Bulls on the run
From The Sun's Pat O' Malley:
The Herefords Bulls have been running wild this season.
Fifth-ranked Hereford, which plays host to Catonsville (8-3) Friday in the Class 3A North regional final, is 11-0, including a 56-0 rout of the Comets in the second game of the season. Their latest rout was 63-0 over Mervo (6-5) last Friday.
With Lonnie Liggins and Nick DePaola leading the charge, Hereford has scored 506 points in 11 games. That's an average of 46 points per game.
That's impressive. But the 1997 state champion Bulls of coach Steve Turnbaugh, who is 134-21 (.865) in 13 seasons, rung up a state record 602 points and a state record average of 46.31 points per game. Those are numbers the current Bulls can surpass if they go all the way and claim their fourth state championship (others were in 2002 and 2001).
It will take three more wins (regional, semifinals and final) to win the 3A crown, and the Bulls would need to average 32.3 points to finish with 603 points. That would make the Bulls 14-0 with an average of 43.1 points an outing.
To break the state record for average points, they would need to score 144 more points to give them 650 for the season, an average of 46.4. But that would take averaging 48 points in the last three games.
It all sounds good, but the number the Bulls covet most is 4, as in state titles.
