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Week 8 High School Football Preview: Corona del Mar vs. Northwood

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When/where: Thursday, 7 p.m. at Newport Harbor High

Key Sea Kings: Sr. QB Nathaniel Espinoza (74 of 115 passing for 1,165 yards, 13 TDs and one INT; 56 carries for 346 rushing yards and four TDs); Sr. WR TaeVeon Le (30 catches for 590 yards and eight TDs); So. WR-S John Humphreys (28 catches for 518 yards and nine TDs)

Key Timberwolves: Sr. RB-FS Alex Aviles; Sr. WR-CB James Mazzeo; Sr. LB Lincoln Cameron

Breakdown: The Sea Kings (6-1, 2-0 in league) are going for their 28th straight Pacific Coast League win when they clash with visiting Northwood (1-6, 0-2) … CdM, ranked No. 5 in CIF Southern Section Division 4, appears on its way to its sixth straight outright league title before joining the Sunset League next year … Northwood has been outscored by a combined 62-15 in two league losses against University and Woodbridge … CdM is coming off a 42-3 win at University last week, and coach Dan O’Shea used four quarterbacks for the second straight league game … The Timberwolves’ first-year head coach is Pete Mitchell, a former assistant at Marina and Huntington Beach who coached at Bakersfield High from 2005-2011.

matthew.szabo@latimes.com

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