Patterson High School | Archive | May, 2008

DigitalSports caught up with Syracuse assistant coach Randy Trivers during a recent recruiting trip in Maryland. 

Having once guided Northwest of Montgomery County to a Class 4A state title led by quarterback Ike Whitaker, who went on to Virginia Tech, Trivers had some informative things to say about preparing high school football players for college, and what exactly determines the right fit for a recruit academically, athletically and socially.

A graduate of Sherwood High School in Montgomery County, Trivers also served as a former assistant at the University of Maryland on Mark Duffner’s staff.
 
(Check out Trivers’ video interview below)

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 by Lem Satterfield

(See video interviews of Dante Jones, Willie McGirt, below)

Dunbar’s 12-0 team of 1994 was Baltimore City’s first state championship team — one which came from behind to win a battle of unbeaten teams, 30-15, over a storied Fort Hill program for the Class 2A state title — is often considered among the city’s best teams of all time, if not, the past two decades.

The following year, the Poets went 12-1 and defeated Winston Churchill of Montgomery County, 30-28, for the Class 3A state title.

Since then, the Poets have won three more championshipships, including their fourth and fifth, consecutively, in 2006, and, last fall, respectively, over Allegany County teams Fort Hill and Allegany.
 
Last fall’s Poets completed a 14-0 season, winning their 24th consecutive game, 58-34, over Allegany.

Click for Dunbar-Allegany highlights

Instantly, there were comparisons to the title-winning Poets of ’94 and ’95, which boasted among their players, two-time Defensive Player of The Year Tommy Polley, who went on to start at Florida State as well as star in the NFL.

Former Dunbar stars Dante Jones, now the head coach at Edmondson, and his Red Storm assistants, Duane Green, Antar Sims and Gary Smith have all engaged in discussions with others from time to time concerning their team’s status.

Among them, they tend to agree that the ’94 squad was the best of the two that they played on.
 
Jones, who guided the Red Storm to a Class 2A state title in 2006, believes the Poets of ’94 to be better even than last year’s squad, this despite the 2007 team’s accmplishing milestone after milestone under first-year coach Lawrence Smith.

Led by two-time Offensive Player of The Year, Tavon Austin, the 2007 Poets scored a state-record 196 points in four playoff games, eclipsing the old mark (141) held by state champion Urbana in 1999.

The Poets 58 point tied the record established by Valley High in 1977, when they routed Snow Hill, 58-16, for a state title. The combined 74 points by Dunbar and Allegany is also a state record.

DigitalSports stopped by Edmondson, recently, to discuss the comparisons with Jones, whose surprise guest, Willie McGirt, also threw his hat into the ring.

McGirt starred as Patterson of Baltimore City’s quarterback in ’94, when the Clippers lost their Class 4A state semifinal to eventual champ, North County of Anne Arundel County.

McGirt believed that the Clippers would have beaten even the Poets of ’94 during a year when the teams weren’t scheduled to play each other.

Below are some of the statistical highlights from Dunbar’s 2007 state title-winning team:

Last year’s Poets dedicated their season to former coach Ben Eaton, who died, suddenly, during the preseason on Aug. 27.

Eaton was an assistant to the Poets’ Stanley Mitchell in ’94, and, ’95, and the head coach for the Poets’ title-winning team of 2004.

The Poets’ linebacker, Keon Redhead, a fourth-year starter, played on the title-winning team of 2004, and 2006. The 2007 championship was won on Eaton’s 59th birthday, Dec. 9.
 
Quarterback Jonathan Perry threw scoring passes of 16, 33 and 37 yards to Sean Farr, as well as two-point conversion scores to Farr, and Tevin Brown.

Running back Tavon Austin ran for his 37th, 38th and 39th touchdowns of the year from 9, 32 and 59 yards.

Davon Muse and Michael McNeil ran for two, and one two-point conversion, respectively.
Terrell Lewis also ran for a 16-yard touchdown, and McNeil returned a fumble — caused by Brown — 80 yards for a score.

Perry was 11-for-20 for 235 yards, raising his season totals to 2,290 yards and 23 touchdowns. Farr caught five passes for 137 yards, raising his numbers to 49 receptions for 1,408 yards and 18 TDs.

