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LSU commit Ju’Juan Johnson breaks Louisiana high school yards record

LSU commit Ju’Juan Johnson broke a 24-year Louisiana high school football record as he recorded his 13,662 yard of his career on Friday.

Lafayette Christian Academy (La.) quarterback Ju’Juan Johnson entered the Div. II Select quarterfinals on Friday needing 351 yards to break the all-time Louisiana yards record of 13,659 set last century.

With a three-yard run in the fourth quarter, he did so, finishing the game with 13,662 yards to break the 24-year record set by Brock Berlin of Evangel Christian in 1999.

According to the Daily Advertiser, the LCA coaching staff entered the game with the intention of Johnson setting the mark. Sounds aggressive? You’re forgetting that nobody in Louisiana has ever recorded more yards than him. Through 11 games, Johnson averaged about 364 yards per contest, according to MaxPreps stats. That goal was below his usual output.

By the end of the first half, Johnson was well on pace after recording 234 yards and three touchdowns, according to the Advertiser. He finished with 354 yards and six total touchdowns to lead LCA over McDonogh 57-21 and advance to the semifinals.

The team presented Johnson with a championship belt and announced that his number, No. 7, would be retired at the end of the season, the news outlet reported.

“God blessed me with so much talent. I’m thankful for Him, I’m thankful for my coaches and my teammates,” Johnson said. “It means a lot knowing that everybody around me, my support wall, it means a lot for them to be around me and celebrate a great moment.”

Johnson was previously committed to Colorado until April 2023. LSU pounced, fending off offers from other top schools, including Florida, and earned his commitment.

The star has played quarterback, wide receiver and defensive back in high school and will play in the secondary at LSU.

With that, the all-time Louisiana yards leader may be recording the last of his yardage. But he still has at least one more game to add to his record.

LCA will face off against Teurlings Catholic (Lafayette, La.) in the semifinals with a trip to the championship game on the line.

Nebraska HS QB sets state record with 65 rushes in championship game

Kyle Cox led Sandhill Thedford with help from his offensive line as he rushed a record 65 times for 486 yards and six touchdowns.

Sandhill Thedford High School (Dunning, Neb.) has been on the verge of a championship multiple times this decade. In both 2020 and 2021, the Knights reached the championship game but failed to grab the title.

This past Monday, junior quarterback Kyle Cox decided he would not let that happen again.

Cox rushed the ball a state record 65 times, recording 486 yards and six touchdowns to help the Knights cruise to a 50-12 win, according to the local KSNB station. In an interview with the outlet, he praised his offensive line:

“I’ve got the best O-line in the state,” he said. “They’re dogs, pancaking kids every play. It was amazing … I don’t think it’s set in yet, honestly. I don’t know, it’s crazy.”

Check out KSNB for highlights from the game. Nebraska high school football historian Bobby Mills Jr., who is on Twitter at @1000ydguy, also posted a video:

Cox was just 10 yards shy of the Nebraska single-game rushing record, which was set by Jaylin Bradley of Bellevue West (Bellevue, Neb.) in 2016,  according to MaxPreps. He rushed 65 of the 68 total attempts for the Knights in the game, according to Mills.

With the championship under his belt, Cox will return to Sandhill Thedford for his senior season. They have a championship — and perhaps a formula to win another.

189?! Two North Carolina football teams combine most points in state history

The Pender and Hobbton high school football teams were electric on Friday, combining for 189 points in a game that ran so long the lights went out.

Twenty-six touchdowns. 189 points. And there was still a minute left in the game when the lights went out, ending prematurely what is now the highest-scoring game in the history of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA).

As the lights fell on Friday Night Football, Pender (Burgaw, N.C.) walked away with a 106-83 victory over Hobbton (Newton Grove, N.C.). The heroes were Pender’s junior running backs Jassiah Hill and Jeremiah Johnson, who combined for 11 touchdowns between the two of them, according to Star News Online (MaxPreps has conflicting figures: the box score shows 12 between the two players, while the recap lists 11).

If you looked at the score at the end of the first quarter, you may have simply thought the game was finished. Pender led 40-29 at that time, which is a rather high score in itself.

The team came back early in the second quarter, as Hobbton outscored Pender 20-14 to cut the deficit to five points, but the Pender Patriots outscored the Wildcats 16-14 in the third quarter to extend the lead to a full touchdown.

At this point, with decreasing point totals in each quarter, you may think the offenses were slowing down and tiring. Wrong. The fourth quarter saw eight touchdowns accounting for 56 total points, including Johnson rushing for two touchdowns and a two-point conversion while Hill had a 65-yard touchdown and a 40-yard touchdown.

