21 Area Players Receive Section Football Honors

Twenty-one high school football players from the region have been selected to the All-Southern Section teams in Divisions VIII, IX and X.

Only one team from the region competes in Division VIII and only one player from that team was selected: senior running back Sam Paneno (5 feet 11, 185 pounds) of La Canada.

In Division IX, 12 players were honored, including three each from St. Bonaventure and Moorpark. Selected from St. Bonaventure were senior running back Topi Sanchez (5-7, 174), senior lineman Sam Benner (6-5, 250) and junior lineman David Bernal (6-1, 295).

The Moorpark players were senior quarterback Bryan Paul (6-4, 190), senior wide receiver David Burns (6-4, 165) and senior linebacker Casey Groves (6-0, 215).

Other Division IX players honored were senior running back Akil Anderson (5-10, 235) and senior linebacker Anwawn Jones (6-4, 225) of Montclair Prep, Nordhoff junior linebacker Russell Farrar (5-9, 180), Harvard-Westlake senior kicker Greg Nortman (5-10, 180), Calabasas senior linebacker Marshall Horton (6-1, 210) and Oak Park senior punter Josh Nicassio (6-0, 180).

Three Paraclete players made the Division X squad: senior quarterback Ben Joyce (6-1, 170), junior wide receiver Jesse Loa (5-6, 135) and senior linebacker Ian Savage (6-3, 215).

Also named to the team were sophomore quarterback Peter Dirksen (6-0, 170) and senior lineman Dave Clark (6-3, 280) of L.A. Baptist, Valencia junior running back Donavan Calhoun (6-1, 172), Village Christian senior wide receiver Tony Yousif (5-9, 180) and Kilpatrick senior defensive back John Webber (6-0, 180).