Thursday, February 04, 2010

2 New Names Plus Signing Day Mentions

News continues trickling in from signing day. Among the new names are Californians Dana Barbaro and AJ Dettorre.

Barbaro, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound receiver from St. Augustine High School, is mentioned in this San Diego Tribune listing of college-bound players. According to MaxPreps, he had 55 catches for 1,000 yards, an 18.18-yard average and 15 touchdowns last year. His long was 74 yards. His top game was eight catches for 174 yards and five touchdowns in a win over Mar Vista. Click here for his ESPN.com page (which lists him at 6-1, 180). Find a nice still shot of Barbaro here, and a highlight video here.

AJ Dettorre, a defensive back, is listed by MaxPreps as 5-foot-11, 175 pounds. His highlight video is available here. Also a wide receiver at Moorpark, he was selected first-team, all-league, all-county, second-team all-area and a scholastic team pick. Dettorre is quoted in the Ventura County Star:
“It’s the biggest day of my life. We go to the weight room every day and practice every day and work so hard with the dream of one day playing at the next level. To stand up there today and announce where I’m going to school was such a special moment. It shows that a dream really can come true.”


Luke Dornak and family


Among the players previously reported as heading to Dartmouth, Luke Dornak, a 6-foot-3, 257-pound tight end/defensive lineman from Victoria, Texas (earlier BGA mention) is quoted in this story from My Victoria Online:
"It's a great school. They're an up and coming program, they have a great team and coaching staff and I love it up there."
Dornak is a cousin of senior Matt Dornak and sophomore receiver Brad Dornak.

Fellow Texan Ellis Glaw (right) , a product of the same Austin high school (Westlake) that produced the Dornak brothers, gets a mention in this Statesman story. The story notes that Glaw is one of six Chaparral's going on to play college football with others set for Wake Forest, SMU, Air Force, Baylor and Syracuse. Another former teammates who moved last year will be playing for Ohio State. Little wonder Westlake went 13-3 last fall and made it to the Class 5A championship game.

Tulsa World has a head shot and brief on receiver Joe Dowdell of Oklahoma's Bishop Kelley High School, who it notes had 53 catches for 885 yards and 14 touchdowns. From the story:
Joe Dowdell visited Ivy League rivals Dartmouth and Princeton, but an Oklahoma connection helped him decided between the schools.

Jarrail Jackson, a former University of Oklahoma receiver, is part of the Dartmouth coaching staff, so Dowell signed with the New Hampshire school.

"It weighed in a little," Dowdell said. "He's a cool guy and he obviously knows what he's talking about."
New Orleans.com on Dartmouth-bound Sanders Davis:
With a 3.9 GPA and 29 on the ACT, Catholic High of Baton Rouge OT Sanders Davis selected Dartmouth of the prestigious Ivy League as his collegiate destination. Davis was a first team all-district pick and helped lead his team to victory in the U.S. Army Red Stick Bowl in December. Davis, 6-4 275, chose the Big Green over Harvard, Brown, Princeton, and Yale.
Receiver Peter Calvanelli of New Jersey's Delbarton School gets a mention here along with teammates headed to Harvard and Brown. Calvanelli and safety Mike Banaciski of Hillsborough are on this New Jersey.com list of recruits.

The New Britain Herald mentions that Connecticut lineman Martin Pomykala ...
"... traveled extensively before opting for Dartmouth. He looked at Stony Brook, Hofstra, CCSU, Cornell, Penn and Yale but wanted to get away.

“It was a real long process that started last year,” he said. “We went as far as Louisiana, made highlight tapes and sent them out and talked to a lot of coaches on the phone and on email.”
New Jersey defensive end Ethan Posey's "signing" is reported (with a photo of three other Lawrence High "signees") in the Trentonian. From the story:
Coach Rob Radice’s Lawrence High program had four of its seniors announce their college plans, a group led by two-time Al-CVC lineman Ethan Posey who became the second Cardinal star in two years to sign with an Ivy League school.
The Tuesday LA Times' Varsity Insider mentioned Dartmouth-bound linebacker Bronson Green joining teammates who "will sign letters of intent on Wednesday."

Quarterback Andy Gay of Jackson High School in Washington gets a mention along with a teammate heading to Air Force in a Tacoma News Tribune list of signings. He's also mentioned here.


More to come today. If you have links I missed, please send them along and I'll post them here.

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