According to MaxPreps, Johnson rushed for 377 yards on 44 carries and Hill accounted for 291 on just 17 carries. As a team, Pender ran for 912 yards on 17 carries. Junior quarterback Mark Rawls only attempted two passes.

Pender improved to 4-3 on the year. It is their second time scoring an otherworldly point total this season, with 88 in the season opener.

On the Hobbton side, senior quarterback Cole Weeks threw for six touchdowns with passing yard lengths of 45, 70, 20, 50, 47 and 41, and he also rushed for a touchdown. The 50-, 47-, 45- and 20-yard touchdowns were all caught by junior receiver Ashawd Wynn, who also had a pair of two-point conversions.

While Star New Online reported that this is the highest-scoring game in NCHSAA history, it is not the largest in the nation’s history. According to a MaxPreps article published in 2019, it would be the 10th-highest if no scores have eclipsed 189 in the last four years.

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12 most unbelievable wide receiver performances in high school football history

USA TODAY HSS digs into the history books for a look at high school wide receivers.

The ball seemingly never touched the ground.

Some high school performances live on in local lore forever. We tried to capture those games here with the most insane, eye-popping receiving numbers in single games in the history of the high school football.

These 12 performances stand out from all others. While the air game has been amplified over the past two decades, this list isn’t limited to 21st century wide receivers — there are several from the 90s, including an astonishing 1942 performance.

Statistics come from a variety of sources including MaxPreps, NFHS, ESPN, local newspapers, and state association websites that track high school football records.

Penn. RB Ethen Knox breaks high school record set by Derrick Henry

In breaking 400 rushing yards in yet another game, Ethen Knox is having a Derrick Henry-like season for Oil City.

Derrick Henry’s high school game log is a thing of legend. He rushed for more than 12,000 yards and 150 touchdowns in his four years of play, establishing records that seem unbeatable.

But on occasion, a running back will come along and bring one down. Last season, it was Kayleb Wagner of Baker High School, who broke the Florida single-game rushing record previously held by Henry. On Friday, another record was beaten.

Ethen Knox, a junior running back at Oil City (Pa.) High School, rushed for 403 yards this weekend in the 38-21 win. It’s the fifth time this season he has crossed the 400-yard plateau, breaking the record of four in one year that was previously held by Henry, according to MaxPreps.

It took only seven games for Knox to break the record. Like Henry, his stat line looks quite literally unbelievable. Take a look at his rushing figures, per MaxPreps:

Game 1: 304 yards, 4 touchdowns

Game 2: 402 yards, 7 touchdowns

Game 3: 445 yards, 5 touchdowns

Game 4: 424 yards, 5 touchdowns

Game 5: 432 yards, 3 touchdowns

Game 6: 97 yards

Game 7: 403 yards, five touchdowns

Altogether, that comes out to 2,507 yards and 29 touchdowns in just seven games played. His stretch from the second through fifth games of the season was the first time ever that a player rushed for 400 yards in four games in a row, according to MaxPreps.

With three games left on the regular season schedule, Knox likely won’t come near Henry’s senior season marks of 4,261 yards and 55 touchdowns, but a deep playoff run could allow him to make a push. Oil City is currently 5-2 on the season.

Regardless, being in Henry’s company is an accomplishment of its own. Knox is putting together one of the best seasons in running back history.

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Bixby breaks Oklahoma high school football record with 49 wins in a row

Bixby High School broke the Oklahoma state record for most consecutive wins and took home its fourth championship in a row.

Bixby (Okla.) High School’s 63-14 victory over Deer Creek High School (Edmond, Okla.) in the state championship gave them their fourth title in a row. It was their seventh in the last eight years.

It also set a state record for number of wins in a row by an 11-man football team.

The championship was Bixby’s 49th consecutive victory, breaking a record set by Wagoner (Okla.) High School from 2014-17, according to Tulsa World.

The Spartans did not allow more than 20 points in any game this season. They scored more than 40 points in every game except one. They have not lost since Aug. 24, 2018, extending their win streak to three years and three months.

Three-star Oklahoma State commit Braylin Presley was dominant as he started the game with a trick-play, 76-yard passing touchdown, ran for a 94-yard score that gave him the school rushing yards record, and finished the game with four total touchdowns.

Preston Solomon, who was the recipient of the 76-yard trick play touchdown, finished the game with 141 receiving yards and three touchdowns. The defense had four interceptions.

