SGV All-Star football team

Selecting an all-area team is hard (coming up with our team was not easy). So, I understand that the guys at the SGV and the PSN did not have an easy job.

Especially at the SGV, where there were four or five players that could have been players of the year. Selecting all-area teams is never easy.

Having said that, I think Charter Oak's Kanaan Snowden was the area's best player and San Dimas' Bill Zernickow was the area's best coach this season. I'm not trying to play Saturday Morning Quarterback, but that's just my opinion.

Glendora's Mark Pasquarella and Blair's Lavelle Sanders are terrific choices, they brought back a winning attitude to programs that had lost their swagger. Zernickow, though, made believers of his kids and the kids (who told me they were the laughing stock of the school before this year) made believers out of their classmates. It's was an incredible turnaround year for the Saints, that's why he would have been my pick.

I guess it's only fair now that I out put together my own team, right? Here it goes. Oh, feel free to comment on my selections as I obviously have no problem in commenting on other peoples' selections.

Offense

QB- Cameron Deen (South Hills)
RB- Dorian Wells (South Hills)
FB- Willie Youngblood (Muir)
WR- Arness Ikner (Pasadena)
WR- Brandon Parham (South Hills)
TE- Ray Rodriguez (Los Altos)
OL- Dominique Austin (Bishop Amat)
OL- John Earnest (South Hills)
OL- Austin Sefton (Glendora)
OL- Alex Reitnouer (St. Francis)
OL- Jonathan Silva (Alhambra)

Defense

DL- Bryan Bonilla (Diamond Ranch)
DL- Kebin Umodu (South Hills)
DL- John Patton (Muir)
DL- Garrett Bowdry (Glendora)
LB- Mike Howard (Charter Oak)
LB- Damon Kuklinski (South Hills)
LB- Todd Golper (Arcadia)
CB- Kevan Walker (Arcadia)
CB- Kanaan Snowden (Charter Oak)
FS- Deitrich Reily (St. Francis)
SS- Ryan McMahon (Damien)

K- E.J. Macias (South Hills)
P- Macias and Snowden

AP- Jiovanni Mier (Bonita)

Because I had Macias and Snowden take on the role of punters that allowed me to add an All-Purpose player. I added Mier because he can play wide receiver, DB, also punt and kick and play running back. He's also a solid shortstop and pitcher, who's fastball is in the high 80s to low 90s.

Honorable mention: Troy Ahmaz (Arcadia), Nico Barbone (San Dimas), Dominic Blanco (Charter Oak), Tommy Cogburn (South El Monte), Tyron Crockom (Pasadena), Eric Glaster (South Hills), Lars Guillermo (Arcadia), Michael Harrison (Pasadena), Kyle Lengyel (Diamond Rach), Nick Longoria (Los Altos), Bryce Mahmud-McBride (Los Altos), Rueben Thomas (Muir), Brent Seals (Bishop Amat), Brandon Sermons (Diamond Ranch) and Sean Veal (South Hills).

--Jaime Cardenas

Comments

[Observer]

It looks like a good team. I was glad to see Ikner make the Offense because he made the 1st Team All Pacific League Defense but NOT offense and it made no sense.

[Jaime Cardenas]

Here's why he made it on offense: 19.38 yards a catch, 88.8 receiving yards a game, eight receptions in a first-round playoff upset of Chaffey and 12 receiving touchdowns (he had 17 total).

I saw him at Muir game and I was impressed (even though he didn't have the best of games, credit Muir for that), but it was the Chaffey game sealed the deal for me.

Thanks for reading the blog,

-- Jaime

[Observer]

Do these ratings get in the hard copy of the paper?