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24 players grace All-CenTex preseason team[/h2]
By
Danny Davis | Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 11:00 PM
Three area football players have started the season in a familiar place: on the All-Central Texas preseason football team.
Temple running back
Lache Seastrunk, Westwood kicker
Jordan Williamson and Hutto defensive end
Nehemiah Hicks were all on the 2008 preseason team. Hicks make last year's squad as a tight end.
The trio will be honored alongside the other 21 players at the Gridiron Kickoff Classic on Friday.
Other members of the preseason team are Westlake quarterback
Tanner Price, Westwood running back
Princeton Collins, Bowie wide receiver
DeAndre Perry, Lake Travis wide receiver
Andy Erickson, Stony Point tight end
Gerard Shillow, Dripping Springs offensive lineman
Graeme Ramsey, Cedar Park offensive lineman
Dominic Espinosa, St. Michael's offensive lineman
Mitch Morse, McNeil offensive lineman
Bryce Gwyn and Pflugerville offensive lineman
Tyrus Thompson.
The All-Central Texas defense consists of Hicks, LBJ defensive tackle
Cedric Howard, Cedar Park defensive end
Holmes Onwukaife, New Braunfels linebacker
John Bordano, Lake Travis linebacker
Quinton Crow, Copperas Cove linebacker
Donnell Hawkins, Anderson linebacker
Connor Sheehan, Westlake defensive back
Louie Swope, Taylor defensive back
Mark Jackson, Round Rock defensive back
Jeremy McKnight, Stony Point defensive back
Desmond Martin and Bowie punter
Adam Harrison.
Onwukaife made the team as a defensive end but will switch to linebacker this season after playing on the defensive line for the past three seasons.
Spoke to Holmes Onwukaife this evening, and he informed me that Texas, Oklahoma, and North Carolina are all actively recruiting him. Both Texas and Oklahoma are waiting to see how he looks in a game at linebacker before offering him. If he plays like he did at Showtime, I would not be shocked to see both the Horns and Sooners offering him shortly after.
I asked him if an offer from either Texas or Oklahoma would affect his commitment to Florida State, and this is what the Texas native had to say.
"As of now im 110 percent to FSU. I'm not closing the door on those schools, but if that happens we"ll talk bout that"
Onwukaife had been approved for a Texas offer earlier in the Spring, but since he moved to linebacker, the statt at Texas wants to wait and evaluate him at the LB position first. Some insiders that I have spoken with in Texas feel that he could be a top 25 prospect in the state by the end of his senior year. Expect to see his stock shoot through the roof with a strong senior season.
Fuuuuuu, hopefully we can keep him.