Austin also caught three passes for 51 yards, and ran for 135 on eight carries, raising his rushing numbers to 2,553 yards on the year, and, 5,287 for his career. Austin has a state-record 92 career touchdowns.

Austin credited his offensive line of Devin Clark, Matthew Odezugo, Antonio Brown, Anthony Watters and Malcolm Speller.

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From Edmondson coach Dante Jones, in reference to Baltimore City’s 7-on-7 passing league games:   

Let me first apologize to any school that this may cause an inconvenience too. But, due to a site change for a lacrosse playoff game and the continuous rain we are forced to cancel May 10th, 7 on 7 passing league games.

We will not make up the games scheduled for this week. We will follow the schedule for the remaining week.

We are also going to change the format for the championship game, scheduled for May 24 at the Poly-Western Complex.

We are going to have a single game elimination tournament. We will meet on Thursday May 22, at Applebee’s at 7 pm.

All schools participating in the tournament must have a representative present at the seeding meeting.
 

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 April 12, 2008

Site 1 (Edmondson Westside High)                   Results                Site 2 (Samuel Banks High)            Results

10 am WH Gray vs. FD Navy                              WH 50 – FD 37                   10 am PC Royal vs. CH light gray      CH27 – PH 21

11 am EW Red vs. SW Purple                      EW 51 – SW 17                        11 am SB Black vs. MH yellow         MH 44—SB 33

12 pm PH Orange vs. DH Light Blue          DH 29 – PH 26                         12 pm PC Royal vs. LC Green          LC 27 – PC 24

 * (This loss will not effect Patterson’s record. The loss will go to Dunbar for use of unable to play on April 12)

Official –Kiah Nowlin                                                                                        Official— Tom Adams

                                                            April 26, 2008

Site 1 (Walbrook High)                                     Results                                  Site 2 (Samuel Banks High)             Results

10 am EW Red vs. FD Navy                                EW 24 – FD 13                    10 am SB Black vs. PC Royal           PH 40 – SB 16

11 am DH Light Blue vs. WH Gray                 WH 43 – DH 30                   11 am DB maroon vs. CH light gray   DB 41 – CH 28

12 pm PH Orange vs. SW Purple    PH 55 – SW 10                    12 pm MH yellow vs. LC Green        LC 40 – MH 31

 Official – Kenny Baker                                                                                    Official— Arnold Smith

                                                                 May 3, 2008

Site 1 (Edmondson Westside High)                                                 Site 2 (Samuel Banks High)

2 pm DH Light Blue vs. EW Red                      EW 31—DH 27                 2 pm CH lt gray vs. SB Black              CH 48—SB 21

3 pm WH Gray vs. SW Purple                          WH 34—SW 30                3 am PC Royal vs. MH yellow              PC 37—MH23    

4 pm PH Orange vs. FD Navy                            PH 49 –FD24                                                       4 pm DB maroon vs. LC Green         DB 37—LC27

 Official – Melvin Gamble                                                                                  Official—Tom Adams

                                                                                May 10, 2008

Site 1 (Walbrook High)                                                                                     Site 2 (Samuel Banks High)

10 am FD Navy (0-3) vs. DB maroon (2-1)                                                      10 am WH Gray(3-0) vs. PC Royal(2-1)

11 am SW Purple(0-3) vs. MH yellow(1-2)                                                     11 am EW Red(3-0) vs. CH light gray(2-1)

12 pm DH Light Blue(1-2) vs. LC Green (2-1)                                              12pm PH Orange(2-1) vs. SB Black(0-3)

 Official – Troy Long                                                                                          Official—Melvin Gamble

                                                            May 17, 2008

Site 1 (Edmondson Westside High)                                                                 Site 2 (Samuel Banks High)

10 am PH Orange vs. PC Royal                                                                        10 am SW Purple vs. CH light gray

11 am WH Gray vs. SB Black                                                                          11 am DH Light Blue vs. DB maroon

12 pm EW Red vs. LC Green                                                                             12 pm FD Navy vs. MH yellow

 Official – Kenny Baker                                                                                    Official—Kiah Nowlin

Note: Championship Game May 24, 2008 for the “BCFCA PL” Trophy @ TBA

Championship Officials Tom Adams, Kenny Baker & Paul Shuffer

Contact:                                             

Dante Jones, 443-677-6167

Garry Smith, 443-942-1180

Skip Hartley, 443-418-5488

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