Stallings placed on Valley League first team

The Valley League boys basketball coaches placed Fallbrook High School junior Charlie Stallings on the all-league first team.

"I'm excited for him. However, I think that he's got a lot of stuff to work on for next year and I think he's just scratching the surface for us," said Fallbrook coach Moe Golshani.

Stallings averaged 19.8 points, 14.6 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game – as a guard. "He was definitely a perimeter player for us and those were his numbers," Golshani said. "The kid is a gamer."

Ramona senior Anthony McManus was chosen as the league's player of the year, but Stallings was a unanimous selection for the first team. "Everybody had the same feeling about him," Golshani said. "He's a special kid."

The all-league award was the first for Stallings. Both of Fallbrook's 2019-20 all-league players were seniors last year, so the Warriors had no returning all-league players. One of the 2020 graduates had been Fallbrook's only all-league player in both of the previous two seasons.

Five first-team members and five second-team players were chosen. Stallings was Fallbrook's only 2020-21 all-league selection.

Fallbrook was 5-5 in Valley League play, which gave the Warriors fourth place in the six-team standings. The team's 8-19 overall mark includes a first-round loss in the CIF Division IV playoffs.