All-Star 2-A Team Faces Tough Foe : Football: Morse’s Lawrence, RBV’s Ross headline 3-A Squad.

See Teddy Lawrence. See Teddy Lawrence run. See Markeith Ross and Marlon Manassa run, too.

See Herb Meyer good-naturedly cringe. Meyer, coach of El Camino High’s 2-A San Diego Section football champions, has the dubious honor of coaching the 2-A all-stars against the 3-A all-stars tonight at Torrey Pines High in the Mighty 690 Pepsi Classic All-Star game, the first such interdivisional match-up.

Trouble is, the 3-A team has a more celestial cast than does the 2-A team.

“We have eight of 17 all-CIF players we asked to play,” Meyer said. “They have 15 out of 25.”

The 3-A’s backfield alone is enough to send the 2-A defense on a night-long foot chase. Morse’s Lawrence, Rancho Buena Vista’s Ross and Point Loma’s Manassa, heavy hitters who together rushed for 4,621 yards last season, make up the bulk of that backfield. Also on the 3-A roster is Steve Gomez, who gained 1,119 yards last year for Chula Vista.

It could have been worse. If a vacation hadn’t kept Mira Mesa running back Wayne Pittman from making an appearance, the 2-A defense would be staring at the first, second and third leading rushers in the county for 1990.

“Teddy and Markeith are the two biggest names in the game,” Meyer said. “Our concern is to try and keep them under control.”

In keeping with his regular-season tradition of talking about who is playing rather than who is not , Meyer wouldn’t say who the no-shows are, but Kearny wide receiver and free safety Darnay Scott certainly was a major loss.

“It was too bad several players, including Scott, decided not to play,” said John Shacklett, coach of 3-A champion Morse and the 3-A All-Stars.

Said Meyer: “The kids who want to be here are here.”

Meyer’s big guns include Kearny lineman Aaron Mertens, Carlsbad kicker Dan Pulsipher and Oceanside’s Butkus Tuitasi and West Hills’ Joe Allan, both tackles.

Meyer and Shacklett said none of the players who will be attending Division I schools in the fall were kept from the game by their respective universities.

“No, it was mainly vacation and jobs that kept them out,” Shacklett said.

According to Meyer, graduated seniors are allowed to play in two all-star games before they start their collegiate careers. That means athletes invited to participate in the Los Angeles vs. San Diego All-Star game, which San Diego has won the past three years and is slated for August, could play in both.

It was last summer that Shacklett, Meyer, Point Loma’s Bennie Edens and Helix’s Jim Arnaiz, all members of the Hall of Champions’ High School Sports Assn., decided to organize a game that would profit high school athletics.

“That LA-San Diego game was primarily a money maker for the promoters,” Meyer said. “The money never went back to San Diego programs. In this concept, the game will benefit the kids.”

Although the first of its kind, all-star games have an interesting history in San Diego. They have been staged often, but were discontinued for various reasons.

The Carlsbad Rotary Club sponsored an East vs. West game made up of athletes from teams within the North County for approximately eight years in the late 1970s and early ‘80s. But lack of support from other Rotary clubs forced the game’s demise.

An all-star game sponsored by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and was a brief success, but ceased operation when it couldn’t find additional support. The North and South counties held a brief all-star rivalry, but it, too, lasted only a short time.

“We’re hoping to make this an annual event,” Shacklett said. “We hope we’re blazing trails and that we can keep this thing going.”

The 37 players on each team have practiced only 10 days, a stark contrast to the three weeks’ preparation usually reserved for a regular season. For this reason, both coaches said they would keep game plans as simple and straightforward as possible.

“We have kids from 20 different programs out here,” Meyer said. “Some are versed in using plays with numbers, some with names, some that go left to right, some right to left . . . So we’ll use ‘Sweep right and sweep left.’ We can’t make it any simpler than that.”

Instead of exchanging game film, coaches verbally exchanged basic strategy. Since their on-field coaching styles have been well documented over the years, Meyer and Shacklett have a general idea of what they can expect from each other.

“We have a basic idea of what they’ll do because they’re Morse,” Meyer said.

Shacklett said it has been a challenge “to get 36 kids moving in the same direction. We’ll line up in a 3-4 defense and both use some zone and man-to-man. On offense, we’ll probably use the I-formation, a single-back set, mix it up a little, but keep it simple.”

All-Star Notes

Tickets for tonight’s game, which starts at 7, are $6 for adults and $4 for children . . . Rather than the 12-minute quarters played in high school, the all-star players will play 15-minute quarters.

