The Edison homecoming halftime theme was based on the video game "Super Mario Bros." Edison looked like Mario after eating the one-up mushroom.
"We were pretty confident," Edison Coach Dave White said. "We have a lot of seniors who felt like maybe we should have won last year, and we had a great off-season. We respected the heck out of [Servite] and really felt like they were the No. 1 team, but we were really confident. We don’t feel like this is an upset. We felt like we could play with them, and our kids really played well.
"A lot of kids stepped up and had their best games tonight. We told them big-time players make big-time plays in big-time games, and I think we had a lot of kids do that tonight."
The Chargers (4-0) were equally proficient through the air, where quarterback Matt Viles threw a four-yard touchdown pass to fellow senior Jeff Trojan and also ran it in himself from a yard out, as well as the ground, were senior running back Wade Houston kept his legs moving all night long and rumbled to 108 yards on 22 carries. Houston also scored on a two-yard touchdown run midway through the third, giving Edison a 10-6 lead after the team trailed at halftime.
"The offensive line made big holes and I just found the hole," Houston said. "Anybody could have done that, I feel. Our coaches just had us real prepared for this game. I thought we were going to go more to the air, but after I broke one, we just started moving the ball more and more."
The touchdown pass to Trojan, which gave Edison its 23-9 lead with 5:28 left in the game, was set up when Viles found senior Dylan Leener on a 52-yard reception over the middle. Viles finished with 231 yards passing.
Trojan dropped a couple of passes earlier in the game, but he finished with six catches for 63 yards — all in the second half.
