There was a team that disrupted the projected "Trinity League and Poly" semifinals but it wasn't Edison, which I thought could beat Orange Lutheran.
Nope. It was a bit of a stunner, at least in the final margin: Crespi 48, Mater Dei 26.
So that means, instead of a Mater Dei-Servite Trinity League rematch in the lower-bracket semifinal, it will be Crespi vs. Servite in a battle of the divison's 2 (Crespi) and 3 seeds.
Interesting sidebar to that one: Servite is coached by Crespi's former coach, Troy Thomas, who is in his third season with the Anaheim school.
Poly's offense was anything but balance and the Jackrabbits seem to lose interest in the second half. But they were still able to overwhelm Newport Harbor, 35-14.
They'll have to play a lot better than that, at least offensively, when they face Orange Lutheran next Friday night at the Home Depot Center.
Orange Lutheran beat Edison, 28-16, at Orange Coast College, located maybe four or five miles from Newport Harbor in Costa Mesa.
Servite knocked off Esperanza, 10-7, in the last of the quarterfinals. I didn't think it would be that close.
And how about Gahr (over Palos Verdes) and Valley Christian (over Blair) upsets.
And St. Paul over Culver City in the Western Division is an upset, but not a totally unexpected one, since top-seed Culver City struggled in Round 1 against Leuzinger.
Gahr gets St. Paul a week from tonight at St. Paul while Dominguez now travels to Palmdale in its side of the semifinals.
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