Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of seven features on CBBN 3A-4A Tri-City football players that will kick off the 2011 high school season. The Tri-City Herald will present one story a day until its prep football preview Friday.

RICHLAND -- The life of a cornerback can be a harrowing existence.

You spend your time "on an island," the other team throws "bombs" at you, and you have to learn to "tackle in space" of all things.

You can spend all game blanketing every receiver who comes your way, maybe even knock down a few passes. But you slip at the wrong time, get caught with your eyes in the backfield, and you could get beat deep for six. That can deep-six your starting job.

That kind of pressure can crack a crab and make an oyster spit a pearl. It takes stones to play corner, and big-time toughness to make sure they don't crumble under the pressure.

With Josh Tayamen -- Hanford's returning senior starter and a team captain -- it's no worries. There is nothing he will see on a football field -- a jump ball in the end zone, a 260-pound pulling tackle or even the second coming of Tim White -- that will even come close to resembling pressure. Not the kind he handled on Nov. 23, 2009, nor in the nearly two years since or even in the years going forward.