It’s rivalry week

Coveted trophies await the winners of the Huntington Beach-Marina and EdisonFountain Valley battles on Friday night.The eighth week of the prep football season has plenty riding on it for the four local schools.

Three are looking to gain bragging rights for the next year -- and the coveted hardware that goes with victory -- while a fourth is looking to recover from a recent loss.

It’s rivalry week time in the Sunset League. Friday, Huntington Beach and Marina will play for a perpetual trophy, and Edison and Fountain Valley will fight in the latest edition of the Battle of the Bell.

Tonight, old foes and perennial league powers Los Alamitos and Esperanza will face off at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach in a key Sunset battle.

In Golden West League play Friday, Ocean View will attempt to overcome the loss of its quarterback when it takes on a powerful Orange squad.

A look at Friday’s matchups:

Huntington Beach (4-4, 1-2) vs.

Marina (0-8, 0-3)

(at Westminster High, 7 p.m.)

The players know each other well through years of playing local youth sports, and now some of them will be on opposite sidelines. What awaits the victor is the perpetual trophy, which goes to the winning team.

Marina has had ownership of the prized trophy for the past six years.

Huntington is coming off its most impressive victory of the season, a 41-7 thrashing of Fountain Valley.

That margin of victory tied for the most one-sided defeat of the Barons since the Oilers won by the same score in 1966 -- the first year of the Huntington-Fountain Valley series.

Stephen Gabbard rushed for 192 yards and three touchdowns as the Oilers ran wild on the Barons, and Curtis Crandell capped the scoring with a 25-yard interception return in the fourth quarter.

Marina, which is still searching for its first win of the season, will need to find a way to contain that potent Huntington rushing game.

The Vikings will also need to find a way to put points on the board -- they have been shut out the last five weeks.

A win by Huntington will keep the Oilers in the thick of the race for a playoff berth and set up a potential big game Nov. 11 at Esperanza.

But first things first.

“The Marina game is really critical for us, and we aren’t taking it lightly, by any stretch of the imagination,” Huntington coach Mike Groscost said.

“They’ve owned us the last few years, and we’re absolutely going into this game with the intention of getting that trophy back.”

Marina has not won a game since defeating Huntington in the second week of November 2004. In that game, the Oilers turned the ball over five times, twice in the Marina end zone.

The Vikings also have owned the Oilers in this series, which first started 40 years ago. Marina hasn’t lost to Huntington since the 1998 season and leads the overall series, 27-12-1.

Last year’s score:

Vikings 24, Oilers 14

Edison (7-1, 3-0) vs. Fountain Valley (3-5, 1-2)

(at Orange Coast College, 7 p.m.)

The two rivals will duke it out at Orange Coast College before the customary raucous, standing-room-only crowd.

Riding on the line in this one: Edison, ranked No. 1 in CIF-Southern Section Division I, can earn a tie for the Sunset League championship by beating the Barons.

The Chargers took a giant step toward that title last week by defeating previously undefeated Los Alamitos, 27-19. Quarterback Brian Shrock rushed for 211 yards and three touchdowns and threw for 170 more in that win as Edison ran its winning streak to seven games. Two weeks ago, during Edison’s 48-0 win over Huntington Beach, Shrock set new Edison records for career passing yards and career touchdown passes.

Fountain Valley, meanwhile, is reeling from a 41-7 loss to Huntington Beach. The Barons, who opened league play with a 30-0 win over Marina, have been ripped on defense the past two weeks in losses to Esperanza (42-20) and Huntington.

But as Edison’s Dave White knows, records mean nothing when these two teams meet.

“It’s the one game where you can throw records out the window,” said White, Edison’s head coach as well as a former quarterback for the team. “Everyone gets excited for this one.

“It’s one game where all the students come out for, and both teams are playing for a big prize. It’s going to be exciting again.”

Edison holds a 21-14-1 edge over Fountain Valley in the Battle of the Bell, but the Barons have won seven of the last 10 meetings.

Last year’s score:

Barons 21, Chargers 20

Orange (6-2, 3-1) vs.

Ocean View (2-5-1, 1-3)

(at Ocean View High, 7 p.m.)

Ocean View will try to bounce back from last week’s loss to Costa Mesa -- as well as from the loss of quarterback Brandon Price -- when it takes on Golden West League rival Orange.

The Seahawks are coming off a 24-0 setback to Costa Mesa. They played that game without Price, who had become Ocean View’s starting quarterback beginning with an Oct. 7 game against Magnolia. Price, who had enrolled at Ocean View after fleeing Mississippi when Hurricane Katrina hit, has stopped attending the school, Ocean View coach Dean Yoshiyama said.

Yoshiyama said that Price attended practices on Oct. 24 and Oct. 25, but didn’t show up for practice Oct. 26.

“As far as I know, he has gone back home to Mississippi,” Yoshiyama said. “He never actually talked to me about it, but when one of our kids talked with him on the phone the other night, Brandon told him that he was heading back home. That’s all I know.”

Losing Price means the Seahawks will have to prepare for an Orange team that traditionally likes to run the ball. The Panthers, who have won two straight since losing to first-place Westminster, share second place with Santa Ana in the league standings. Orange runs the double-wing T and has scored 35 or more points in a game four times this season.

“They are a really good football team and really well coached,” Yoshiyama said of the Panthers. “They like to grind it out, play smash-mouth, physical football. Our program is moving forward, and we hope to finish the season strong.”

Last year’s score: Panthers 46, Seahawks 720051103ipb52yknNo Caption20051103ipb53kknPHOTOS BY COURTENAY NEARBURG / INDEPENDENT(LA)Huntington Beach running back Stephen Gabbard rushes for the first down as Johnny Olive blocks a Fountain Valley opponent in Friday’s homecoming game. Below, Oilers players congratulate Mitch Roemer (22) on a great play.