High School Football Preview: Huntington Beach vs. Edison
Huntington Beach (4-5, 2-2) vs. Edison (8-1, 4-0)
When/where: Friday, 7 p.m. at Cap Sheue Field
Key Oilers: Sr. RB-DE Derek Thomas (73 carries for 407 yards and seven TDs; 14.5 sacks); Sr. WR Sean Welsh (20 catches for 184 yards); Sr. QB Dylan McCoy (12 of 36 passing for 130 yards); Soph. LB Josh Gosney (60 tackles)
Key Chargers: Jr. QB Griffin O’Connor (107 of 169 passing for 2,027 yards, 22 TDs and three INTs); Sr. WR Shaun Colamonico (26 catches for 567 yards and eight TDs); Sr. WR-DB E.J. Ginnis (37 catches for 773 yards and nine TDs)
Breakdown: Edison can wrap up its second straight undefeated Sunset League championship in Coach Dave White’s final league game during his 31 years in charge … Huntington Beach is in fourth place in league, a game back of Los Alamitos and Newport Harbor, and it must win to keep its CIF Southern Section Division 7 playoff hopes alive … Chargers, ranked No. 2 in the CIF Southern Section Division 3 poll, are winning by an average of 32.7 points per game in league … Oilers, who are the visiting team, have lost their last two league games by a combined 64 points.
— David Carrillo Peñaloza