I'm sitting in the media room at the CIF Southern Section office in Los Alamitos with stacks of football playoff bracket sheets and folders of team information to sort through when I get home.
But, for now, here's a quick look at the brackets, starting with (from top to bottom) the Pac-5 division. It looks a lot like the mock one that I posted earlier.
(teams on the left are home)
UPPER
No. 1 Poly (Moore 1) vs. Santa Margarita (Trinity at-large)
No. 2 Notre Dame (Serra 2) vs. Newport Harbor (Sunset 3)
No. 5 Edison (Sunset 1) vs. Compton (Moore 3)
No. 4 Orange Lutheran (Serra 2) vs. Mission Viejo (South Coast 2)
LOWER
No. 3 Servite (Trinity 1) vs. San Clemente (South Coast 3)
No. 6 Esperanza (Sunset 2) vs. Lakewood (Moore 2)
No. 8 Tesoro (South Coast 1) vs. Mater Dei (Trinity 3)
No. 1 Crespi (Serra 1) vs. Millikan (Moore 4)
Comments: All openers are Friday night at 7:30. Poly will play at Veterans Stadium, Compton at Orange Coast College, Lakewood at a site to be determined (Esperanza can't use its "home" stadium because it's on on Valencia's campus and Valencia also has a home game Friday) and Millikan is expected to play at Pierce College.
The biggest switch from my mock has Crespi and not Servite as the No. 2 seed. And I understand the logic, since Notre Dame had beaten Servite in a non-league game and Crespi beat Notre Dame for the top seed from the Serra League.
More analysis on the division later in the week, both in the Press-Telegram and on my blog.
A quick look at who the other Long Beach-area entrants drew in their divisions:
SOUTHWEST
El Toro at Bellflower
La Mirada at South Hills
Hacienda Heights Wilson at Mayfair
Norwalk at Charter Oak
WESTERN
St. Paul at Quartz Hill
Lancaster at Gahr
Warren at Palmdale
Highland at Dominguez
NORTHWEST
Centennial at Baldwin Parki
Pioneer Valley at Serra
NORTHEAST
St. Anthony at Mammoth
MID VALLEY
Valley Christian at Duarte
Mary Star at Bishop Diego
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