High School Football: Sage Hill vs. Chadwick

Oct. 7, 2016 9:03 AM PT

Sage Hill (4-2) vs. Chadwick (4-1)

When/where: 7 p.m., Friday at Sage Hill

Key Lightning: Jr. QB William Leong; Sr. WR Miles McCord; So. WR-RB Eddie Pelc; Sr. C-DL Elijah Soto.

Key Dolphins: Sr. RB-DB Ejaay De Vaughn; So. QB Alex Rosso; Sr. DB Ryan Kennedy.

Breakdown: The Lightning have won four of their last five under first-year coach BJ Crabtree…Palos Verdes Peninsula-based Chadwick has won four in a row and is ranked No. 6 in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 eight-man poll…Chadwick’s lone loss was a 62-34 season-opening verdict against Orcutt Academy, which is now ranked No. 8 in Division 1…Leong has thrown for 1,106 yards and 24 touchdowns and rushed for four more TDs…McCord has a team-best 27 receptions for 521 yards and has scored 18 touchdowns…De Vaughn has 945 rushing yards and 11 TDs on 121 attempts, has nine receiving TDs, and has scored 21 of his team’s 30 total touchdowns…Kennedy leads the Chadwick defense with 33 tackles, two sacks and two interceptions…Following this game, Sage takes two weeks off before completing its regular season on Oct. 29 against Animo Leadership in Los Angeles.r

Barry Faulkner

Barry Faulkner is an award-winning writer who covered sports for Times Community News from 1986 until he left TCN in 2017. He was the assistant sports editor; covered UC Irvine, Vanguard University and Orange Coast College; and wrote a periodic column. He became sports editor of the Huntington Beach Independent in 1986, and a full-time Daily Pilot sportswriter in 1990.