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Beckman — at-large team in Southern Division?

November 3rd, 2012, 2:29 pm by Steve Fryer

Beckman is the No. 4 team in the Pacific Coast League. The Patriots and Irvine both have 2-3 league records, but because Beckman beat Irvine, Beckman is the league’s No. 4 playoff representative in the Southern Division.

The league’s order of representation for the playoffs: 1. Corona del Mar, 2. Northwood, 3. Woodbridge, 4. Beckman.

As the Pacific Coast League is the best league in the Southern Division, Beckman has a very good chance of getting the division’s one at-large berth when at-large teams are named Sunday at 8 a.m.

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Pac-5 bracket prediction

November 3rd, 2012, 12:58 pm by Steve Fryer

CIF-Southern Section fooball playoff brackets will be released for 11-man ball Sunday. OCVarsity.com will publish them as we get the.

This is how Fryer predicts the CIF-Southern Section’s Pac-5 Division bracket will look when it is released Sunday (your feedback and brackets are encouraged … )

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Diocese/Mater Dei vs. CIF-SS lawsuit settled

November 1st, 2012, 12:39 pm by Steve Fryer

The legal action taken two years ago by the Diocese of Orange, on behalf of Mater Dei, that alleged unfair business practices by the CIF-Southern Section has been settled, attorney Jerry Jackson, who represented the Diocese and Mater Dei in the matter, said Thursday.

Jackson said the CIF-Southern Section’s change in leadership, in which Rob Wigod last year replaced the retiring Jim Staunton as section commissioner, as being essential to the settlement. A notice of settlement is scheduled to be issued today at Orange County Superior Court.

“The new commissioner is a breath of fresh air in the CIF-Southern Section,” Jackson said, “and he is a commissioner who realizes that private schools in general, and Mater Dei in particular, are assets and not threats.”

The Diocese filed a legal complaint against the Southern Section in September of 2010, alleging that Mater Dei had been subjected to unfair business practices by the CIF-SS. The complaint alleged that the CIF-SS office had not dealt fairly and consistently in its handling of athletic eligibility issues regarding student-athletes who transferred to Mater Dei.

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‘Athletically motivated’ lingo stays in transfer rules

October 30th, 2012, 11:56 am by Steve Fryer

At Monday’ CIF State Federated Council meeting, where all state-wide CIF rules are adopted or amended, the Trinity League proposal that would delete “athletically motivated” language from transfer rules did not pass. Thus, a transfer that is determined to be athletically motivated in whole or in part could cause a student-athlete’s eligibility to be denied at his or her new school.

The CIF-Southern Section has lessened its emphasis on that athletically motivated angle in recent months — as it should. Every transfer could be looked upon to be athletically motivated, even a little bit. Let the kids play!

Also, a proposal to change the structure of the CIF State Championship Bowl Games did not pass, so the selection process and number of teams selected will be unchanged. The Regionals Round of the state football playoffs is in place this year and next year as a two-year pilot program.

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Great sources for playoffs info …

October 29th, 2012, 5:35 pm by Steve Fryer

For the CIF-Southern Section Football Playoffs Bulletin, click here.

It has about everything you need to know about the playoffs — bracket release times, schedules, how at-large teams are selected, etc.

And for the schedules and other important information regarding all sports playoffs, click here.

We’re team players here at ocvarsity.com.

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No change to water polo format

October 25th, 2012, 9:47 am by Steve Fryer

At this morning’s CIF-Southern Section Council meeting — there are three meeting per school year, and at these meetings is where rules and by-laws are created, deleted or amended — a proposal came forth that would change the seeding format for boys and girls water polo playoffs.

The proposal was denied in a rare tie vote.

The proposal: Seed the CIF-SS boys and girls water playoffs strictly by seeding teams 1-16 for the 16-team playoff brackets. This way, two league champions could play each other in the first round, if that is how teams are seeded. Sometimes, one league’s No. 2 team is considered superior to another league’s No. 1.

