HighSchool Football

[TrendSetter]

Won the parlay as Anniston beats Saks 36-7.

[Ronbets]

Reno,

You're cracken me up again. Seriously, my southern Chinese friends tell me that Macau is the place to play----your game that is--- Asian women. However, the gaming is so bad, when you win the dealers automatically deduct their "toke" before they slide the chips your way.

If I was between relationships, I'd gladly go with you. I'm locked in now.

[Railbird]

Trendsetter,

Gadsen would smash either of those teams.

[TrendSetter]

Railbird, they beat Anniston the week before last. Anniston's only loss. My friends nephew, Demardric Moore, plays for Anniston. He's doing great. Made defensive player of the week not long ago. He ran a screen pass for 80 yards and a touchdown last week. I talked with my friend in Anniston and she said that Marty made another touchdown Friday. He may have trouble getting a scholorship because of grades. He's trying hard, though.

*** added (from the Anniston Star on-line)***
Demardric Moore picked up a fumbled lateral and returned it 35 yards for a score.

[This message has been edited by TrendSetter (edited 10-08-2000).]

[Railbird]

There is some fine juco programs in those parts.

[reno]

Best California High School Athletes?:

Football: John Elway
Basketball: Bill Walton
Baseball: Darryl Strawberry
Track: Bob Mathias

Women's Basketball: Cheryl Miller
Women's Track: Marion Jones

Anybody got different choices? Strawberry, in my opinion, is the weakest choice.

[Railbird]

I think they went to

Grenada Hills
Helix
Crenshaw
Turlock
Riverside Poly
Thousand Oaks

my choices are

football- Kerwin Bell-Edison
basketball-Bill Laimbeer-PalosVerdes
baseball- Don Drysdale-Vannuys
track - Dwight Stones-MiraCosta
Golf - Tiger Woods-Western
Tennis-Pete Sampras-see Laimbeer

Girls basket-Lisa Leslie-Morningside
Swimming -Janet Evans-Eldorado
Volleyball-Misty May-Newport Harbor
Tennis -Tracy Austin-See Laimbeer

[Railbird]

I took some photos of Marion Jones as a 9th grader.I also witnessed Tiger driving 380yd par 4's,and 610 par 5s in 2.Earl would break the rules by being on the course.

my honorable mentions

Anne Meyers-Savannah
Greg Goorjian-CrescentaValley
Mark O'meara-MissionViejo
Brian Goodel-MissionViejo
Shirley Babashof-FountainValley
Marcus Allen-SanDiego hoover?
Tony Gwynn-LongBeach Poly
Lindsay Davenport-Murrietta

[bigtimehoops]

Keep in mind my time span a littlwe shorter it seems these are the best players I've seen in my particulr time.

Football: Russell White, Crespi, Jamelle Holloway Banning

Baskets: Chris Mills , Crenshaw I believe
Tom Lewis Mater Dei, Tracy Murray Glendora

Bases: Sean Burroughs , Wilson High School

Tennis: Michael Chang , not sure ,but I do know he beat me 6-0, 6-0 in a USTA tourney when he was like 11 or 12 and I was 15.

Track: Quincy Watts , Taft High School

Womens baskets; Lisa Leslie , Morningside

[reno]

Sean Burroughs might have been the best American Little League player ever. But although he was outstanding in high school, he wasn't rated super high, like a Ken Griffey, Alex Rodriguez, or Darryl Strawberry. Although he was drafted in the first round by the San Diego Padres, he wasn't among the first five players taken in the draft.

Marcus Allen went to Lincoln High in San Diego, the same school as Terell Davis. Which is more remarkable?--that one high school would produce two Heisman Trophy winners, or that one high school--Point Loma
in San Diego--would produce two pitchers, David Wells and Don Larsen, that would each throw a perfect game for the New York Yankees.

Railbird, Bob Mathias in track is an absolute no-brainer. The guy won the Olympic decathlon while still in high school.

[jlpblade]

Didn't Lindsay Davenport go to Newport Harbor?

Also, wasn't Cheryl Miller a real player as opposed to Leslie just being tall?

Jeff

[bigtimehoops]

Reno,

Didnt see the Straw play High School ball, and Griffey and ARod didnt play local. My days were 80's on up. How about Damien Allen the younger brother of Marcus , didnt he have a hell of career also.

Cheryl Miller in my opinion was the best female basketball player Ive ever seen, but nobody dominated High School as much as Lisa Leslie and she did it against the best in the Southland.


BTH

[reno]

First, my brain was in reverse when I said that Terrell Davis and Marcus Allen were both Heisman Trophy winners. I meant Super Bowl MVPs.

Damian Allen was a very good high school QB, but not in Marcus's class. Brian Sipe, whom I saw play for Grossmont against Helix, was better.

Time dims memories. Two years ago, before I moved from San Diego to Reno, the San Diego Union chose a San Diego High School 20th-century football team. Well, one of the offensive linemen they chose was Bruce Walton, Bill's brother. Well, I know Bruce very well because he was in my class (1969) at Helix.

Anyway, what a joke! If I remember correctly, Bruce did not even make first team all-league, let alone all-CIF. He was big--6'6'', 265 LB--but weak and flabby. I was a 130 LB wrestler, and I could bench press more than Bruce. It didn't surprise me that Bruce was never a starter for the Dallas Cowboys. He's one player who definitely couldn't have played in the current NFL.

But Bill Walton was the real deal. John Wooden called the 1969 Helix High team the best high school team he had seen. There is no way that Bill Laimbeer was a better high school player than Bill Walton.

[Railbird]

Jipblade,

Lindsay did not go to Newport Harbor,although you can find her running laps there with her coach Robert Vanthoff.
I was however incorrect about Tracy Austin she went to Rolling Hills which is now Peninsulia.

Reno,

I was not disputing the greatness of Bob Mathias,I was just making a 2nd team,I have family in the SanJoaquin Valley who saw him compete.I have the utmost respect for decathaletes.

Bob Laimbeer is an overachiever who might have got Walton in some foul trouble,in fact he was low posting him in the 88eastern finals.Bill also had a great winning streak at Notredame before the great Danny Ainge went coast to coast.

Brian Sipe was on a L.L. worldseries team in Elcajon are you familiar with that squad.

[reno]

Railbird, Brian Sipe was on a La Mesa--where I grew up--team that won the Little League World Series. I can't recall the exact year, but it was between 1957 and 1959. Sipe did play varsity baseball for Grossmont High, but he wasn't a great player.