The similarities between Ben Burr-Kirven’s and Shay O’Kelly’s defensive stats at Sacred Heart Prep are startling.
— that showed O’Kelly the player he wanted to be.
As Sacred Heart Prep prepares to start its Central Coast Section Division I playoff run with a trip to The Pit and Salinas High School on Friday night, it will be leaning heavily on O’Kelly and a defense that’s led the team to one of the best regular seasons in program history. When you combine tackles for a loss and sacks, O’Kelly has 29 . Burr-Kirven had 29.5 . And when you take their tackles and average them on a per-game basis?Of course, what made Burr-Kirven even more special was that he played both ways and was a force on offense, too. It’s why Frank Rodriguez, the recently retired athletic director at Sacred Heart Prep, calls Burr-Kirven “the best high school football player I’ve ever seen.
Sacred Heart Prep coach Mark Grieb can attest to that. And the former San Jose SaberCat quarterback can feel a kinship with his star linebacker’s football obsession. “The two back-to-back years, I’d measure that against any linebacker on the peninsula,” Rodriguez said.
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