Cienega quarterback and Arizona Wildcats commit Jamarye Joiner (11) rushed for 245 yards and threw for another 322 in a quarterfinal win over Marana.
Star power isn’t a new concept to high school football in Tucson, but it’s not often that three offensive players like Cienega’s Jamarye Joiner, Marana’s Trenton Bourguet and Salpointe Catholic’s Bijan Robinson come along at the same time. On Friday, Joiner, a UA-bound quarterback, rushed for 245 yards and passed for 322 in a quarterfinal victory over Marana. Those are Khalil Tate numbers. Bourguet, a junior QB, passed for 282 yards and rushed for 99. Robinson, a sophomore halfback, rushed for 146 on just 10 carries. Their season totals are spectacular: Bourguet has 3,475 total yards, Joiner has 3,364 and Robinson 1,562 strictly in rushing yards. That threesome is a lot like the early 1980s, when Sunnyside’s Fred Sims, who played tailback at Oklahoma; Cholla’s Vance Johnson, who was an All-Pac-10 tailback at Arizona; and Sunnyside’s David Adams, who led the Pac-10 in rushing, played simultaneously.
