Two-minute drill

Corona del Mar High football coach Dick Freeman and Calvary Chapel

Coach Lyle Lansdell are good friends and travel to coaching

conventions together. Their two families also take summer vacations

together.

It was no surprise to see Freeman pull CdM starters after one

series in the third quarter with the Sea Kings leading, 35-0,

Saturday night at Westminster High.

Lansdell, who was Freeman’s offensive coordinator at CdM from

1994-2001, said he wanted to hold the Sea Kings to fewer than 40

points and Freeman appeared willing to oblige.

The Sea Kings wound up with a 42-6 victory.

* The resume of Estancia High Coach Craig Fertig is about as

impressive as a prep coach can have, but even Fertig’s experience --

including five seasons as head coach at Oregon State -- pales in

comparison to his game-night “eye in the sky,” Dave Levy.

Levy, who as the USC quarterbacks coach tutored Fertig as a

collegiate player, spent 20 seasons as an NFL assistant with the San

Diego Chargers and Detroit Lions. He has also coached with the Los

Angeles Extreme in the XFL and the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the

Canadian Football League.

Fertig said Levy, who played on UCLA’s only national championship

football team in 1954, coached 16 seasons at USC, before being named

assistant athletic director at the school.

Levy said he attends Estancia games and talks with Fertig over a

headset, suggesting things and pointing out the opponent’s schemes

and tendencies.

“I’d love to be there for every practice, but I live 55 miles

away,” Levy said Friday night before the Eagles’ 21-14 Golden West League triumph over Ocean View at Newport Harbor High.

“[Levy] makes me a lot calmer,” Fertig said. “If I start going off

on a [strategic] path I shouldn’t, he reels me back in.”

* Newport Harbor High has started 12 seasons with a 5-0 record. In

those seasons, the Sailors, who began this season 5-0, but tied

Foothill, 10-10, Friday in their Sea View League opener, have failed

to win the sixth game nine times, including eight losses.

Friday’s stalemate is only the third tie for Newport during Coach

Jeff Brinkley’s 19-year tenure.

* Sage Hill School’s 62-point output in Friday’s 43-point drubbing

of Silver Lake, in the school’s first home night game, was easily the

program’s single-game scoring record.

The previous high had been 42 points, accomplished twice.

Through the first eight games of last season, the Lightning had

produced only 63 points and they finished the 1-8 campaign last fall

with just 77 total points.

This season, Sage (5-1), has scored 217 points, while allowing

only 67.

* The Mustangs utilized the speed of junior wide receiver Evan

Hunter in their 27-14 loss to Saddleback Friday at the Santa Ana

Bowl. Hunter didn’t catch any passes but he carried seven times for

31 yards.

Most of his yards came on reverses, often taking the second

handoff of the play.

“[The Roadrunners] were overplaying us on one side, so we had to

go the other way and counter,” Mesa Coach Tom Baldwin said.

* Costa Mesa junior tailback Tyler Legg accounted for slightly

more than 50% of the Mustangs’ total offense (276 yards), with his

139 rushing yards on 26 carries.

In the last two games, Legg has carried 50 times for 323 yards, an

average of 6.5 yards per attempt.

* Mesa senior tight end Jeff Waldron had a season-low one catch

for 18 yards, but the Mustangs can’t be faulted for not trying to get

him the ball.

The Roadrunners covered the 6-foot-3, 215-pounder tight, often

double-teaming Waldron.

“[The Roadrunners] did a very good job covering Jeff,” Baldwin

said. “We were forced to go to Jeff at the end and it worked.”

Waldron’s lone catch was an 18-yard TD.