Hidden touchdown highlights may be our bread and butter, but that doesn't mean we here at Prep Rally don't appreciate a miraculous soccer goal on occasion. Of course, that doesn't mean we aren't going to keep bringing you impressive touchdowns and great plays on the gridiron, either. With that in mind, here's this week's melange of hidden highlights.

• James Quick, Trinity (Kent.) vs. Seneca (Kent.): Told you we'd still showcase great touchdowns. Something tells us this clip, which was the standalone highlight from a 63-14 stomping Trinity put on Louisville Seneca, will be just the first of a handful of great touchdowns we'll see from Quick, who is only a sophomore. Here's some equally terrifying news for other Kentucky football programs: The quarterback who got him the ball -- Travis Wright -- is also just a sophomore.

• Bo Davis, McKinney Boyd (Texas) vs. Naaman Forest (Texas): We can't speak to any certainty of this (after all, we weren't at the game), but limited highlights seem

Sometimes, a team can show just how big it is by remaining gracious in a loss. Last Friday, the coach of an Indiana high school took that adage to an extreme by allowing one of the classiest touchdowns you'll ever see to be scored on his own team.

Last Friday, undefeated Jasper (Ind.) High School was routing Mount Vernon (Ind.) High, 42-21 in the fourth quarter. The scoreline wasn't a huge surprise. The game had gone nearly according to plan for Jasper, which had even found a way to work in the team's most beloved player, senior Zach Beckman. Beckman, a student with Down Syndrome who served as the Jasper team manager for three years, was allowed to be a part of the team during his senior season. His work ethic and Jasper's dominance helped earn Beckman a spot in a handful of plays as a wide receiver on the end of the field away from where a run was headed.

Then, something magical happened. Mount Vernon coach Paul Maier (whose wife is a special

While every state in the country is now shining a brighter light on concussion management in high school sports, there's a compelling argument that not nearly enough is being done to analyze the instruments most responsible for keeping those concussions from happening: helmets.

According to a lengthy investigation by the New York Times that was published on Thursday, helmet-safety oversight is spotty, inefficient and largely ineffectual. Perhaps worse, some head-trauma experts argue that the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment has even stifled innovation that would make helmets safer for student athletes.

In his report, the Times' Alan Schwarz argues that football helmets fail to protect growing athletes adequately in part because there are no regulated standards for helmets aimed at decreasing the risk of concussions. Instead, current NOCSAE standards are focused only on avoiding skull fractures, a reaction to a rash of football-related deaths in the

A Tennessee high school will no longer have Christian prayers read over stadium loudspeakers before games after the Hamilton (Tenn.) County Schools superintendent outlawed the practice on Wednesday. Superintendent Jim Scales made the decision in response to a letter he received from the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which cited the unconstitutionality of the practice.

According to the Associated Press and Chattanooga Times Free Press, the issue was first raised by students at Soddy-Daisy (Tenn.) High School, who reached out to the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation citing a feeling of uncomfortability when prayers were read aloud over stadium loudspeakers before kickoff of football games. The reading of pregame prayers is reportedly a Soddy-Daisy tradition, and the Times Free Press also cited other examples of Christian verse being used in Hamilton (Tenn.) County schools, including student-led group prayers and Bible verse posters in public school classrooms.

The

A strange thing happened after Gloucester Catholic (N.J.) High School senior Jessica Kupcha committed to play volleyball at George Washington at the start of the school year: She started focusing on a different sport.

With the volleyball season only weeks away, Kupcha instead decided to throw all her energy behind playing girls soccer for the Lady Rams. That might not be too shocking if Kupcha had played soccer in the past. Yet, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, this is Kupcha's first season playing soccer at the high school level.

Novice or not, Kupcha has made a huge difference on the soccer field. The senior goalie, who hadn't played competitive soccer since the seventh grade, has earned seven shutouts already for 12-1 Gloucester Catholic, which is rapidly rising through the ranks of New Jersey soccer teams as it aims to defend its 2009 Non-Public B state title.

"There has been some adjustment, but it's been so much fun," Kupcha told Inquirer sports columnist Marc Narducci. "I

Sixteen-year-old Conor Lynch, a Sherman Oaks (Calif.) Notre Dame cross country runner was on a typical training run with his teammates on Tuesday afternoon. Trailing his teammates, Lynch tried to make up time by running across Woodman Avenue mid-block, and not at a crosswalk. The decision cost Lynch his life.

According to KTLA, the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press, among other news outlets, Lynch was struck in a hit-and-run accident and died on impact. Multiple sources later reported the driver who fled the scene was 18-year-old Moran Biton, who turned herself in shortly thereafter and now faces felony charges.

"We heard the thump. We heard two kids yelling 'Oh my God, oh my God,' " Marvin Marshall, who witnessed the accident, told KTLA. "[A doctor who happened to arrive at the scene] said his legs were blue and there was nothing else they could do."

Biton reportedly stopped a block up the road where she saw a police officer and admitted she hit a pedestrian. However, since

One of the great, often underrated things about high school sports are the announcers who call games on local television and radio stations. Unlike announcers for pro and major college sports (with the exception of Georgia legend Larry Munson), the allegiances of professional play-by-play men are subtle. That's hardly the case with high school announcers, as the following clip demonstrates better than any we've ever seen.

True soccer fans often claim to hate shootouts. They hate the tension. They hate the postgame anguish. They hate the arbitrariness. They just hate them. Let's hope all those fans missed Tuesday's Minnesota Class 2A, Section 5 girls soccer championship match between Mounds View and Centennial, which featured a penalty kick shootout that lasted a full 32 rounds. Yes, 32.

According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, in the 1-0 sectional final win for Mounds View, the goal credited for winning the shootout was the only one of the game after a scoreless regulation. The loss was Centennial's first and only setback of the season, with Mounds View advancing to the state 2A tournament as the representative of Minnesota's Section 5.

The final stats from the shootout were practically beyond belief: Six players from each team were forced to attempt two kicks each. Multiple players begged their respective coaches not to make them attempt a shot. Both goalies eventually took shots on one another.