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Tajh Boyd is the big-name recruit for Phoebus High, but I had little interest in seeing him play: he's already verbally-committed to West Virginia. He's a 6-1 195 senior quarterback who wears jersey number 10. Another blue-chip Phoebus Phantom is 6-0 265 noseguard and sometimes-fullback
Dominik Davenport, who wears number 63, and who is also a senior who is headed to West Virginia! A third highly-rated Phoebus Phantom, 6-0 224 senior running back Shawne Alston, is also headed to...you guessed it: West Virginia. Not a good recruiting job done at Phoebus High School by the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech! Haha. 
him. This took the ball down to the Hampton 28 yard-line. Finally, the scoring for this game was over when Phoebus added a 10-yard run when there was 3:53 left, and this made it 42-6.
linebacker for Portsmouth, Virginia's Churchland
High School. You'll be able to read about him
more if you search the internet: he's one of the
better eleventh-graders in the state of Virginia. 
Churchland started things off
by intercepting a pass and running it back for a
touchdown: they led at the end of the first period
by a score of 6-0. Churchland has a player who is every bit as equally-impressive as Tayvon Newsom by the name of Matthew Stanek . He kicked a 32-yard field goal at the 7:06 mark of the second quarter, and then Churchland scored another TD to go in to the dressing room at the half with a 16-0 lead. Matthew Stanek appears in the photo below, wearing number 43. He kicked two 32-yard field goals in this game. Note the size of his left leg! He's a player that you're going to be hearing a LOT about in the next 3 years...and beyond. What a kicker!
One other player I noticed as a future prospect was I.C. Norcom High School's 6-4 180 sophomore defensive back Kameron Mack, who wears number 23. Simply because of his size and agility, it was hard not to notice him. But time will tell if he ever develops in to a prospect. He seemed to move well: he had more going for him than just height.
I was in Stafford, Virginia, which is off of Highway I-95 North (see photo at left of traffic as it's heading up I95: I was parked on the side of the road as I drove toward Stafford). It's probably the busiest highway in Virginia during rush hour. That's south of Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. is in the upper right-hand corner of the state of Virginia. I had gone to watch the Group AAA (largest high schools in the state of Virginia) regular season game between the home school, Colonial Forge High
of Stafford, VA and the visiting school, Massaponax High of Fredericksburg, VA. 
Neither of these players is highly-known yet, and that's precisely WHY I wanted to see them play. Anyone can read on the internet about the players who are household names: there's not much point in my going to see players play who you can already read everything about and who have their photos all over the internet. Of course, I do see those players and report on them. But I also try to see players who will be big-time players play in their high school games BEFORE they get publicized, and the players I scouted tonight are hopefully two players like this.
The two players are brothers: I read about them online. They are Colonial Forge football players Blake Frohnapfel
, a 6-4 195 10th-grade quarterback who wears jersey
number 8, and his brother, Eric Frohnapfel, a 6-5 195 10th-grade wide receiver who wears jersey number 83. The two players appear in the above-left photo. Earlier this year, the
Colonial Forge High School struck first on an 8-yard run with 7:44 left in the first period to go up 6-0 over Massaponax.
But
the 6-4 sophomore quarterback
Blake Frohnapfel
was then intercepted with 2:07 in the first quarter and Massaponax took over at their own 12 yard-line.The crowd increased in size as the game went on. The volume was loud actually: there was lots of enthusiasm (note the Colonial Forge sign made out of cups in the photo above).
Blake Frohnapfel threw a 43-yard TD pass at the 7:09 mark of the second quarter to put his team up 12-0. After a 2-point conversion, they went on to take a 14-7 halftime lead. At the 4:11 point of the 3rd quarter, however, a 40-yard touchdown pass by Massaponax made if 14-14.
from the state of Virginia to make the "50 High School Juniors To Watch" was Hailes' teammate,
6-1 200 junior quarterback Phillip Sims , who wears jersey number 14: however I've seen Sims play, and neither Virginia nor Virginia
Tech have offered Sims scholarships yet. Could this be because there's some doubt as to whether Sims's
amazing passing statistics are the result of his skills or more due to the skills of his receivers? Three of
his receiver's signed Division 1-A scholarships last year, and one more is going to this year. To find out more about the players I scout, you can find good articles in scout.com or use Google.com to read articles in Virginia newspapers.
I was finally in Suffolk by 4:09. I reached Chesapeake at 4:16. I passed the sign for "Tidewater Community
College-Chesapeake Campus" at 4:49 P.M. I got to the football stadium by 5:12 P.M. What a long, tedious trip. Haha!
The football stadium is called Colon L. Hall Stadium, which appears in the photo above. Colon L. Hall Stadium is located on Stadium Drive, on the edge
of the suburbs.
It's actually behind Great Bridge Middle School, over a mile from Great Bridge High School. The crowd was slow to arrive, but by halftime, both sides of the stadium were packed. 
there was no point in it resuming: after all, Brey looked to be seriously injured, and this was just a high school football
game. The Oscar Smith team crossed the field and stood in a line that stretched horizontally across the field near where Brey lay without moving. There was no rescue squad at the game. How could a high school take in so much money
on refreshments, yet not spend the money to have a rescue squad at the game? Finally, a rescue squad showed up.
