Football Championship

Prep football championship games Friday Corona Centennial (12-1) at Vista Murrieta (13-0), 7 p.m. (FS West) : Centennial is seeking its seventh title in 12 years in the Inland Division final. Quarterback Robert Webber has passed for 3,091 yards and 33 touchdowns. Running backs Tre Watson and Austin Renken have each rushed for more than 1,000 yards. Vista Murrieta's defense, led by Su'a Cravens and Bryce Smith, has given up just 22 points in three playoff victories. Quarterback Nick Stevens led the Broncos to last season's 35-28 victory over Centennial in the Inland Division final.

OPEN DIVISION Corona Centennial (13-1) vs. Harbor City Narbonne (14-0) at Cerritos College, 7:30 p.m. (TWC SportsNet) : After shutting out a high-powered Crenshaw offense last week, Narbonne's highly regarded defense faces its biggest test yet against a no-huddle, fast-paced offense that has lots of weapons. Centennial's powerful offensive line had better be able to block lineman Paulo Lepua and linebacker Keishawn Bierria. Narbonne quarterback Troy Williams will need to make the right decisions on whether to run or pass against an aggressive Centennial defense.

Troy Starr turns 50 in February. How quickly the years have gone by. He was a fiery 25-year-old assistant coach at Carson High in 1987 when the team was upset by Granada Hills in the City Section football championship game. In 1992, he became head coach at Woodland Hills Taft, taking over a program that had a 0-8-1 record the previous season. He lasted 14 seasons and built the Toreadors into a City Section power. He resigned in 2007 to become the director of football operations for Urban Meyer at the University of Florida.

Griffith Amies of Newport Beach Corona del Mar High came within one field goal of setting a state season record, but he couldn't be too disappointed after the Sea Kings' 35-10 victory over Garden Grove in the Southern Section Southern Division final Saturday afternoon in front of 6,870 at Angel Stadium. The Sea Kings forced two safeties and limited Garden Grove to 82 yards rushing. Junior linebacker Alexander Moore set the tone on the first play from scrimmage by returning an interception 30 yards for a touchdown.

There was no doubt in anyone's mind who led Corona del Mar High School to the Division VI football championship Friday night--quarterback Ty Price. All he did was complete 13 of 18 passes for 233 yards, 2 interceptions and a touchdown in the Sea Kings' 17-7 victory at Orange Coast College over defending champion Valencia. He completed passes to 7 receivers, including a 53-yard touchdown pass to Weston Johnson and a 65-yard bomb to John Katovsich to set up a second touchdown.

The lady who pulled her pickup truck behind the stands at East Los Angeles College's Weingart Stadium sold all 96 commemorative Franklin High School championship T-shirts in about 10 minutes. She came prepared to sell, but not sell out. Business was that good. "I was waiting a long time for this," the lady said. So were a lot of other people.

Quarterback Cristian Solano helped deliver the first City Section football championship for San Fernando High in 37 years on Saturday night, running for two touchdowns and passing for three touchdowns in a 42-35 victory over Canoga Park in the Division II championship game at East Los Angeles College. "Party like 1975," read a poster a San Fernando fan was waving in the stands. Solano, a junior, completed 15 of 22 passes for 320 yards. Daemon Thompson had two interceptions and scored a touchdown.

There are many high school football teams, but only a few true football programs. Greg Cicero, who will be at quarterback for Servite at 7:30 tonight in the Division V championship game against El Toro at Santa Ana Stadium, knows the difference all too well. Coaches took one look at Cicero when he enrolled at Servite in 1993 and liked what they saw. At 6 feet 4, he would make a good wide receiver, they told him, and that's where they played him on the freshman team.

Jacksonville (Ala.) State won the NCAA Division II football championship game in its fourth try, beating defending champion Pittsburg (Kan.) State, 17-13, at Florence, Ala.

Quarterback Cristian Solano helped deliver the first City Section football championship for San Fernando High in 37 years on Saturday night, running for two touchdowns and passing for three touchdowns in a 42-35 victory over Canoga Park in the Division II championship game at East Los Angeles College. "Party like 1975," read a poster a San Fernando fan was waving in the stands. Solano, a junior, completed 15 of 22 passes for 320 yards. Daemon Thompson had two interceptions and scored a touchdown.

Welcome back after the off-season from hell. Penn State's torturous timeline, spanning from last November to last week, cast a pall over the sport that could have hardly been fathomed this time last year. Jerry Sandusky's pathetic mug shot, the Freeh Report, Joe Paterno's eradicated legacy and NCAA President Mark Emmert's recitation Monday of unprecedented sanctions have left a football nation dazed and confused. "In one form or fashion it has affected us," Commissioner Jim Delany said in his opening statements this week at Big Ten media days.

Troy Starr turns 50 in February. How quickly the years have gone by. He was a fiery 25-year-old assistant coach at Carson High in 1987 when the team was upset by Granada Hills in the City Section football championship game. In 1992, he became head coach at Woodland Hills Taft, taking over a program that had a 0-8-1 record the previous season. He lasted 14 seasons and built the Toreadors into a City Section power. He resigned in 2007 to become the director of football operations for Urban Meyer at the University of Florida.

With All-City running back Robert Lewis a marked player, South East turned to junior quarterback Jonathan Santos, and he responded with five touchdown passes in the Jaguars' 51-34 victory over Marshall in the City Section Division II championship game Friday night at East Los Angeles College. Santos completed touchdown passes of four and 24 yards to Lewis, eight yards to Christian Quinones, 49 yards to Alex Alvarez, and 71 yards to Ramone Smith. He completed 20 of 29 passes for 317 yards.

Reporting from Eugene, Ore. -- Pac-12 Conference Commissioner Larry Scott opened his state-of-the-league address Friday by saying, "We are very excited to be here … and to have what I know will be a full house, a raucous, loud atmosphere.... That's what we hoped for with this football championship game. " What the conference had also hoped for was a better matchup in its inaugural football title game. Oregon, ranked eighth nationally, rolled to a 49-31 victory over a UCLA team that came into the game with a 6-6 record.

UCLA had everything going its way last Saturday … after its game. The Bruins had stumbled through a 31-6 loss to Utah and were winging west, with players working cellphones and other electronic gadgets for updates on the Arizona State-Washington State game. "I felt bad. I had my head down and then someone came to me and said, 'Arizona State is losing in Pullman,' " linebacker Sean Westgate said. "I went, 'What?' I was so excited. All of us started tracking the game. " By the time UCLA landed, Washington State had finished off a 37-27 victory over Arizona State, giving control of the Pac-12 Conference's South division back to the Bruins — at least temporarily.

Sites have been set for the final two Southern Section football championship games this weekend. The Division IV title game between Goleta Dos Pueblos and San Luis Obispo will be Saturday at UC Santa Barbara at 7:30 p.m. The Division XII final between Van Nuys Montclair Prep and Lancaster Paraclete will be Saturday at L.A. Valley College at 7:30.