Bottom Line

Ocean View High football Coach Harold Eggers might want to have a

talk with the school’s schedule maker.

Ocean View, which is off to a promising 2-0 start (both wins coming

at home), will be challenged by a schedule that has the Seahawks playing

their next five games on the road, including their first two Golden West

League games.

That road show begins tonight (7 p.m.) with a nonleague clash with

Century at Santa Ana Bowl.

The Seahawks won’t return home until an Oct. 29 game with Westminster.

Not that playing at ‘home’ means what the word entails: Ocean View

opened the season by hosting Twentynine Palms at Westminster High, then

entertained Garden Grove at Huntington Beach High. In fact, they’ll be

the designated ‘home’ team against Westminster on Oct. 29, even though

the game will be played on the Lions’ home turf, Bill Boswell Field.

‘That’s just the way things worked out this year,’ Eggers said of

the schedule. ‘I don’t think the kids really are aware of that, though.

They just want to play football, and I think that they’ll be fired-up to

be playing at the (Santa Ana) Bowl.’

Historic Santa Ana Bowl could be considered Ocean View’s home away

from home this season: during their five-game road swing, the Seahawks

will play in the Bowl on three occasions, which includes back-to-back

league games with Saddleback and Santa Ana in mid-October.

A total of three Ocean View home games will be played at Huntington

Beach’s Sheue Field.

‘The type of attitude we have is that we can only take things one

game at a time,’ Eggers added. ‘We’re going into each week attempting to

improve from the week before. If we can do that, then we’ll be

successful. And, it doesn’t matter if we’re at home, or on the road.’