Parker Rasmussen will not be playing on Friday against Red Mountain.

Between the tears, the troika that led Desert Ridge on another amazing run had faith that this would be the year.

Desert Ridge coach Jeremy Hathcock will listen to college signal callers say all the right things during a quarterback competition, but knows deep down they are lying through their teeth.

Until he went down with an injury, Parker Rasmussen made sure Desert Ridge took a serious step toward the postseason on Friday.

Sometimes you just have to take what they're giving you.

A lot of people will tell you if something isn’t broke, don’t try to fix it.

The Desert Ridge aerial attack was flexing its muscle again Friday night.

Willingly or not, maybe Parker Rasmussen should be the poster child for having an appeals process about automatic suspensions after ejections. The Desert Ridge quarterback can’t play this week against Red Mountain after he was tossed from last week’s win against Skyline for allegedly bumping into a referee during a scrum following a couple personal foul penalties on the Jaguars.

Desert Ridge running back Joey Counts will be a game-time decision on Friday against Gilbert because of a shoulder injury that has kept him out since mid-June, coach Jeremy Hathcock said.