Joe Tessitore, Dan Orlovsky to call Corner Canyon-St. Frances Academy national title game

Omaha Productions and Overtime are leaving no stone unturned when it comes to making sure Wednesday night’s high school national title game between Corner Canyon (UT) and St. Frances Academy (Md.) has all the bells and whistles.

According to a report, a well known pairing will call the first-ever Overtime Nationals high school football championship game as Joe Tessitore and Dan Orlovsky will be on hand for the tilt in Baltimore, which is set to air on ESPN2. The game is set to be played Wednesday night at Under Armour Stadium at 7 p.m. Eastern Time.

“This is a big moment for Overtime. We are building Overtime Nationals into an event that football fans across the country will circle on their calendar every year,” Overtime Sports president of content and media Marc Kohn said. “A game of this magnitude demands top on-air talent. Joe Tessitore and Dan Orlovsky are two of the premier voices in football. We are fired up that they are excited by the long term vision and are joining us as we launch this property.”

When getting a look at the national title matchup on paper, the contest pits one of the nation’s highest scoring offenses in Corner Canyon (48.2 points per game) against St. Frances Academy’s airtight defense, which has only yielded 67 points through nine games. The Chargers opened up in 2013 and have produced some well known signal callers in a short amount of time, like New York Giants’ Jaxson Dart, Miami Dolphins’ Zach Wilson, whose younger brother, Isaac Wilson, is currently at Utah.

For talent on the field, there won’t be a lack of that whatsoever as the Chargers feature several Division I prospects, including Texas A&M commitment Helaman Casuga and the star of the UHSAA 6A title game, tailback Weston Briggs, who led the way with 171 yards rushing and four touchdowns. On the Panthers’ side, they feature two five-star defenders in Maryland commit Zion Elee and Alabama pledge Jireh Edwards.

Tessitore spoke to Front Office Sports and touched on how prep high schools and how they have become the talent breeding grounds for Power 4 universities.

“In the last generation where you have the hyper scrutiny and attention on recruiting, programs have funneled their way to be national programs,” Tessitore said in the report. “The prestigious academic boarding schools of Connecticut are now where national recruits go because they have post graduates and the SEC is recruiting Avon Old Farms and Choate and Loomis Chafee and Andover, Exeter, and Deerfield Academy [in Massachusetts] to the schools in North Jersey, Georgia, Texas, Florida, and California West Coast. Add what we see with Corner Canyon in Utah—these are powerhouses where kids know that if you play at those places you’re talking about 10, 15, 18 Division-1 recruits a year. You’re just starting to see a funneling of talent.”

Many of the aforementioned schools by Tessitore play in out of the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC), with Avon Old Farms and Choate Rosemary Hall ranked as the No. 1 and No. 3 teams out of the state of Connecticut according to the Massey Ratings.

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