The coin-flip to determining the seeding for the three Trinity League CIF Southern Section Pac-5 playoff teams was just conducted at Servite High in Anaheim, with Servite landing the top seed, Mater Dei the second and Orange Lutheran the third.
The brackets will be announced at the Southern Section office in Los Alamitos Sunday morning.
There is only one at-large to the Pac-5 field and, although Edison (Sunset), Bishop Amat (Serra) and St. John Bosco (Trinity) are all candidates, with 7-3 records, it appears that Edison and Bishop Amat has the stronger likelihoods of getting the bid.
So, here are two scenarios, the first with Edison as the at-large and the second with Bishop Amat:
With Edison in the field . . .
UPPER
1. Poly (Moore 1) vs. Edison (Sunset at-large)
Mission Viejo (South Coast 2) vs. Loyola (Serra 2)
Esperanza (Sunset 1) vs. San Clemente (South Coast 3)
4. Servite (Trinity 1) vs. Lakewood (Moore 3)
LOWER
3. Tesoro (South Coast 1) vs. Los Alamitos (Sunset 3)
Mater Dei (Trinity 2) vs. Jordan (Moore 2)
Fountain Valley (Sunset 2) vs. Orange Lutheran (Trinity 3)
2. Notre Dame (Serra 1) vs. Compton (Moore 4)
With Bishop Amat in the field . . .
UPPER
1. Poly vs. Los Alamitos (Sunset 3)
Mission Viejo vs. Loyola
Esperanza vs. San Clemente
4. Servite vs. Lakewood
LOWER
3. Tesoro vs. Bishop Amat (Serra at-large)
Mater Dei vs. Jordan
Fountain Valley vs. Orange Lutheran
2. Notre Dame vs. Compton
Interesting if the Esperanza-San Clemente-Lakewood-Servite foursome comes to fruition, as that was the same foursome last season. Only in 2007, the games were Lakewood vs. Esperanza and Servite cs. San Clemente.
do you really think the moore league deserves 4 teams in the pac5 playoffs each year?
Frank,
Really enjoy your columns and coverage of high school sports. I have a few comments:
1. Saw the Poly vs Compton game at Vet's and wouldn't be surprised for Compton to come out on top of a Compton vs Sherman Oaks Notre Dame matchup--especially if they can get the lead at the outset. After all, Sherman Oaks has allowed 27 and 28 points respectively to teams that are 2-8 (West Ranch) and 5-5 (Birmingham Lake Balboa).
2. Don't understand how Poly can play and beat last year's national high school champion (Norwestern, Miami) as well as a California state champion (St. Bonaventure) allowing only 7 points a piece to each and drop in the the polls behind Sherman Oaks Notre Dame. What are those people smoking over at CalPreps?
Regards,
Dwight