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Mankins becomes big key to Pats' success

By Harold Abend
Special to ESPNRISE.com

Friday, December 5, 2008

Forty miles west of the entrance to Yosemite Valley sits the small Sierra Nevada foothill community of Mariposa (Calif.). The local high school serves a large geographical area, but is generally not the kind of place where college recruiters come to find top prospects. The scouts didn't stop by when Logan Mankins was starring at Mariposa County High School, either. By chance, a college that was scouting another player took an interest in Mankins. He would get one shot, at Fresno State. Today, ...

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