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By Jason Jewell - Southwest Recruiting Analyst

Posted Aug 26, 2009

 

Desert Valley- Chaparral (2), North Canyon (1), St. Marys (1), Desert Mountain (2), Pinnacle (2), Horizon (2)

 

Top Players:

Dwayne Garrett RB Chaparral, Jacob Ehm OT Chaparral, Chris Fox LB

Chaparral, Andrew Gustafson OT Chaparral, Brendan Murphy CB Chaparral,

Danny Trittler WR Chaparral, Chase Gorham LS Chaparral, Dominic Portacerrero QB

North Canyon, Antwuon Sanders DT North Canyon, Tavon Dodson RB North Canyon,

Josh Fulton TE/DE St. Mary’s, R.J. McGill RB/CB St. Mary’s, Orange Mooney RB St.

Mary’s, Laron Tarkington S St. Mary’s, Tyeler Davison OT/DT Desert Mountain,

Charles Andrews TE/DL Desert Mountain, Dekota D’Angelo WR Desert Mountain, Alex

Cappellini QB Pinnacle, Andrew Hurley LB Pinnacle, Ryan Stanford QB Horizon, Shem

Casey WR Horizon 

 

Notes… Desert Mt. and St. Mary’s are the only holdovers from last year’s Desert Valley Region. Chaparral moves up from 4A1 and North Canyon moves in after dominating the Metro for two years. Chaparral takes their losses off of last year’s 4a1 runners up but still has plenty of talent led by RB Dwayne Garrett. Garrett rushed for nearly 2,000 yards and has several D1 offers.

 

His blockers will be inexperienced but talented. Finding a replacement for Spencer Stone will be key. Dominic Portacerrero enters his third season as North Canyon’s starter at QB and is just a junior. The Rattlers lose a ton of players but Coach Cole was happy with his team’s Spring Ball turnout. The two enigmas in this region are St. Mary’s and Desert Mountain. Both have been down in recent years but have the talent to field very good squads. The Knights are loaded with young talent while DM head coach Tony Tabor has to like what he has in his senior class. Pinnacle squeaked into the playoffs last year at 5-6 and must replace two 1AA players. The state’s top sack leader,

Andrew Hurley, will move to LB. Horizon went just 1-9 last year and rides a 6 games losing streak into 2009.

 

 

By Jason Jewell

Southwest Recruiting Analyst

Posted Oct 9, 2009

Cox Game of the Week - Recap

 

Chaparral's (Scottsdale, AZ) Brendan Murphy, Number 29 

 

Horizon's best chance for a score in the first half came on their first drive but the Huskies missed a field goal and Chaparral turned in 42 unanswered points to give Horizon their second loss of the year 49-13 on the Cox 7 game of the week.

 

The Firebirds marched down and scored on a Connor Brewer play action fake to take the early 7-0 lead. Brewer connected with WR Alex Holmes for a 30 yard gain on the drive. The RB tandem of Dwayne Garrett and Cole Tyree added two more scores before halftime and Chaparral controlled the game 22-0.

 

Garrett's earlier TD came from 53 yards out and on the second play of the second half, he raced in from 71 yards out. PAT was no good and Chap was up 28-0.  Garrett added another score in the third and Brewer hooked up with Danny Trittler from 42 yards out to make the score 42-0 in the 3rd and clearly in control.

 

Horizon finally got on the board when Matt Jones rushed for a score.  Chaparral's Brendan Murphy returned the kickoff 91 yards for Chap's final score. Nate Defreitas had a short rushing TD late.

 

To Go Directly to Profile Click On Brendan's Picture 

 

Tanner Nehls takes a catch for 25 yards against

Marshall High School in Houston, TX.

     

 

Who's hot?  Tanner Nehls from Travis High School in Richmond, TX, that's who.  After playing guard his junior year at under 190 lbs., Nehls off-season training is paying off as his speed, strength, power, and athleticism has vaulted him into a legitimate NCAA Division I FCS prospect, if not Division I itself.  Nehls now stands at 6 feet 2.5 inches, 220 lbs., has 4.7 speed (timed at Texas State University), 4.36 Pro Agility (timed at CSU), and benches 185 lbs. 25 times.  To put it completely accurately, Nehls is dominating his opponents in one of the toughest football regions in the U.S.A - Houston, TX.  Nehls and the Tigers launched the Fall season with at 3 and 0 run for the first time in Travis football history.

 

To quote Offensive Line Coach Matt Farmer, and Travis High Head Coach Randy Cunningham, "Tanner has developed into one of the most well-rounded TE’s in the Houston area. His playing experience on the OL last year shows in his dominant blocking of DEs and LBs. Through 3 games of the season, he has graded out the highest of all the OL/TE group and has outperformed several DI caliber defensive players. His pass catching ability shows on film and he has displayed an ability to run after the catch." Not bad for an athlete that has been completely under the recruiting radar not only in Texas, but all over the country. 

 

Nehls game video looks like a season of highlights.  It is his time...RIGHT NOW...so college coaches better get him cause HE's HOT!

 

 

To see Tanner's game and highlight video go to his profile under 2010 Athletes (column left of this article) and click on "Video Gallery" or click HERE to go straight to Tanner's profile page. 

 

to another big gain.