Bixby is moving up to the 6AI division next season, according to Tulsa World. They’ll test themselves against the new competition as they work to extend their winning streak — and perhaps win a fifth straight championship.

Trey Kukuk breaks Orange County record with 615 passing yards

California high school QB Trey Kukuk threw for 615 passing yards in a wild game that set an Orange County record.

It took video review for Capistrano Valley (Mission Viejo, Calif.) quarterback Trey Kukuk to officially earn his place in the record book.

On Friday night, Kukuk was originally recorded as of having passed for 611 yards in a 59-56 win over Tabuco Hills (Mission Viejo, Calif.). Upon watching a replay and doing a play-by-play review of the stats and each pass, head coach Sean Curtis told the Orange County Register that the count was slightly off.

Kukuk threw for 615 yards, breaking the Orange County record of 613 that had been set in 2012 by then-El Toro (Lake Forest, Calif.) quarterback Conner Manning.

The junior completed 40 of his whopping 61 passing attempts, threw for six touchdowns, and rushed for two more scores on the ground.

His passing game was centered around three receivers: senior Owen Taylor, who finished with 12 receptions for 249 yards and a touchdown, junior Dane Benedix, who had 14 receptions for 201 yards and two scores, and senior Mark Hopkins, who had nine receptions for 128 yards and three touchdowns.

Capistrano Valley only punted once in the entire game. Trabuco Hills did not list any punts on Maxpreps.

Even with the performance from Kukuk, the game came down to the closing seconds. He completed a 30-yard touchdown pass down the middle of the field to Benedix, who fought through contact to get into the end zone.

Unsurprisingly, Kukuk’s completions, passing attempts and total touchdowns set school records, according to the Orange County Register.

Capistrano Valley withstood its ground to overcome a fantastic rushing performance by Trabuco Hills running back Drew Barrett. The senior rushed for 221 yards and five touchdowns on 23 carries.

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Alabama commit Kristian Story breaks Bo Nix’s high school touchdown record

Kristian Story has broken an AHSAA record of Bo Nix. The Lanett QB and Alabama commit now has 166 career touchdowns.

With a 49-yard touchdown pass, Kristian Story broke a record set by now-Auburn quarterback Bo Nix.

Story set the record Alabama High School Athletic Association on Friday for touchdowns accounted for.

The four-star athlete had six total touchdowns in the Lanett (Alabama) playoff win, throwing four and running for two. He had 302 total passing yards, according to Al.com.

In total, Story now has 166 touchdowns. Nix, an ALL-USA player, finished his career with 161.

Lanett took down Isabella (Maplesville, Alabama) 41-21 in the third round of the playoffs. Up next is Sweet Water (Alabama) in the Final Four as the Panthers, currently 12-0, work toward the championship.

Story, who also plays defensive back at Lanett, is committed to Alabama. He is ranked the No. 6 athlete and No. 9 player in the state, along with No. 215 in the class, per the 247Sports Composite Rankings.

He is expected to play defensive back at the next level, according to Al.com. But after proving himself at quarterback at the high school level, maybe he’ll be able to compete for the starting job in a battle that is expected to include Mac Jones, Taulia Tagovailoa and current five-star Mater Dei (Santa Ana, California) quarterback Bryce Young.

25! Texas high school football player breaks state record for receptions in game

Eastlake receiver Matthew Jones broke the Texas high school football record for receptions in a game.

Eastlake High School (El Paso, Texas) junior wide receiver Matthew Jones set a Texas state high school football record on Saturday with the most catches in a single game with 25.

Jones finished the game with 290 yards receiving and three touchdown receptions in a 66-42 loss to Lubbock Monterey in the Class 5A Division I playoffs at the SISD Student Activities Comples.

According to Texashighschoolfootballhistory.com, the previous high for most receptions in a game was 22 held by Sammy Taylor in 1980 for Dublin vs. Ranger.

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“I owe it to my family, my offensive line, our quarterback, our coaches for supporting me and helping me,” Jones said. “I didn’t think in the game that I had as many catches as I did. I was just trying to help us do well and get back in the game.”

Jones entered Saturday’s game with 91 catches for 1,148 yards and 11 touchdowns despite missing a game early in the season.

Jones’ 25 receptions ties him for fifth nationally as the national record is 32 set by Larry Bennett in Ohio in 1942.

“Matt has worked hard and he did a great job,” Eastlake coach Ruben Rodriguez said. “He made some great catches.”

Get more Texas football news at the El Paso Times.