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Taking a final look, forward and backward, around Orange County high school sports for the 2013-14 school year:

• Let’s start with a super-early county football preseason top 10 for the fall: 1. Servite; 2. Mater Dei; 3. Mission Viejo; 4. Orange Lutheran; 5. JSerra; 6. Newport Harbor; 7. Santa Margarita; 8. Corona del Mar; 9. Edison; 10. Villa Park. Others considered were Fountain Valley, La Habra, Los Alamitos, San Clemente and Tesoro.

• The email box will be filled with “you forgot about …” and “you still don’t respect …” correspondence.

Mike Marrujo will be in his 34th year coaching Valencia football. He has 264 career wins.

Brock Johnson has an excellent chance of being the Mission Viejo starting quarterback this fall. Johnson is a 6-foot-2, 180-pound sophomore, and he is the son of Mission Viejo assistant coach Bret Johnson and grandson of head coach Bob Johnson. Bret, who played at El Toro, UCLA and Michigan State, is one of the first names mentioned when the discussion is “greatest quarterback in county football history.”

• Brock’s uncle Rob Johnson, also a Mission Viejo coach and El Toro alum, was All-County in football, basketball and baseball and might be the best county athlete seen in 25 years of covering county athletics. DeShaun Foster of Tustin is also in that discussion. People say that Burt Call, Mater Dei’s baseball coach and a three-sport star in the ’80s at Capistrano Valley, might be the best county athlete ever.

• A super-early county boys basketball preseason top 10 for next season: 1. Mater Dei, 2. Edison; 3. Saddleback Valley Christian; 4. Canyon; 5. Sonora; 6. Mission Viejo; 7. El Toro; 8. Orange Lutheran; 9. Santa Margarita; 10. Yorba Linda. Others considered: Corona del Mar; Los Alamitos; Tesoro and Tustin.

• The email box will be filled with even more “you forgot about …” and “you still don’t respect …” correspondence.

• The boys basketball preseason top 10 for 2014-15 will look different in coming weeks as transfer news is gathered.

• Two basketball players who have transferred to Servite are Cameron Griffin and Jacob Hughes. Griffin was an All-CIF guard as a sophomore last season at Brethren Christian where he averaged 19 points and nine rebounds. Hughes, 6-foot-11, played sparingly as a freshman last season at Orange Lutheran.

• More will be known about who transferred, and to where, as the summer boys basketball season progresses. Among the summer leagues and tournaments going on now are a league at Hope International University and the Saddleback Valley Christian Classic 7 tournament at various sites. School basketball websites such as breabasketball.com have summer league and tournament schedules.

• The CIF-Southern Section did not need what would have been an unprecedented fourth Council meeting this week. Leagues accepted the playoff divisions in which they were placed for a variety of sports for a two-year period beginning with the coming school year. Any appeals remaining after recent Playoff Groupings Committee appeals sessions would have necessitated the fourth Council meeting.

• Here is how the Coast View Athletic Association’s 10 schools will be split into the Sea View and South Coast leagues for football: Aliso Niguel, Capistrano Valley, Laguna Hills, San Clemente and Trabuco Hills in the Sea View League; Dana Hills, El Toro, Mission Viejo, San Juan Hills and Tesoro in the South Coast League.

• The Century Conference is an eight-school grouping that, like the CVAA, splits its schools into two leagues with the split being different from sport to sport. For football, the Century Conference has Esperanza, Foothill, Villa Park and Yorba Linda in the Crestview League; Brea Olinda, Canyon, El Dorado and El Modena are in the North Hills League.

• Buena Park won the Big Man Challenge linemen competition at the UCLA/FCA Passing Tournament and Linemen Competition. In the passing tournament, Los Alamitos finished second, behind Narbonne of Harbor City, and Buena Park finished third.

• The best basketball player covered these past 25 years is Stanley Johnson, who graduated this month from Mater Dei. He was the county male athlete of the year as selected by our group at the Register and by the Orange County Athletic Directors Association. Johnson is the most-polished and well-rounded player in county basketball history and he will look handsome in a Lakers uniform when he is done at the University of Arizona.

• Our choice of county female athlete of the year was Santa Margarita swimmer Katie McLaughlin in a close competition with Northwood distance runner Bethan Knights. Both were among the best in the nation at their sports. McLaughlin is a junior.

Lindsey Engel, one of the better swimmers in the history of a county that has produced a lot of Olympic champions, will graduate Saturday. It seemed like she was setting records, a lot of them, for six years at Crean Lutheran. She was our small schools female athlete of the year.

Josh Davis of St. Margaret’s, our small schools male athlete of the year, was a quarterback who also might have excelled playing for a school in one of the county’s large-school leagues.

• Trying to project how small school athletes and teams would do against bigger-school athletes and teams is frustrating when few small school teams get into tournaments with, or schedule nonleague games against, big-school teams.

• So we’re left to conclude that there must be a reason small school coaches are reluctant to take on bigger-school competition. And that email inbox continue to grow.

• We’ll be back to inform and infuriate you about Orange County high school sports in late August.

Contact the writer: sfryer@ocregister.com