Folsom QB leads team against De La Salle - San Francisco Chronicle
An innocuous brown storage box sits in the corner of the Browning family garage with various press clippings, awards and keepsakes. "I haven't looked in there lately," Jake Browning said. The shaggy-haired, low-key 6-foot-2 1/2, 193-pound Folsom High quarterback dropped the Gatorade State Player of the Year plaque in the box last week around the time he broke his own state single-season record for passing yards, which now stands at... If he and Folsom (14-0) beat De La Salle-Concord in Saturday's 7:30 p. m. Northern California Open Division final at Diablo Valley College, he probably won't have to wait until his senior year to break them. Then again, the Spartans haven't lost to a Northern California opponent since 1991 - a span of 249 games - and have won 39 straight overall. "He's special," said then-De La Salle head coach Bob Ladouceur after the Spartans handed previously-unbeaten Folsom a 49-15 defeat in last year's Open Division final at Sacramento State. Browning, whose father Ed played quarterback for Oregon State in the early '90s, is an inch taller, 30 pounds bigger and at least a step faster since that defeat. Under former Cal quarterback Troy Taylor's innovative spread attack, Browning is also another season more refined. "He was already a great quarterback but you can see his maturity, especially in the pocket," De La Salle defensive coordinator Terry Eidson said. Source: www.sfgate.com
