Dequan Dorsey, Jordan Stringer and Cameron Garnett are the first to be featured in new "Player Spotlight" series; plus an update to the weekly schedule for coverage at the AugBball blog

Dequan Dorsey celebrates a touchdown after recovering a fumble in the end zone.

We have a new addition to our weekly high school sports coverage, and that is the “Player Spotlight” series, which debuts tonight with a close look at 2 players from Harlem, and one from Laney, using footage captured at one of AugBball’s 5 featured games from last weekend.

I know for Harlem’s Dequan Dorsey the “highlight” of the day (see above) from Saturday’s win over Laney was when he recovered a fumble in the end zone for a touchdown. But tonight’s “spotlight” will be on Dorsey’s penetration into Laney’s backfield, which enabled the Bulldogs to stop the Wildcats' running attack cold when it counted most:



My camera missed most of the important runs by Harlem's star rusher A.J. Brown Saturday. I didn't capture the long gainer that put Harlem on Laney's 1 yard line to set up a short touchdown run on the team's second drive when Harlem took a 14-0 lead. I missed the long run that ended in Dorsey's touchdown on a fumble recovery to put the Bulldogs ahead 21-13. And I wasn't filming when he broke a 63 yard touchdown run to give Harlem another 2 touchdown lead at 28-13 in the third quarter.

One player was able to slow AJ Brown, one time.

The only player who was able to even temporarily slow down Brown - well kind of, and very temporarily - was Laney’s stellar sophomore Jordan Stringer, who, probably with about a 2 yard head start, was able to force Brown out of bounds at the 25 yard line on the opening kick-off, which Brown ran back 60 yards. I can’t honestly say Jordan ran AJ down on that play. But I will say that from every angle, Brown appeared to be GONE. I think very few players would have stopped a touchdown on that play (see below), especially players with Jordan’s frame (6’1” 195 lbs) and his young age (sophomore):

Another sophomore with a big frame and great agility, of course, is Harlem’s Cameron Garnett. At 6’1” 205 pounds, he showed Saturday during his two touchdown runs both his power, and his speed.

The great thing about Cameron is he’s equally good on both sides of the ball, as his play on defense here shows when he gets a pair of tackles on third down and fourth down in the third quarter to turn Laney over on downs and stop the Wildcats’ momentum after they had scored on the previous two drives:

Updated High School Sports Coverage Schedule

Mondays

You can find full highlights and more from the games featured by AugBball the prior weekend each Monday. Here is the link to the week 5 recap: http://augbball.blogspot.com/2018/09/previewing-augbballs-week-5-featured.html?m=1

Tuesdays

The player spotlights like the one posted here today will release on Tuesdays.

Wednesdays

Wednesday will continue to be the day when player profile videos are released. When tomorrow’s edition goes live, 15 players from 4 teams will be featured. That will make 40 players from 10 teams whose highlight footage, class, height and weight will have been logged, shared and stored on the AugBball blog. Here are links to the player profile videos from each week:

Week 1: http://augbball.blogspot.com/2018/08/player-profiles-burke-countys-chadd.html

Week 2: http://augbball.blogspot.com/2018/08/player-profiles-from-week-2-aquinass.html

Week 3: http://augbball.blogspot.com/2018/09/week-3-player-profiles-feature.html

Week 4: http://augbball.blogspot.com/2018/09/week-4-player-profile-videos-feature-4.html

Thursdays

Thursday’s will bring the previews for the coming featured Friday night games. I gave a spoiler for the games we are considering for this coming Friday in Monday's recap of last weekend's games.

Weekend Posts

Some time between Friday night very late and Sunday will bring our reactions from Friday night’s games and other special features.