PREP FOOTBALL POLL : Mission Viejo Keeps Top Spot

Mission Viejo picked up where it left off last season, earning six of seven first-place votes to become the top-ranked team in the first Orange County Sportswriters’ Assn. 1991 prep football poll. Mission Viejo finished as the county’s No. 1-ranked team in 1990.

Esperanza, which has won 15 consecutive games over the past two years, earned the other first-place vote and is second in the poll.

The writers’ poll:

Pos. School (League) Record 1. Mission Viejo (South Coast) 1-0 2. Esperanza (Empire) 1-0 3. Mater Dei (Angelus) 2-0 4. Edison (Sunset) 1-0 5. Irvine (South Coast) 1-0 6. Valencia (Orange) 1-0 7. Brea-Olinda (Orange) 1-0 8. Capistrano Valley (South Coast) 0-1 9. El Modena (Century) 1-0 10. Los Alamitos (Empire) 1-0

Others Receiving Votes: El Toro (1-0), Corona del Mar (1-0) and Costa Mesa (1-0).