High School Football Preview: Newport Harbor vs. Los Alamitos

Newport Harbor (5-4, 3-1) vs. Los Alamitos (6-3, 3-1)

When/where: Thursday, 7 p.m. at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach

Key Sailors: Sr. RB Cole Kinder; Sr. MLB Gage Roberson; Sr. WR Levi Hooper; Sr. LT Mike Jarboe

Key Griffins: QB Hayden Smith; Sr. RB-WR-PR-KR Dylan Laurent; RB Keanu Norman; Sr. TE Drew Platt

Breakdown: Newport Harbor and Los Alamitos go into their Sunset League finale tied for second place, and the winner clinches the league’s No. 2 entry into the CIF Southern Section playoffs … Los Alamitos and Newport Harbor trail first-place Edison by a game … Sailors, who missed the postseason a year ago, have won three in a row in league … Griffins will have to slow down Kinder, who has rushed 231 times for 1,727 yards and 24 TDs … Newport Harbor lost to Los Alamitos, 49-0, last year … Sailors missed the playoffs a year ago, when they finished fourth in league, a game back of Los Alamitos … Griffins feature Laurent, an all-around threat.

— David Carrillo Peñaloza