Not much going on as we hit the high school football dead zone between the end of the 2008 season and the start of 2009 spring practice, but I do have one bit of news to report: Nick Schmalhofer, Lancaster Catholic’s star offensive and defensive lineman, has given his verbal committment to the University of New Hampshire. You can read my story about it here.

Schmalhofer made the AP’s Class AA All-State Second Team and was voted the L-L League Coaches Association’s Offensive Lineman of the Year, Defensive Lineman of the Year and Outstanding Lineman of the Year (are there any accolades he DIDN’T get?). It’s undecided where he’ll play for New Hampshire, which has become a perennial playoff team in the Football Championship Series (the old NCAA Division I-AA).