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Orange County football had some ugly final scores last week.
Santa Ana 79, Costa Mesa 0.
Mission Viejo 70, El Toro 0.
Los Alamitos 69, Fountain Valley 0.
Orange 62, Saddleback 0.
How does the losing coach of such a game handle it?
El Toro coach Andy Diaz tried to insert some perspective into it for his players.
“I said, ‘Hey, you guys played against that a team that is ranked 15th in the nation,’ ” Diaz said. “ ‘And the great thing is we don’t play a team as highly ranked the rest of the season, even in the playoffs.’ ”
Diaz said there were zero indications that Mission Viejo tried to run up the score.
“It was 56-0 at halftime,” he said. “Mission had their second-string guys start the third quarter. Everyone knows that you’re going to play your starters the entire first half no matter what.
“Mission was just a lot better team than we were. They have a lot of speed on that team.”
Sometimes the winning coach will try to run up the score. I’ve been on the sideline close enough to hear a coach say basically “take that,” in more colorful language, toward the other team’s coach when a touchdown was scored in a game that already was out of hand.
Much of the time the winning coach hates the final score almost as much as the losing coach hates the final score. The winning team will run the most basic offensive plays, but a third-string running back who sees a hole as wide as the 405 Freeway is going to try to score what might be the only touchdown of his varsity football life. And when the opposing team, down six touchdowns, still is throwing the ball a back-up defensive back that makes his first interception is going to try to return it for a touchdown.
Los Alamitos coach Ray Fenton has been on the winning and losing ends of one-sided games.
“It’s miserable on both sides,” Fenton said.
Los Alamitos’ last touchdown against Fountain Valley was scored by senior receiver John Aulenta who had not touched the football all season. He took a lateral and carried it to the end zone.
“That’s a dedicated kid who’s put in four years grinding it out on the practice field,” Fenton said. “He finally gets the ball, under the lights. How do you tell him not to score?”
Diaz said the plan is put the loss to Mission Viejo as far away in the rearview mirror as possible when the Chargers play a against San Clemente this week.
“We’ve got to concentrate on ourselves to make ourselves better,” Diaz said. “My philosophy has always been Monday starts a new week and no matter what you’ve done in the past everyone wants to know what you’re going to do next Friday.”
THE TOP 25
Two big challenges are out there each week for the five media members who vote on the Orange County top 25.
The first is deciding which team should be No. 2 in Orange County, JSerra or Mission Viejo. This week, Mission Viejo is ranked No. 2.
The second is how to sort out the threesome of Edison, San Juan Hills and Tesoro. Edison beat San Juan Hills; Edison lost to Tesoro; San Juan Hills defeated Tesoro.
The way I ranked them this week: Edison at No. 13, San Juan Hills at No. 14 and Tesoro at No. 15.
San Juan Hills beat Tesoro by one point; Edison beat San Juan Hills by 19 points; and Tesoro beat Edison by 11 points. Given that Edison is without first-string quarterback Patrick Angelovic (collarbone) for the rest of the season, maybe the order should be San Juan Hills-Tesoro-Edison.
EXTRA POINTS
El Toro is playing South Coast League games without perhaps its best player, receiver/linebacker Sam Whipple. Whipple tore an ACL during El Toro’s win over Trabuco Hills on Sept. 7. Whipple’s 37 tackles still leads the team and his 21 receptions is second-most on the Chargers. …
The CIF-Southern Section Council at its Tuesday meeting will hear a proposal that would make the summer dead period a 12-day period that would apply to all sports. Currently, the schools and their different sports set their own dead periods. The idea is that a set dead period for all sports would be beneficial for multi-sports athletes who sometimes get very little or zero vacation time. …
St. Margaret’s finished nonleague play 6-1 by beating Santa Fe Christian of Solana Beach 30-14 last seek. The Tartans’ loss was to Grace Brethren of Simi Valley 13-12. Grace Brethren is No. 4 in the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 poll. St. Margaret’s is No. 3 in Division 6. …
Early in the season, it looked like the top three teams in the Garden Grove League would be Loara, Los Amigos and Rancho Alamitos. La Quinta, which finished second last year, still is in that best-three discussion after beating Los Amigos 37-14 last week.
Mater Dei has won 12 consecutive Trinity League games including its 35-0 win over Servite last week. That’s the Monarchs’ seventh win in a row against Servite. …
Segerstgrom kicker Natalie Castro was named the school’s homecoming queen and kicked an extra points for the Jaguars in their 54-13 win over Artesia on Friday.
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