Four Garden Grove League football teams advanced to the second round of the playoffs.
That is a good news/bad news situation. The bad part of it is finding home fields for all of them for the second round.
Three of the four Garden Grove League teams have home games in the CIF-Southern Section’s second round: Garden Grove; Rancho Alamitos; and Santiago. Los Amigos is the visiting team when it plays Canyon.
Garden Grove and Santiago use Jason Field, on the Garden Grove campus, as their home fields. Rancho Alamitos uses Bolsa Grande High.
The plan as of Saturday was that Rancho Alamitos would play at Bolsa Grande for its second-round game against Westminster on Friday, Garden Grove would be at Jason Field on Friday to play Brea Olinda, and Santiago would be at Jason Field on Saturday to play El Modena.
El Modena would have to agree to a Saturday game before the game can be scheduled that day. That might not happen until Monday.
Second-round games are scheduled for Friday with 7:30 p.m. kickoffs. Games could be changed to 7 p.m. kickoffs if both teams agree to it and the CIF-SS office approves it. Many such changes could be announced Monday; some changes were confirmed Saturday.
When two teams meet after the first round of the playoffs the team with the fewest number of playoff home games at that point of the playoffs is the home team. If they have played the same number of playoff home games a coin flip decides the home team.
Coin flips in anticipation of second-round matchups were completed on Nov. 9, the day the playoff brackets were released.
In the Pac-5 Division, JSerra won its coin flip with Bishop Amat of La Puente so JSerra is the home team against the Lancers at Saddleback College.
Also in the Pac-5 Division, Mater Dei was on the road in its first round win over Westlake and the Monarchs’ second-round opponent, Centennial of Corona was at home when it beat Serra of Gardena. Mater Dei thus is automatically the home team against Centennial.
In the West Valley Division, in which three South Coast League teams advanced to the second round, El Toro and Tesoro lost coin flips and will travel.
Southwest Division coin-flip winners: Trabuco Hills, home against Corona del Mar; and Buena Park, home against Villa Park. All three Sea View League teams that made the playoffs, Capistrano Valley, San Clemente and Trabuco Hills, advanced to the second round.
Some county teams have length road trips coming. Mission Viejo plays at Rancho Cucamonga, El Toro plays at Great Oak of Temecula and Tesoro is at Vista Murrieta.
In the East Valley Division, Saddleback Valley Christian goes to Silver Valley of Yermo, a one-way trip of 136 miles. Top-seeded St. Margaret’s has a road game against St. Genevieve of Panorama City, which plays its home games at Poly High of Sun Valley.
Three of the five Trinity League teams that qualified for the Pac-5 Division playoffs reached the second round: JSerra; Mater Dei; and top-seeded St. John Bosco.
The tentative schedule for Orange County teams:
All games Friday at 7:30 p.m. unless noted
PAC-5 DIVISION
Centennial of Corona (9-2) vs. Mater Dei (9-2) at Santa Ana Stadium; Bishop Amat of La Puente (8-3) vs. JSerra (10-1) at Saddleback College, 7 p.m.
WEST VALLEY DIVISION
Tesoro (9-2) at Vista Murrieta (9-2); El Toro (8-3) at Great Oak of Temecula (9-2); Mission Viejo (9-2) at Rancho Cucamonga (7-4)
SOUTHWEST DIVISION
Corona del Mar (10-1) at Trabuco Hills (7-4); Villa Park (9-2) at Buena Park (10-1); Valencia (10-1) at Capistrano Valley (8-3); San Clemente (10-1) vs. Foothill (8-3) at Tustin High, 7 p.m.
SOUTHERN DIVISION
Brea Olinda (6-5) at Garden Grove (10-1); El Modena (4-7) vs. Santiago (8-3) at TBA; Los Amigos (7-4) vs. Canyon (5-6) at El Modena High; Westminster (9-2) vs. Rancho Alamitos (8-3) at Bolsa Grande High
EAST VALLEY DIVISION
St. Margaret’s (11-0) vs. St. Genevieve of Panorama City (7-4) at TBA; Saddleback Valley Christian (11-0) vs. Silver Valley of Yermo (10-1) at TBA; Grace Brethren of Simi Valley (11-0) vs. Brethren Christian (8-2-1) at TBA
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