Pac-5 Division O.C. team analysis
Here are the Orange County teams in the Pac-5 Division:
Pac-5 Division O.C. team analysis
Here are the Orange County teams in the Pac-5 Division:
Los Alamitos is back in the playoff picture with their 31-22 win over Fountain Valley. Kyle Middlebrooks ran for 176 yards and scored two touchdowns but Nick & Shaq Richardson were too much to handle. Video by OCVarsity.com's Jonathan Khamis
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Top-ranked Edison continued its dominance in the Sunset League on Friday night by shutting out Fountain Valley, 24-0, in the Battle for the Bell. The Edison defense recorded four sacks, and Davion Orphey had two touchdowns on 124 yards rushing.
Check out highlights from the game and postgame interviews in this video by OCVarsity.com's Jonathan Khamis.
One pumpkin blasted through the Pepsi ad on the Titan Stadium scoreboard at Cal State Fullerton. Another flew over it. The scoreboard is OK and ready to go for the Fountain Valley-Edison game there this Friday, according to CSUF associate athletic director Rob Shildone.
And the reason there will be an $8 parking fee for the football game and there was free parking for the pumpkin launch on Halloween -- the pumpkin launch was a CSUF event, Shildone explained.
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I am trying to get the answer to two questions from Cal State Fullerton folks:
1. What sort of damage was done to the scoreboard there on Halloween, when there was a pumpkin launching contest? One pumpkin smashed through the scoreboard.
2. Parking was free for this event, we reported. But there will be an $8 charge for parking for Fountain Valley-Edison football there Friday. Why?
Getting that to you as soon as I find out ...
(BTW -- Nothing against pumpkin launching as a science class project. Lots more fruitful than slicing apart dead frogs.)
Last year, there was a five-way tie for first with these teams at 3-2: Edison; Esperanza; Fountain Valley; Los Alamitos and Newport Harbor.
A series of coin flips took Edison and Newport Harbor out of the playoffs (and Newport Harbor had won its final three games, including victories over Esperanza and Los Alamitos, both of which made the playoffs via those coin flips).
Fourth-ranked Fountain Valley wasn't happy with its performance in a 37-32 victory over Newport Harbor on Thursday night. The Barons botched two punts, which led to safeties, and were heavily penalized in the contest.
Quarterback Dominic Ragland and Kyle Middlebrooks played well, each scoring two touchdowns. Check out highlights of the contest and postgame interviews in this video by OCVarsity.com's Jonathan Khamis.
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Fountain Valley sloppy in victory over Newport Harbor
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No. 4 FOUNTAIN VALLEY (7-0, 2-0) VS. NEWPORT HARBOR (4-3, 1-1)
Where, when: Newport Harbor High, Thursday, 7 p.m.
Outlook: There is a lot of excitement about next week’s Fountain Valley-Edison “Battle for the Bell” game – and that’s not good for Fountain Valley. The Barons cannot look past Newport Harbor to their big rivalry game against Edison. Newport is good. The Sailors beat Los Alamitos two weeks ago, handing Los Al its first loss, then got clobbered by a terrific Edison team, 34-6, last week. Edison can make good teams look bad (see “Edison 23, Servite 9” for details).
Parents at both schools are very angry that tickets were all sold, they tell me, before students got a chance to purchase them. This is always a huge game, but is more so this year because both teams are in the top 10 and both are going into this week with 7-0 records. The game is Nov. 6 at Orange Coast College (seating capacity is 7,600 there). It is Edison's home game.
I have calls in, and left messages, to both schools' principals to find out what actually happened with the ticket sales.
Craigslist has listings of FV-Edison tickets -- $40-$55. That's a lot of money for a high school football game (I saw Led Zeppelin for $9).
For the huge Servite-Mater Dei last week, at Santa Stadium (capacity 10,000) both schools had a very intricate, well-thought-out method for distributing tickets. That method will be in the Fryer column, online Thursday afternoon at ocvarsity.com and in the print OC Register on Friday.
Come back for updates on this situation.
All the tickets are gone for the game, which is Nov. 6 at Orange Coast College.
No, they won't move it to a bigger stadium. (The capacity at OCC is 7,600). Cerritos College is taken (OLu-Servite). Cal State Fullerton is cost-prohibitive, and Angel Stadium, to play a high school game in that place, requires weeks of preparation.
Remember, the Angels were eliminated just a couple of days ago.
You will be able to keep up with the game, of course, with ocvarsity.com's live updates. There may be live video, too, from our friends at IBN Sports.
Fountain Valley and Kyle Middlebrooks took over in the second half of Friday night's game against Tesoro, outscoring the Titans, 22-0. Middlebrooks scored three TDs, and the Barons defense forced three turnovers.
Check out highlights from the game and postgame interviews with Middlebrooks and the Barons' coaches in a video by OCVarsity.com's Jonathan Khamis.