Fort Pierce Central, John Carroll Catholic, Sebastian River, Treasure Coast and Vero Beach try to build on season-opening wins.
Worth noting: Fort Pierce Westwood is the defending district champion. Port St. Lucie won its only district title in 1990. With John Carroll and now Pompano Beach dropping out, Suncoast is the only other team, which makes this a critical game for both teams ... Westwood had four turnovers against Centennial last week ... Port St. Lucie allowed four scoring plays of 30 yards or more, including kickoff and punt returns for TDs ... PSL's Andres Munoz had rushing and passing TDs last week while Montavious Yearby rushed for 177 yards .. Tremayne Price had a TD run for Westwood.
Rankings: Vero Beach is No. 6 in Class 8A in The Associated Press state poll and third in 8A and 16th overall by FloridaHSFootball.com.
Last game: Wellington defeated Royal Palm Beach 38-0 to open its 30th season; Vero Beach defeated defending Class 7A state champion Venice 42-20 to open its 92nd season.
Worth noting: Vero Beach has won 44 consecutive regular-season games and can move within one of tying for the second-longest streak in Florida history with a win ... Nick Celidonio passed for 413 yards last week, including three touchdown passes to Demarcus Harris, but the Fighting Indians averaged only 2.2 yards per rush ... Vero Beach's Evian Irving had 15 tackles while Davon Hicks and Jack Karshner had 10. The Indians had 16 tackles for loss ... Vero Beach led 21-17 in the second quarter last year before outscoring the Wolverines 41-7 the rest of the way.
Rankings: Cocoa is ranked No. 2 in Class 4A in The Associated Press state poll.
Last game: Cocoa defeated Palm Bay 35-14; Treasure Coast defeated Lake Wales 54-44.
Worth noting: Treasure Coast set school records for points and combined points in its win against Lake Wales last week ... Sean Miller rushed for three touchdowns for the Titans while Tyrec Thompson scored on a kickoff return ... Cocoa scored the final 28 points after falling behind 14-7 ... The Tigers' Caziah Holmes rushed for two touchdowns while QB Diego Arroyo threw two TD passes to Jamari Williams.
Last game: Fort Pierce Central opened its 49th season with a 19-12 win against Lyman; South Fork opened its 37th season with a 20-6 loss to Jensen Beach.
Worth noting: The teams were scheduled to play last season but the game was canceled because of weather ... Fort Pierce Central has won the past five games in the series ... Fort Pierce Central's Trenton Surloff scored two touchdowns last week, including a key fumble return just before halftime ... Ryan Gross had a touchdown run for the Bulldogs ... Both teams can equal their win total from a year ago — Central was 2-6, South Fork 1-8.
Worth noting: Sebastian River overcame a 13-0 deficit to hand coach Tony Perry a win in his head-coaching debut ... Javian Tomlinson had all three touchdowns for the Sharks, including an 86-yard kickoff return to start the rally ... Eric Williams threw two touchdown passes for Winter Haven last week while Javun Thomas rushed for 118 yards and one touchdown.
Worth noting: Expect a lot of points after the teams combined for 111 in season-opening wins ... Call this a rivalry renewal: Carroll and King's played 29 times between 1976 and 2008 ... Jay Allen, Moose Cheyne and Enrique Crespo had a combined 212 passing yards last week. Allen threw two TD passes, Cheyne one ... Jacob Krauza caught all three touchdown passes for the Rams ... Savion Baker added 129 rushing yards as John Carroll had 453 total yards against Okeechobee.
Worth noting: First of three Brevard County opponents for Martin County. Viera and Melbourne are District 6-7A games ... Martin County's George Johnson pulled off a rare triple last week with rushing, passing and receiving touchdowns ... Nate Wright and Jaheim Mayes had touchdown runs for Palm Bay last week.
Worth noting: Canterbury, from Fort Myers, had its opener postponed to Monday because of weather. The Cougars allowed 261 passing yards ... Canterbury had 172 yards in the first half against Out-of-Door ... St. Edward's QB Michael Mangieri passed for 152 yards and one touchdown last week, but the Pirates finished with only 19 rushing yards ... Will Sternberg had a team-high 10 tackles while LB Ty Redmon had nine.
When/where: 7 p.m. Friday, Wisnoski Field at Wilcher Stadium at Crescent City High School, 2201 South U.S.17, Crescent City.
Worth noting: The Nation Christian Academy is making the 197-mile trip to Putnam County in search of its first touchdown on offense. The Eagles played Victory Christian to a scoreless tie in the first half before the Lakeland school pulled away ... Crescent City led Lecanto 7-0 at halftime before pulling away in the second half behind two touchdown runs from Naykee Scott, who finished with 108 rushing yards.
Series: Lake Wales leads 3-2.
Worth noting: After allowing 453 yards against John Carroll, Okeechobee faces another high-powered offense in Lake Wales, which had 443 yards against Treasure Coast. Johnny Richardson rushed for 177 yards and three touchdowns ... Okeechobee's Veyon Washington had a 72-yard touchdown run on the game's first play and threw a TD pass.