The Kansas City Star
June 11, 1992
Edition: JOHNSON COUNTY
Section: SPORTS
Page: D7

Dream Classic offers challenge to Kansas stars Living up to the honor by beating Missouri is the goal of players in high school football game.
Author: DAVID BOYCE; Staff Writer

Adam Bowers remembers watching the Big Brothers Big Sisters all-star football games. Now he will compete in a similar game.

Bowers will take the field with his 44 Kansas teammates at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium against a Missouri team in the first Metro Dream Classic high school all-star football game. The Dream Factory will benefit from the proceeds.

"It's something different and a lot of fun," said Bowers, a Shawnee Mission West graduate. "It's a great honor to play with all these guys. " Steve Rampy, head coach for the Kansas all-stars, said practices have gone well.

"Out of the 45 we got, we have 45 guys that can play football," he said. "They have great speed and great size. We are excited to put a good football team on the field. " The game, Rampy said, should be intense.

"We are putting a good product on the field, and it's for a worthy cause," Rampy said.

Rampy said he is keeping it basic during the nearly two weeks of practice. Bowers said he was surprised by how intense practices have been.
"There's been a lot of hard hitting," Bowers said.

Although it's only an all-star game, winning is important to Bowers.

"I read the papers," Bowers said. "I know they have a lot of great athletes. " Quarterback Brian Schottenheimer of Blue Valley said he's excited about playing against Missouri.

"On the Kansas side, we have something to prove," Schottenheimer said. "We want to show we play good football, too.

And quarterback Dan Sibert of Olathe North said the game would answer a question for him.

"I always wondered how I would do in Missouri," he said. "I guess I will find out Saturday. " Sibert is enjoying practices with players he competed against and also likes working out at Arrowhead Stadium and the Chiefs' indoor facility.

"There's not much to say except there's nothing much better than this," he said.

Bowers and Schottenheimer also like their new teammates.

"Most of us played on both sides of the field, so we know each other," Bowers said. "It's really different. Now I'm cheering for them. " Blue Valley running back Andy Murray is treating the practices as a football camp.

"This is a camp that you earned to participate in," Murray said. "I'm glad I was selected.

"In any all-star game, everybody wants to win. We haven't lost all year. We don't want to start now. We want to get the Missouri guys. "

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