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Creek highlights all-district football picks
Price, Nail,
Schulz reap top awards;
Lake, Brook players on first teams
by
Scott T. Snell, Clear Lake Citizen
November 22, 2002
Many local
athletes were recognized recently with the unveiling of the All-District
24-5A high school football team.
Clear Creek's Gerrard Price, a
senior, was honored as Player of the Year for the entire district. He
completed eight of 13 passes in 2002, good for 203 total yards.
Price
also returned 13 punts for a total of 223 yards, averaging over 17 yards
per return. His longest punt return was 70 yards.
In
addition, Price returned seven kickoffs in 2002 for 134 total yards,
averaging over 19 yards per return.
Wildcat
Kevin Nail, along with Alvin's Michael White, were each honored as Co-
Offensive Most Valuable Players in the District for 2002.
While
White led all rushers with 1793 yards gained on 242 carries, Nail
accumulated 1336 rushing yards of his own.
Teammate Brenton Bolden racked up 1237 yards, including 120 yards and two
touchdowns against North Shore.
Clear
Creek's Bruce Davis was also recognized as the defensive Most Valuable
Player of District 24-5A.
Wildcat
Head Coach Aubrey Schulz, meanwhile, was named as Coach of the Year for
District 24-5A.
"I just
happened to be the head coach," Schulz said. "It was the varsity assistant
coaches who really deserve the majority of the credit. They all did a
great job."
Regarding the selection of Price as Player of the Year, Schulz noted, "Gerrard
was outstanding overall because he did so many things well on the field."
In
discussing the selections of Nail, Bolden, and Davis, Schulz said, "These
players all deserved their awards because of the outstanding years they
had. All of these awards my players received were well-deserved."
Here's
the list of accolades:
COACH
OF THE YEAR:
Clear Creek's Aubrey Schulz.
ALL
DISTRICT OFFENSE
PLAYER OF THE YEAR-
Clear
Creek's Gerrard Price.
CO-
OFFENSIVE MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS:
Clear Creek's Kevin Nail and Alvin's Michael White.
FIRST
TEAM SELECTIONS
CENTER-
Brazoswood's Paul Taplett.
LINEMEN-
Clear Creek's Rodney Rau, Brazoswood's Wade Whitlow, Alvin's Nathan Miller,
Clear Creek's Steven Tennessen, and Clear Lake's David Perkins.
TIGHT
END-
Clear Lake's Austin Sherrill.
WIDE
RECEIVERS-
Clear Lake's Chris Hunter, Alvin's Zach Muzzy, Ball's Jamaal Simpson, and Brazoswood's Ryan Birdsong.
QUARTERBACK-
Clear Lake's Michael Fritz.
RUNNING
BACKS-
Clear Creek's Brenton Bolden, Brazoswood's David Prince, Galveston Ball's
George Henley, and Alvin's Kelly Rice.
KICKER-
Brazoswood's Ryan Birdsong.
SECOND TEAM-
CENTERS-
Clear Lake's Matt Niemczak, and Clear Creek's Hunter Bowen.
LINEMEN-
Clear Brook's Robert Johnson and Jose Valdes.
WIDE
RECEIVERS-
Clear Lake's Scott Oswald and Elrick Jones, and Clear Brook's Morgan Taylor.
RUNNING
BACKS-
Clear Lake's Chris Sprott, and Clear Brook's Scott Allcorn.
KICKERS-
Clear Brook's James Cohn.
ALL-DISTRICT DEFENSE
DEFENSIVE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER-
Clear Creek's Bruce Davis.
FIRST
TEAM
ENDS-
Clear Brook's Anthony Hill, and Ball's Sal Arcidiacono.
LINEMEN-
Clear Lake's Michael Plumlee, Clear Creek's Chinso-Ochi Okori, and Ball's
Walter Thomas.
LINEBACKERS-
Clear Creek's Chase Ortiz, Ball's Marcus Smither, and Alvin's Joey Breaux.
OUTSIDE
BACKERS-
Clear Creek's Sean Wells, and Ball's Roderick Johnson.
SECONDARY-
Clear Creek's Jackie Rhodes, Clear Lake's Mark Nowinski, Ball's Jason
Wilcox, and Brazoswood's Dedric Evans.
PUNTER
AND RETURN SPECIALIST-
Alvin's Zach Muzzy.
SECOND
TEAM
ENDS-
Clear Lake's John Dunaway.
LINEMEN-
Clear Brook's Uche Osadebe.
LINEBACKERS-
Clear Lake's Chris Davison, and Clear Creek's Jerry Schock.
OUTSIDE
BACKERS-
Clear Lake's Russell Schoeber.
SECONDARY-
Clear
Creek's Jeremy Long and Ashton Adekanbi, and Clear Brook's Morgan Taylor.
PUNTER-
Clear Brook's Josh De Leon.
RETURN
SPECIALIST-
Clear Creek's Jeremy Ruben.
HONORABLE
MENTION-
Clear
Creek's Fred Boas, Jarwyn Dixon, Jarrett Perkins, and J.P. Padron.
Clear Lake's Sammy Shope, Tommy Duff, Dasche Dahlke, John Kirby, Wes Miller,
and Patrick Kinslow.
Clear Brook's Dwight Goffney, Kent Etienne, Lamont Lagrone, and Ahmad Zaidan.
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