Brad Geever almost made it a repeat performance. The junior quarterback was on his way to a 77-yard touchdown run on Friday night against Joliet Township on the same bootlege play, albeit this time to right, that he scored a 92-yard touchdown on against Morgan Park two weeks ago.
This time there was no Orlando Thomas to throw a key block. This time Geever was caught from behind at the 5-yard line.
He doesn't care. The Raiders scored a few plays later and went on to blow out the Steelmen 48-0 to stay undefeated and qualify for the playoffs with their fifth win.
"I'm just happy we scored," Geever said after throwing for two touchdowns and rushing for a third on a 13-yard run. "I got caught from behind. If we wouldn't have scored, I would have been more mad than I was, but I can't do anything about it now."
Except get ready for the hooping and hollaring during film study. My experience with these things is that his teammates will be nice about it, but getting ran down like that opens a guy up to some razzing.
After the Morgan Park game, Raiders coach John Ivlow said something along the lines of Geever is the worst athlete on the field, but made the biggest play. Ivlow said that Geever's mom, Laura Graf Geever, didn't take kindly to that.
"His ma jumped me behind the concession stand today and started yelling at me about saying that, and I told her, 'I'm sticking to it,'" Ivlow said. "He is. I'm sticking to it. Worst athlete on the field. But he's a great high school quarterback. He makes the right reads. He's not going to hurt you."
Unless you're a Bolingbrook opponent that is.
Early Recruiting
Ivlow said senior safety Alex McNulty is the only player who currently has a scholarship offer on the table. McNulty confirmed to The Brook Blog that Colorado State has offered him a full ride out to Ft. Collins.
Others garnering a lot of interest are defensive tackle Roosevelt Holliday and defensive back Brandon Westphal. Ivlow said Holliday may need to convert to offensive line when he plays at the next level.
Injury Update
Juniors Rickey Moore and Mitchell Caffey remained on the sideline on Friday. Both went into the MRI tube in the last week. Both told The Brook Blog that they got good news.
Moore said that his dislocated knee will not require surgery at this point. He will most likely sit out another two weeks to allow his knee to heel.
"I'm fine now, but I justwant to get it stronger," the defensive end said. "If it comes out again, I'll have to get surgery."
Out for the entire season to date because of a dislocated left hip suffered during summer drills, Caffey had his MRI done on Wednesday and was told that he could play again this year and won't need surgery.
"Hopefully I will be back for this season," he said.
Senior wide receiver Alfonso Sylvester got a scare in the first half when he hurt his right ankle going for a pass in the end zone. He remained on the turf for a few minutes before limping off the field without help. Initially, Sylvester was worried.
"I did hear a pop," Sylvester said. "I thought it was broke. But I thought if it was broke, it would hurt worse than that. Then I'm like, 'it's aiight.' And I got to moving it around before the trainer came out. Then I was like, 'it's cool.' But I knew they weren't going to let me back in. As soon as we got up 28-zip they told me just to sit down and ice it."
Sylvester sat out the rest of the game, but said he would be able to play next week against Lincoln-Way Central. When I asked him, he was almost offended by the question.
"Lincoln-Way Central," he asked. "Of course."
McNulty was also sporting an ice bag after the game on his right hand, but he took it off and said it was fine. He told The Brook Blog that his hand was dinged up by a helmet "in the middle of a commotion."
Back (to winning) in Black
The Raiders wore all black on Friday from head to toe. Black helmets, black jersies, black pants and black socks.
Ivlow said it was the first time Bolingbrook has won in his tenure wearing all black.
"I was reluctant," Ivlow said. "I told them, 'don't mess it up.' And not in those words."
Ralph Is Right
During halftime I went out and asked four people to predict the final score of the game.
Ralph Skogh, who was there with his wife and loyal Sun reader Penny, predicted a final score of 48-3. They are the parents of Bolingbrook sophomores Jessica and Jennifer, twins who turned 16 on Friday.
Ashley Overstreet, a 2008 Brook graduate, predicted a 67-0 final.
Sebastian Rodriguez, a junior who also celebrated his 16th birthday, said the final would be 200-0.
Tim Lewis said it would be 54-0.
By Price Is Right rules, Ralph was the closest without going over (Bolingbrook score anyway). What does he win? Our love and admiration of course.
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