BOYS

Durell Price

SCHOOL: Sylmar

SPORT: Football

YEAR: Junior

SEASON AT A GLANCE: Price averages 11.6 yards every time he carries the ball, nearly three yards better than the next-best average per carry among running backs in the Valley area. Price (6-foot-1, 215 pounds), has rushed for 1,466 yards and 21 touchdowns in 126 carries. He scores a touchdown every six times he carries the ball.

WEEK AT A GLANCE: Price rushed for 226 yards and four touchdowns in 14 carries to fuel the Spartans’ 46-0 rout of University in a first-round game of the City Section Division 4-A playoffs. Price, who also starts at defensive back, recovered a fumble on University’s first series and scored two plays later on a 22-yard draw play, carrying two defenders the final five yards.