Two-minute drill

Huntington Beach High football coach Mike Groscost, who was an

assistant at Costa Mesa for six seasons, said Thursday’s 37-14 Oilers

victory over the Mustangs was filled with emotions.

In addition to fond feelings for the Costa Mesa football program,

Groscost was grieving over the death of his father, Bradley, who

passed away days before.

In honor of Bradley Groscost, Mike Groscost declared the game

“Father’s Night” and invited the dads of all his players to watch the

game from the sideline while wearing jerseys with their sons’

numbers.

* Costa Mesa senior running back Tyler Legg, whose season came to

and end with a horrific injury early in the second game of season

against Corona del Mar, attended Friday’s game in a wheelchair.

Legg had surgery on his right ankle and lower leg earlier in the

week and is in for a long rehabilitation. He will be in a wheelchair

for at least six weeks, Mesa Boys Athletic Director Tim Postiff said.

* Estancia senior Ezequiel Villalvazo, whom Coach Brian Barnes has

called the team’s best player, could also be lost for the season,

Barnes said.

Villalvazo sustained a concussion in the season opener against

Corona del Mar and suffered another concussion in the second game

against Huntington Park.

Barnes said it is unclear whether Villalvazo will gain medical

clearance to play again this season.

* Sage Hill School opened the season with three straight wins for

the first time in school history. This group of players has played

together since they were freshmen, and now it is paying off.

“I think our offensive line all started as freshmen and Don Ayres

and I have been together since we were freshmen,” star running back

Keya Manshadi said. “The line knows when I’ll cut back, Don knows

what I’m doing, I know what he’s doing ... When a team plays together

for four years, working hard and playing as a team, this is what

happens.”

The Lightning have high expectations the rest of the season.

“I want to go 10-0,” Manshadi said. “And then I want to go 4-0 in

the playoffs and win a CIF championship.”

* Costa Mesa’s 20-play, 71-yard touchdown drive spanning the third

and fourth quarters against Huntington Beach consumed 9:27 off the

clock.

On the march, the Mustangs converted two fourth-and-three

situations, one fourth-and-inches, a third-and-eight and a

third-and-three. The drive resulted in six of the Mustangs’ nine

first downs.

* Barnes was able to scout a future opponent and also spend some

quality time with his dad, Los Alamitos Coach John Barnes, as the two

sat together at the Costa Mesa-Huntington Beach game Thursday.

The elder Barnes was their to watch the Oilers, a Sunset League

rival, while his son was boning up on the Mustangs, who the Eagles

will play Sept. 30 in the annual Battle for the Bell.

* One-quarter of the revenue produced by the Marina boosters’

50-50 raffle at Friday’s game against Newport Harbor was donated the

relief effort for Hurricane Katrina.

* Brent Weber, the sports director and anchor at the defunct

Orange County Newschannel from 1997-2001 and also a former CNN sports

correspondent, was the public-address announcer for the Huntington

Beach-Costa Mesa game.

* Corona del Mar seniors Matt Loyd, Matt Burgner and Steve

Hillgren, who accounted for 307 of the Sea Kings’ 359 offensive

yards, were all briefly sidelined by leg cramps during Friday’s 25-18

nonleague loss to Troy.

* The Sea Kings had four third-down conversions in eight tries

against the Warriors, including senior quarterback Colin Wigley’s

16-yard touchdown toss to Hillgren on CdM’s opening drive.