PREP NOTES

Santa Ana’s football season ended with a 35-13 loss to Canyon Country Canyon in the first round of the Division I playoffs Friday, but Saint Coach Dick Hill wasn’t feeling disappointed about the way the season went.

“We feel good about what this team has done,” Hill said. “It was an outstanding achievement to do what this team did.”

After opening the season with five consecutive losses, Santa Ana finally defeated Fountain Valley, 17-7, to give Hill his 192nd career victory, an Orange County record. The Saints went on to win five consecutive games and earned an unexpected Sunset League title before bowing to Canyon.

After Friday’s game, Hill, 63, was asked whether he would return for his 27th season of coaching in the county.

“That I can’t answer until my wife (Jackie) and I have talked it over,” said Hill, who coached at Santa Ana Valley from 1959-66, then again from 1970-79, and has been at Santa Ana since 1984.