Orange County girls flag football teams receive high seeds for CIF playoffs

A number of Orange County high school teams earned top seeds in the CIF girls flag football playoffs that begin next week.

It will be the third year of CIF sanctioned girls flag football playoffs.

CIF officials said Friday that 204 teams qualified into the seven divisional playoff brackets. The single-elimination tournaments start with first round games on Tuesday, Oct. 20 in divisions one through six. Open Division pool play will get under way on Wednesday, Oct. 21.

The 12-team open division includes top-JSerra (24-0), No. 2 Newport Harbor (20-4), No. 3 Orange Lutheran (16-4) and No. 4 Huntington Beach.

JSerra hosts No. 12 Sierra Canyon on Wednesday, Oct. 21. Newport Harbor hosts No. 11 Dos Pueblos and Orange Lutheran hosts No. 10 Downey on Wednesday, Oct. 21.

Huntington Beach hosts St. Joseph on Wednesday, Oct. 21.

Also in the open division, Mater Dei is seeded fifth and hosts No. 9 St. Joseph on Saturday, Oct. 24. Pacific Coast League champion Woodbridge is seeded sixth and opens on Saturday, Oct. 24 hosting No. 10 Downey at 5 p.m.

Edison is seeded eighth and hosts Sierra Canyon Saturday, Oct. 24.

In single elimination playoffs, Corona del Mar (14-8) is seeded third in Division 1. The Sea Kings will host Cajon on Tuesday, Oct. 20.

Cypress (14-8) is seeded first and Sonora (12-4) second in Division 2.

Cypress will host La Habra on Tuesday, Oct. 20 in the first round while Sonora will host Roosevelt on Tuesday, Oct. 20

In Division 5, Golden West League champion Tustin (13-6) is seeded first. The Tillers will host Tustin Early College on Tuesday, Oct. 20.

Other top seeds are South Torrance (13-3) in Division 3, San Marino (13-4) in Division 4,

The championship finals will be conducted in a one-day, seven-game event at Cap Sheue Field at Huntington Beach High School on Saturday, Nov. 7.

To see the brackets, go to the CIF Website and click on girls flag football/view bracket.