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RIVALRY LIVES: Though some schools played Thursday,...

By Jerry Hicks, Tom Hamilton and Chris Foster

RIVALRY LIVES: Though some schools played Thursday, tonight kicks off the first big weekend of high school football, with 27 games involving Orange County teams. . . . Among them: the traditional rivalry between Mater Dei and Servite. But this game--to be played in front of as many as 10,000 fans at Cal State Fullerton--will have one difference: There’s no league race involved. The 30-year-old, all-Catholic Angelus League disbanded after last season, with Mater Dei moving to the South Coast League and Servite to the Sunset.

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Chris Foster

Chris Foster is a former sports writer for the Los Angeles Times who covered UCLA football and basketball, USC basketball, the Kings and the Ducks. He grew up in San Clemente, arriving long before Richard Nixon came to town. As a teen, he surfed, played football and basketball, and fell in love with sports journalism. Foster died Dec. 13, 2023.

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