What does Hart High quarterback Davis Delmatoff...

What does Hart High quarterback Davis Delmatoff have in common with quarterbacks in the Northwest Valley Conference?

Not much.

Delmatoff has 17 scoring passes. Discounting Chatsworth quarterback David Muir, the remaining seven starting quarterbacks in the conference have combined to throw 13. Include Muir and the total rises to 20. Seven of the eight starters are averaging fewer than 100 yards a game through the air.

El Camino Real quarterback Ryan Venturine has to be the hungriest of the lot. Venturine had two sure touchdown passes dropped in the opener and has yet to connect for a score, even though he leads area City Section quarterbacks with 86 attempts.

But the aerial attack of ECR is not the only one that needs CPR. Only four of the 17 area City quarterbacks have more than three scoring passes though five weeks.

Offense: Saugus senior quarterback Bobby Cowan has more touchdown passes through five games this season (11) than he did in 11 games last season (10). Saugus receiver Bobby Rodriguez caught a 90-yard touchdown pass from Cowan in the fourth quarter of Saugus’ 34-3 nonleague win over Santa Paula last week. It is believed to be the longest pass completion in school history. . . . Faith Baptist wingback James DeCarriere has touched the ball 38 times on offense and has scored 16 touchdowns--a 42% rate.

Newbury Park quarterback Keith Smith’s school-record 397 yards passing against Simi Valley ranks second among single-game performances in the Ventura County record book. Joe Davis of Hueneme passed for 409 yards in 1971. Simi Valley’s Eric Bennett set a school record with 358 yards passing against Newbury Park, breaking his own mark of 312 yards set last season against Camarillo. Bennett also tied his own school record with four touchdown passes.

Sylmar’s ground game, the most productive among area City teams, is averaging eight yards an attempt, 252 yards per game. The combined average of the Spartans’ main backs--Ibn Bilal (11.8), Tyrone Crenshaw (8.7) and Gabriel Rodriguez (7.8)--is 9.3. That would make most coaches ecstatic but not Sylmar’s Jeff Engilman. “I just wish we could pass better.”

Don DiDomizio, a junior quarterback for Rio Mesa, leads the Spartans with 549 yards rushing. Spartan running back Junior Liufau, also a junior, has rushed for 548 yards.

Receiving: Leodes Van Buren of Newbury Park tied a Ventura County record with 15 receptions in a 40-35 victory over Simi Valley. Van Buren, who totaled 183 yards in receptions, tied the record set by Matt Young of Santa Clara, who had 15 against St. Bonaventure in 1988.

Simi Valley’s Bryan Kalbfus, who caught touchdown passes of 60, 61 and 50 yards against Newbury Park, set a school record with 186 reception yards in six catches. Kalbfus’ three touchdown receptions tied the school single-game record set by teammate Tom Herman last season.

Ten players caught at least one pass in the Simi Valley-Newbury Park game. Van Buren, Jason Toohey and Jason Tucker of Newbury Park, along with Herman, Kalbfus and Aaron Whitley of Simi Valley had a combined 47 receptions for 686 yards.

Defense: Crescenta Valley’s Victor Huezo leads the team with 52 tackles, including 11 solo. . . . Hart High, which has two shutouts, has allowed the fewest points in the area (19). Sylmar (4-0), which has two shutouts in its past three games, has outscored opponents, 128-21.

Miscellaneous: Rio Mesa finished its 41-20 loss to Ventura without being assessed penalty yardage. The Spartans were flagged once for a personal foul, but the Cougars also received a personal foul on the same play that offset the penalty. . . . Birmingham (3-1) is one point shy of being undefeated. The Braves’ 30-29 loss to Reseda is their only blemish. . . .

Bell-Jeff has won twice despite scoring only two offensive touchdowns this season. The Guards have won two in a row for the first time since Oct. 10-17, 1987, when they beat Cathedral and Pater Noster.

The four Mid-Valley League teams (North Hollywood, Canoga Park, Monroe and Grant) hold down four of the bottom five positions among the area’s City Section offenses. . . . Verdugo Hills (1-3-1, 1-1) has won only one game yet sits atop the Northwestern League standings.

Village Christian’s Ignacio Brache set a school record Saturday with seven extra points.

Newbury Park has made 10 of 19 two-point conversion attempts. Toohey has caught four conversion passes.

Girls’ volleyball: The move from middle blocker to outside hitter has been a profitable one for L.A. Baptist senior Sarah Rameson, as well as her setter, senior Jill DeRuyter. Rameson set a school record with 32 kills last week in a five-game win over Maranatha, breaking the standard of 23 set by Andrea Lucadau in 1989. DeRuyter, who came back to the program after sitting out the past two seasons, set a school assist mark with 36.

Water polo: Nordhoff junior David Ford is leading all Ventura County players in scoring with 61 goals in 14 games.

Regional Football

Top 10 Selected by sportswriters of The Times

Lst. Rk Wk Team League Record 1 1 Hart Foothill 5-0 2 2 Saugus Foothill 4-0-1 3 3 Sylmar East Valley 4-0 4 4 Crespi Del Rey 5-0 5 5 Ventura Channel 4-1 6 6 Glendale Pacific 5-0 7 7 Newbury Park Marmonte 4-1 8 NR Crescenta Valley Pacific 5-0 9 10 Canyon Foothill 4-1 10 NR Oxnard Channel 4-1

NR--Not ranked

Statistics complete through Monday