Road gets tougher for Marina

There is no respite for the Marina High football team.

The third week of the prep season will send the Vikings to Mission

Viejo on Friday to face perhaps their stiffest nonleague challenge in

a demanding nonleague schedule among Orange County teams, when they

face the Diablos.

Kickoff at Mission Viejo High is set for 7:30 p.m.

Marina suffered its first loss of the season last week in a 23-14

road loss to CIF Southern Section Division VI power Newport Harbor.

The Vikings now take on a Mission Viejo squad that is the

defending Division II champion. The Diablos ran their 2002 record to

2-0 and overall win streak to 16 games last Friday by defeating Mater

Dei, 21-19.

Mission Viejo beat Mater Dei behind a powerful rushing attack that

was led by Brandon Johnston, who ran for 123 yards and a pair of

touchdowns on 19 carries.

The Diablos will be taking on their third consecutive Division I

foe to begin the season, and are looking to go 2-0 against the Sunset

League.

In week No. 1 of the prep season, Mission Viejo drilled Marina’s

Sunset League rival Fountain Valley, 48-0. Six different Diablos

scored in that game.

The schools did not meet last year.

In other prep games on Friday:

Capistrano Valley (0-2) at Huntington Beach (1-1)

(at Sheue Field, 7 p.m.)

Both the Cougars and Oilers will try to rebound from double-digit

defeats when they clash at Sheue Field.

Capistrano Valley was clocked for the fourth straight time by

Edison, which rolled up nearly 500 yards of offense in a 44-20

victory last Friday.

The Cougars were also beaten, by Aliso Niguel, 26-15, in the first week of the season.

Running back Shea Handa, who scored twice on runs of 6 and 61

yards against Edison, leads Capistrano Valley in rushing with 146

yards and three touchdowns.

Huntington Beach, which began the season with a stirring, 35-29

win over Los Amigos, suffered its first loss in a 35-0 defeat to

visiting Charter Oak.

The Oilers turned the ball over four times in that loss, three

coming on interceptions, and were shut out for the first time since

Esperanza pinned a 14-0 defeat on Huntington Beach in the seventh

week of the 1999 season.

Last year’s score: Capistrano Valley, 18, Huntington Beach 17

Century (2-0) vs. Ocean View (0-2)

(at Westminster High, 7 p.m.)

Ocean View will be looking to win its first game of the season and

end a losing streak at six games overall when they take on the

Centurions at Westminster High’s Boswell Field.

The Seahawks fell just shy of tying Tesoro in the closing minutes

of last Friday’s game, a failed two-point conversion attempt leaving

them with a 16-14 defeat.

It was a historic win for Tesoro, which is playing its first

season of varsity football.

Ocean View will go up against a Century team that used a four

touchdown second half last weekend to defeat Estancia, 35-7.

Quarterback Ronnie Rosas threw a pair of touchdown passes and Myles

Ramsey had an 88-yard kickoff return for another score as the

Centurions ran their record to 2-0.

With those two wins, Century already has surpassed last year’s win

total.

The Centurions were 1-8 in 2001, one of those eight losses coming

to Ocean View.

Last year’s score: Ocean View 26, Century 8