rockfish rosters

We haven't been able to catch any of the various Rockfish team games, and thus can't ascertain whether the rosters which are printed in the program are in fact the "real" rosters at the tournament, but we've run into most of the teams at one location or another, and have seen most of these guys around the tournament, so we'd say these are pretty accurate.

Rockfish have brought five teams to the tournament, and they are all talented teams. Again, we have no idea of team standings and won't really know how everyone has done overall until tomorrow morning when the board at the tournament headquarters at Sunnyside is updated. In the meantime, rosters alone will have to suffice.

This is the Rockfish's "No. 1" team, coached by Dave "Rockfish" Benezra, and it has the usual group of suspects but Dave and Mark have moved a couple of players around a bit:

Solomon Brown	6'-1" Jr. PG	St. Thomas More Prep
Nick Curtis	6'-8" Jr. F	Oxnard HS
Anthony Davis	6'-5" Jr. SG/SF	Cleveland HS
Tim Drisdom	6'-3" So. PG	Downey Calvary Chapel
Josh Dunaj	6'-0" Jr. PG/SG	Riverside Poly
Alex Graham	7'-0" Jr. C	Redlands
Jermaine Harper	6'-3" Jr. SG	Blue Ridge Prep
Rory O'Neil	6'-11" Jr. F/C	Ridgecrest Burroughs
Julian Sensley	6'-9" Jr. F	St. Thomas More Prep
Donald Wilson	6'-3" So. SG	Dorsey
David Newkirk	6'-5" Jr. SF	Maranatha

The Los Angeles Rockfish "Orcas" is the next team listed in the program, and this is the team coached by Mark Berokoff:

Kenny D'Oyen	5'-9" Jr. PG	Bishop Montgomery
Drew Gibson	5'-11" Fr. PG	Dorsey
Stephen Graybill	6'-0" So. PG/SG	Dos Pueblos
David Popoola	6'-3" Jr. SG	Blue Ridge Prep
Wes Wardrop	6'-3" So. SG/PG	Worcester Prep
Bryant Markson	6'-6" So. F	Monrovia HS
Ryan O'Hara	6'-7" So. F	Monrovia HS
Nashid Beard	6'-8" Jr. F	Reseda HS
Daryl Pegram	6'-8" Jr. F	AB Miller
Matt Salinas	6'-8" So. F	Sonora HS

Of interest on this roster is the fact that even though the school year is not technically over and Wes Wardrop continues to be enrolled at Loara and is in the junior class, he's been reclassified to reflect that he will be enrolling at a prep school next fall and will once again be a junior in September. We're not quite sure how that works, since the NCAA basically says a player has four years of high school within which to complete the "core" courses, but we'll be the first to admit we don't know a whole lot about the prep school route. . . we may know a lot more than the general public, but this is a case where a little bit of knowledge is probably dangerous. . .

The third team listed in the program from the Rockfish is the Los Angeles Rockfish "Dolphins", coached by Kevin Stapleton:

Jimmy Goffredo	6'-0" Fr. SG	Crescenta Valley
James Jenkins	6'-7" Jr. F	Crescenta Valley
Gavin Lee	6'-3" So. G	Bishop Montgomery
Khalif Ford	6'-0" Fr. PG	Diamond Bar
Peter McCaslin	6'-0" Jr. PG/SG	Chadwick
John Haywood	6'-3" So. G	Bishop Amat
Ryan Moore	6'-3" Jr. SG	Brea Olinda
Kevin Gardner	6'-7" So. F	Peninsula
David Patten	6'-8" So. F	El Dorado
Chris Tarne	6'-1" So. SG	Crescenta Valley

The fourth Rockfish group listed in the program is the one coached by Izzi Metz, the Los Angeles Rockfish "Barracudas":

Patrick Haddan	6'-0" So. PG	Mater Dei
Mark Holmquist	5'-8" So. PG	Saugus
Ellis Walker	6'-7" Jr. F	Hart
Chris Tarne	6'-1" So. SG	Crescenta Valley
John Liam Stapleton	6'-2" Fr. SG/SF	Crossroads
Kyle Kegley	6'-3" Jr. SG/SF	Thousand Oaks
J.P. Elliot	6'-8" Jr. SF/PF	Loyola
Michael Wilds	6'-7" Jr. PF	Dorsey
Derek Jones	6'-5" Jr. SF	Providence
Brandon Robinson	6'-3" Jr. SG/SF	Sylmar
Damon Jenkins	6'-3" Jr. SF/SG	Dos Pueblos
Kevin Stacey	6'-2" So. SG	Santa Margarita

Again, we have no idea how the Barracuda team is doing, but if they finish first in their pool (Pool H) according to the brackets we've got, it looks like they're headed for a showdown in the first round of the single elimination with the Pump N Run team.

The Rockfish team listed fifth and last in the program is the Rockfish "Marlins" coached by Hernando Planells, and while we don't know squat about what the other teams have been doing in terms of results, we know that the Marlins are 1-1 at the end of Saturday's competition, having beaten a very good IEBP Players team by a single point (gee and they had to travel all this way to play each other again?), but then they got hammered by the Oakland Soldiers I team. We didn't see the latter game, but we heard it wasn't pretty. Here's the Marlins roster:

Will Sheslow	6'-0" So. PG	Montclair Prep
Kevyn White	6'-0" Jr. G	Claremont
Derrick Williams	6'-2" Fr. SG/SF	Campbell Hall
Anthony Naylor	6'-3" Prep F	New Hampton Prep
Levi Steinmetz	6'-3" Jr. SF/SG	Ridgecrest Burroughs
Tito Hill	6'-4" Jr. SF/SG	St. Andrew's HS, Fla.
Kenny Penn	6'-5" So. F	Claremont
James Shoup	6'-6" Fr. F	Murrieta Valley
Sean Cole	6'-7" Jr. F	St. Monica
Jonathan Todd	6'-8" So. F	Chaminade

We've heard lots of rumors about some transfers for next season involving some of the guys on this Marlins team, among them that Tito Hill will be returning to Florida, and it's more than a rumor, he will indeed be leaving Chaminade, but they may be picking up another guard from this roster. . . we're not saying any more on that subject until it's official because sometimes these things change, and basically, it's really no one's business except the student and his parents. . . again, only time will tell.

We'll have more on these teams tomorrow, including the standings at the end of pool and the results for Sunday in single elimination.