Weekend Football Wrap: Sons, stars and tragedy strike

Video: Highlights of new Georgia commit Elijah Holyfield

The good, bad and noteworthy from the prep football weekend Sept. 4-6.

Sons of guns

* Elijah Holyfield, son of former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, led Woodward Academy (College Park, Ga.) to a 36-29 win over St. Pius X in two overtimes. With the game tied at 22-22, St. Pius X scored first in OT, but Holyfield answered with a TD to tie it, before scoring the game-winner. The 5-foot-10, 204-pounder, who is committed to Georgia, finished with 18 carries, 183 yards and four touchdowns.

* Jordan Kitna, son of former NFL quarterback John Kitna who is also the Waxahachie (Texas) coach, completed 20 of 27 passes for 309 yards and five touchdowns to move Waxahachie to 2-0 on the season. Kitna has thrown for 631 yards and eight TDs in two weeks.

* Hunter Rison, son of former NFL wide receiver Andre Rison, did it all for Skyline (Ann Arbor, Mich.) in its 45-6 win over Okemos. The 5-11, 187-pound junior and Michigan State commit caught two touchdowns, threw for another and had an interception. Skyline is 2-0 on the season after finishing 0-9 last year.

Don't forget grandson

Joe Call picked up the first win of his career on Friday, which immediately put him in second place on his school's list of winningest coaches over the past 64 years. That's because Call coaches at Summerville (S.C.), where his grandfather, John McKissick, coached for 63 years. Call gained his first victory with a 70-32 win over Berkeley to put his record at 1-2. McKissick won 621 games for the Green Wave before retiring this year.

Top games

* In Carolina — both of them — they're still talking about an absolutely wild 31-29 home win for Byrnes (Duncan, S.C.) over previous No. 7 Mallard Creek (Charlotte, N.C.). Byrnes scored on its first three plays — all connections from quarterback Micah Young to Chavis Dawkins — but Mallard Creek made a remarkable rally with 22 fourth-quarter points to take seemingly its first lead with 30 seconds left. What occurred from there will long be remembered. See story

* Rarely does a national Game of the Week live up to expectations, but the 23-22 win for fourth-ranked DeMatha (Hyattsville, Md.) over host and No. 19 American Heritage (Plantation, Fla.) perhaps surpassed the hype. Read here.

* In a game that featured 1,443 yards of offense between the two teams, Mentor (Ohio) defeated St. Ignatius, 63-56, in a game pitting two northern Ohio powers. Jason Blizzard of Mentor finished with 14 catches for 342 yards, which ranks as the third-highest total in Ohio history. His QB Tadas Tatarunas threw for 523.

Tragedy strikes

Grieving continues around Louisiana and specifically Franklin Parish (Winnsboro, La), which lost sophomore Tyrell Cameron, who died from injuries suffered in a Friday night game against Sterlington. Cause of death is believed related to a neck injury. According to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research, Tyrell is the 77th known death on the field of a high school football player since 1995. Read here.

Streak breakers

* The longest current win streak in Georgia at 42 games and the fourth-longest in the nation came to an end when Buford lost 37-14 to McEachern (Powder Springs, Ga.). The loss was the first for Buford since Oct. 2012, according to the Gainesville Times. The 23-point loss is also the worst defeat for Buford since 1999.

* A Pulaski Academy (Little Rock, Ark.) 40-13 win over Highland Park (Dallas, Texas) saw the end of a couple of streaks. For Highland Park, the loss was its first home defeat in 17 years. According to the Dallas Morning News, Highland Park had won 84 straight home games. For Pulaski Academy, the contest marked the first time in two years it had to punt in a game. Pulaski Academy coach Kevin Kelley was featured this month on HBO's Real Sports for his refusal to punt on fourth down.

Stat stars

* Leesville Road (Raleigh, N.C.) has lost its last two games, but quarterback Clay Vick has put up some spectacular numbers. In a 54-48 loss last week to Panther Creek, Vick nearly broke the North Carolina record for passing yards in a game, finishing eight yards short with 659. In an 83-42 loss to Rose (Greenville) on Thursday, Vick threw for another 540 yards and five touchdowns.

* Almost one year to the day that Holy Family (Broomfield, Colo.) quarterback Chris Helbig had one of the best outings in Colorado history, Helbig became the first quarterback in state history to throw for over 600 yards. In a 49-43 win over Mountain View, Helbig completed 29 of 45 passes for 607 yards and six touchdowns. The previous state record was 589 yards by Adam Brown of Air Academy, set in 2014. Last year, Helbig threw for 491 yards against Discovery Canyon, which ranked No. 11 all-time in state history.

* Derrion Grim of McNair (Stockton, Calif.), a Boise State commit, is off to a strong start as he already has 10 touchdown receptions on the season. In a 61-50 loss to Downey, Grim had 14 catches for 225 yards and four scores. Add that to his 10 catches for 238 yards and six touchdowns in a 74-26 win over Calaveras last week and Grim has 24 catches for 463 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Top Prospects

* KJ Costello of Santa Margarita (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) completed 18 of 23 passes for 432 yards and five touchdowns in a 59-14 win over Santiago. Costello is ranked as the No. 4 pro style quarterback in the nation by 247Sports.

* Kareem Walker of DePaul Catholic (Wayne, N.J.), ranked as the No. 1 running back in the nation by 247Sports, rushed 22 times for 135 yards and three touchdowns in a 37-0 win over Pope John XXIII (Sparta, N.J.). Walker has committed to Ohio State.

* Najee Harris, the top junior running back in the county according to 247Sports, rushed for a school-record 374 yards, caught a couple passes for almost a 100 more, and scored five touchdowns as Antioch (Antioch, Calif.) defeated a big, physical Milpitas squad 47-22. The Alabama commit didn't even play the fourth quarter. Milpitas gave up just 82 points while going 12-1 last year. See story.

Team of the Week

Third-ranked Centennial (Corona, Calif.) was supposed to be in for quite a tussle against Serra, which boasts six of the top 100 senior recruits in California, according to 247Sports. Last year in the playoffs, Centennial pulled out a 68-64 barn-burner win over Serra in one of the games of the year. Late Saturday night, however, Centennial took a 49-0 lead early in the fourth quarter en route to a 56-13 rout. See story.

Senior writers Kevin Askeland and Mitch Stephens contributed to this report.