WHAT WILL SEASON BRING?

Byline: Gerry Gittelson Staff Writer

With football here, expect to see a little of everything

Bound to happen this football season:

--Hart's 22-game winning streak will end with an opening loss Friday at powerful Los Alamitos of Anaheim. But the Division II Indians, rebuilding with inexperienced quarterback Sean Norton and a low-key supporting cast, eventually will win a fifth consecutive Southern Section title.

--Valencia's Charles Burnley will score touchdowns of 60 yards or longer on a run, a reception and a kickoff return - all in the same game.

--Canyon will go from last year's 3-7 record to 7-3 during the regular season, causing school administrators to wonder why they didn't rehire coach Harry Welch sooner.

--Valencia will have problems in its opener against Bishop Amat of La Puente because four starters are serving one-game suspensions for disciplinary reasons. But the Vikings will continue their trend of dominating teams they're supposed to beat and hang tough with everyone else - except Hart.

--All the hype Burroughs of Burbank coach Keith Knoop is creating about his improved team won't mean a thing: All four Santa Clarita teams will defeat the Indians, who won't make the playoffs.

--By the end of the year, Hart's Todd Wilson will be among California's reception leaders. But like so many previous Hart receivers, he'll get overlooked by college recruiters.

--Kicker Will Simons will convert 60 PATs for Hart, and his only miss will be because of a fumbled snap.

--Valencia's Alex Gottlieb and Hart's Chris Piligian will be the first Foothill League offensive linemen in several years to sign Division I college scholarships.

--Receiver/defensive back Ryan Wolfe, only the second sophomore two-way starter at Hart during coach Mike Herrington's 14-year tenure, will be the Foothill League's brightest young star.

--A big portion of the $30,000 Canyon High raised with its Jay Leno concert over the summer will go toward medical costs. The hard-luck Cowboys, who lost a dozen players to season-ending injuries last year, are hurting again with receiver Chris Butler (leg) out for the season and linebacker Andrew Shantz (ankle) also out indefinitely.

--Three-year starting quarterback Chris Ahlheim will enjoy his best season for Saugus. But out-of-town newspapers will continue to spell his name wrong.

--Saugus will score on a seven-play, 93-yard drive, all on passes from Ahlheim to Kevin Estes, his best friend on and off the field.

--As always, no one will execute the quarterback sneak better than Hart.

--New coach Garrick Moss of Santa Clarita Christian, 0-9 last year, will be hailed as a savior after the team's opening victory over Hesperia Christian on Sept. 21.

--Valencia receiver Kevin Crane, formerly of Crespi of Encino, will make the biggest impact of any transfer.

--Its cool new helmet logos will remain the best thing about Burbank, which will go winless in the Foothill League yet again and finish 1-9.

--Hart's Cody Kase will emerge as the best sub 200-pound linebacker we've seen in a long time.

--By the final week of the regular season, Saugus, Canyon and Valencia all will be battling for second place in the ultra-competitive Foothill League - and the probable home playoff seed that goes with it.

--Every one of junior Nathan Longshore's male classmates at Canyon will wish they were him: a strapping 6-foot-4 quarterback who eventually will be recruited by universities such as USC and UCLA.

--The 50 or so frosh football players who never get into the games on Thursdays will be in heaven during five ''B'' games on Saturdays.

--An Internet poster named ``Hart Dad'' will remain one of the area's most knowledgable, insightful - and anonymous - analysts of high school football.

--In Week 4, Birmingham of Lake Balboa will become the latest in a series of overhyped City Section teams to be beaten decisively by Hart.