Currently, playoff brackets in all sports in the CIF-Southern Section are created to divide teams from the same leagues into different portions of the bracket so that those teams from the same league could not play one another until later rounds, and that a league’s No. 1 team would play another league’s No. 3 team, and a No. 2 team plays another No. 2. That’s the way it is going to stay.

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“Athletically Motivated Transfers”

October 25th, 2012, 9:34 am by Steve Fryer

The CIF-Southern Section Council, the section’s rules-making rules-changing body, voted this morning to support a CIF State proposal that would eliminate the “athletically motivated” language from rules regarding transfers.

The Southern Section is one of 10 sections in the state that will meet later to vote on this proposal. It might be that a majority of the state’s other sections will vote against the proposal.

Currently, a student-athlete who transfers could have his athletic eligibility denied at his or her new school if the transfer appears to be athletically motivated.

The state proposal was created by the Trinity League. Trinity League schools are JSerra, Mater Dei, Orange Lutheran, Servite, St. John Bosco and Santa Margarita.

The section council, made up of representatives of CIF-SS leagues, voted to support the measure, 45-27.

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Softball: Here comes the finish

June 2nd, 2012, 8:46 pm by CARLOS ARIAS

Holy cow! Great Caesar’s Ghost!! What a game!!!

Norco leads Santiago, 6-4, heading into the top of the seventh,

Can the Cougars hang on and win their fourth CIF-SS championship? Can Santiago pull off another amazing comeback and win a fifth CIF-SS title? How good is “Prometheus” going to be? And what about “The Amazing Spider-Man”? Can that dude from “Social Network” pull off being Spidey> I need answers to these questions.

Erin Rodriguez with a 1-2-3 inning to retire the Cougars in order.

This is it. Santiago is down to its final three outs. E-Rod, Texas-bound Randel Leahy and Danielle Hernandez coming up for the Sharks.

E-Rod singles to right field to lead off the inning. Sharks fans are going bonkers. Norco fans are sensing a disturbance in The Force.

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Softball: Sharks are circling

June 2nd, 2012, 8:32 pm by CARLOS ARIAS

Santiago has all the momentum.

Norco can’t get anything going in the top of the sixth.

The Sharks smell blood in the water. They got a taste of it in the bottom of the fifth and my guess is they want more.

Cal Baptist-commit Jordan Mowatt hits a screaming line drive … but it’s right at the shortstop. One down.

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Softball: Great defense, YMCA and bases juiced

June 2nd, 2012, 8:22 pm by CARLOS ARIAS

Lord Vader, err Santiago coach John Perez, brings Illinois State-bound Erin Rodriguez to relieve Ohio State-commit Erica Romero, who gave up six runs on 10 hits, in the top of the fifth.

Savannah Clark-Adams leads off the inning with a single, but E-Rod heads up a 1-6-3 double play on the next batter to erase that hit.

Second baseman Danielle Hernandez makes a nifty catch in shallow right field to end the inning.

Time for my seventh and final traditional softball fifth-inning stretch of the CIF-SS championship weekend. That’s right, it’s YMCA time.

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Softball: You Can’t, You Won’t And You Don’t Stop

June 2nd, 2012, 8:02 pm by CARLOS ARIAS

We thought Santiago ace Erica Romero was going to get her first 1-2-3 inning of the game, but it was not to be.

Cal-bound Kylie Reed collects her third single of the game and then steals second with two out sin the top of the fourth.

CONTROVERSIAL PLAY ALERT>>>>> Tennessee-bound Abigail Lockman with a blooper. Santiago shortstop Alex Vargas appeared to make an amazing diving catch. She bobbled it, but appeared to hang on to it. Umps have a conference and rule it a hit. Reed scored on the play.

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Softball: When Cougars attack

June 2nd, 2012, 7:42 pm by CARLOS ARIAS

Santiago stranded runners on second and third in the first and second innings. Norco ace Emily Lockman is doing that Houdini escape artist thing. Can she keep it up or will the Sharks finally move in for the kill?