look silly.

Scoring amid a seven-run barrage in the top of the seventh inning, Nicholson leaped Davis catcher Hayden Duer in what The Bee aptly dubbed "a SportsCenter-like highlight," sealing a 12-3 upset of the top-seeded Blue Devils in the Division I sectional playoffs.

Franklin should never have even been in that position. Despite entering the sectional tourney with a 14-13 record, they've since won 3-of-4 postseason games -- including upset wins over Oak Ridge (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Davis -- to improve to 17-14.

And Nicholson almost wasn't even on Franklin. This past summer, he transferred from crosstown rival Elk Grove -- the team that sent the Wildcats to the losers bracket despite a Nicholson RBI in a 9-6 second-round defeat on Saturday. California Interscholastic Federation rules prevented Nicholson from joining

Occasionally, a high school team moves beyond what is expected and does something far more gracious than expected. That was the case in California, where a boys volleyball team unilaterally offered to move a key match against a regional rival to accommodate the foe’s prom.

The Esperanza volleyball team celebrates it's Division 2 sectional crown — EHSVolleyball.net

As reported by the Los Angeles Times and a variety of other Souther California outlets, the Anaheim (Calif.) Esperanza High volleyball team was scheduled to face off against Goleta (Calif.) Dos Pueblos High on May 11. Unfortunately, that was the day of the Dos Pueblos prom.

The Dos Pueblos squad had a right to ask for a change in the time of the game, but not the date. Still, when Dos Pueblos asked to move the game to a new day, Esperanza agreed quickly out of principle.

"It was a classy move by Esperanza to help us out, and we really appreciate it," Dos Pueblos Athletic Director Dan Feldhaus told the Times’ Eric Sondheimer.

In the end, things still worked out of Esperanza, with the Aztecs knocking off Dos Pueblos 22-25, 25-13, 25-22, 25-21. The victory pushed Esperanza into the CIF Division 2 semifinals, albeit a couple days later.

Bob Ladoucer, the legendary coach whose role is being filled by Jim Caviziel — APThe San Francisco 49ers have emerged as one of the model organizations in the NFL. Behind the guidance of owner Jed York and coach Jim Harbaugh, San Francisco has transformed from a bottom feeder into a perennial Super Bowl contender with an abundance of offensive riches and defensive strength. At this point, the 49ers needs are more of the tweak variety than a systemic transformation.

So, what do the 49ers need? Apparently a legendary high school coach, if recent reports from Comcast Sports Bay Area are to be believed.

According to CSNBayArea.com’s Matt Maioco, a 49ers insider, Harbaugh has reached out to recently retired Concord (Calif.) De La Salle High head football coach Bob Ladoucer, sounding out the decades-long coach of the Spartans about a consulting job with the 49ers in which he would help Harbaugh navigate “team dynamics”.

That’s a major step up for Ladoucer, who led the De La Salle Spartans to 399 victories and a whopping eight mythical national titles. Ladoucer’s prep legend is so compelling that a major motion picture (starring Jim Caviziel) chronicling his life and tenure at De La Salle is currently under production.

For the moment, the former De La Salle head coach is still on the coaching staff for the Spartans, serving as a volunteer running backs coach. At the same time, he is playing an active mentoring role to new Spartans head coach Justin Alumbaugh, who told MaxPreps that his predecessor is apparently happy in his new more limited role, in part because it puts a limit on the stress he feels on a daily basis.

It had been more than 13 years since three-time Olympic gold medalist Brendan Hansen set the national public high school 100-yard breaststroke record at Philadelphia's Haverford Senior High in 53.67 seconds on March 10, 2000.

Then three California prep swimmers eclipsed that mark in a single race.

Campolindo (Moraga, Calif.) High senior Steven Stumph touched the wall in 53.39 seconds to capture the North Coast Section title at the Concord (Calif.) Community Pool (h/t MaxPreps), edging out Miramonte (Orinda, Calif.) High senior Charlie Wiser (53.57) and Granada (Livermore, Calif.) High junior Nick Silverthorn (53.61).

"I haven't seen anything like it," Campolindo coach Ron Heidary told the Contra Costa Times. "I think the consensus from everybody I talked to was that was the most extraordinary heat of swimming that anybody has ever seen."

Steven Stumph set the national high school 100-yard breastroke record this weekend -- blip.tv

CollegeSwimming.com's No. 12 senior recruit, the USC-bound Stumph also won the 100-yard butterfly in a North Central Section record time of 47.88 seconds in addition to swimming the second leg of the winning 200-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle relay squads that finished in meet record times of 1:30.52 and 3:01.70, respectively.

Naturally, Stumph's Campolindo team cruised to the North Coast Section championship.