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Newbury Park rewarded for 11-2 season
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More from FootballNewbury Park High's most successful season in more than a decade paid dividends in postseason honors for the 2007 Ventura County Football Coaches Association's Large Schools football team.
Three Newbury Park players and the program's coaching staff were recognized.
Chris Brown, who set a Newbury Park program season rushing record with 1,904 yards, was named as the county's offensive back of the year.
Teammates Tim Ketaily and Chance Flaaten were selected as the offensive lineman and linebacker of the year, respectively.
Newbury Park (11-2), which shared the Marmonte League title with Westlake, had the most wins since its 1995 team (13-1) advanced to a section championship game. For that achievement, Newbury Park was rewarded with the varsity staff of the year honor.
Westlake's Curtis Peterson and Justin Lilley were named as the receiver and defensive back of the year, respectively.
Derek Shutt of Oxnard is the defensive lineman of the year.
St. Bonaventure's Darrell Scott, who rushed for 2,589 yards and scored 37 touchdowns, was relegated to the second team as a utility player. Scott stirred controversy by transferring from Moorpark after his junior year.
Besides Brown, the county's first team offensive backfield includes running back Cooper Shockley of Westlake and quarterbacks Marcus Sanchez of Camarillo and Adam Barry of Moorpark.
Chosen as first-team offensive linemen were: Victor Singh (Oxnard), Vaughn Dotsey (St. Bonaventure), Jordan Allred (Thousand Oaks), Kevin Graf (Agoura), Spencer Storbeck (Moorpark) and Ketaily.
Camarillo's Aulama Lemalu is the first-team tight end.
Moorpark's Ryan Murry, St. Bonaventure's Blayne Lewis and Peterson are first-team wide receivers.
Westlake's Nick Owens and Jordan Mannisto are the first-team utility player and kicker, respectively.
The first-team linebackers were: Bryant Jones (Oxnard), Loren Powers (St. Bonaventure), Sean Kinney (Camarillo), Patrick Hall (St. Bonaventure) and Flaaten.
Comprising the first-team defensive backfield were: Sean Turner (Oxnard), Chad Kurz (St. Bonaventure), Evan Yabu (Thousand Oaks) and Lilley.
Joining Shutt on the first-team defensive line were Ryan Medina (St. Bonaventure), Casey Blum (Moorpark) and Jackson Powell (Newbury Park).
Colby Cameron of Newbury Park is the first-team punter.
Named to the second-team offensive backfield were: Dasmen Stewart (Oxnard), Langston Jackson (Simi Valley), Doug Shumway (Agoura) and Brandon Dore (Ventura).
Members of the second-team offensive line were: Rudy Perez and Juan Carillo (Oxnard), Wade Whitaker (Camarillo), Paul Ui (Rio Mesa), James Nelson (Buena) and Jack Knauer (Newbury Park).
Camarillo's Kevin Kawamoto, Oxnard's Jamal Smith, Agoura's Mike Cammorata and Simi Valley's Keith Williams were the second-team wide receivers. Eric Bailey of Agoura is the second-team kicker.
The second-team linebackers were: Quentin Greenlaw (Rio Mesa), Cameron Flye (Royal), Ron Tatham (Newbury Park), Matt Amerault (Camarillo) and John Tuschka (Ventura).
Selected as second-team defensive backs were: Sam Gonzalez (Oxnard), Jerell Thomas (Rio Mesa), Chance Cross (Simi Valley), Michael Grimaud (Moorpark) and David Gru (Newbury Park).
Members of the second-team defensive line were: Sean Blevins (Oxnard), Jose Ramos (Pacifica), Calen Albert (Ventura) and Tommy Doupe (Westlake).
Moorpark and Westlake had the JV and frosh staffs of the year, respectively.
Posted by football_stats on December 18, 2007 at 8:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Who picks these teams and when and how?
Posted by vtactyres on December 18, 2007 at 3:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The selection by the coaches is very sad for both Darrell Scott and Chris Brown. For Scott it is sad because he deserves 1st team, and for Brown because he knows the only reason he was selected to 1st team is because of the politics that goes on in Ventura County Football and the HATE that most coaches have for SB.
I challenge any of the coaches to give us true Statistical reasons why Brown was selected over Scott for 1st team. DO YOU HAVE THE GUTS???
I hope one day Darrell is signing a PRO contract and at the same time giving the coaches of VTA County the finger like they just gave him. Good luck Darrell.
Posted by manchu25 on December 18, 2007 at 4:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The Ventura County Football Coaches Association have earned a "B" grade for their omission of the best running back in the county, on the Large Schools first team selections. The "B" for being Babyish and Bad sports. You have proven to me that your Association has zero credibility for not selecting Darrell Scott for his accomplishments on the field.
Posted by vtactyres on December 19, 2007 at 8:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Not my words but to the point:
D. Scott is currently back in New York this week receiving a prestigious National HS Award. Herbstreet was one of the presenters. He took a backhand slap at the VC Coaches and made them look like idiots in his speech. It was funny......words like "jealous", "grade-school coaches", "you-kidding?" filled the presentation.
Next-up, ALL-CIF and ALL-STATE awards. VC coaches are looking more stupid (and "good ol' boy fraternity" to outsiders) as each of these awards mount in the coming weeks. How foolish these coaches are....
Posted by croniedad on December 20, 2007 at 8:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Congratulations to the VC HS Football coaches for their 'oversight' in the Darrell Scott matter. Give credit where credit is due and Darrell Scott is deserving of the recognition that he rightly has earned. Your hatred of St. Bonaventure football has reached an all-time high and you should be ashamed of yourselves for acting like cowards. There are many outstanding athletes in our great county but your ignorance and jealousies have slighted one of our best.
I hope you enjoy watching Mr. Scott as he begins his next successful journey in the college ranks.
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