Welcome to the Midweek Grab Bag. We suggest you pour yourself a nice cool beverage, find a nice comfortable place to sit, and enjoy a nice bowl of numbers soup.
Grab Bag power rankings
Here’s what’s hot in high school football right now.
1. Tampa Bay teams: Three teams — 2A Indian Rocks Christian, 3A Clearwater Central Catholic, 6A Armwood — ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press state poll.
2. Armwood’s defense: Held Blake to 11 yards passing, and minus-36 yards rushing.
3. Dwayne Lawson, Hillsborough: At least one touchdown rushing and one passing in nine consecutive games.
4. Ryan Davis, Lakewood: Last year: 307 total yards after two games. This year: 656 yards after two games.
5. Daniel Davis, Tarpon Springs: Last week averaged 30 yards on five carries, 26 yards per catch, 528 total yards on season.
6. Theo Anderson, Indian Rocks Christian: Three touchdowns on six touches; three sacks on defense.
7. Jeff Smith, Clearwater Central Catholic: Like butter so far.
8. Garrett Young, Cambridge Christian: 13 touchdowns passing and rushing already.
9. Stephon Williams, Calvary Christian: 252 yards rushing, 88 receiving and six TDS; 24 tackles, one sack and a fumble recovery.
10. Northside Christian’s defense: Only team that hasn’t allowed a point this season. Remember, this is a defense that had one shutout the previous 40 games coming into this season and hasn’t posted two shutouts in a season since 2007.
11. Malik Davis, Jesuit
12. Carson Lydon, East Lake
13. Jaylen Pickett, Zephyrhills
14. Sunlake defense
15. Todd Sims, Spoto
16. Marchalo Judge, Tampa Bay Tech
17. Rudy Dawson, Hillsborough
18. Dante Satcher, Countryside
19. Springstead defense
20. Diontae Johnson, Lennard
Matchup of the week
Dwayne Lawson vs. Armwood’s defense: Lawson had one bad game last season, and it came against this week’s opponent, Armwood. The Hawks held him to 58 yards passing (99 fewer yards than his second-worst game) and 36 yards rushing on 12 carries, a season-low 3 yards per carry. It should be noted, however, that as a sophomore, Lawson did throw for 131 yards and run for 110 on a career-high 28 carries, albeit against a less hearty Hawk defense.
Hot film of the week
500 club
Brown vs. Bloomingdale
Com-Att 33-43
Yards 519
Interceptions 0
Touchdowns 4
Rush yards 0
Rush TDs 0
Result W
Unsung guys we dig
Terrell Jackson, Jefferson: He’s just a little guy (5-9, 160), but he is blazing fast. While he didn’t break a big one against Hillsborough last week, it looked like he was on the verge a couple of times. We see some long touchdown runs in his future.
Austin Yeloushan, Sunlake: He leads the stout Sunlake defense in tackles and tackles for losses.
Jakiah Felder, Pasco: The running back had 130 yards last week, and Pasco is in desperate need of someone who can turn in that kind of performance weekly.
Aaron Cox, Freedom: Coach Todd Donohoe raved about Cox in the preseason, and the defensive back is proving his coach prescient, with two interceptions this season. Speaking of the Freedom defense …
Numbers
13 Sacks by Freedom this year.
4 Players who have double digit sacks for the Patriots: Chris Clapham, Lee Carabali and Bryce Crawford have two, and Bryce Colee has three.
Shark tanked
Riverview has been trying to get out of a rut for a few years now, and while dwindling numbers have hurt that effort, so too has a little bad luck: three of the Sharks’ last five losses have been by five points or fewer, including last week’s 7-6 loss to East Bay.
Five shocking things about Largo’s loss to East Lake
1. The Packers never had a running clock in a regular-season game under former coach Rick Rodriguez.
2. The 42-0 loss last week to East Lake was the first time a Pinellas County team scored more than 40 on the Packers since a 46-20 loss to Dunedin in 2003.
3. The Packers haven’t lost by that many points since Lakewood beat them 47-2 in 1999.
4. The last Pinellas County team to shut out Largo was Lakewood, 32-0 in 2002.
5. That was the worst shutout loss suffered by Largo since Dixie Hollins posted a 43-0 win over the Packers in 1993.
Numbers
3 Straight losses by Tampa Catholic. The Crusaders haven’t lost four straight since 2010.
D’awesome
Hey, we don’t care how you D’spell it, but how’s this for piping hot : Dixie Hollins’ Davontae Harrington (nine catches, 193 yards, three TDs) and D’Vonte Cook (nine catches, 148 yards, TD) combined last week for 18 catches, 341 yards and four TDs. Is it just us, or are the Rebels are just one or two more D’/Da/Vontes away from a state title?
Numbers
7 Sacks and interceptions by Chamberlain through two games.
7 Players who have TDs for Indian Rocks Christian.
7 Straight games without throwing an interception for Countryside QB Trent Chmelik.
Quiz show
Cambridge Christian’s Garrett Young:
a. Has only thrown three interceptions in his past 271 pass attempts
b. Has gone six straight games without an interception
c. Is on pace for 65 total touchdowns this season.
d. All of the above
Current losing streaks
Which team stops the skid this week?
Leto 27*
Central 20
Clearwater 13
Wesley Chapel 13
Dixie Hollins 9
*Going back to a forfeit win in 2011; 41 on-the-field losses