The CIF-Southern Section baseball playoff brackets will be released Monday.
In most divisions there will be more qualifiers than there are berths in the 32-team brackets. Wild-card round games will be played Tuesday (Divisions 2, 4 and 6) and Wednesday (Divisions 3, 5 and 7) in those divisions to reduce the number of qualifiers to 32 teams for the first-round games Thursday (Divisions 2, 4 and 6) and Friday (Divisions 1, 3, 5 and 7).
Teams that are their leagues’ No. 1 playoff representatives will get a first-round home game against another’s league’s No. 3 or No. 4 team. No. 2 teams might open with a home game or a road game, and usually against another league’s No. 2 team.
Nos. 3 and 4 teams might play in the wild-card round or might be sent straight to the first round. Either way, Nos. 3 and 4 teams will be visiting teams in the first round and usually against another league’s No. 1 team.
Here are the Orange County teams that earned automatic entry. (They are listed in the order of how they will represent their league.)
Academy: 1. Sage Hill; 2. Crean Lutheran; 3. St. Margaret’s
Crestview: 1. Esperanza; 2. El Dorado
Empire: 1. Cypress; 2. Kennedy; 3. Tustin
Express: 1. St. Michael’s Prep; 2. Avalon
Freeway: 1. Troy; 2. Fullerton; 3. Sonora
Garden Grove: 1. Rancho Alamitos; 2. La Quinta; 3. Garden Grove
Golden West: 1. Ocean View; 2. Orange; 3. Segerstrom
North Hills: 1. Foothill; 2. Villa Park
Olympic: 1. Village Christian of Sun Valley; 2. Maranatha of Pasadena; 3. Whittier Christian
Orange: 1. Katella; 2. Century; 3. Savanna
Orange Coast: 1. Laguna Beach; 2. Calvary Chapel; 3. Estancia
Pacific Coast: 1. Woodbridge; 2. Beckman; 3. Corona del Mar
San Joaquin: 1. Capistrano Valley Christian; 2. Saddleback Valley Christian; 3. Webb of Claremont
Sea View: 1. Mission Viejo; 2. Trabuco Hills; 3. San Juan Hills
South Coast: 1. El Toro; 2. Aliso Niguel; 3, Dana Hills
Sunset: 1. Marina; 2. Huntington Beach; 3. Edison
Trinity: 1. JSerra; 2. Orange Lutheran; 3. Mater Dei
Contact the writer: sfryer@ocregister.com
