Latest on ex-SF Lancer RB Darrell Page from Darren Sebedra - "BANG"
CUPERTINO — Former St. Francis running back Darrell Page, last season’s Bay Area News Group offensive player of the year, has found a new school.But, as it turns out, he won’t be cleared by the Central Coast Section to play for Homestead right away.“Per an updated CCS ruling, Darrell Page will be sitting out until Oct 10, 2018 since he enrolled at Homestead on Sept 4,” Homestead athletic director Steve Lavelle said in an email Wednesday. “He will be eligible to play in the last four games of the regular season.”
Tuesday, Lavelle said in an email that Page had been cleared to play.CCS commissioner Duane Morgan said Wednesday that Page’s enrollment date pushed his sit-out period into October.“This is a different case because he didn’t start school and make the transfer to the school until later,” Morgan said. “The normal sit-out period was Sept. 28.”
“The only one we would ever get involved in would be discipline,” Morgan said. “St. Francis did not specify that it was discipline, so we treated it as a normal transfer.”St. Francis has declined to comment about Page, citing “confidential issues involving minors.” Transfers can avoid sit-out periods in hardship cases or cases that involve full family moves. Neither applied to Page’s case. Page’s name is on Homestead’s MaxPreps roster.
His season debut will come on Oct. 12, a road game against Wilcox.He will miss a non-league game against The King’s Academy on Friday and league games against Los Gatos on Sept. 21 and Milpitas on Oct. 5. Page is joining a team that is winless through three games, its most recent defeat coming Sept. 7 against Sacred Heart Cathedral, 58-6.
Page broke a 21-year-old St. Francis rushing record last season, finishing with a CCS-best 2,294 yards in 307 carries with 23 touchdowns as the Lancers won Northern California regional and state championships.