HIGH SCHOOL New York star rewrites prep football recordbook

Mike Hart has more points and touchdowns than anyone.
NEDROW, N.Y. (AP) -- Coach Bill Spicer will never forget the first time he saw Mike Hart run with the football.
Still, he didn't expect Hart to become one of the greatest high school players ever.
"It came his turn to go in, and the first play, touchdown," said Spicer, who coaches at Onondaga Central School, south of Syracuse in central New York. "We definitely knew who our starter was. We knew he was going to be good, but we didn't realize how good."
As his senior year winds down, Hart has scored more points (1,094) and more touchdowns (179) than anybody in the history of high school football.
He also holds the national record for consecutive 100-yard games (42), four more than the previous mark set in 1975 by Billy Sims, who won the Heisman Trophy at Oklahoma and starred for the Detroit Lions.
Hart, whose elusive running style has been compared with that of former Chicago Bears great Gale Sayers, has a chance to break the record of 46 100-yard games, set by Demetris Summers of Lexington (S.C.) High School, now a freshman at South Carolina.
"He's an unbelievable kid," Spicer said. "Kids look up to him, and it isn't because of his success. It's just his persona. I don't know if I'll ever see a kid like this again."
Future Wolverine
Michigan coach Lloyd Carr will. Hart committed in April to play next year for the Wolverines, turning down offers from Notre Dame, Miami, Nebraska, Virginia Tech, Michigan State and Syracuse.
One record that appears out of Hart's reach is Ken Hall's mark of 11,232 yards rushing, set in 1953 at Sugar Land (Texas) High School. Hart, who could play five more games if the two-time defending champion Tigers reach their third straight state title game, has 9,555 yards (on 807 carries), second all-time.
Hart, who also starts at cornerback, finds it all a little hard to believe.
"It's definitely amazing, but it's pretty cool," said Hart, an honors student and co-president of his class last year. "It's just hard work to get bigger, stronger, faster. Plus, I've had great teams."
Onondaga, whose enrollment of 339 puts it in the lowest sports class in New York, dropped football for five years because of a lack of interest. The sport was reinstated in 1998, the year before Hart arrived. Since he's been in the backfield, the Tigers have lost once, are on a 34-game winning streak and now play before full houses.
Vision praised
Hart doesn't have great size or blazing speed -- he's 5-foot-9 and 185 pounds and runs a 4.5-second 40-yard dash. Vision and his ability to change direction set him apart, coaches and teammates say.
"I don't think he's ever been hit hard," teammate Hodges Sneed said. "He just sees things other people don't see."
Hart scored 26 points, gaining 150 yards on 19 carries, in his first varsity game even though he was just 145 pounds.
"Nobody really hits me at full speed that much because of the way I turn my body," he said. "I make them slow down a lot, so it's pretty hard to tackle me."
Spicer said Hart also has a "tremendous" work ethic.
"He studies a lot of film, but when he's running the football, he just has a knack for where the holes are, where they're going to open up before they do," Spicer said.
Hart, who has scored more than 20 points in a game 31 times, including all eight games this year, has averaged 11.8 yards a carry, and 227.5 yards and 26 points in his 42-game career. His lowest yardage total for a game came midway through his sophomore season -- 118 yards on seven carries -- and he still scored four touchdowns.