On the Metropolis Part breakfast on Wednesday morning for groups competing this weekend in championship soccer video games, two linebackers from the category of 2027 had been requested to take a photograph collectively, as a result of someday, it may very well be historic.
Elyjah Staples, a 6-foot-3 junior from Marquez, and De’Andre Kirkpatrick, a 6-3 junior from Crenshaw, can match their abilities in opposition to anybody within the state. Faculty recruiters are paying consideration and someday NFL scouts will too. They’re serving to destroy the stereotype that Metropolis Part soccer is missing in expertise.
Operating again Darnell Miller of Santee has rushed for 3,100 yards. He’s an ideal gentleman taking good care of his 10-year-old brother Frederick. No provides. If anybody wants a terrific expertise with character Darnell Miller is that individual. pic.twitter.com/g64gaDJutQ
— eric sondheimer (@latsondheimer) November 26, 2025
Add versatile junior quarterback Chris Fields III from Carson and senior working again Darnell Miller from Santee, who has surpassed the three,000-yard mark dashing this season, and you’ve got a bunch of gamers you’ll be watching on tv within the coming years.
Right here’s the schedule for video games at Birmingham on Friday and L.A. Southwest Faculty on Saturday.
Marquez coach Rudy Fortiz has been listening to from associates by means of textual content messages. He’s in a little bit of a bind. His workforce is going through his alma mater, South Gate, for the Division I title on Saturday. Fortiz says he at all times roots for South Gate — apart from this week. South Gate was 0-10 two seasons in the past.
Hawkins coach Ronald Coltress is the one who had the put this system again collectively after it went 0-13 in 2016 due to forfeits and firings of coaches. In 2017, he was JV coach when the varsity went 0-11 following an exodus of gamers. He took over in 2018 and the workforce went 1-9. The administration instructed him to remain the course and ensure gamers had been going to class, behaving and graduating. Now Hawkins is 10-2 and enjoying for the Division III championship on Friday in opposition to Santee at Birmingham.
“There was nobody left,” Coltress stated. “I had to find kids who wanted to play.”
