FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK: QUARTZ HILL SENIOR WORKING DOUBLE TIME FOR FUTURE.Byline: Ramona Shelburne Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer When Calvin Culver finally decides his future, there won't be any wrong options. The difficult part for the Quartz Hill High senior is waiting for things out of his control to occur, circumstances that will help him make his decision. Four high-profile college baseball College baseball is baseball as played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education, predominantly in the United States. Compared to American football and basketball in the United States, college competition plays a less significant contribution to cultivating programs and two football programs are recruiting Culver, who also is also expected to be taken in the Major League Baseball draft The First-Year Player Draft is Major League Baseball's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players, from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs, to its teams. next June. ``Right now, I'm just trying to do my best at both sports and see what happens,'' he said. ``It's been working well so far, so I'm just going to keep doing that.'' Doing his best at both sports can be exhausting. In addition to playing football for Quartz Hill, Culver is seeing action with the Angels' elite scout team In sports, the scout team, also referred to as a practice team or practice squad, is a group of players on a team whose task is to emulate future opponents for the featured (or starting) players. two or three times a week in places as distant as San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . Culver was selected for the elite league after a standout summer at the Area Code Games. He has been told by scouts from the Brewers and the Twins that he likely will be picked in the first 10 rounds next June. Still, Culver is taking no chances on his future. He plans to take official and unofficial trips to Cal State Northridge, Loyola Marymount, Fresno State, San Diego State and Hawaii in the coming months. His biggest challenge at the moment is balancing his burgeoning baseball career with high school football. With baseball games all over Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, on Wednesday nights and Saturday afternoons and football practice every afternoon and games on Fridays, Culver is busy. ``It was hard going back and forth at first, but I've adapted to it,'' Culver said. ``We're doing really well (in football) now, and I think we can make the playoffs if we just work hard at it. We've been moving the ball on offense but had trouble punching it in.'' Quartz Hill is 3-2 overall and 1-1 in Golden League play. --Magic Bus: Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley senior fullback Darius Roberts was one of the breakout performers in Antelope Valley's 22-19 victory Friday night against Palmdale. The 6-foot, 260- pound Roberts excited the crowd and his teammates with a mix of powerful running and nifty footwork to rush for 101 yards. Palmdale's approach to stopping Roberts was tackling him low, but he spun and eluded tacklers three times. His size and style drew comparisons to the Pittsburgh Steelers' beefy beefy, beefyness 1. in dog conformation, used to describe overdevelopment of musculature in the hindquarters. 2. in cattle, used to designate the desirable physical conformation of a beef animal, but an undesirable character in dairy cattle. running back Jerome Bettis, but Roberts' teammates have given him his own nickname, ``Big D.'' ``I actually think I'm too big right now,'' he said. ``I feel fine, but my conditioning isn't where it needs to be right now (because) I was sick last week. I'm going to try and drop a little weight and get in better shape.'' Ramona Shelburne, (818) 713-3617 ramona.shelburne(at)dailynews.com |
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