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Preview Profiles: Long Beach Football Foursome Of Unlikely Leaders

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Twenty four months ago it would’ve been impossible to imagine that Jacob Starkey, Christian Conrad, Xavius Tauta and Angel Guzman would be major players in a marquee Moore League football matchup, but wonders never cease.

READ MORE about how Jacob Starkey shuffled through multiple positions while becoming a Millikan football senior captain.

 

READ MORE about how Christian Conrad changed schools and positions to lead the Wilson offensive line.

 

READ MORE about how Xavius Tauta came home to Long Beach for family, and found a new lease on his football life at Millikan.

 

READ MORE about how Angel Guzman went from an academically ineligible sophomore to a defensive captain senior at Wilson.

 

READ MORE about how similar Wilson and Millikan are before the Moore League rivals play for second place tonight.

JJ Fiddler
JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
http://The562.org

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