Early Season Top Performers Cline Engle from Burns (Lawndale, N.C.) kicked a 61-yard field goal on Sept. 1 to establish a new state record. Unfortunately, the boot was the Bulldogs only points in a 48-3 loss to Shelby. Noah Ingram from Ruleville (Miss.) broke his own single-game state rushing record with a 506-yard outburst against Gentry (Indianola) on Sept. 9. Ingrams Tigers won the game 74-71. Running back Frank Gore from Coral Gables (Fla.) is off to a fast start after rushing for a Miami-Dade County record 377 yards in the Cavs Week-One 48-0 win versus South Miami. He followed that up with 260 yards in a 56-9 win against Coral Park. Defending 6A state champs Naperville Central (Ill.), a rankings bubble team, won its first three games by a combined score of 125-0. James Savage of Upper Dauphin Area (Elizabethville, Pa.) had 402 yards rushing in a 37-23 win over Millersburg on Sept.
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