Eddie Stansberry has not played in roughly seven consecutive quarters for Archbishop Riordan and is out indefinitely, said Crusaders coach Rich Buckner this morning.
“I’m a little in the dark,” Buckner said a day after his team defeated Valley Christian without Stansberry. “He’s been complaining about his knee the past few weeks. We took him out of the Sacred Heart Cathedral game after one quarter so we were without him almost the whole game against Sacred Heart and again last night. We may know more Monday.”
Buckner said that unlike with Archbishop Mitty star center en Kone, who injured a knee eight days ago against Riordan and is out for the season, there was not one particular play that felled Stansberry.
Kone injured his knee in front of the Riordan bench planting his foot and turning to move upcourt against the Crusaders. He said Stansberry’s problem may be more of a “cumulative thing.”
“Nobody has made a diagnosis on it, but believe me I’m the first person who wants to hear it, next to his mom,” Buckner said.
The Riordan coach said he doesn't anticipate his star guard playing this week against Serra or intra-city rival St. Ignatius.
“He’s moving around, but not ready to go,” Buckner said. “For his future career we may just shut him down; we may err on the side of caution with him.”
Stansberry made varsity as a freshman at Serra, then transferred to Riordan and sat out a year. He was the Prep2Prep CCS junior of year for Riordan last season and was playing well again this season before coming out of the SHC game after scoring six points.
“First the WCAL player of the year (Kone) goes down and now the potential player of the year (Stansberry),” Buckner said. “We’d better get a hold of coach (Darrell) Barbour at Sacred Heart Cathedral and get some bullet proof glass for Albert Hollins because he’s the other top player in the league. We don’t want anything happening to him.”
(Prep2Prep student reporter John Canicosa contributed to this report).
