Both Good Counsel and St. Joseph’s Prep had national championship dreams coming into Friday showdown between the No. 7 and No. 11 teams in the High School Football America 100 national rankings. Both also knew that the loser of the contest would have to shelve that dream until 2019.
The game itself lived up to the hype with St. Joe’s racing out to a 13-0 lead midway through the first quarter. The Hawks held that lead until Good Counsel grabbed a 27-26 lead near the end of the third quarter.
SJP won the game by scoring a touchdown and two-point conversion with about a minute to go.
Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.
