Fouch, Glass to square off at Indiana State

Redlands East Valley graduate Ronnie Fouch and Redlands graduate Coy Glass will cross paths once again, as both are transferring to Division I-AA Indiana State to vie for the starting quarterback position.

Fouch’s transfer from the University of Washington is outlined in this story by the Seattle Times. The 2007 Ken Hubbs Athlete of the Year spent three seasons with the Huskies – a redshirt season in 2007 and two seasons as a backup in 2008 and 2009. Fouch saw considerable time as a redshirt freshman in 2008 once starting quarterback Jake Locker went down, completing 113 of 250 passes for 1,339 yards, four touchdowns and 13 interceptions. He played sparingly behind Locker this past season and was likely going to fill the same role had he stayed at Washington.

He also would have been pressed by two recruits – redshirt freshman Keith Price and true freshman Nick Montana, the son of Hall of Fame Joe Montana – brought in by new coach Steve Sarkisian, who took over for Tyrone Willingham after the 2008 season.

In transferring to Indiana State, Fouch can play right away according to NCAA rules, a reason he cited in the Seattle Times story.

“I had a positive experience at UW,” Fouch said. “Nothing negative happened, and there’s no negative reason why I left. I left just to go somewhere where I could get a lot of playing time and compete and get a chance to be on the field. I didn’t have any conflicts with the coaches. It’s just a matter of me being happy and on the field and I felt like this is what would make me happy, being on the field and playing.”

As for Glass, the move to Indiana State is part of a busy three years since graduating from RHS. After playing two years at Riverside Community College, Glass enrolled at Hofstra, which has since dropped football. Glass, also a 2007 graduate, led Redlands to its last Citrus Belt League championship in 2006, guiding the Terriers to a 12-1 record and the CIF-SS Inland Division semifinals.

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Shreve switches commitment to Utah

Redlands East Valley quarterback Tyler Shreve switched his verbal commitment from Colorado State to Utah after taking an official visit to Utah according to the Salt Lake City Tribune. The story can be found on the Tribune’s blog, along with this quote by Shreve.

“The coaches seem like good guys, it’s a similar system to what we have at my high school and I enjoyed hanging out with the players,” he said. “I could see myself being there in Salt Lake no problem.”

Shreve committed to Colorado State in October but will join a surging Utes program fresh off consecutive Top 20 finishes. He’ll join Colony WR Kenneth Scott, Riverside North WR Dres Anderson and Norco athlete Joseph Smith as members of this Utah recruiting class.

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NFL Division picks

Wildcard week was unkind, as only Arizona’s OT win prevented me from getting the goose-egg. I feel as if I’ll be better this week. Or more accurately, hope I will be.

NEW ORLEANS (-7) over Arizona
Baltimore (+6.5) over INDIANAPOLIS
Dallas (+2.5) over MINNESOTA
SAN DIEGO (-7.5) over N.Y. Jets

Last week: 1-3
Overall: 128-127-4

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Underwood sets scoring record at REV

When I was covering the REV-Redlands boys basketball game tonight I overhead the REV public address announcer announcing that Wildcats senior girls basketball player Dreanna Underwood set the school record for career points scored last night in REV’s 50-43 victory over Miller on Tuesday night.

Underwood, a four-year starter who is averaging 18.1 points per game for REV, took a bit of a breather Wednesday against Redlands, only scoring eight points in the Wildcats’ 52-35 victory. But breathers have obviously been rare for her.

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Markham officially in at Rialto

In the midst of call-in chaos tonight I got a call from Rialto Unified School District Director of Communications Syeda Jafri saying that Don Markham has been approved to be the next Rialto football coach by the RUSD school board. So the double-wing genius is officially back. Clay Fowler will have a story on it in tomorrow’s Sun.

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Porter doing work for Rialto

Rialto senior Giordan Porter pulled a unique doubleheader this past Saturday. Porter, a star wrestle for the Knights and a standout offensive lineman for Rialto this past football season, wrestled for the Knights at the Estancia tournament in the morning/early afternoon before heading to Corona High School to play for the San Bernardino All-Star football team in the Inland Empire All-Star Football Classic that evening.

Porter, who wrestles in the heavyweight division, has been a force on the mat this season, moving his record to 22-0 after winning the heavyweight division and the Most Valuable Wrestler award at Estancia Saturday. According to an e-mail by Rialto wrestling coach Todd Harris, Porter has pinned 21 of 22 opponents and defeated the 22nd by a technical fall.

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All-CIF Inland Division team

As you would expect, division champion Temecula Chaparral dominated the superlatives, with Antoine Arnold sharing the co-offensive player of the year honors with Vista Murrieta’s Derrick Brown while Matt Lester and Darius Guillory shared defensive player of the year honors. Chaparral coach Tom Leach also won the coach of the year honor.
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