GAMEBUSTERS

High school football plays of 30 yards or more

92 – Dillon Norton (Corona del Mar) kickoff return for touchdown

57 – Dillon Norton (Corona del Mar) punt return for touchdown

48 – JB Green (Newport Harbor) kick return

37 – Jason Moreno (Estancia) kickoff return

37 – Michael Helfrich (Newport Harbor) kick return

36 – Noah Molnar (Corona del Mar) touchdown pass from Mitch Sands

34 – Mitch Sands (Corona del Mar) run

GAMESTOPPERS

Top defensive plays

 CORONA DEL MAR – Senior Noah Molnar blocks a punt and senior Will Ham recovers the loose ball and returns it to the Troy 31-yard line to set up a short touchdown drive ... After a mishandled punt snap, junior Alex Swigert recovers the loose ball at the Troy five-yard line ... Senior strong safety J.D. Abbott breaks up a pass attempt by nearly intercepting ... Senior cornerback Dillon Norton saves a touchdown with a tackle at the two-yard line and CdM eventually makes a goal-line stand ... Swigert, an inside linebacker, leads the way on a stop that includes Abbott for a one-yard loss on the aforementioned goal-line stand ... Ham recovers a muffed punt reception ... A blitzing Swigert hurries quarterback into throwing an incomplete pass ... Swigert, blitzing again, records a 10-yard sack ... Senior inside linebacker Dutch Lamons recovers a fumble at the Troy 20 to set up a touchdown ... After senior end Brad Dupuie and junior outside linebacker Justin Tam both slow a ballcarriers progress in the backfield, senior outside linebacker Tyler Haly wraps up running back for a 13-yard loss ... Tam halts a run for a one-yard loss ... Senior noseguard Dan DiChiro forces a fumble and Lamons recovers to set up a TD ... Lamons drops a back for a one-yard loss ... Norton breaks up a pass attempt on which junior Michael Borchard also provides blanket coverage ... Senior end Ben Noe makes the first hit on a four-yard sack ... Ham bats down a pass at the line ... DiChiro recovers a fumble ... Sophomore end Jimmy Roney recovers a fumble at the Troy 11 to set up a TD.

 ESTANCIA – Senior cornerback Jason Moreno stops a running play for no gain ... Sophomore end Omar Gutierrez sacks the quarterback for a five-yard loss ... Senior tackle Jose Padilla blocks an extra-point attempt ... Moreno returns an interception 27 yards ... A big hit by Moreno causes an incomplete pass ... Junior linebacker Josh Dominguez surges forward to halt ballcarrier for no gain ... Senior linebacker Luis Quintana breaks up a pass attempt ... Sophomore linebacker George De La Torre snuffs a run for a six-yard loss ... Dominguez recovers a fumble ... Senior end Freddy Garcia recovers a fumble ... Dominguez stops a run play for a two-yard loss on third-and-one ... Gutierrez records a six-yard sack.

 NEWPORT HARBOR – Senior outside linebacker Cecil Whiteside deflects a pass … Senior Michael Helfrich twice tackles punt returner for no gain … Senior linebacker Ned Lyon records a 10-yard sack … Lyon drops running back for a one-yard loss … Senior defensive back Jason Jacobi intercepts a pass … Senior linebacker Nick Svendsen stops a run for no gain … Svendsen stuffs running back for no gain … Whiteside blocks an extra-point attempt … Senior end Scott Ward and sophomore defensive lineman JB Salem stop running back for a one-yard loss.

 COSTA MESA – Senior cornerback Manny Gomez recovers a fumble … Junior outside linebacker Nick Blucker returns an interception 38 yards to the opposition’s 18 … Blucker drops running back for a two-yard loss … Senior cornerback John Galvin intercepts a pass … Gomez makes a touchdown-saving tackle on Costa Mesa’s 18-yard line.

— From staff reports