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

Seth Hartman is like most 17-year-olds. The high school junior plays football, hangs out with his friends on the weekends and spends quality time with his dad. It's what he and his dad do together that has paved the way to Hartman's unique notoriety: They hunt, and when they hunt duck, Hartman is the one who uses the duck call.

In fact, Hartman doesn't just use duck calls, he uses them with the authority of a champion. According to the Kansas City Star, for the second time in the past four years, Hartman won a world duck calling championship title, this time taking the intermediate division crown, winning $1,000 and another $1,000 in prizes.

Hartman hones his technique nearly every weekend with his father, hunting in the family's duck blind in northwest Missouri, near the family's home outside Kansas City.

Yet natural duck calling is different than the conditions Hartman finds himself under on competition days, like the recent World Championships, which were held in Stuttgart,

At its most traditional, six-man football is almost a bit like a football and basketball hybrid. Teams score loads of points, players exhaust themselves to the point of utter collapse running up and down the field on both offense and defense, and scoreboards even register triple digits once in awhile.

With that in mind, it might be time for everyone to get a good long look at the newly crowned Texas six-man Division II champions, Richland Springs (Texas) High. We may never see another six-man team like it, with the Coyotes shutting out their semifinal and championship game opponents, ending both contests with mercy-rule victories.

That's right, across two games Richland Springs didn't surrender a single point in a division in which most good defenses allow 35 or 40. Springs, a town near Killeen, won its third title since 2000 with an astounding defensive effort throughout the playoffs, holding its opponents to a cumulative 64 points across five games. That's an average of just 13

Last week, Brooke (W. Va.) High vaulted into the state's Class AAA football championship game thanks to a legal challenge against the team that had eliminated it, South Charleston (W. Va.) High. That challenge was based on the alleged ineligibility of two players who had been involved in a fight after a quarterfinal victory, an action that brings with it a standard suspension of at least one game, based on the idea that any fighting incident is the equivalent of two (or more) personal foul penalties.

Yet, when Brooke got to play in the state title game itself, it's players were even more undisciplined, earning an astounding 10 personal foul penalties in the course of a 30-0 rout that handed Martinsburg (W. Va.) High the state title it waited an extra week to play for.

Amazingly, those 10 personal fouls might not even be the most significant violations turned in by Brooke players in the game. Two Brooke players are now facing suspension or detention for their actions in the game which

A state championship and national ranking for a Virginia high school football program have been diminished by the school's admission that five of its players stole from another school's players immediately after being handed the championship trophy.

In a letter to a handful of media outlets, No. 20 Phoebus (Va.) High's coach Stan Sexton apologized for the actions of "five individuals that put themselves before the team." According to allegations that first surfaced on VirginiaPreps.com and the Washington Post, Phoebus players stole cell phones and iPods from players for Battlefield (Va.) High, which was on the field preparing for it's Division 6 state championship game while Phoebus players were celebrating their Division 5 title in the same locker room.

"They came in after they won their game all excited, talking to us [and] saying good luck, and once we left, they stole everything out of our bags," one Battlefield player told the Washington Post on Tuesday. "A couple of guys checked