Orange League

Where, when: Glover Stadium, Friday, 7 p.m.

Outlook: The top three teams in the Orange League – Anaheim, Santa Ana Valley and Savanna – have clinched playoff berths. This game will help sort out which one goes as the league’s No. 1 representative to the Southwest Division playoffs, which is No. 2 and which is No. 3. That’s important, because in the playoffs in all divisions the No. 1 team gets a first-round home game against another league’s No. 3, the No. 2 plays at home or on the road and probably against another No. 2, and the No. 3 is on the road to play a No. 1. Savanna has the league’s second-most productive running back (behind Valley’s Darius Nacoste), Jeremiah Rideaux, who is averaging 131 yards a game and has rushed for 17 touchdowns. When Anaheim beat Valley, 38-6, the Colonists held Nacoste to his lowest rushing total in a league game, 162 yards on 30 carries (Nacoste ran for 250 against Savanna). Anaheim shut out Western, 3-0; Savanna beat Western, 53-42. Those comparative scores sure are helpful.

Winner: Anaheim

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