Price, Davis Get Top City Awards : Football: Sylmar back is named 4-A player of the year for the second consecutive season. Reseda lineman is named best player in 3-A division.

Sylmar High’s Durell Price and Reseda’s Ennis Davis have received the City Section’s top football honors.

Price, a 6-foot-2 220-pound running back, was selected 4-A Division player of the year for the second consecutive season, and Davis, a 6-foot-5, 305-pound two-way lineman who led Reseda to a 3-A title, was voted best 3-A player.

The award for Price, who has made recruiting trips to Ohio State and Colorado, marks the fourth year in a row a Sylmar running back has garnered the City’s top honor. Former Sylmar tailback Tyrone Crenshaw, who is playing at Michigan State, received the distinction in 1992 and ’93.

Despite Sylmar’s 22-21 loss to Narbonne in the quarterfinals, Price and his City-high 36 touchdowns received the nod over Dorsey’s Nail Diggs, a 6-4, 215-pound senior linebacker. Dorsey defeated San Pedro, 10-7, in the 4-A title game.

For Davis, who will take recruiting trips to USC and Iowa State in January, the honor was as unexpected as it was gratifying.

“Hey, we won a championship so it’s just more to make me happy,” Davis said.

It is the first time that a lineman has earned the distinction since 1987, when David Wilson of Reseda, a tight end-linebacker, was player of the year.

Nineteen other area players were All-City selections.

In the 4-A, seven of the eight area players honored are from Sylmar and Kennedy.

The other Sylmar players on the 33-player 4-A team are senior lineman Rene Zavala (6-3, 275), senior defensive back Gerrod Taylor (5-7, 165) and junior punter Shaun Avalos (6-0, 170).

Kennedy honorees are senior running back Antwane Smith (5-9, 170), senior linebacker Damion Thompson (6-0, 230) and junior defensive back Waking Bailey (5-9, 165). Thompson and Bailey are repeat selections.

Also honored was San Fernando senior receiver Keijuan Douglas (5-7, 165).

Joining Davis on the 3-A team from Reseda are running back Armone Lochard (5-9, 175), tight end Bobby Carrara (6-1, 190), kicker Tommy Gutierrez (5-10, 190), linebacker Buddy Frederich (6-1, 225) and defensive back Michael Martin (5-9, 170).

Monroe honorees are sophomore running back Jason Anderson (5-0, 170) and senior receiver Kenyatta Burris (6-1, 175). North Hollywood placed junior running back Dante Clay (5-10, 165) and junior defensive lineman Oscar Gonzalez (6-5, 265) on the team.

Other area picks are sophomore running back Quincy Wright (5-8, 160) and senior linebacker Jeff Macrea (6-2, 235) of El Camino Real, and senior defensive back Alex Trevino (6-0, 185) of Verdugo Hills.