The two will wish each other the best in the days leading up to the big game at Orange Coast College.
Swies' Sailors have gotten over Lawson's Sea Kings since their freshman year. The last time CdM beat Newport Harbor, Lawson and Swies were in seventh grade.
The way Lawson is performing (577 yards and six touchdowns through the air), CdM has a shot to end the Sailors' four-game winning streak in the Battle of the Bay. The Sea Kings (3-0) are hitting on all cylinders, while the Sailors have started 0-2 for the first time in 29 years.
Newport Harbor leads the series against CdM, 36-13.
The CIF Southern Section Southern Division football poll might as well be called the Pacific Coast League poll.
Five of the six teams in the Pacific Coast League are ranked in the top 10, with Beckman (1-1) at No. 1, followed by CdM at No. 2, Northwood (0-2) at No. 4, Woodbridge (1-2) at No. 9 and Irvine (1-1) at No. 10.
The only team from the league not in the poll is University, for which former Costa Mesa head coach, Jeremy Osso, is an assistant.
Last season, CdM, Beckman and Northwood reached the semifinals of the Southern Division playoffs. Beckman lost to Garden Grove, 31-30, in the final.
Don't be surprised if this year's finale is an all-Pacific Coast League affair.
When Marissa Booker played at Newport Harbor in the late 1990s, she said the Sailors owned the Battle of the Bay girls' volleyball rivalry against CdM.
Booker is now at CdM as the head coach. The Sea Kings are now the more dominate side.
The Sea Kings went to Newport Harbor Saturday and won, 25-27, 25-22, 25-20, 25-19, marking the second straight year CdM has knocked off the Sailors.
The result didn't affect the Back Bay rivals in their respective CIF Southern Section polls. The Sea Kings (4-0) remained at No. 2 in Division I-A; the Sailors (3-1) No. 5 in Division I-AA.
The other ranked local school is Sage Hill (2-2), at No. 3 in Division IV-AA.
