Two-minute drill

Sage Hill School has scored more than 30 points in each of its four

football victories this season. After a 31-6 win over Viewpoint

Friday, the Lightning have already scored 156 points this year, more

than doubling the 77 they posted the entire 2003 season.

In its inaugural season, Sage Hill scored 140 points.

* Garden Grove dedicated the rest of the season to Louis Gonzalez,

a senior tight end and defensive end who died Oct. 1 from an ongoing

heart condition.

Argonauts Coach Ron Vander Sluis said Gonzalez was a reserve last

season and was not given clearance to play this year because of his

heart condition. But Gonzalez was always present at practices and

games to lend support to his teammates.

Garden Grove players will wear Gonzalez’s number 86 on their

helmets the remainder of the season.

* The Estancia team bus arrived late to Friday’s game at Garden

Grove due to traffic. The Eagles did not begin pregame warm-ups until

6:25 p.m., 35 minutes before kickoff and about 25 minutes after teams

typically begin to warm up.

Coach Craig Fertig said his team was in its hurry-up offense just

to get its stretching done.

Defensive coordinator Dave Olsen said the abbreviated pregame left

the team “a bit discombobulated.”

The Eagles came out flat and trailed, 27-7, in the second quarter

of an eventual 41-24 loss.

* Sage Hill’s three-game winning streak is the longest in school

history. In the three-year history of the varsity program, the

Lightning have won a total of eight games.

* Tom Baldwin’s inaugural win in his second stint as head coach at

Costa Mesa -- a 38-24 triumph over Santa Ana -- is also believed to

be his first against a Santa Ana program he guided for 10 years

(1965-74).

Baldwin guided the Mustangs from 1984-91, but they didn’t face

Santa Ana during that span.

He said Friday’s game didn’t stir strong emotion.

“It has been a long time [since coaching the Saints],” Baldwin

said.

* Newport Harbor High’s 28-14 victory at Mira Costa Friday was

accomplished on a field that included several areas with only

sporadic tufts of grass.

“I told our kids ‘If anyone should be prepared to play on a bad

field, it’s us,’ because our practice field is so bad,” Sailors Coach

Jeff Brinkley said.

* Estancia’s opponent this week, Ocean View, should have little

trouble compiling a detailed scouting report on the Eagles. Ocean

View’s co-head coach, Vern Vander Sluis, is the brother of Garden

Grove head man, Ron Vander Sluis.

* Newport Harbor has overcome an outbreak of injuries

unprecedented in Brinkley’s 19 seasons at the helm.

Before kickoff Friday, Brinkley noted that of the 11 members of

the starting defensive unit from spring practice, only five started

against Mira Costa.

* Costa Mesa junior cornerback Tony Krikorian broke up a pass and

recovered a fumble while playing with two high-ankle sprains.

Krikorian usually lines up at receiver, but Baldwin decided to use

him solely on defense. Sophomore Cody Waldron filled in at receiver.

* Costa Mesa senior Jeff Waldron continued to sparkle at tight end

and linebacker. Waldron, the 2003 Newport-Mesa Defensive Player of

the Year, caused one fumble and batted away two passes on defense.

He caught four passes for 50 yards, including a 5-yard lob from

quarterback Ryan French with four seconds left in the first half that

upped Mesa’s lead to 24-6.

“[Waldron] brings everything,” Krikorian said. “He is a beast.”

Another would-be Waldron TD reception in the second quarter was

nullified by a holding penalty.