Huntington Beach Roust Mayfair, Enters Bye Week 4-1, Score 48-12 (2025)

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The Huntington Beach football team won its third straight game, knocking off Mayfair 48-12 on Friday at Huntington Beach High School.

By winning their fourth straight game against the Monsoons dating back to 2022, the Oilers improved to 4-1 with their bye week next week. Oilers head coach Matthew Hatchette, who is in year coaching them, said all three phases of offense, defense and special teams played “great” in the win.

A player that shined in all three of those phases was Dylin Bruce, who had an offensive, defensive and special teams touchdown in the win. Hatchette attests Bruce’s success to all the work he’s put in practice.

“He’s worked his butt off on the field. I think all his practice habits have picked up and now he makes those plays in practice, he starts to make them happen in the game situation,” Hatchette said about Bruce.

Huntington Beach’s offense also was sharp for the most part in the win. After not throwing a touchdown pass in the win over Redondo Union, quarterback Brady Edmunds threw three against Mayfair with all of them coming in the first half.

“Up front [with the offensive line] we protected really well, all three of our running backs had good touches and all around we just played great,” Edmunds said.

Bruce said that he has a connection with Edmunds, talking to him every day and strengthening the bond between the two.

“We have a connection, we always built that bond on the field at practice and that’s where it starts,” Bruce said about Edmunds. 

The Monsoons didn’t get their first touchdown of the game until around halfway through the fourth quarter when Elijah Quininez found Chace Driscoll on a 50-yard catch and run touchdown. But the game had already been decided at that point, as a running clock was needed in the final quarter.

Huntington Beach has responded well following its 20-19 loss to Trabuco Hills three weeks ago and has not allowed an opponent to surpass more than 20 or more points in all of their wins. Hatchette said his team “needed that” to learn from it.

“Everybody wants to go 10-0, 9-1, 8-2, but you have to have those lulls during the season and learn from it. It’s not always going to be just trending up and everything’s great,” Hatchette said.

Huntington Beach has a bye next week, but returns to action on Friday October 3 against Laguna Hills to kick off Epsilon League play. Edmunds says the team is going to take it one week at a time and Bruce said the team plans to keep practicing until the Oilers’ next game.

“I feel every single week we have a good practice week, [then] we put it on the field Friday night or Thursday night and as long as we keep that up, I don’t feel like there’s a lot of teams that can stop us,” Edmunds said.