Port Arthur News Super Team
Port Neches-Groves quarterback Roschon Johnson has been named the Port Arthur News Super Team MVP for the second year in a row.
Johnson closed his junior season totaling 63 touchdowns, including 35 of them passing. He completed 191 of 281 passes for 2,920 yards and rushed 220 times for 1,607 yards and 28 TDs. Johnson is committed to the University of Texas.
Elijah Hines of Port Arthur Memorial became another repeat winner with his second straight Offensive Player of the Year accolade. The senior running back racked up 1,401 yards and 23 touchdowns.
Memorial senior linebacker Jomard Valsin was named Defensive Player of the Year. Valsin led the charge on a defense that at one point had held opponents to fewer than 79 total yards per game and proved to be a sack machine for the District 22-5A co-champion Titans. Valsin was also named the 22-5A defensive player of the year.
Memorial’s Kenny Harrison, Nederland’s Monte Barrow and PNG’s Brandon Faircloth share Coach of the Year honors. All three coaches built playoff teams that had to overcome late starts to the season and deal with a compressed portion of the district schedule as a result of the effects of Tropical Storm Harvey.
This is the 46th year The News has organized a Super Team, but the third that only players from the newspaper’s coverage area are selected. Each Super Team member was nominated by his coach and invited to take part in a photo shoot Friday at the Museum of the Gulf Coast. The superlative winners will have their names etched in plaques that will hang in the sports wing of the museum.
The full Super Team is listed below. Stories on the superlative winners are upcoming.
Super Team MVP
Roschon Johnson
Junior QB • PNG
Offensive Player of the Year
Elijah Hines
Senior RB • Memorial
Defensive Player of the Year
Jomard Valsin
Senior LB • Memorial
Coaches of the Year
Kenny Harrison, Memorial
Monte Barrow, Nederland
Brandon Faircloth, Port Neches-Groves
Brandon Faircloth of PNG, Super Team Tri-Coach of the Year
Super Team
Blaysin Fernandez
Junior QB • Nederland
Keitha Jones
Senior QB • Memorial
Devon Simmons
Senior RB • Nederland
James Francis
Senior WR • Memorial
Preston Hughes
Senior WR • PNG
Kevon Latulas
Senior WR • Nederland
Preston Riggs
Senior WR • PNG
Cameron Stansbury
Senior WR • PNG
Jamal Dorsey
Senior TE • Memorial
Holden Lane
Senior P • PNG
Landon Sandell
Senior K • PNG
Matthew Buss
Senior OL • Nederland
Jaylen Garth
Sophomore OL • PNG
Josh Hranicky
Senior OL • PNG
Nakoven Lewis
Senior OL • Memorial
Kevin Miranda
Junior OL • Nederland
Brian Roy
Senior OL • Memorial
Sergio Ayala
Senior DL • PNG
Tiren Forney
Senior DL • Nederland
Logan Hammonds
Senior DL • PNG
Da’Juan McMillan
Junior DL • Memorial
Braydon Williams
Senior DL • Memorial
Austin Bost
Senior LB • PNG
Ja’Quaylen Crook
Junior LB • Memorial
Steven Hendrix
Senior LB • Nederland
Alec LeBouef
Senior LB • PNG
Brady Spell
Senior LB • Nederland
Chris Thomas
Junior LB • Memorial
Colton Beeson
Senior DB • Nederland
Landon Hiltz
Junior DB • Nederland
Javontae’ Hopkins
Junior DB • Memorial
Tyler Jackson
Junior DB • PNG
Greg Laday
Senior DB • Memorial
Noah Lewis
Junior DB • Nederland
Jacob Washington
Junior DB • Memorial
