Overall eight South Bay teams advanced to next week's quarterfinals. Here's a list of this week's results and next week's schedule.
First round playoff scores
L.A. CITY SECTION CHAMPIONSHIPS
Division I
San Pedro 22, Westchester 6
Narbonne 60, L.A. Jordan 19
Carson 42, Sylmar 6
Dorsey 37, Gardena 7
CIF SOUTHERN SECTION PLAYOFFS
Northern Division
Moorpark 27, Mira Costa 17
Palos Verdes 48, West Ranch 10
St. Bonaventure 44, Redondo 14
Western Division
Serra 48, Beverly Hills 7
Inglewood 22, Downey 17
Chaminade 52, Culver City 16
Northwest Division
South Torrance 41, Santa Paula 10
Templeton 43, Bishop Montgomery 33
Santa Ynez 28, North Torrance 14
Lompoc 42, El Segundo 13
Morro Bay 28, Mary Star 0
Northeast Division
Chadwick 9, St. Monica 6
Next week's schedule
L.A. City Section quarterfinals
Friday
Narbonne at Crenshaw, 7 p.m.
Garfield at Carson, 7 p.m.
San Pedro at Venice, 7 p.m.
CIF Southern Section quarterfinals
Northern Division
Palos Verdes at Westlake, 7:30 p.m.
Western Division
Serra at Camarillo, 7:30 p.m.
Inglewood at Paso Robles, 7:30 p.m.
Northwest Division
Morro Bay at South Torrance, 7:30 p.m.
Northeast Division
Bishop Union at Chadwick, 7:30 p.m.
With the exception of Mira Costa and Palos Verdes, Wednesday was an excruciating day in boys water polo for South Bay teams.
Three teams -- Peninsula, El Segundo and Chadwick -- lost on a goal by their opponent in the final seconds of regulation time in first-round games.
For El Segundo, it was especially tough. The Eagles battled back from a 6-1 deficit to tie the score, 9-9, with 15 seconds left in the game. But then Aliso Niguel quickly earned an exclusion and had a power play, which it executed on with the game-winning goal with two seconds left.
It was a gut-wrenching loss after an up-and-down season for El Segundo and first-year coach Jordan Watson, but he couldn't argue with the effort the team exuded in the playoff loss.
"You know, I was very proud of them today," Watson said. "They executed everything we taught them, they played hard."
El Segundo graduates just two starters, and could be a force next season.
"We feel really good about next year," Watson said.
In the Peninsula game, the Panthers tied the score, 8-8, with 12 seconds left on a goal by Travis Larsen in its first-round Division III playoff tilt at Santa Monica. But the exhilaration was halted soon after, when Santa Monica scored the game-winner with four seconds left.
Chadwick endured a heart-breaker in Division V, losing when host Glendale scored with 15 seconds left in the game. Chadwick came back from an 8-4 deficit to tie the score, 8-8, and took a 9-8 lead early in the fourth quarter before letting it slip away.
"I'm disappointed we lost early in the playoffs, we thought we could have made a good run at it," Chadwick coach Will Didinger said. "But the boys played well, and they had a good year. They got better as the season went along."
Palos Verdes, ranked third in Division III, and Mira Costa, ranked fifth, are the only South Bay teams left swimming. Both teams are trying to reach a CIF final for the second straight year. On Friday, Palos Verdes hosts No. 6 Capistrano Valley at 2 p.m., while Mira Costa hosts No. 5 La Canada at 3:15 p.m.
Mira Costa sophomore Maegan Manasse continues to amaze this season. Manasse took an undefeated record into the Bay League Championships, then won the singles title with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Redondo's Elle Taylor in the final.
Manasse, who also had wins over Peninsula's Jasmine Hosseini and Victoria Tam in the tournament, improved to 57-0 on the season heading into the postseason.
"Nobody at the Kramer Club could remember the last time a girl accomplished that feat in the Bay League," Mira Costa coach Joe Ciasulli said "It takes a very special player to go through an entire season without one blemish on her record."
Manasse leads the way as Mira Costa, which finished tied for second in the Bay League with Palos Verdes, gets ready for the CIF Southern Section Division I team playoffs, which starts next week.
Manasse could also be a huge factor in singles in the CIF-SS Individuals, which starts Nov. 19.
