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Welcome to Week 2 of Touchdown/Chunk Play/First Down/Behind the Chains, as we review the weekend in prep football.

Touchdown

PANTHER TRACKS: One of the impressive early starts is being put together by Piedra Vista, which is 2-0 and coming off a 43-27 win over Durango, Colorado. Of note, the Panthers had scored just 41 combined points in five straight losses to Durango from 2021-25.

Piedra Vista already has scored 99 points in victories over Farmington and Durango.

When Week 2 began, the Panthers were ranked No. 4 (by the coaches) in Class 5A behind Roswell, Artesia and Los Lunas.

The top three all fell in Week 2. Should be interesting to see how much juggling, if any, there is in the new poll.

But I also took notice of the latest MaxPreps ratings, which saw the Panthers jump an incredible nine spots in the overall computer ranking, which includes all classifications. (Too early to say if PV鈥檚 rapid climb is legit.)

Piedra Vista is ranked No. 3 overall in the state, behind only Cleveland and Las Cruces. The Panthers leapfrogged a whole bunch of 6A teams this week, like Centennial, Hobbs, 近距离内射合集 Vista, Rio Rancho, La Cueva and Carlsbad.

As I鈥檝e mentioned on my 鈥榅鈥� account, when I write game stories, I rely on the coaches鈥� poll when it comes to rankings. But the MaxPreps leap does merit a mention here.

Sidebar: Piedra Vista has had some scheduling problems over the last several years. The Panthers had to travel to Canyon, Texas 鈥� a fair hike from Farmington, New Mexico, about 950 miles round trip 鈥� because the school had trouble locating a better 10th game option.

That has not changed, apparently.

Piedra Vista this week is traveling to Salt Lake City and will play Olympus High, a school significantly larger in enrollment than Piedra Vista. This will be about 830 miles coming and going for the Panthers. Why make this trip? Because as with the Canyon situation, Piedra Vista was unable to find a suitable 10th opponent closer to home. Not ideal, and if you are the Panthers, costly and incredibly frustrating.

A TOP 10er: St. Pius receiver Curtis Flakes III falls into this category this week, and rightfully so.

Although the Sartans were on the receiving end of a 66-31 beating from Holtville, California, they 鈥� or rather Flakes 鈥� managed to provide a major highlight.

On the back end of a rainmaking throw from quarterback Isaiah Carpenter, Flakes authored a scintillating one-handed grab 鈥� with a defender fairly draped all over him 鈥� in Friday night鈥檚 road loss.

The catch became the No. 8 play on ESPN鈥檚 SportsCenter Top 10 that evening.

Chunk Play

ON THE DOWN LOW: I wouldn鈥檛 want to cover them every week necessarily, but I was heartened to see some of the low-scoring games from Week 2. There were no fewer than four teams who won by scoring no more than 12 points. Glad to see at least some defenses are eating out there.

To that end, the total number of combined points scored by the following eight teams 鈥� St. Michael鈥檚 (3), Santa Fe (0), Grants (2), Valencia (6), West Las Vegas (12), Dexter (7), Bernalillo (12) and Albuquerque Academy (7) 鈥� was 49, or one more point than Rio Rancho had all by itself in its victory over Los Lunas.

ON THE ROAD: Lengthy road trip games for La Cueva and St. Pius did not, perhaps, work out as they鈥檇 hoped, with the Bears losing by 19 in Colorado Springs and the Sartans losing by 35 in Holtville, but you have to love the initiative both programs have made to stretch their legs far outside the state and test their mettle against out-of-state competition.

This type of lengthier travel may not be for everybody, and of course it isn鈥檛 cheap (which is partially WHY it isn鈥檛 for everybody), but it would be nice to see others in the city make a similar attempt in future years.

STORM CLOUDS: Cleveland doubled up Chatfield, Colorado 40-20 in Week 2; this Chatfield team played Colorado鈥檚 No. 1, Cherry Creek (an absolute monster of a program), to a 28-15 game in Week 1.

