Prep SCOREBOARD : HOW TOP 10 FARED

1. Esperanza (11-0) beat Santa Monica (5-5-1), 50-14 2. Mater Dei (10-1) beat Quartz Hill (7-4), 34-8 3. Valencia (11-0) beat Gladstone (4-7), 44-0 4. Garden Grove (10-1) lost to University (6-5), 7-0 5. Tustin (10-1 beat Troy (3-6-2), 24-7 6. Irvine (9-2) beat Simi Valley (7-4), 24-7 7. El Modena (9-1) plays chaminade (8-2) tonight 8. Buena Park (8-2-1) lost to Newport Harbor (7-4), 35-14 9. Rancho Alamitos (9-1-1) beat Azusa (6-5), 29-6 10. Dana Hills (7-1-3) beat Buena (8-3), 21-7 TOP PERFORMERS

Billy Blanton completed 11 of 13 passes for 127 yards and three touchdown passes to David Knuff in three quarters to lead Mater Dei to a 34-8 Division I victory over Quartz Hill.

Jason Minici completed 14 of 23 passes for 254 yards and ran eight yards for a touchdown to direct Irvine to a 24-7 victory over Simi Valley in the Division II playoffs.

Mike Jacot rushed for 200 yards and a pair of touchdowns, in Southern California Christian’s 42-6 Division X victory over Hamilton.

LATE HEROICS

Josh Ireland’s 79-yard kickoff return for with 4 1/2 minutes to play lifted Santa Margarita to a 29-22 Division V victory over Colton.

UPSETS

University held previously unbeaten Garden Grove to 170 yards of total offense, upsetting the second-seeded Argonauts, 7-0, in Division VI.

ON DEFENSE

Edison’s defense intercepted Long Beach Poly quarterback Brian Webster three times in the Chargers 13-6 victory over the Jack Rabbits in Division I. John Khamis, who is Edison’s quarterback, intercepted Webster at the Poly 40 and returned it for a touchdown with 9:00 left in the second quarter.

NOTEWORTHY

Savanna clinched a 14-0 Division VI victory over Sunny Hills with a 23-play, 99-yard scoring drive that consumed 11 minutes 31 seconds of the second half.

Switch snapper: Brea-Olinda center Mark Seitz suffered a hair-line fracture in his right hand during practice this week. However, he didn’t let that stop him from playing in the Wildcats’ Division VI playoff game.

Seitz, with his right hand heavily wrapped, used his left hand to snap the ball and played the entire game, a 19-14 loss to Woodbridge.

ODDS AND ENDS

Touch of Class: Four members of the chain gang at Buena Park High School’s playoff game against Newport Harbor in Division VI arrived in style Friday night. Don Brassell, Doug Legg, Erroll Frizzell and Ken Holmes drove into the stadium in a 1961 Rolls Royce limo and donned tuxedos for Buena Park’s first home playoff game in school history.

“We’ve been together for six years and have been through some lean times, so we decided to dress up for the good times,” Holmes said. Unfortunately, the crew’s green cummerbunds didn’t help the cause as Buena Park lost, 35-14.