Top 3A Performances of Week Four

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Boston Hodges - Sr, QB, Dayton</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>226 yards rushing and two touchdowns for 3A's best running quarterback. The Wing-T is difficult to stop when it's just plain old trap and belly series. Throw in the counters and QB run game that Dayton has put in this year, largely featuring Hodges, and all of the sudden it can turn out performances like the 450 yards rushing the Pirates had against Warrenton and over 500 they had against Taft. Hodges isn't physically imposing by any stretch, but him being a legitimate fourth running threat out of the backfield could be enough on its own to send Dayton back to the semifinals.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Adrian Stubbs - Sr, RB/LB, Lakeview</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>A touchdown on the ground and 14 tackles for the senior linebacker. Lakeview didn't allow a single yard to St Mary's on Friday, and Stubbs being all over the field was a huge reason why. There are faster and quicker players than Stubbs in 3A, but nobody closes on a ball carrier faster than him. Lakeview's offense might only have to score two to three times in a game in order to win multiple playoff games if Stubbs continues playing as well as he has on defense.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Peyton Maurer - Sr, WR/DB, Cascade Christian</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>218 receiving yards and three touchdowns for what is increasingly looking like 3A's best individual receiver. Not the longest, not the fastest, but just the right amount of everything to be a weapon every team will have to game plan against. Deep in the playoffs seeing how Maurer does against Banks or Vale will be the true test of where he stacks up against the rest of the state writ large.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Colten Stepleton - Sr, Everything, Vale</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Roughly 280 total yards and five total touchdowns. Can we just crown him 3A player of the year already? Vale looks like a team playing out of its classification bright now–it is arguable they and Banks are alone at the moment at the top of 3A–and Stepleton is the biggest reason why. Has someone had this big of an impact on their team's success since Joey Tripp at Rainier in 2018? Is he that big of an advantage to have on the field compared to Vale's opponents? Increasingly the answer looks like yes.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->