Press-Telegram previews of this week’s top high school football games

The Press-Telegram previews the apical precocious schoolhouse games successful the Long Beach country this week.

THURSDAY

Camino Real League

St. Genevieve (7-0) astatine St. Pius X-St. Matthias (7-1), 7 p.m.

The Warriors person scored astatine slightest 40 points successful each outing but the nonaccomplishment to St. Anthony, and they’re streaking into this title-game decider with St. Genevieve, outscoring their past 3 opponents, 175-6, down QB Dieter Barr and do-it-all WR/DB/KR Jordan Shaw. The Valiants won the outpouring meeting, 40-0, and person conceded conscionable 75 points portion posting 3 shutouts. They’re averaging astir 350 rushing yards per game, led by Camdan McWright, who gains 14 per carry.

FRIDAY

Moore League

Lakewood (3-5) vs. Compton (2-5) astatine Compton College, 7 p.m.

The Lancers caput to the CIF Southern Section playoffs with a triumph here, which would nonstop them into adjacent week’s league finale against Poly astatine 4-1, a testament to the enactment erstwhile Lakewood commencement Justin Utupo has done successful his archetypal play successful charge. Junior QB Brayden Downen has grown immensely since August, and he’s amassed 2,113 yards, 1,790 of them connected 59 percent passing. Compton with a triumph (and different implicit last-place Cabrillo) tin forge a three-way necktie for third, with Jordan besides successful the mix, starring to a tiebreaker.

San Gabriel Valley League

Paramount (2-5) astatine Dominguez (6-2), 6 p.m.

The Pirates, winners of the past 3 SGVL autumn titles and Division 4 semifinalist 2 years ago, haven’t missed the playoffs since 2010, caput manager Matt Howard’s archetypal year. Now they’re successful must-win territory against a foe that hasn’t played a choky crippled each season. Dominguez, led by QB Jordan Ford, slot Ormanie Arnold and FS Takhari Carr, has blown distant 5 foes and mislaid large to Warren and Downey aft a competitory opening-game triumph implicit Peninsula. The Dons’ dynamism could triumph the this third-place decider (and their archetypal playoff crippled since 2015), but if it’s arsenic adjacent arsenic the outpouring gathering — a 21-19 Dominguez triumph that unveiled a caller league scenery — however they grip that unit could beryllium decisive.

Trinity League

St. John Bosco (7-1) vs. Santa Margarita (5-3) astatine Saddleback College, 7 p.m.

There’s a wide spread betwixt the Trinity League’s 3 nationalist powers and the everyone else, truthful expectations are that Bosco — No. 2 oregon 3 successful the authorities and No. 3, 4 oregon 5 successful the country, depending connected the outlet — volition grip the Eagles, who mislaid by 21 to Servite and 53 to Mater Dei. Santa Margarita, seventh successful Calpreps’ authorities rankings, has a dynamic passing crippled down inferior QB Jaxon Potter, who has thrown for 2,103 yards and 18 TDs but was conscionable 37 of 86 for 314 yards, a TD and 3 INTs against the Friars and Monarchs. Rayshon Luke is coming disconnected a career-best 128 yards (on 12 carries, 1 shy of his vocation high) successful the Braves’ triumph implicit Orange Lutheran.

Suburban League

Mayfair (7-0) astatine Norwalk (6-3), 7 p.m.

The Monsoons tin clinch their 5th consecutive league rubric with a triumph implicit rising Norwalk, which couldn’t enactment with La Mirada past week and volition conflict to halt an electrical onslaught led by RB Nick Adimora (1,445 full yards, 21 TDs) and QB Evan Tomich (1,119 yards, 59.6 completion rate). Mayfair’s quality to dilatory down the Lancers’ double-wing, arsenic La Mirada did, could beryllium key.