In his only season as a starting...

In his only season as a starting varsity quarterback, Hart High senior Davis Delmatoff completed 192 of 327 passes (58.7%) for 3,139 yards and 36 touchdowns. The numbers would shatter records at most schools--but not at Quarterback High .

Ryan Connors set the school record for yards passing in a season last year with 4,144. Delmatoff fell three short of tying the school record for most touchdown passes in one season, shared by Jim Bonds (1986) and Connors (1991).

Passing: With Simi Valley’s season-ending 18-14 loss to Hawthorne in the Southern Section Division III quarterfinals, an end also came to the prolific two-year career of quarterback Eric Bennett.

Bennett this season passed for 3,094 yards and 34 touchdowns while leading the Pioneers (7-5) to their second consecutive playoff berth for the first time. Bennett holds virtually every significant school passing record, including yards in a career, (5,561), touchdowns (55), attempts (766), completions (385) and completion percentage (50.3).

Perhaps a better gauge of Bennett’s accomplishments is to list the school standards he did not set. The only one known to Stan Quina is the record of 49 attempts in a game, set by Steve Pinkston in 1984.

Bennett (6-foot-2, 185) is being recruited by several NCAA Division I schools, including Kansas.

Newbury Park quarterback Keith Smith finished with 30 touchdown passes and has 47 in his career. With one year of eligibility remaining, Smith needs a minor miracle to threaten the state mark. The state record is 91, set from 1975-77 by Ron Cuccia of L.A. Wilson, according to Cal-Hi Sports. Smith still leads state passers with 3,318 yards, but Tim Carey of Los Alamitos is still playing and closing fast with 2,932.

Palmdale football opponents must have had one fear in common when preparing for the Falcons: Zenno-phobia. The Falcons averaged 304.1 yards a game. Terrence Zenno, a senior quarterback, passed and ran for an average of 245.3. He led all Golden League passers, completing 111 of 231 for 2,067 yards and 15 touchdowns. He was the league’s No. 4 rusher, gaining 631 yards and scoring 10 touchdowns in 149 carries.

He had a hand in 25 of 34 touchdowns.

Rushing: Camarillo tailback Fahali Campbell has a shot at becoming the leading rusher in the state. Campbell ranks third with 2,240 yards, but leader Ramod Lee of Valley View of Moreno Valley has completed his season with 2,361.

Hart senior tailback Deriek Charles rushed for 1,133 yards (10.8 yards per carry), caught 44 passes for 757 yards and scored 24 touchdowns. Howard Blackwell (1989) holds the school rushing record with 1,269 yards.

Montclair Prep’s Eliel Swinton, now third on the all-time Southern Section and state list with 5,456 yards rushing, needs 44 yards to reach 2,000 for the season. With 310 yards, Swinton would break the school record of 2,265, set by his older brother, Rich Swinton, a 1986 Montclair Prep graduate.

Village Christian’s Tarik Blair finished the season with 1,120 yards. He also set school records for most kickoffs returned for touchdowns in a season (three) and longest kickoff return for a touchdown (99 yards).

Miscellaneous: Taft, which will play host to Chatsworth in the City Section 3-A Division semifinals Friday, has won six of seven games to improve to 8-4. In the Toreadors’ loss, they surrendered a last-minute touchdown to Granada Hills and fell, 14-12. But then, that’s hardly news at Taft. The Toreadors have lost four games by a total of nine points.

Sylmar (11-0), the top-seeded team in the City 4-A playoffs, has outscored opponents, 382-72. In two playoff games, the Spartans have outscored foes, 77-9.

Village Christian’s Ignacio Brache set a school record for extra points in a season with 33. He also set a single-game record with eight.

Cross-country: Southern Section teams have won every boys’ and girls’ Division I title in the state championships since they began in 1987. Arroyo, Dana Hills and Camarillo won the first three boys’ titles, followed by Hart with three consecutive victories. Palos Verdes won the first three girls’ titles and Agoura has won the last three.

Hart’s team time (the combined time of a team’s five scoring runners) of 79 minutes 29 seconds in the state championships is the sixth fastest by a boys’ team. Camarillo (78:50) produced the region’s fastest team time in the 1989 state meet.

The Agoura girls’ team time of 95:03 in the state meet is the sixth fastest and No. 4 on the Chargers’ all-time list. Agoura set the team-time record of 93:06 last year. . . .

The Camarillo boys’ team has placed sixth or better five times since the state championships began. The Scorpions were fourth, fourth and first at the Division I level from 1987-89, and they placed second in the 1990 Division II championships and sixth this year.

Basketball: Three Canoga Park players combined to score 66 of the team’s points in the Hunters’ dramatic 70-69 victory over Taft in last week’s opener.