Mooresville High star is Charlotte Observer high school football player of the week.
Mooresville High’s Keshaun Black is the Charlotte Observer’s high school football player of the week.
Black received nearly 11,000 of the 32,300 votes cast, taking a close race over Myers Park’s Myles Jones. Charlotte Christian’s Henry Rutledge was third.
Black, a senior wide receiver, had a monster game in last week’s 49-7 win over Hopewell.
He had two runs for 70 yards, two catches for 68 yards and a 97-yard kickoff return.
He scored four touchdowns.
“Every time he touched the ball last week, it was special,” Mooresville High coach Thad Wells said. “The game plan wasn’t necessarily what happened, but the very first touchdown for him, they gave us a favorable coverage and allowed us (to throw deep) which is what we called. On the kickoff return, the ball bounced over his head and he had to find it. He got it at the 5 (yard line). Once he did, the other team was inside the 20 and it didn’t look very good, but he made one kid miss and his speed is hard to track down.
“There can’t be many kids in the state as fast as Keshaun.”
Black finished seventh at the N.C. 4A state track meet in May, running a time of 10.87 seconds in the 100 meters. He has become a key player on a Blue Devils team (5-4, 3-2 I-MECK 4A) that has won two straight games.
Mooresville plays at West Charlotte (4-5, 1-4) on Friday.
“He’s extremely tough for his size,” Wells said. “He is pound-for-pound one of the toughest kids we have. He fights every time he gets the ball. You watch him on defense (playing defensive back) and he’ll jam kids way bigger than him and they end up out of bounds. He’s just a very physical football player.”
▪ A new list of finalists will be named Saturday for next week’s award. Voting will begin Saturday night at charlotteobserver.com/sports/high-school
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This story was originally published October 26, 2019 at 9:05 PM.
