Ekdahl, Lim Receive Top Honors From South Coast League

Eric Ekdahl, Mission Viejo High School’s record-setting slotback, was named the most valuable offensive player of the South Coast League in a vote of the league’s football coaches.

Ekdahl established an Orange County record by scoring 212 points on 25 touchdowns, 7 field goals and 41 conversion kicks. Ki Soo Lim, starting linebacker at Irvine for 3 seasons, was named the league’s most valuable defensive player.

Mission Viejo, which won the league title for the second consecutive year, placed 7 players on the first team and El Toro had 6 players named.

The coaches’ teams:

FIRST TEAM OFFENSE Tight End Bo Haley: El Toro Wide Receivers Doug Bame: Capo Valley Sean Drinkwater: El Toro Ted Haberfield: San Clemente Linemen Kevin Adams: El Toro Pete Ashby: Mission Viejo Russell Miller: El Toro Ralphael Molle: Irvine Sean Parks: Mission Viejo Center Eric Bolton: Dana Hills Quarterback Troy Kopp: Mission Viejo Running Backs Eric Ekdahl: Mission Viejo David Nemeth: El Toro Pat White: Irvine Kicker Paul Snyder: Dana Hills DEFENSE Line Andy Adair: Dana HillsDamon Psaros: Capo ValleyScott Robinson: Irvine Mark Slyman: Mission ViejoLinebackers Penn Bushong: Mission Viejo Jeff Clark: Mission Viejo Ki Soo Lim: Irvine V. Shackleford: Irvine Brent Singleton: Capo Valley Tad Weedman: El Toro Backs Matt Carbahlo: Dana Hills Mike Cobb: Capo Valley Stoney Corbin: Mission Viejo SECOND TEAM

Offense: WR--John Baldelli (Mission Viejo) and Toney Jenkins (Capistrano Valley); Linemen--Fred Belford (Dana Hills), Pete LaFlamme (Capistrano Valley), Chris Tarnowski (Capistrano Valley) and Jason Walker (El Toro); Center--John Pergakes (Mission Viejo); QB--Steve Stenstrom (El Toro); Backs--Chi Chi Bien (Capistrano Valley), Jim Higashi (Mission Viejo) and Randy Migge (Dana Hills).

Defense: Line--Jason Berry (El Toro), Dante Juliano (Irvine), Brendon Milner (San Clemente) and Mike Tullar (Capistrano Valley); Linebacker--Greg Clapper (Mission Viejo), Todd Pilger (Capistrano Valley), Jerry Sunseri (Dana Hills), Chris Wild (Mission Viejo) and Baron Zachary (San Clemente). Backs--Jeremy Brion (Capistrano Valley), Jeff Jurgemeyer (Mission Viejo) and Scott Toppo (El Toro).