Staff Report
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MaxPreps National Team of the Week
Colerain High School (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Colerain served notice Friday night that it won’t be handing the title of undisputed “King of the Queen City” to rival St. Xavier just yet.
In front of 15,000 fans at the University of Cincinnati’s Nippert Stadium, the Cardinals edged out St. Xavier 13-8 in the feature game of the Skyline Chili Crosstown Showdown.
Diminutive sophomore running back Tyler Williams sparked the Cardinal victory, reaching the end zone on runs of five and 44 yards in the first quarter. Williams finished with 66 yards on seven carries.
The Colerain defense was asked to do the rest and stopped the Bombers inside its own 20-yard line with under two minutes to go.
After running the table and winning a state championship in 2007, the loss was St. Xavier’s first since a playoff setback in 2006 to – guess who – Colerain.
Both schools have major challenges ahead next Saturday. Colerain faces McKeesport of Pennsylvania – a AAA playoff team last fall – while St. Xavier faces Prattville, Alabama’s two-time defending 6A champion.
MaxPreps National Player of the Week
Bo Cordell, QB, Indian Hill High School (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Not even two surgeries as a junior are going to keep Bo Cordell from having a great senior year for Indian Hill (Cincinnati, Ohio).
He started his final campaign with a bang, completing 26-of-33 passes for a career-best 510 yards and five touchdowns during a 44-6 rout of Ross. And he only played three quarters. For his dominating performance he has been named the MaxPreps National Player of the Week.
The 6-foot-1, 200-pound quarterback, who had surgeries for meniscus tears at the end of football season and start of baseball season as a junior, “finally feels good and healthy,” coach Kevin Siple told MaxPreps. “Mentally, he’s really at his highest ever. He comes from a wonderful family and is a good leader (he is a team captain).”
Siple explained that Cordell “had high hopes of having some kind of (college scholarship) offer before his senior year. All the colleges want senior tape and want to see how he does. He felt so much pressure. Every game, every pass is your future and it’s really tough.
“The scholarship is out of our control, but his confidence is at a whole different level now.”
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