From basketball to hockey, these ninth-graders have already gained notoriety in their respective sports.

Games will be played on Sunday, allowing athletes to double-dip and play flag football alongside spring sports such as softball, lacrosse or track.

Jayden Moore now has basketball and football offers from the Gophers after visiting with P.J. Fleck.

While the bigger, stronger Lions controlled the line of of scrimmage, their penchant for mistakes kept Mound Westonka’s overflow homecoming crowd hopeful all game.

In other games Friday, Edina and Maple Grove rolled, and Hopkins won again a week after ending a long losing streak.

One is a Division I-level point guard. One is a small-class sprint champion. All are easy to spot when their athletic ability shows on the football field.

Minnetonka, trailing by 21, roared past No. 1 Edina, and Hopkins ended a 29-game skid with an overtime two-point conversion.

Becker has two shutouts already this season. Elsewhere, Hopkins won for the first time since 2020, Armstrong topped Cooper in a school district rivalry and Moorhead routed Bemidji in greater Minnesota.

The assignment is to produce a state football ranking that crosses classes. Complicating that — or making it more intriguing? — is that it is very difficult for smaller schools to keep up in the numbers game.