FOOTBALL: PARADE HONORS KASEN WILLIAMSParade Magazine has named Skyline (Sammamish, Wash.) senior wide receiver
Kasen Williams as its National Player of the Year. The 6-2 standout caught 86 passes as a senior for 1,579 yards and 21 touchdowns. During his four-year career, he had 235 catches for 4,121 yards and 56 touchdowns.
Parade has been naming a high school All-American football team since 1963 and Williams is its first ever Player of the Year from Washington.
* California's Southern Section nipped the Los Angeles City Section, 17-14, on a 39-yard field goal with three seconds left by a visitor from Australia – Chris Laros, who hopes to play college football in America. Laros also kicked two extra points and did the punting.
* Jesuit (Portland, Ore.) junior quarterback
Eric Williams has enrolled at powerhouse St. Ignatius (Cleveland), according to the Oregonian. The 6-3, 191-pounder completed 58 percent of his passes last fall for 1,405 yards and 13 touchdowns. He threw just five interceptions.
POTPOURRI* Anthony Paolucci, a senior from
La Jolla Country Day (Calif.), shot 3-under-par 285 to finish 29th during the PGA Tour's Farmers Insurance Open in La Jolla, Calif. The reigning AJGA Rolex National Player of the Year beat Tiger Woods by two strokes.
* This writer would like to congratulate Allan Simpson on his election to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Simpson, who now works for Perfect Game USA, founded Baseball America Magazine (1980) in his garage while still living in British Columbia. He specialized in following the high school draft each year and boosted prep baseball in many other ways.
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Greater Latrobe (Pa.) wrestling coach Marc Billett recently recorded his 200th career victory.
