Girls Basketball Pairings: Bonita, Bishop Amat and Diamond Ranch receive top seeds, but several in good shape to make deep playoff runs


By Fred J. Robledo, Staff Writer
The CIF-Southern Section girls basketball playoff pairings were announced on Sunday and usual heavyweights Bonita, Diamond Ranch and Bishop Amat are in prime position to make deep playoff runs. St. Lucy’s, Covina and San Dimas could be surprises too after receiving favorable playoff draws.

Bonita is looking for a Division 3AAA title and is seeded second after winning the Hacienda League. The Bearcats will face a familiar foe in Sierra League at-large South Hills in Thursday’s first round.

Mission Valley League runner-up Arroyo is seeded 14th and will host Fullerton in the first round. Baseline at-large Glendora will host Garden Grove league champion Los Amigos in the first round while Hacienda at-large Rowland is at 12th-seed South Torrance and Baldwin Park at fifth-seed Gahr.

Covina, San Dimas and St. Lucy’s received bye’s to the second round in Division 3A.
Covina earned the second seed and will host the winner of Thursday’s first-round game between Ganesha and Rubidoux in Saturday’s first-round.

CIF-Southern Section Girls Basketball playoff Schedule

Division 1A
Saturday’s first-round games

La Sierra at Diamond Bar, 7 p.m.
Division 2AA
Saturday’s first-round games

Ayala at Royal, 7 p.m.
West Covina at Thousand Oaks, 7 p.m.
Redlands East Valley at Chino Hills, 7 p.m.
Division 2A
Saturday’s first-round games

Claremont at Saugus, 7 p.m.
Division 3A
Thursday’s first-round games

Charter Oak at El Monte, 7 p.m.
San Dimas bye
Azusa at Estancia, 7 p.m.
St. Lucy’s bye
Bishop Amat at Santa Paula, 7 p.m.
Gladstone at Artesia, 7 p.m.
Covina bye.
Division 3AAA
Thursday’s first-round

Baldwin Park at Gahr, 7 p.m.
Rowland at South Torrance, 7 p.m.
Fullerton at Arroyo, 7 p.m.
Glendora at Los Amigos, 7 p.m.
South Hills at Bonita, 7 p.m.
Division 3AA
Thursday’s first round

Jurupua Valley at Sierra Vista, 7 p.m.
West Valley at Rosemead, 7 p.m.
El Modena at Diamond Ranch, 7 p.m.
La Mirada at Wilson, 7 p.m.
Division 4AA
Thursday’s first-round

Harvard-Westlake at Rowland, 7 p.m.
San Marino at Duarte, 7 p.m.


After finishing third in the Valle Vista, San Dimas was still awarded the eighth seed and a bye. The Saints will face the winner of Thursday’s first-round game between Charter Oak and El Monte on Saturday at San Dimas.

Sierra League champ St. Lucy’s is the fourth seed and will face the first-round winner between Firebaugh and Ocean View on Saturday.

Del Rey at-large Bishop Amat was the third seed but will be on the road in the first round at Frontier third-place entry Santa Paula. Montview at-large Azusa is at 12th seed Estancia.

Diamond Ranch is the third-seed in Division 3AA and will host Century at-large El Modena in Thursday’s first round.

Also in 3AA, Rosemead is home against West Valley and Sierra Vista home against Jurupa Valley.

Wilson, seeded 10th, is home against Suburban at-large La Mirada.

Diamond Bar, which finished third in the Hacienda League behind area heavyweights Bonita and Diamond Ranch, earned a fifth-seed in Division 1A and will be home in Saturday’s first round against La Sierra, the Inland Valley’s fourth-place team.

Chino Hills finished second in the Sierra and will host 15th-seed Redlands East Valley in Saturday’s Division 2AA first-round game. West Covina will be at sixth-seed Thousand Oaks and Sierra League third-place entry Ayala will be at 13th-seed Royal.

In a Division 2A first-round game Saturday, Sierra at-large Claremont is at Mountain Pass league champion Citrus Hill.

Montview league champion Duarte and second-place Workman were awarded the 15th and 16th seeds respectively in Division 4AA.

Duarte will host San Marino in Thursday’s first-round with the winner likely facing second-seed Oaks Christian.

Workman will host Harvard-Westlake with the winner likely facing top-seed Windward.
All games are scheduled to start at 7 p.m.

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