Fielder’s Choices: Long-awaited Liberty-Gorman rematch will pack in fans

It’s the crippled of the twelvemonth successful section precocious schoolhouse football, and truthful galore radical privation to spot Liberty vs. Bishop Gorman that I foretell the parking batch astatine Gorman’s stadium volition capable up early. Then radical volition upwind up parking successful driveways astatine those houses crossed the street.

The radical who unrecorded determination mightiness get upset erstwhile they get location from enactment Friday, and it’s acheronian outside, and there’s a unusual car parked successful their driveway.

But that’s what they get for surviving adjacent to Bishop Gorman erstwhile Liberty plays shot there.

Class 5A Southern

Region championship

Liberty astatine Bishop Gorman

The mode the leagues and playoffs are acceptable up now, these teams could upwind up playing astatine this clip each year. Then this crippled could go a large rivalry, similar Army vs. Navy — but that 1 broadside doesn’t bargain the other’s goat, oregon whatever.

The past clip these teams played, Liberty ended Bishop Gorman’s winning streaks of 55 games and 10 authorities championships 30-24 successful overtime. It was mode much breathtaking than Army-Navy, if you inquire me.

Nobody expected Liberty to triumph that game. Few expect Liberty to triumph this one, though Liberty’s lone nonaccomplishment was to Mater Dei of California, the No. 1 squad successful the full nation. Bishop Gorman’s lone nonaccomplishment was 25-24 to this squad successful Arizona called Hamilton that someway scored 18 points successful the last 1:05 of the game.

My precocious schoolhouse subject teacher said it’s a story that lightning can’t onslaught successful the aforesaid spot twice. But it astir ne'er strikes a squad that has allowed lone 1 touchdown implicit the past 7 weeks. Bishop Gorman by 20.

Class 4A semifinals

Shadow Ridge astatine Las Vegas

It seems similar yesterday erstwhile Las Vegas was a powerhouse and won the authorities championship. But that was 2006 — the aforesaid twelvemonth I flunked 5th grade. Last week, Las Vegas bushed Sierra Vista for its archetypal playoff triumph successful 7 years. Shadow Ridge bushed Durango for its archetypal playoff triumph successful 15 years.

Does this mean Shadow Ridge is hungrier to play successful the 4A authorities title crippled than Las Vegas? Not really. But I’ll inactive instrumentality Shadow Ridge by 14.

Coronado astatine Silverado

The archetypal clip these 2 played, Silverado won 32-14 successful September. Coronado has a beauteous bully defense. But undefeated Silverado has an discourtesy that enactment up 50, 65, 56, 58, 60, 76 and 51 points successful games this year. That’s much points than my grandma enactment up connected my grandpa successful this dice crippled they telephone “Yahtzee.” Silverado by 13.

Season predictions: 38-11

Against the spread: 30-17-2

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