BALTIMORE (WBFF) — The unranked Graham-Kapowsin High School football team had just pulled up to Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas for a marquee matchup against Collins Hill — the No. 12 team in the country, led by future No. 2 overall NFL draft pick Travis Hunter — when fans from the Georgia powerhouse surrounded the bus and began to rock it.
“They were yelling at us that we shouldn’t be playing them, that we didn’t have a chance,” Graham-Kapowsin (Wash.) coach Eric Kurle recalled recently to The Baltimore Sun. Quarterback Josh Wood added: “They were chirping, saying we were worthless and this was gonna be an easy game.”
Vega Ioane, the team’s senior left tackle and already well on his way to filling out his 6-foot-4, 320-pound frame, stood before anyone else could react and told his teammates, “I got this.” He rose, exited the bus and made his way through the crowd, clearing a path for Wood and the rest of the players.
“When a team thinks that they’re just gonna run through a team and the biggest guy on the team is the first guy off the bus, that sets a fear factor,” Wood said. “They didn’t really have a guy his size. That definitely juiced us up because Vega was never the first one off the bus.”
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