We all are still anxiously awaiting the Sept. 18 showdown at Wilson Stadium between Cleveland and La Cueva. In the meantime, speaking on behalf of many, let鈥檚 hope a few well-placed brain pans can conjure us a Cleveland-Cherry Creek pairing in the future. Our immediate future.

First Down

RAZOR THIN: The margin between Artesia and Hobbs on Friday was as slim as possible 鈥� a single point. The decision, 28-27, went the Eagles鈥� way.

It didn鈥檛 fall 29-28 Artesia鈥檚 way because Hobbs defender Gavin McPherson made a clutch tackle to prevent the Bulldogs from completing a 2-point conversion run at the end of the game to preserve the win.

SO CLOSE: Not since 2021 has Santa Fe High defeated St. Michael鈥檚, and between that year and Friday鈥檚 3-0 overtime win for the Horsemen, there have been several blowout wins for St. Mike鈥檚.

The Demons nearly won this game, which would have registered as a fair-sized upset and this, from my keyboard, ranks as more of a glass-half-full outcome rather than glass-half-empty scenario for Santa Fe.

鈥淲e鈥檙e not the same old program we鈥檝e been in the past,鈥� coach Adrian Gonzales said.

HOLDING THE LINE: This item will lead right into the first item in the 鈥楤ehind the Chains鈥� section. Major kudos to the coaching staff from Organ Mountain. In an incident that could easily have blown up far more than it did on Friday versus Mayfield, the Organ Mountain staff did an extremely  commendable job in keeping the Knights players 鈥� those who were standing on the sidelines 鈥� right where they were. Well done, gentlemen.

Behind the Chains

STAY PUT, GUYS: It鈥檚 been a mandate for years 鈥� if there happens to be a skirmish between athletes during a competition, the rest of their teammates are expected to stay inside their dugout, stay on their basketball bench, remain on their sideline, etc.

The penalties can be severe if this rule is breached.

When a couple of players from Organ Mountain and Mayfield got physical in the first half of their game on Friday, it escalated this way: roughly two dozen Trojans sprinted off the sideline and onto the field. There also appeared to be an extra body or, at most, two from Organ Mountain.

New Mexico Activities Association Executive Director Dusty Young said late Monday afternoon that the 近距离内射合集 was dealing with this most of the day, and that their investigation will continue into Tuesday. As of this writing, no decision had yet been made on the total number of player suspensions. 鈥淎 lot to unpack,鈥� Young said. If you鈥檝e seen the video, you understand.

BAD TIMING: Not sure who exactly within Albuquerque Public Schools was responsible for this, but sorry, they鈥檙e getting called out.

Someone apparently set the timer for the lights at Nusenda Community Stadium to go off at precisely 10 p.m. Thursday. And they did. One problem. Legacy Academy and Hope Christian were still using the stadium, and in fact, Legacy was right in the middle of a play late in the fourth quarter of a game that had not yet been decided when things went dark.

It was a bad look, even in the pitch black. During monsoon season when we are most apt to have a lightning delay 鈥� which this game had 鈥� teams often are still going past 10 p.m. Perhaps this was an honest error, but the optics of it were just terrible.

VENTING: Those of you who know me, who follow me on social media, know how much of a pet peeve I have for high school games that take longer than three hours to finish. It doesn鈥檛 happen a lot and yet it happens too often.

Take Eldorado and Albuquerque High, who needed roughly three hours and 20 minutes to play four quarters of regulation football. And that鈥檚 WITHOUT a lightning delay.

When prep games take 20 minutes longer than the average NFL game to complete 鈥� assuming that a major injury has not occurred that forced the game to be halted for a large chunk of time 鈥� that鈥檚 just absurd.

And frankly, if it hadn鈥檛 taken so long to play 48 minutes, the Bulldogs and Eagles likely would have had time to finish a game that was called a 43-43 tie (due to lightning) after the first overtime. Wouldn鈥檛 you say?

James Yodice covers prep sports for the Journal. You can reach him at jyodice@abqjournal.com or via X at .