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All-State football: Metro Christian QB Andrew Hearon 'just a winner'

ANDREW HEARON — Quarterback is only 5-foot-10, 175 pounds, but he puts up some big numbers and has been hearing from multiple Ivy League schools.

BY SCOTT WRIGHT, Staff Writer, swright@opubco.com | Published: January 1, 2012

TULSA — When Metro Christian football coach Jare McCoy starts his sales pitch to college coaches regarding quarterback Andrew Hearon, it always begins with the same attribute.

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