The Bottom Line

Dave White has seen some talented players pass through Edison High

in his 14 years as a head coach, but never had White seen a player

produce an individual performance like the one Darryl Poston turned in

last Friday night against unbeaten Los Alamitos.

Poston gave one of those showings that the near capacity crowd of 4,500

on hand at Huntington Beach High’s Sheue Field will take about for years

to come: he rushed for 210 yards on 23 carries (9.1 yards per carry) and

had 121 more on three pass receptions. Throw into the mix some big

kickoff returns, and White said that Poston had in excess of more than

400 all-purpose yards.

‘He was unbelievable,’ White exclaimed, saying that Poston gave ‘the best

individual performance by an Edison player in my tenure here. He pretty

much was all over the field.’

Poston’s efforts also put the 5-foot-11, 171 junior into the school’s

record book.

He scored all five Edison touchdowns -- covering 49, 2, 27, and 12 yards

-- in the 44-36 loss to the top-ranked Griffins, which tied the school’s

single-game touchdown record of five. Both Mike Gray (1984) and Darin

Pope (1998) preceded Poston to the mark.

The other score came on Edison’s first touchdown of the game.

Poston first etched his name into the record book when he took in a short

shovel pass from quarterback Richard Schwartz and turned it into a

91-yard scoring play.

That Schwartz-to-Poston 91-yard pass play tied the mark the Keith

Jarrett/Mark Penso combination originally set at Edison back in 1984 -

the same year Gray set the single-game standard by scoring five

touchdowns.

White was an Edison assistant during that 8-3 season.

‘I’ve seen a lot of fine performances, but Darryl’s stands out most,’

White said. ‘He just gave a tremendous effort in a great, exciting game.’