All-Star Football Rosters

2-A All-Stars

No. Name Pos Ht Wt High School 1 Phil Parker WR/DB 5-10 170 Crawford 2 Eddy Iglesias WR/SS 5-10 175 Escondido 4 Mike Anderson WR/FS 6-3 195 El Cajon 5 Nick Alford TB/CB 5-8 185 La Jolla 6 Chad DeGrenier QB 6-2 185 Christian 7 James Hester TB/DB 5-9 160 Crawford 8 Dan Pulsipher K/P 6-1 175 Carlsbad 9 Mike Jones QB 5-11 180 Madison 10 Todd Dick WR 6-2 187 Ramona 11 Dusty McDonald WR/SS 5-7 155 El Camino 12 Charles Hicks WB 6-0 167 El Camino 16 Jerry Singleton QB 6-2 210 Escondido 21 Calvin Coleman WR/FS 6-1 165 Carlsbad 22 Lejon Jackson WB/DB 5-9 165 Oceanside 30 Dennis Duren RB/OLB 5-10 196 El Camino 32 Keith Williams TB 5-11 175 Escondido 33 Jared Larson TE/MLB 6-2 206 Grossmont 36 David Valdivia NG 6-0 175 St. Augustine 41 Von Robinson TB/SS 5-11 190 El Camino 42 Butkus Tuitasi FB/ILB 6-0 255 Oceanside 43 Tim Ryan FB/MLB 5-11 220 San Marcos 44 Mario Palumbo FB/SS 6-0 205 Coronado 51 Chad McGee C 6-2 220 El Camino 53 Bill Aviu TB/NG 5-11 245 El Camino 55 Isaia Isaia OG/DT 6-2 240 Oceanside 59 Brian Barnhart C 6-2 255 West Hills 64 Randall Buehler OG/DT 6-4 235 University City 66 Brian Hathway OG/DT 6-5 225 Santana 70 Joe Allan OT/DT 6-6 260 Kearny 71 Joe Rovang OG/OT 6-1 235 West Hills 74 Andrew Moore OT/DT 6-4 235 Crawford 77 Eric Westland OT/DT 6-5 290 West Hills 60 Aaron Mertens OT/DT 6-6 255 Kearny 81 Craig Threlfall OG/ILB 6-0 210 West Hills 88 Fred Warner WR/DB 6-3 180 Oceanside 89 Zachary Smith TE/OLB 6-4 210 St. Augustine 91 Mike Greer FB/OLB 6-2 205 St. Augustine

No. College 1 LA Valley JC 2 Palomar JC 4 Palomar JC 5 Santa Clara 6 Grossmont JC 7 LA Valley JC 8 Utah 9 Mesa JC 10 San Diego State 11 CS San Bernardino 12 Ventura JC 16 El Camino JC 21 Undecided 22 Palomar JC 30 Undecided 32 Taft JC 33 UC Davis 36 Grossmont JC 41 Weber State 42 Palomar JC 43 CSU Fullerton 44 Oregon 51 La Verne 53 Palomar JC 55 Palomar JC 59 Grossmont JC 64 UC San Diego 66 Fullerton JC 70 Mesa JC 71 Undecided 74 Mesa JC 77 Undecided 60 Undecided 81 Grossmont 88 Undecided 89 San Diego State 91 UC Davis

Head Coach: Herb Meyer, El Camino

Assistant Coaches: Bill Kovacevich, Bill Porter, John Guy, Duane Coleman, Ted Tilden, Trace Deneke, Joy Meyer, Craig Bingham

Trainer: Bill Kosik

Physican: Dr. John Lane, O.A.S.I.S.

3-A All-Stars

No. Name Pos Ht Wt High School 1 Teddy Lawrence QB 5-9 175 Morse 2 Markeith Ross RB 5-9 175 Rancho Buena Vista 7 Donnie Nash WR 6-2 205 Morse 8 Tommy Bennett DB 6-1 200 Morse 9 David Napier K 6-3 175 Orange Glen 12 Tom Fischer QB 6-2 180 Poway 18 Brandon Sanders DB 5-11 170 Helix 19 Pat McMillan WR 5-9 155 Torrey Pines 22 John Lynch WR 6-3 175 Torrey Pines 31 Marlon Manassa RB 5-9 170 Point Loma 32 Steve Gomez RB 5-11 205 Chula Vista 33 Michael Brown LB 6-0 170 Point Loma 34 Matt Sailors LB 6-3 220 Rancho Buena Vista 38 Michael Bledsoe DB 6-0 170 Serra 42 David Paul LB 6-1 210 Patrick Henry 43 Kevin Nolan DB 6-0 160 Morse 44 Shane Lynn DB 5-9 165 Granite Hills 46 Kevin Ancell LB 5-11 195 Granite Hills 51 Don Aliipule OL 5-11 240 Rancho Buena Vista 52 Erik Stein OL 6-3 210 Point Loma 54 Tim Medlock OL 6-2 210 Patrick Henry 55 Omar Adame LB 5-8 190 Chula Vista 56 Charles Harris LB 6-1 240 Morse 57 Eddie Tagoai DL 6-3 210 Vista 58 Eric Stavola LB 6-0 205 Helix 66 Mike Johnson DL 5-11 225 Southwest 68 John Moe OL 6-3 270 Morse 75 Salua Poutoa OL 5-11 295 Morse 76 Jim Hoffman OL 6-4 265 Mt. Miguel 78 Adam Norberg OL 6-3 250 Helix 79 Eric Reid OL 6-5 285 Poway 87 Darcel Glover LB 6-2 225 Point Loma 88 Andy Buh LB 6-2 210 Orange Glen 89 Donnie Edwards LB 6-4 205 Chula Vista 90 Tony Giacolone OL 6-5 250 Mira Mesa 91 Andrew Pangelinan DL 5-10 170 Morse

No. College 1 UCLA 2 Fresno State 7 Arizona 8 UCLA 9 San Diego State 12 Palomar JC 18 Arizona 19 UC Santa Barbara 22 Valley Forge 31 San Diego State 32 Southwestern 33 Mesa JC 34 Brigham Young 38 San Diego State 42 Grossmont JC 43 Southwestern 44 Undecided 46 Undecided 51 San Diego State 52 Occidental 54 Mesa JC 55 Undecided 56 Mesa JC 57 Palomar JC 58 Grossmont JC 66 Southwestern 68 Naval Academy 75 Bakersfield 76 Grossmont 78 San Diego State 79 Oregon 87 San Diego State 88 Palomar JC 89 UCLA 90 San Diego State 91 University of San Diego

Head Coach: John Shacklett, Morse

Assistant Coaches: Willie Cain, Bob Mendoza, Mark Monroe, Frank Norman

Trainer: Elaine Morgin

Managers: Don Nitzel, Kanita Glover

Physican: Dr. David Flood, O.A.S.I.S.