Still not moving, Brey was taken off on a stretcher. On ESPN Radio 1310, which is an all-sports station out of Virginia
Beach, I listened to updates of all of the other games. Finally, the game was resumed, but the Oscar Smith squad
didn't seem to be very enthused.
How could they be? Their starters, including Evan Hailes , shown again in the photo above, wearing number 75, didn't play much in the second half.
After the half, Great Bridge scored twice very quickly. They were down 43-14. But it meant nothing really, only that
Oscar Smith wasn't trying to run up the score. The game had been played with a "running clock," meaning that other
than during the halftime, the clock had been kept moving. Oscar Smith scored their final touchdown, which accounted
for the final 50-14 margin, on a 23-yard touchdown strike from Phillip Sims to 6-0 190 senior wide receiver Tim Smith ,
a player that the University of Virginia is hoping to sign. Had they wanted to, Oscar Smith could have scored 75 points easily
in this game.
Friday evening. I had gone to see 6-4 190 11th-grade wide receiver/kick-returner Justin Hunter of Virginia Beach, VA Ocean Lakes High School. Justin Hunter appears in three photos in this story: he's wearing gold jersey number 1 in each photo. His Ocean Lakes High Dolphins were playing in a neutral site, the Virginia Beach Sportsplex (the photo of the outside of the Sportsplex appears below), against Virginia Beach, VA Kempsville High (which had gone 0-10 last season).
The website hamptonroads.com rates Ocean Lakes High as the number 6 team in the rankings of high school football teams in the Tidewater area.
Justin Hunter seems to me as if might be the top high school college football prospect in the state of Virginia in 2009-10!
According to hamptonroads.com "We're trying to find the unorthodox McFadden McFadden ways to get him the ball,' Dolphins coach Chris Scott said, referring to former Arkansas star running back Darren McFadden , who now plays for the Oakland Raiders."
"He's something special, and he's getting offers coming in from U.Va. and Tech for football and from UCLA for track."
He is a highlight film in three sports: football, basketball and track, where he finished 2nd in the state Group AAA (largest schools) State Championships. As a sophomore, he high-jumped 6-10, an unheard of achievement for a 10th-grade high school football player! You can see him here playing basketball on 
why it was tied 0-0 at the end of that period. And at the half it was still tied 0-0. Shortly beforehand, the Dolphins did throw a ball his way, but it was badly underthrown and almost intercepted. They then missed a field goal and both teams went in the locker room. It was hard to believe that a team as good as Ocean Lakes could be in a scoreless tie at halftime with Kempsville.
Things changed dramatically in the
second half. At the start of the third quarter, Ocean Lakes forced a turnover and then scored on a 6-yard run at the 6:46 mark to make the store 7-0. After a fumble on a quarterback sack, Ocean Lakes got the ball on Kempsville's 24 yard-line and then kicked a field-goal to go up 10-0. But Kempsville rallied to close it to 10-7 at the 0:29 point of the 3rd quarter.
yelled an Ocean Lakes fan. The punt came to Justin Hunter on his own 26 yard-line. He dodged tacklers as he cut toward's his team's sideline, zig-zagged toward the middle, and then cut back toward the same sideline. It wound up being a 58-yard return that ended at the Kempsville 16 yard-line!
Virginia, play. His Spartans were playing at home against visiting Ballou High of Washington, D.C. As you can see by looking at the Broad Run High School press box at right, Hurricane Hannah brought rain during parts of the game.
Adrian Flemming was taken out of the game for good just several minutes in to the second half, with his team leading 40-6. Broad Run went on to win 54-13, but it could have been worse. They kept the score down by not passing after the half, and by playing their entire squad. 
Logan Thomas(I took this photo of him at left) has his choice of colleges to pick from this year. Were I to take a wild guess as to where Thomas
will go to college, I would say Virginia Tech, for no other reason than his high school's color is maroon, the same color as Virginia Tech. Plus, his fans are rabid over him: there was literally not one seat available on the Brookville side of the stadium. 
In each group photo in the game program, the Brookville players are shown holding a chain 3 or 4 players at-a-time, probably to demonstrate togetherness. More on Zack McCray and Logan Thomas later.
players wore white jerseys with black numbers, black helmets, black pants, and white shoes that had black stripes. Potomac wore white helmets, black jerseys with "Carolina blue" numbers, black pants with blue on the sides, black socks, and white shoes. Bo Revell played a perfect game. His team led 34-0 at the half, went on to win 41-0, and he sat out the final quarter. Early in the first quarter, Bo Revell
connected on a screen pass for 25 yards, and then ran for 7 yards on the next play. His team soon scored, making it 7-0 at the 7:10 mark. Later, Bo Revell hit his receiver on a medium-range pass over the middle on first-and-ten for 50-yards at the 0:54 mark of the first period.