The Texas Associated Press Sports Editors Class 5A all-state high school football team was released today, and there are two notable players are missing — Southlake Carroll quarterback Kenny Hill and Fort Bend Hightower quarterback Bralon Addison. They will be playing in Saturday’s Class 5A Division I state championship game at Cowboys Stadium.
Hill has been arguably the best player in the Dallas-Fort Worth area this season. He has completed 61.9 percent of his passes while throwing for 2,785 yards and 23 touchdowns, and he has run for a team-leading 1,282 yards and 22 touchdowns.
Addison, who has committed to Texas A&M, is ranked as the state’s 25th-best recruit by Rivals.com. He has passed for 2,103 yards and 21 touchdowns — with only three interceptions — and has run for 1,442 yards and 18 touchdowns. Hightower, by the way, didn’t have any players make the all-state team.
Who do you think deserved to be on the all-state team that isn’t? Who were the biggest snubs?
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MONROVIA TAKES CONTROL, ROUTS SAN GABRIEL 53-14
MONROVIA — The first 24 minutes was a heavyweight bout that saw an overwhelming underdog do everything but take a physical beating.
In the mist of its first finals run since 2003, the San Gabriel High School football team traded punches with defending champion Monrovia, an epic battle that ultimately proved short-lived.
In typical Monrovia fashion, the second half became an offensive clinic while its punishing defense threw San Gabriel’s offense into a wreck.
BOYNTON BEACH — It opened in 2001 as the high school that Boynton Beach officials had wanted for a decade. A decade later, Boynton Beach High School is the high school most local students avoid.
Frustrated city and school district officials attribute the one-third-empty school and its inability to attract a majority of local kids to an bad image based partially on race and economics.
It’s a reputation that’s unwarranted, said former Boynton Beach Mayor Jerry Taylor, one of the city officials who lobbied the state in the 1990s for money to build a high school in his city. It’s a shame because the people there have really worked hard to have a nice school.
This semester, Boynton High has 1,484 students, about 67 percent of its capacity. At the same time, 1,774 students live in Boynton High’s attendance boundary and choose to go to other schools.
Principal Karen Whetsell said she is trying to better market her school to parents in Boynton Beach who are sending their kids elsewhere. T
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