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Folsom four-star tight end Walker Lyons commits to USC

Lyons (6-foot-4, 230 pounds) is ranked No. 5 among tight ends in this class and No. 10 in the state of California.

It’s National Signing Day and several highly-ranked recruits in the class of 2023 are expected to make their decisions today.

The first big domino to drop is Folsom (Calif.) four-star tight end Walker Lyons. He has committed to USC, announcing the news himself on Twitter.

Lyons (6-foot-4, 230 pounds) is ranked No. 5 among tight ends in this class and No. 10 in the state of California.

The Trojans won out over 32 other programs that made Lyons an offer, including BYU, Georgia, Utah, and Stanford – where he was previously committed. Lyons told On3 that coach Lincoln Riley recruited him harder than anyone else in the country and trusts him to get him involved.

“What stood out was the ability to be able to play top tier football while getting a top tier education from a prestigious university… Coach Riley recruited me harder than any other coach in the country, he is one of the best minds in college football and I trust him to involve me in the offense and in the pass game.”

USC’s class of 2023 ranks first in the Pac-12 and No. 8 in the nation.

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Folsom stuns De La Salle to win Northern California 1-AA bowl title

Folsom avenged its regular season loss to De La Salle with a 28-27 North California 1-AA bowl win.

Folsom football head coach Paul Doherty is a fan of De La Salle’s program — as are most in Northern California. Even though the Spartans have handled his team with relative ease over the years, Doherty has an appreciation for the way De La Salle plays the game, going as far as calling it “the greatest sports thing going in the United States.”

On Friday night, it was Doherty’s Folsom squad that was the best thing going.

Folsom became the first Sac-Joaquin Section team to beat De La Salle since 1978, stunning the Spartans by a final score of 28-27 to win the Northern California 1-AA bowl title. It is the first time in 15 years that De La Salle will not play for a state championship.

Senior quarterback Tyler Tremain took matters into his own hands after De La Salle dominated Folsom during the regular season, accounting for all four of Folsom’s touchdowns — including a game-winning three-yard run with 2:12 remaining.

“He’s just a great quarterback and I told him that after the (first game),” De la Salle head coach Justin Alumbaugh said of Tremain. “He has a ton of guts. A bunch of moxie. He just makes play after play with both his arm and legs.”

Tremain’s short rushing touchdown put Folsom up 28-21, but De La Salle drove right down the field on its ensuing drive and got into the endzone on a 42-yard pass from Luke Dermon to Michigan commit Zeke Berry. The Spartans opted to go for two and the win instead of the extra point, but Berry was stopped short of breaking the plane on a jet sweep attempt.

Folsom then ran out the final 1:44 and celebrated one of the biggest wins in program history.

Next up for Folsom is Southern California champion Cathedral Catholic, which defeated Orange Lutheran in wild fashion on Friday night.