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Taking a look around Orange County high school sports:

• Calvary Chapel, still cranking out excellent wrestlers year after year, has a county-leading eight athletes in this weekend’s CIF-Southern Section Masters Meet at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario. With nine place-winners advancing to the state meet, March 7-8 in Bakersfield, Calvary again will have a van full of wrestlers in the state championships.

• An interesting guy to watch for at the Masters is Santa Margarita’s Jeff Holsinger. Having missed almost a month because of surgery to remove some blood that collected under a torn thigh muscle, Holsinger’s first comeback meet was last week’s divisional section championships where he won the Southern Division championship at 220 pounds.

• Also watch for Buena Park’s Jesse Gomez, Southern Division heavyweight champion last week. A challenge for him and everyone else in the division will be Roosevelt of Eastvale’s Nour Abdullatif, who pinned all of his opponents last week in the Northern Division finals.

• Admission for the Masters Meet on Friday and Saturday is $12 for adults and $7 for children and for students with valid student ID. Separate admission is required for each day. Parking is $5 for cars, $10 for RVs.

• For Saturday’s Master Meet, wrestling begins at 10 a.m. Medals matches begin at 2 p.m.

• All-CIF senior guard Sean Harman of El Toro incurred a back injury in the Chargers’ win Tuesday over California of Whittier. El Toro coach Todd Dixon said Thursday he was uncertain of Harman’s availability for the top-seeded Chargers’ 1A quarterfinals playoff game Friday at Perris.

• Harman has been El Toro’s leading scorer in some of its bigger wins, with 26 and 21 points in two South Coast League wins over Mission Viejo. The Chargers are one of the few county teams that could be OK without such a scorer because they generally are a balanced scoring outfit. El Toro’s Tanner Aguera and Jake Lunardi are capable of getting into the 20-point range against Perris.

• Acquiring tickets in advance could make attending one of today’s boys basketball quarterfinal or semifinal games a better experience. Brea Olinda and Servite are selling tickets today for their 3AA semifinal game tonight at Brea. It is anticipated that there will not be tickets available for sale at the door.

• That game also brings together two of the county’s better student cheering sections, “The Den” of Brea and “The Asylum” of Servite.

• County teams are in five of the seven CIF-Southern Section girls water polo finals Saturday at Woollett Aquatics Center in Irvine: Ocean View vs. Segerstrom in the Division 7 game at 10 a.m.; Laguna Beach vs. Newport Harbor in the Division 1 game at 1 p.m.; Troy vs. La Serna of Whittier in the Division 4 game at 2:30 p.m.; Mater Dei vs. Santa Margarita in the Division 2 game at 4 p.m.; and Yorba Linda vs. Palm Desert in the Division 6 game at 5:30 p.m.

• County teams won four CIF-SS girls water polo championships last year: Corona del Mar in Division 1; Santa Margarita in Division 2; Troy in Division 4; and Yorba Linda in Division 6.

• Admission for the CIF-Southern Section girls water polo championships is $10 for adults and $5 for children and for students with valid student ID.

• The county’s smaller private schools have accomplished athletes in a variety of sports. Eastside Christian girls basketball player Allison Siksnus scored 31 points with 13 rebounds Saturday in a 55-37 win over California Lutheran of Wildomar. Eastside lost to Orangewood Academy in the quarterfinals on Wednesday.

• Orangewood’s boys and girls basketball teams are in the Division 5A semifinals. The boys play a home game today against top-seeded Renaissance Academy of La Canada. The girls play a 5A home game Saturday against St. Pius X/St. Matthias of Downey.

• Hey, it looks like Mater Dei’s girls basketball team was not harmed too much by the two weeks off between the end of the regular season and its first Open Division playoff game Wednesday against Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth. Score: Mater Dei 75, Sierra Canyon 28. The top-seeded Monarchs play at fourth-seeded Etiwanda on Saturday in the semifinals.

• People who think last-place teams should not be in the playoffs should be aware that Rosary and Servite finished last in Trinity League basketball, and both advanced to the semifinals in their playoff divisions. Some leagues are deeper and tougher than others, and teams that struggle in those leagues deserve a chance to see what they can do outside of those leagues.

• All five Trinity League girls basketball teams – JSerra, Mater Dei, Orange Lutheran, Rosary and Santa Margarita – advanced to play in Saturday’s semifinal and quarterfinals playoff games. It is a five-team league; St. Joseph of Lakewood, St. John Bosco’s sister school and the school whose basketball team could be assumed to be a Trinity League team, plays in the Camino del Rey League.

• Nine teams in the Orange County boys basketball top 10 remain alive in the playoffs. The only one eliminated is No. 6 Los Alamitos, which lost at Inglewood by two points Tuesday.

• The top eight teams in the county girls basketball top 10 are playing Saturday in quarterfinal and semifinal games. No. 9 San Juan Hills, seeded No. 4 in Division 3AA, lost to sixth-seeded Corona del Mar by two points Wednesday. No. 10 San Clemente was eliminated by fourth-seeded Great Oak of Temecula in 1AA.

• Fullerton baseball coach Marc Patino is on indefinite leave according to Fullerton Joint Union High School District director of human resources Carl Erickson. Tony Gonzales has been promoted from assistant coach to head coach.

• With Toby Howell having announced his resignation as football coach at Western, 2014 will be the first season in a long time that a Howell will not be running the Pioneers football program. Toby in 1996 succeeded his father, Jim, who coached Western from 1979 to 1995. Western has had only six football head coaches since the school opened in 1958.

• The National Football Foundation’s Orange County Chapter has its Scholar-Athlete Awards Banquet on March 10 at Anaheim Convention Center. The high school, community college and Chapman University honorees must be all-league or all-conference first team with a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher. The Chapter has awarded $220,000 in scholarship funds over the past 10 years.

• For more information on the NFF’s Orange County Chapter, including attending the banquet, general membership data and other ways to assist or join the organization, go to nationalfootballfoundation-occhapter.com. Membership benefits include the opportunity to vote for inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Contact the writer: sfryer@ocregister.com