Title in the crosshairs

A win over Marina Friday at Boswell Field would give Edison its first outright Sunset League football championship in 15 years.Members of this year’s Edison High football team were toddlers the last time the school won an outright Sunset League championship.

It was 1990 when the Chargers last won an outright title, the last of six league titles won by the school in a span of 11 years.

This group of Chargers has a chance to make history, as a win Friday over Marina -- in the regular season finale for both teams -- would give Edison the league win.

Edison is 4-0 in the league heading into the 7 p.m. kickoff against Marina (0-4) at Westminster High’s Bill Boswell Field.

Edison shared the 2001 league title with Los Alamitos and the 2003 title with Los Alamitos and Fountain Valley.

“This group of seniors knows how to win,” Edison coach Dave White. “They’ve played on teams here at the school that have been really successful.”

The sophomores, juniors and seniors on the Edison squad combined to post an overall record of 29-1 when they played freshman football during the 2002, 2003 and 2004 seasons. Each of those three freshmen teams went 5-0 and won the Sunset League.

The Chargers (8-1 overall) won their eighth-straight game by blowing out archrival Fountain Valley, 34-0, before an overflow, boisterous crowd at Orange Coast College Friday.

That lopsided win -- the widest margin of victory by a team in the history of the series, topping Edison’s 35-7 win in 1979 -- gave the Chargers no worse than a share of the Sunset title.

The team also regained possession of “The Bell,” which goes to the winner of the heated rivalry.

The Chargers are a game up on Esperanza (3-1), whom they defeated, 34-21, on Oct. 13.

Edison’s defense recorded nine sacks against Fountain Valley, White said, and limited the Barons to 40 yards rushing.

Receiver Thomas Marcin caught touchdown passes of 20 and 35 yards from Brian Shrock, who threw for 247 yards.

“We played really well against Fountain Valley, and it’s great for the seniors to go out with a win against them,” White said.

In another rivalry matchup Friday, Marina played Huntington Beach tough, but the Vikings ended up on the short end of a 14-7 score.

The loss ended a six-game win streak in the series for Marina, which had retained the perpetual trophy that goes to the game’s winner.

Josh Martinez caught a 25-yard touchdown pass from Josh Jordan for the Vikings, who scored for the first time in six games.

Edison has not been ranked No. 1 this late in the regular season since 1981, White said. The 1985 Chargers ended up sharing the No. 1 spot with Long Beach Poly after the two teams tied in the CIF-Southern Section Big Five Conference championship game.

Last year, Edison defeated Marina, 55-0, and leads the all-time series, 26-4-1.

In other games:

TONIGHT

Ocean View (2-6-1, 1-4) vs.

Westminster (7-2, 5-0)

(at Westminster High, 7 p.m.)

Ocean View would like nothing more than to end the season on a winning note against rival Westminster.

The Seahawks are the only team standing in the way of Westminster and an outright Golden West League championship. The run-oriented Lions have won five-straight games and scored 40 or more points in five of nine games.

Last week, the Lions ran past Santa Ana, 42-17. Running back Mitchell Nhep rushed for 231 yards and three touchdowns, and Charles Osgood rushed for 110 more and a touchdown.

One victory during Westminster’s five-game win streak was a 19-14 win over second-place Orange on Oct. 14. Last Friday, Orange pinned a 49-6 loss on Ocean View, whose only touchdown came when Meynard Sy scored on a 95-yard kickoff return in the second quarter.

Last year’s score: Lions 49, Seahawks 0

20051110ipoh4uknCOURTENAY NEARBURG / INDEPENDENT(LA)Edison’s Ceasare Nieto pushes past Fountain Valley defenders in the Sunset League showdown. Edison won, 34-0.