“We’ve talked about this since league started,” Costa Mesa senior quarterback Todd Davis said of the cheer. “We’re going to be league champs. We want to make it three in a row, something that has never been done in Costa Mesa history. We are going to try to achieve it.”
The Mustangs (5-3) have two league games left, Friday against Calvary Chapel (4-3, 1-1) and the regular-season finale Nov. 13 against Laguna Beach (3-4, 2-0).
The Laguna Beach game might be a showdown for the outright title.
Costa Mesa’s win, its third straight, propelled it into the CIF Southern Section Southern Division poll at No. 10.
But polls aren’t important to Coach Jeremy Osso, who had his offense twice kneel with the snap after the Mustangs recovered a fumble to take over at the Godinez 13-yard line with 1:14 left in the first half. The Mustangs led, 35-6, at the time.
“I’ve been on that [losing] end and I know how it feels,” Osso said of his sportsmanlike gesture. “The scoring could have gotten out of hand, but there’s no AP top 25 that I’m concerned with here. There’s no USA Today polls ... I mean there is [a national high school poll produced by the newspaper], but we’re not going to be in that one any time soon.”
Seven games into the season and Corona del Mar is struggling to score points.
The Sea Kings lost at Irvine, 26-0, in a Pacific Coast League game Thursday, making it back-to-back league games they’ve been shut out.
Its the first time the Sea Kings have been blanked in back-to-back games on the field since 1985 (a forfeit loss to Calvary Chapel in 2005 came in between shutout losses to Newport Harbor and Northwood).
The Sea Kings (4-3, 0-2 in league), ranked No. 7 in the Southern Division, find themselves in a hole and amid a quarterback controversy.
