Chaffey to host RCC in playoffs
The Chaffey baseball team has drawn a first-round playoff date with Riverside Community College.
Pairings for the best-of-three Southern California regionals were unveiled Sunday and the Foothill Conference champion Panthers (30-9) drew the No. 7 seed. Defending state champion Riverside (27-17) is No. 10, finishing fifth in the tough Orange Empire Conference.
Chaffey will host the series opener at 3 p.m. Friday with the second game at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
Coach Jeff Harlow wasn't surprised with that but was miffed that Cerritos (29-14) was one spot ahead of his team because his team beat the Falcons twice.
Swapping places with Cerritos would have meant getting Bakersfield (28-16), a more preferrable draw because it is a second-place team out of a considerably weaker conference.
"They didn't follow the criteria they should have," Harlow said. "We played that team and beat them twice. Why play them if it isn't going to matter? It's all political."
Tuesday's game's
Single-elimination games
No. 18 Santa Barbara at No. 15 Palomar
No. 17 Rio Hondo at No. 16 Ventura
Friday games
First game, best-of-three
Lowest remaining seed at No. 1 Santa Ana
No. 13 East Los Angeles at No. 4 Irvine Valley
No. 12 El Camino at No. 5 Southwestern
No. 11 Cypress at No. 8 College of the Canyons
No. 10 Riverside at No. 7 Chaffey
No. 11 Bakersfield at No. 6 Cerritos
No. 14 Long Beach City at No. 3 Orange Coast
Second-lowest seed at No. 2 Cuesta
About Michelle
Michelle Gardner has been a staff writer for The Sun and the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin since 2002 and has covered the local college sports scene since 2004. She ventured West after working at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale for eight years and is a graduate of the University of Florida.
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