Bishop Gorman antiaircraft extremity Caleb Lea'Ea (45) celebrates aft recovering a St. John Bosco fumble successful the extremity portion for a touchdown during the archetypal fractional of a precocious schoolhouse shot crippled astatine Bishop Gorman Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. Photo by: Steve Marcus
By Ray Brewer (contact)
Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026 | 7:49 a.m.
The Bishop Gorman shot squad held a three-touchdown pb implicit St. John Bosco astatine halftime Friday nighttime successful a showdown betwixt the nation’s top-ranked teams.
Some mightiness person assumed that pb was safe. Gaels manager Brett Browner knew better.
“I’m inactive reasoning astir Hamilton,” Browner said, referring to his team’s 2021 crippled against Hamilton, Ariz., successful which they surrendered 17 points successful the last 70 seconds and mislaid by 1 point.
“I’ve seen weird things hap successful my life. So the worst nonaccomplishment successful your beingness is besides the champion happening to hap successful your life. It keeps you sharp, it keeps you focused. It guards against that ever happening again.”
Gorman’s pb rapidly evaporated into a necktie crippled to commencement the 4th quarter, but the Gaels scored the last 10 points to unafraid a 38-28 win. They are expected to beryllium the nation’s No. 1- ranked squad erstwhile caller polls are released adjacent week.
Running backmost Corey Hinton had the game-winning touchdown, a nifty 52-yard scoring play successful which helium caught the shot successful unfastened abstraction and outraced defenders to the extremity zone.
Max Fuentes iced the crippled with a 49-yard tract extremity — the benignant of footwear that, had helium missed, would person near Bosco successful presumption to tie.
Instead, Kamil Loud sealed the triumph with an interception. Loud, who is committed to Cal, besides had a cardinal walk breakup connected a fourth-down play earlier successful the last quarter.
“It was a heavyweight fight,” Browner said. “We had them connected the ropes early. We couldn’t enactment them down.”
Junior Zyren Menor had a brace of touchdown receptions for Gorman, including a 53-yard drawback from Ace Amina successful the 3rd 4th that helped the Gaels combat disconnected the St. John Bosco rally. The Gaels had surrendered 2 touchdowns to unfastened the half.
“My teammates counted connected maine to marque a play,” Menor said.
Amina passed for 4 touchdowns, starting the scoring with an 8-yard scoring onslaught to Noah Cole connected the game’s archetypal possession.
St. John Bosco dug itself into an aboriginal spread connected its archetypal possession erstwhile a mediocre drawback pushed the shot backmost to its ain 3-yard line. A fewer plays later, Gorman’s antiaircraft enactment forced a fumble, and Caleb Lea’ea recovered it successful the extremity portion for a speedy 14-0 lead.
That sent the Gorman faithful successful the standing-room-only assemblage into a frenzy. The stadium’s capableness is 5,000 — and determination wasn’t an bare seat.
The Gorman players are surely riding precocious aft the back-and-forth finish, particularly fixed the hype surrounding the game. And that’s the quality of the Gaels’ docket — they won’t person overmuch clip to bask the win.
That’s due to the fact that different nationalist hostile awaits adjacent week. Gorman plays astatine Columbus of Miami astatine 2 p.m. Aug. 29.
“Yeah, who decided that,” Browner joked of the docket helium built. "It’s going to beryllium tough, challenging. But, you know, this crippled is simply a battle.”
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