JSerra receives the No. 1 seed and Orange Lutheran is No. 3 in Division 1 for the CIF-SS baseball playoffs. The pairings Sunday brought good news for Santa Margarita but bad news for Mater Dei.

The Vikings, in their first trip to the CIF-SS playoffs since 2002, continue their surprising postseason run by defeating the Bears in four sets in the semifinals.

Another down-to-the-wire contest was there Saturday. Huntington Beach beat Servite 3-2 (25-22, 22-25, 22-25, 25-21, 16-14) in a rousing CIF-SS Division 2 boys volleyball semifinal. The Oilers (14 ...

The Chargers are left out of the Division 2 draw for the second time in three seasons as the 32-team bracket didn’t have room for any at-large entries.

Undefeated Villa Park, led by USC-bound Aaliyah Farmer, will face nationally ranked Harvard-Westlake in the CIF-SS Division 1 championship game Saturday night.

Tesoro High girls basketball coach Jim Arneson employed an unconventional defense for the Titans’ first-round playoff game at Corona del Mar on Thursday, May 27. He played a “two-man zone” with a pair of defenders in zone on each side of the key and three in man-to-man match-ups.

The softball playoff pairings will be released Saturday morning and the baseball pairings come out on Sunday morning. The playoffs for both sports begin next week.

The Sea Kings win three individual races and the medley relay to sprint past Harvard-Westlake while Zinn, a junior, blasted Division 2 records in the 200 IM and breaststroke.

The pairings for the CIF-SS boys basketball playoffs were released Sunday. See where and when the local teams will be playing in the opening rounds.

Three Orange County girls basketball teams on Sunday, May 23 received at-large berths for the CIF Southern Section playoffs. They are: San Juan Hills (9-9) in Division 2AA and Fountain Valley (8-7) and Los Alamitos (8-8) in Division 3A.