Hall of Champions Prep All-Star Football Game : L.A. City Team Tries to Break 2-Game Losing Streak

The San Diego Section’s high school all-star football team will try to gain its third consecutive victory over the Los Angeles City Section tonight at 7:30 in the third Hall of Champions football game at Torrey Pines High School.

Los Angeles hopes to regain the dominance it enjoyed before the game was discontinued in 1963.

Last year, San Diego edged Los Angeles on a last-second, 39-yard field goal by Torrey Pines’ Tim Walker, 17-14. In 1987, when the series was resumed, San Diego took a 19-0 lead but needed a 49-yard touchdown pass from Maurice Jackson of Madison to Johnny Ace of Valhalla with less than three minutes left to win, 26-19.

Los Angeles, coached by Brad Ratcliff of University High and Tom Hernandez of San Fernando, has a quick backfield. Dorsey’s Wilson Bryant, the state 400-meter champion who will attend the University of Washington, will join Washington’s Takim Brown, Crenshaw’s Shon Ellerbe and Banning’s Keith Mims in the backfield.

Banning, the Los Angeles City 4-A runner-up, has seven players on the 38-man roster: Mims, defensive backs Eric Williams and Paul Montgomery, receiver Johnny Lawrence and linemen Andy Gonzalez, Paul Ordonez and Bryan Proby.

Carson, which defeated Banning for the 4-A title, 55-7, has three players--linebackers Peter Hunt and Todd Auvaa and defensive back Greg Lindsey.

Roman Foster, who led Dorsey to its best season in nearly a decade, will split quarterback duties with Kennedy’s Tony Smets.

San Diego will rely on passing, coaches Rik Haines of Torrey Pines and Dick Haines of Vista said.

Quarterback Cree Morris and receiver Jake Nyberg, who will attend San Diego State, were effective at Orange Glen last fall. While guiding the Patriots to the San Diego 3-A championship game, Nyberg led the state in receiving with 93 catches for 1,456 yards. Morris was third in the state with 3,212 yards passing.

San Diego also will be led by Southwest receiver Will Tate and Torrey Pines quarterback John Lynch.