The Orange County Prep Football Player of the Year award will be awarded Thursday night at the player recognition dinner for the Brea Lions Orange County North-South Prep All-Star Football Game.

The all-star game will be played July 11 at Orange Coast College.

The award covers the 2007 season. The winner does not have to be one of the players in the all-star game.

Last year, the award was shared by Servite’s Chris Galippo and Orange Lutheran’s Aaron Corp, both of whom are now at USC.

Return to ocvarsity.com Thursday night for this year’s results.

Some of the top football prospects in California recently got together for recruiting guru Tom Lemmings at the Rose Bowl. Thanks to Michelle Geist, we have a photo to share of the Orange County players: From left to right: Chris Ward (a junior-to-be in 2008 at Mater Dei), Matt Barkley (USC commit), John Michael Davis (offered by New Mexico), Clark Evans (offered by Colorado among others), Allan Brigford (Cal commit) and Alex Mascarenas (UCLA commit).

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The CIF-Southern Section just announced that a disqualification error Saturday was fixed today, and Crespi of Encino had moved past Orange Lutheran to win the CIF boys Division III track and field championship.

The Lancers had claimed the championship Saturday at Mt. San Antonio College, but the CIF-SS ruled that Crespi’s Mark Watley incorrectly was disqualified in the 400. Paul Castillo, the CIF-SS assistant commissioner who oversees track and field, ruled that a mistake was made.

Watley was reinstated, awarded the 400-meter championship and added enough points to Crespi’s total to give his team the championship, especially since Orange Lutheran lost points in the event when Watley was reinstated.

Crespi finished with 59 points, and Orange Lutheran had 48.

Vote to help fill out the main draw of the school year’s top girls teams.

Vote to help fill out the main draw of the school year’s top boys teams.

Vote to help fill out the main draw of the school year’s top girls teams.

Vote to help fill out the main draw of the school year’s top boys teams.

Coin flips this morning (Saturday, May 17) determined the home teams in four CIF-Southern Section second-round playoff games involving Orange County teams. And the winners are …

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Orange Lutheran cornerback Terrence Brown (6-0, 170) has been offered by Stanford and Boise State, Lancers coach Jim Kunau said.