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 Edison quarterback Matthew Gane celebrates after scoring a touchdown against Centennial of Compton on Friday. The Chargers are 2-0 and have outscored their opponents, 100-16.
Edison quarterback Matthew Gane celebrates after scoring a touchdown against Centennial of Compton on Friday. The Chargers are 2-0 and have outscored their opponents, 100-16.

Edison, the only county team that is 2-0, has outscored its opponents by a cumulative 100-16.

The Chargers scored four touchdowns on six plays in the first quarter of last week’s 51-6 win over Centennial of Compton. Centennial is not the best team Edison will play in nonleague games. Nor was Baldwin of Hawaii, which the Chargers beat, 49-10, two weeks ago.

Neither will be this week’s opponent, Garfield of Los Angeles, which lost by 16 to San Clemente last week.

Edison should be 3-0 when it takes its bye week before these back-to-back nonleague games agaisnt Servite (Sept. 19) and Mater Dei (Sept. 26). A 5-0 record going into Sunset League play would be amazing. And 4-1 would be darned good.

MISSION UNACCOMPLISHED

The largest upset of Week 0 was Mission Viejo’s 18-7 loss to Liberty of Bakersfield.

There are plenty of good programs in the southern half of the Central Valley and Liberty is one of them. The Patriots were 9-2 last year. CalHiSports.com’s state preseason top 50 had Liberty “on the bubble.”

Every first-year varsity quarterback is feeling pressure, so just imagine what Diablos junior Brock Johnson must have been experiencing going into his first game with his grandfather, Bob Johnson, as the head coach and his father, Bret Johnson, one of the county’s all-time great quarterbacks, as offensive coordinator.

Next up for Mission Viejo is an Honor Bowl game Friday at Oceanside High. Oceanside, No. 21 in the state preseason rankings, can pressure the passer and the Pirates’ home stadium can be a challenging location for visiting teams.

Mission Viejo will be strong this year. It just might take a couple of weeks for the Diablos to get there.

EL TORO 51, LA HABRA 35

It was a bad night for the snack bar at La Habra on Friday.

With El Toro and La Habra running no-huddle offenses, nobody dared leave their seats. Both teams ran the hurry-up stuff well.

El Toro was better at it with Trey Tinsley completing 30 of 34 passes for 281 yards and four touchdowns, Taylor Dodds grabbing 10 Tinsley tosses and Kaleb Fossum and Colin Kentros with nine and eight receptions.

La Habra quarterback Eric Barriere threw for 141 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 135 yards and a touchdown. Good numbers, but he sometimes ran it when he should have thrown it, or threw it when he easily could have run for a first down. Barriere is a high school junior. He will get better.

MONARCHY

If you’re going to have a quarterback make his debut against one of the state’s top-10 teams, you’d better have a solid offensive line and an attacking defense.

That’s what Mater Dei had Saturday in its 38-18 thumping of Centennial of Corona, which was No. 9 in CalHiSports.com’s California preseason top 50. (Mater Dei was No. 4.)

Quarterback Jack Lowary had enough time to complete passes to 10 teammates and the Monarchs rushed for 266 yards. That’s a heck of a start for the quarterback and the team.

THE TOP 25

A panel of 10 media members votes in the poll that selects the Register’s Orange County top 10.

Here is how I rank county football teams 1-25 this week: 1. Mater Dei (1-0); 2. Servite (0-1); 3. Santa Margarita (1-0); 4. Orange Lutheran (1-0); 5. JSerra (1-0); 6. Mission Viejo (0-1); 7. Los Alamitos (0-0); 8. Corona del Mar (1-0); 9. El Toro (1-0); 10. Edison (2-0); 11. Tesoro (0-1); 12. La Habra (0-1); 13. Villa Park (0-0); 14. Newport Harbor (0-0); 15. Valencia (0-0); 16. Yorba Linda (0-0); 17. Trabuco Hills (0-1); 18. San Clemente (1-0); 19. Fountain Valley (1-0); 20. Huntington Beach (0-1); 21. Buena Park (1-0); 22. Foothill (0-0); 23. Tustin (1-0); 24. Dana Hills (0-1); 25. Cypress (0-0).

THIS WEEK

Among the many interesting games on this week’s schedule:

• Villa Park-Mater Dei at Santa Ana Stadium, Friday: Villa Park’s first game, and Mater Dei has to avoid a letdown after beating Centennial.

• Foothill at Tustin, Friday: Tustin looks good for this rivalry game after beating Dana Hills last week.

• Chino Hills vs. JSerra at Saddleback College, Friday: Chino Hills beat Hart of Newhall, 63-48, last week.

• Westminster at Garden Grove, Friday: Westminster is a consistently successful program, and Garden Grove has a new coach after a run of excellent seasons.

• Orange Lutheran vs. Centennial of Corona at Oceanside High, Saturday. We’re all going to compare how Lutheran does to what Mater Dei did against Centennial last week.

Contact the writer: sfryer@ocregister.com