Above: George Frazier, aka G5, is in a battle for the starting job.

By Keith Lair, Staff Writer

MONROVIA – George Frazier V is no Nick Bueno. Blake Heyworth isn’t, either.

Neither Monrovia High School junior quarterback claims to be the next coming of Bueno, the 2011 CIF-Southern Section Mid-Valley Division offensive player of the year who led the Wildcats to a CIF-SS championship last season.

“I play a different style than Nick,” Frazier said. “I’m not as shifty and I won’t run as much.

“People say the pressure is there. In my eyes, I’m a whole different person. It’s a whole other year, a whole other team.”

Both quarterbacks, however, hope to be taking the most snaps this season and replicate Bueno’s feat.

“You can’t replace (Bueno),” coach Ryan Maddox said. “He was a special player, but we have some very good young kids.

“It’s going to look a little different. We’re not going to ask Blake or George to do what Nick did. They are different types of quarterbacks. We’ll take what they do well and work from that.”

Bueno was the Wildcats’ quarterback for three seasons. Last year, he completed 108 of 201 passes for 1,828 yards and eight touchdowns. He also rushed for 1,513 yards and 14 scores.

Below: Blake Heyworth during practice Thursday.

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By Keith Lair, Staff Writer

ROSEMEAD – It’s a cross between a family reunion picnic and organized chaos.

Some Bosco Tech football players carry teammates on their back. Others hop 100 yards down the home sideline. More run laps around the track.

The drills are something new to the Tigers this season.

“We wanted to try to do away from the condition that gets them tired,” coach Chris Shockley said. “We wanted to do more sports-specific things, to get them ready to play football. We start by putting them in situations they’re going to be in on the football field. The movements are more football-specific.”

Shockley, in his 13th year with the program, said the coaches picked up on the football-related drills while attending various clinics and seminars.

“It makes it more scary,” senior wide receiver C.J. Alvarez said of the new drills. “You don’t ever know what you’re going to be working on. It’s tiring, but it gets in the work. Hopefully it will help us out on the field.”

Coaches have more than 50 dynamic, metabolic and neurological drills, all football-related, that they can throw at the players at any time during practice. They can plan out a certain drill, but then they can take the initiative to change the plan to another drill at a moment’s notice.

“We switch it up every session,” Shockley said. “We think it has kept it fresh for them, because it’s a new drill. It has kind of kept them on their toes because they don’t know what to expect.

“We’re getting more out of these guys. They’re working on mastering the drill. When it’s the same drill for three days, they know how to do it and you don’t get as much out of them. They’ve responded really well.”

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Aram Tolegian, AKA Chemical AT, ambushed Covina’s practice earlier today. In his “Practice Ambush!!!!”, Aram gets a closer look at Covina’s behemoth defensive linemen. You can hear him in the video ask if Monrovia should be worried. I don’t know that I would go that far, but you can see what Aram’s talking about in the 3:13 mark, and those guys do look huge.