As Memorial Day arrives and Fourth of July nears, let this be a reminder to everyone: Playing with fireworks isn't as bright an idea as the pyrotechnics they produce.

An accident involving a Roman candle last July 4 cost Homewood-Flossmoor (Ill.) High junior right-handed pitcher Jameson Lamb the use of his right eye, as detailed in a tremendous feature by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Pat Disaboto.

Illinois prep junior pitcher Jameson Lamb lost sight in his right eye in a fireworks accident -- Chicago Sun-Times

After H-F coach Todd Sippel specifically warned his players "not to be stupid" following a summer league game on July 3, 2012, the next day Lamb and his friends gathered near his family's cottage in Michigan to set off some fireworks, the Sun-Times detailed.

Just teenagers being teenagers, right? Well, here's the problem: The kids decided to hold the Roman candles in their hands, and when one of them thought the series of bursts had finished, he lowered the tube and fired one last shot into Lamb's eye.

Missy Franklin is about as close to a sure thing as there is in swimming these days. After taking the Olympics by storm, Franklin returned to the high school pool and dominated Colorado competition to lead Aurora (Colo.) Regis Jesuit School to a state title. Along the way, Franklin committed to swim at the University of California and rolled through just about every national competitor she lined up against … except for a future teammate.

Celina Li is just 5-foot-3, but could become Missy Franklin's toughest collegiate foe and teammate — Associated Press

In one of the quirks of top level swimming, Missy Franklin has now proven that she can beat just about anyone in the world at most strokes, but she couldn’t beat future Cal teammate Celina Li, a fellow high school senior from Pleasanton (Calif.) Foothill High, when the two competed in the 200-meter individual medley at the AT&T Winter National Championships. Li finished that race with a time of 1:55.28 with Franklin hitting the wall at 1:55.88.

As noted in a terrific profile of Li from MaxPreps, the Foothill senior is a far cry from a physically imposing figure like Franklin, but still manages to fly through the pool. Li stands just 5-foot-3, a height which assuredly puts her at a significant setback when competing against the likes of Franklin and other international stars. Yet what Li lacks in physical presence she makes up for in her technical talent, with her club coach claiming that the teen has “impeccable strokes.”

Li has never let her height affect her enthusiasm for the pool, either. She trained in both swimming and gymnastics growing up, but decided that swimming was a safer sport once she began to reach the more advanced levels of gymnastics.

"You don't see a whole lot of shorties like me," Li told MaxPreps. "I like being short though. … I don't think height matters as much as how determined you are and how much heart you put into it."

That attitude likely resonated with Franklin, with the pair reportedly bumping into each other during the recruiting process and getting along quite well (Li said of Franklin, “she really is the nicest person.”).

Between the two incoming freshmen, Cal could have quite a Class of 2017, with both swimmers likely to earn berths to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, provided that they stick with the sport between now and then.

Girls lacrosse had no appeal to Sarah Humphreys. Boys lacrosse? That's a different story.

"From what my friends described to me about girls lacrosse, it wasn't anything that sounded fun or challenging," the Hillsboro (Ore.) High boys lacrosse team's senior goalkeeper told The Oregonian. "I would much rather play with the guys."

Sarah Humphreys is only the second female to play boys lacrosse in Oregon prep history -- The Oregonian

Since Hillsboro doesn't even have a girls lacrosse team, Humphreys could have played for nearby Century (Hillsboro, Ore.) High, but instead she chose to try out for the boys team.

"We were a little skeptical at first," Hillsboro boys lacrosse coach Robert Beard told The Oregonian in its fantastic feature on Humphreys. As a result, defenseman Joe Puncochar punched up a petition that put the team's unanimous support behind Humphreys.

So, Humphreys gave up the "boring" sport of softball last spring and tried out for the same lacrosse position she's played for the Hillsboro girls soccer team: goalkeeper. She made the team, and when the team's starting goalie became academically ineligible, she took over the starting spot three practices into her junior season, The Oregonian said.

When she took the field last season, Humphreys became just the second female prep competitor to play boys lacrosse in the past 10 years, Oregon High School Boys Lacrosse Association commissioner Dan Badders told the paper.

"She's better than most of the goalies I've seen," added Beard. "Goalie is like the quarterback on defense. She keeps those guys in line. She doesn't hesitate to tell them when they mess up. She'll get right up in their face."

Can't figure out what's more jaw-dropping: Isaiah Bailey's cuff dunk or the fact he shoved his teammate off the ball to break free for the aforementioned cuff dunk (h/t L.A. Times).

Playing for the Compton Magic Elite at this past weekend's 2013 Pangos Spring Sweet Sixteen at Cabrillo (Long Beach, Calif.) High, the four-star Class of 2014 recruit tossed a teammate into the front row in order to secure a fast break. And secure it, he did.

Bailey cuffed the ball on his right wrist and threw down a ferocious one-handed dunk over a hustling defender who probably would have been wise to avoid posterization.

Regardless of how he completed the dunk, the event is a big deal, and so is Bailey. LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Paul Pierce, John Wall and the biggest name in NBA circles this week, Jason Collins, are just a handful of players who have participated in the event.

As for Bailey, the 6-foot-5, 170-pound junior small forward captured Second Team All-Area honors from Long Beach's Press-Telegram this past winter after leading Compton (Calif.) High to a berth in the CIF Division III state tournament. Ranked No. 89 in his class nationally on the Rivals 150, he already owns a handful of Division I offers.

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.”