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Chase Cruz (Sr.); WR/CB – Holy Trinity Titans One of the last remaining members of the Titan dynasty that won back-to-back NYCHSFL Double-A crowns in 2021 and 2022, we empathize with the 6’1, 175-pound speedster out of Brooklyn; as it is never easy to endure a rebuild during your swan song campaign!! Holy Trinity entering week #6 winless (0-6); the returning All-League performer from a season ago knew that if the Green & White had any hopes of turning around the fortunes of their 2024 year; he needed to be that proverbial spark…HE MANIFESTED A WILD FIRE!! Establishing new single-day career-highs in receptions (9), yardage (225), and touchdowns grabs (3) during HT’s 47-32 victory over previously unbeaten/2023 AA-2 champs, Mount St. Michael Academy (5-1), the senior leader for the Hicksville based program left everything he had out on the field!!! Picking the ideal time to register the first multi-TD game

Patrick Darcy (Sr.); DL – Kellenberg Memorial Firebirds In the words of Sun Tzu, “Invincibility lies in the defense.”….And for the senior DL out of Rockville Centre [Darcy], his performance could not have been any more indomitable in anchoring a Firebirds “D” that was pivotal in handing the visiting Eagles their first blemish of the year (4-1) via a 14-7 victory on September 28th!! Limiting the usually high-potent attack of St. Peter’s (entered averaging 28.6/per game) to just the aforementioned season-low of 7, the man blessed with the 6’2, 250-pound frame was extremely active in racking up personal-bests on the stat sheet, while simultaneously doing countless things that do not show up on paper in helping to deliver victory to the Uniondale based squad… His #44 shirt impossible to ignore last Saturday afternoon, Darcy was credited with either tying or recording new single-day career-bests across the board, as he made

Gregory Ajose-Martinez (Sr.); DE/OLB – St. Peter’s Boys Eagles While the temperature on the evening of September 20th never creeped below 72 degrees; there was a definitive chill in the air thanks to the presence of the 6’1, 180-pound Staten Islander [Ajose-Martinez]… A bona fide “Stone Called” assassin in the Eagles’ 21-7 triumph over Xaverian, the #26 was so active throughout the 48-minute ordeal, that it would be easier to count the number of defensive snaps where he did not record a hit or stop…. His 15 total tackles this season in the lead-up to week #3 among the tops on the team, the #26 shirt utilized a career night to vault himself to the top of the totem pole, as he’d double up the next highest tackler on the squad (Cosmo D’Amelio), 18-9, to usher in a wave of Blue & Gold defensive dominance… His epic effort invaluable in

Jonathan Bailey (Sr.); QB – Fordham Prep Rams Officially holding the rank of QB1 in 2024 after seeing plenty of field time (733 yards and 4 TD tosses on 52-of-114 passing; 238 yards and 2 touchdowns on 41 keepers last season) as a trusted back-up during his sophomore and junior years, the strapping 6’3, 176-pound field general out of Yonkers [Bailey] is epitomizing the saying that “the best things in life are worth waiting for.”… Like Adam, Abraham, King David, and all of the great shepherds guiding his flock, Bailey could not have been more in control of the Ram offense than he was this past weekend in orchestrating Fordham Prep’s 44-12 victory on Coffey Field over Holy Cross!!! The ability to elevate the performances of every teammate around you being the trait of any true leader/kingpin, Bailey succeeded in doing this in spades as he’d connect with five different

WEEK #0 (August 30-31st, 2024) Troy Fason (Jr.); RB/FS – St. Francis Prep Terriers “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”… For the two-way, dual-sport (also is a baller for the 2024 Diocesan Champs on the hardwood) weapon [Fason], his moments on offense may have been few; but he certainly made them count when it mattered most, as he would be the ultimate catalyst on both sides of the line of scrimmage in vaulting the visiting Terriers to a 21-20 triumph over the defending NYCHSFL AA-1 titlists from West Babylon, St. John the Baptist, on the afternoon of August 31st!! Prolific in all areas last season as a sophomore, despite entering his 11th grade campaign as the top returning rusher (71 touches for 329 yards on the ground; 16 receptions for an additional 200 yards) on the