A number of former city high school players have continued their football careers at the college level.

They include former Woodbridge defensive star Kyle Kelley, who is now playing at San Diego State.

Kelley played in all 10 games at Saddleback College in 2014, registering 46 tackles (23), 9.5 sacks, 13 tackles for loss, a 34-yard fumble recovery, an interception and two pass breakups. He was named to the all-California team by CCCFCA and the NCS League First Team.

Star Warrior offensive lineman David Patterson is playing at Fresno State.

Scott Patton, who was the Irvine World News male athlete of the year as well as the all-city defensive player of the year last season, will be in his first season at Yale.

Patton was named all-league in football three times and was an eight-time letter winner between football (four times) and track and field (four times).

Also having moved on from Woodbridge are Austin DeFreitas (SMU), Taylor Evans (Georgia Southern), Zack Kennedy (Maryville), Stone Conley (Briar Cliff), Philip Hong (Golden West), Scott Jackson (Saddleback) and Josh Ortiz (Saddleback).

DeFreitas was at Golden West College last season.

Several players have moved on from Irvine, including Adam Searl, who is a punter at UCLA, Tim Callian, who is playing at Eastern New Mexico, and Jake Day, who is playing at Montana State-Northern.

Others moving on from Irvine include Matt Canlas (La Verne), Richie Careers (Orange Coast), Jeremiah Carter (Trinity International) and Alex Cliatt (South Dakota School of Mines).

And standout Irvine football player Mikey Filia will be with the UC Irvine baseball team next spring.

University has Tyler Stanek playing at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Colby Mazzuca at Lewis and Clark, Dakota Brooks at Albion College, Keyvan Amizadeh at Santa Monica College and Zack Christy at San Jose State.

Stanek, now a junior wide receiver and punter at Claremont, was a first-team all-league and Orange County All-Star Game participant as a senior at Uni. He set three Trojan records and also played two years of varsity baseball and one of varsity basketball.

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