Week 11 High School Football Preview: Fountain Valley vs. Wildomar Elsinore
When/where: Friday, 7:30 p.m. at Huntington Beach High
Key Barons: Sr. QB Nick Welch (120 of 222 passing for 1,937 yards, 14 TDs and nine INTs; 105 carries for 830 yards and 10 TDs); Sr. RB Benn Vallier (103 carries for 763 yards and 10 TDs); Jr. WR-DB Kishaun Sykes (21 catches for 503 yards and four TDs; one rushing TD); Sr. WR Brandon Krause (36 catches for 549 yards and three TDs)
Key Tigers: Sr. RB Isaiah Hobson (79 carries for 484 yards and four TDs); Sr. RB Aiden Portillo (78 carries for 573 yards and four TDs); Sr. LB Alan Miranda (94 tackles, 14½ tackles for loss, six sacks, one INT); Sr. DE Gabe Ramirez (58 tackles, 12 tackles for loss, 7½ sacks)
Breakdown: Fountain Valley (6-4) plays host to Wildomar Elsinore (6-4) in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 6 playoffs … Barons, who shared third place in the Sunset League, qualified for the postseason a year after they went 1-9 … Tigers run the wing-T offense, a rarity these days in high school football, and it has Fountain Valley coach Jimmy Nolan worried having to prepare for it in less than a week … Fountain Valley, which is playing its first playoff home game in nine years, last won a postseason game in 2003 … Elsinore is an at-large entry from the Sunbelt League, which is home to Romoland Heritage, the No. 2 seed in the Division 2 playoffs … Barons faced two Division 2 teams in Edison and Los Alamitos in league and lost by an average of 36 points per game.
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