Listen to Derry Eads' weekly football picks on Home Field Sports' Friday Football coverage on KVTA 1520 AM:

The Star's prep columnist Derry Eads explains this week's picks today on KVTA 1520 AM Ventura and Homefieldsports.com:

Tyler Ebell, who set a single-season national rushing record as well as county and state scoring records, will have his No. 2 jersey retired during halftime of Ventura High's home game against St. Bonaventure on Oct. 24 at Larrabee Stadium

A Parade Magazine All-American during Ventura's CIF championship run in 2000, Ebell rushed for nearly 4,500 yards as a senior. He was honored with the National High School Heisman Award.

The decision by individual Marmonte League schools to seek to leave the Northern Area for the Foothill Area for the 2010-14 releaguing cycle comes with a gamble and possible twists of fate.

Westlake High senior Brandon Hagy was named today as a  Hewlett Packard Scholastic Junior All-American by the American Junior Golf Association and HP.

The Pacifica secondary should be seeing a lot of bodies coming their way in Friday's non-league football game against Santa Barbara.

After two tough years in the Tri-Valley League, Grace Brethren and Nordhoff have become Division IV-A girls' volleyball powers this fall as members of the Frontier League.

Los Angeles Baptist used three long plays, including a 28-yard TD pass on fourth-and-5, to defeat visiting Santa Paula, 21-14, Saturday afternoon.

The Oct. 31 Tri-Valley League football game between host Oak Park and Oaks Christian has been moved to Agoura High, announced the Oak Park athletic department.

St. Bonaventure jumped two places in the weekly CalHiSports.com state ranking to No. 5.

The Seraphs were rewarded for their decisive 31-14 win over previous No. 5 Crespi (which dropped to No. 15).

St. Bonaventure has a bye this week as it prepares for an Oct. 10 road game against No. 1-ranked Long Beach Poly in the first game between the two schools.

The Agoura High football program has one of the highest scoring offenses in the area.

Behind quarterback Patrick Arias and running back Lucky Radley, the Chargers are averaging 34.3 points per game heading into Friday's Marmonte League home opener against Westlake.

Points don't come quickly out of the gate for Agoura, which has scored only 7 first quarter points in three games. Watch out for the second 12-minute period, however. Agoura has scored 48 points in second quarters.

By virtue of impressive wins over Foothill League programs Valencia and Canyon, Thousand Oaks has moved up to second in The Star's weekly football rankings. See how last Friday's games affected the rest of the rankings in Monday's paper

Carl Thompson, the winningest football coach in Camarillo history, will be honored at next Friday's home game against Ventura. Thompson guided the Scorpions to section championships in 1984 and 1996. Thompson's teams won 109 games in 18 seasons.

For the first time in school history, Pacifica has opened the football season with a 3-0 record. The fast start has put the Tritons on pace to the program's first winning season. Next up for Pacifica is Buena on Friday night. Buena won last year's game 14-6.

Buena boosters, don't bemoan. Just because the Bulldogs are 1-2 is no reason to dispair. Look how Buena has battled two of the county's best teams - Thousand Oaks and Oxnard - in consecutive weeks. If Buena had won its games against weaker opponents, it would have not been better off than raising the level of the program by keeping up with two very good veteran teams.

When Fillmore scored 41 points against Village Christian and 42 against Bishop Diego over the last two weeks, it marked the first time  since 1958 that a Flashes team had scored 40 or more points in consecutive games.

Fifty years ago, Fillmore beat Carpinteria, 59-6, and Lompoc, 53-6, in back-to-back games.

Friday night's football game between St. Bonaventure and Crespi isn't just a matchup of two top 10 state-ranked teams. It can have distinct postseason implications.

There will be five state championship games, an increase of two over the last two years. The focus will be the open division, which will pair the best team from the North against the best team from the South. It allows a smaller school like defending Division III state champion St. Bonaventure a chance to be selected by a committee to the upper tiered game.

Not only must St. Bonaventure win a CIF title to be considered, it must do well in the non-league games. How well St. Bonaventure does against Crespi and nationally ranked Long Beach Poly in two weeks will weigh heavy for St. Bonaventure, should it win the Northern Division title.