Valencia junior defensive lineman Michael Sota (6-5, 245) has been offered by Army, Tigers assistant football coach Jason Gray reports.
Sota, the lineman of the year in the Empire League last season, is being recruited as a defensive end and tight end.
Please send football recruiting news to Dan Albano at dalbano@ocregister.com
DIVISION 2
LAST YEAR’S CHAMPION: Pacifica
TOP FOUR SEEDS: 1. Redlands East Valley, 2. Temecula Valley, 3. Los Osos, 4. Cypress.
ORANGE COUNTY AT-LARGE TEAMS: Yorba Linda, Laguna Hills.
COUNTY PLAYERS TO WATCH: Cesar Serna, Valencia; David Fletcher, Cypress; Kyle Molnar, Aliso Niguel; Brennan Guinet, Beckman; James Clothier, Northwood.
BEST WILD-CARD MATCHUP: San Juan Hills at Pacifica.
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University and Corona del Mar, the top two teams in Orange County, have drawn the Nos. 1 and 2 seeds, respectively, in the CIF-SS boys tennis playoffs. The brackets for all five divisions were released Monday at 11 a.m. and can be found on the CIF-SS’s web site.
First-round matches start Wednesday at 3 p.m.
The Trojans open by hosting the winner of the wild-card match between Crescenta Valley and Redondo Union, while the Sea Kings host Brentwood.
Valencia and Cypress received the top seeds in Division 3.
It was a halftime speech that had little effect on the Valencia boys soccer team on Saturday, but it’s one that Coach Barry Gardner hopes will resonate with his team now that the Tigers have experienced the disappointment that he warned them about.
Valencia defensive end/outside linebacker Gabriel Perez (6-4, 215) has committed to Boise State, the senior confirmed.
Perez said he was recruited to play the Broncos’ hybrid defensive end/outside linebacker position.
Perez is an excellent get for Boise State because he’s athletic and quick for his size.
Please send football recruiting news to Dan Albano to dalbano@ocregister.com
Recent Valencia graduate Katherine Pierce, pictured left at May’s CIF-SS finals, set meet records in the 100-yard breaststroke and 100 individual medley at the Orange County Swim Conference Summer League Championships at El Toro on Tuesday.
Racing for Swim Team of Placentia, the 18-year-old lowered her own records in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1 minute, 6.37 seconds and the 100 IM with a 1:01.44. Both times were set in the 15-18 age-group.
Hank Rivers, an 8-year-old with Long Beach Shore, sliced almost half-a-second off Olympian great Jason Lezak’s 1984 record in the 50-yard freestyle in the 7-8 age-group with a 29.64. Lezak, the former Irvine High standout and four-time Olympian, held the record with a 30.03.
The Ladera Ranch Liquids and Estancia High-based Splash finished first-second in the combined team scores.
Please send swimming news to Dan Albano at dalbano@ocregister.com
PLACENTIA – The potential is there to make another run at the playoffs, Valencia coach Barry Gardner can see it every time his Tigers take the field in the Sunny Hills Summer League.
Here is the 2012 football schedule for Valencia.
Schedules are subject to change. All games are scheduled for 7 p.m. unless noted.
VALENCIA
(Home games on campus; *league game)
All 2012-13 football schedules
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Joe Secoda is the new baseball coach at Valencia, his alma mater. He replaces Mike Scheetz, who resigned after this past season, his 23rd as the school’s varsity head coach.
Secoda coached Tustin’s baseball team the past few years. This past season, Tustin finished 13-17. The Tillers upset Crescenta Valley in the first round of the Division 2 playoffs, then lost to eventual Division 2 finalist Aliso Niguel in the second round, 2-1.
Secoda was Fullerton’s coach before moving on to Tustin. Secoda was a three-sport star at Valencia in the 1990s. He played for several years in the St. Louis Cardinals system.
Scheetz was a terrific coach at Valencia. He always got the most out of his roster, including this year when Valencia made the Division 2 playoffs as an at-large team and in the second round beat Harvard-Westlake, at the time the No. 1-ranked team in California.
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Aliso Niguel and Mater Dei this morning won coin flips that determined home teams for Friday’s quarterfinals of the CIF-Southern Section playoffs.
Mater Dei will be at home Friday against Esperanza in a Division 1 quarterfinal. Aliso plays host to Valencia in a Division 2 quarterfinal. Valencia scored the biggest upset of the playoffs so far, with its 3-1 victory Tuesday over top-seeded Harvard Westlake, which this week is ranked No. 12 in the nation.
All games are at 3:15 p.m. There could be time changes, for which both teams would have to agree upon and the CIF-SS office would have to approve. If we get time changes, we will post them here.
When two teams meet after the first round of the playoffs, the team with the fewest number of playoff home games at that point of the playoffs is the home team. If the teams have played the same number of playoff home games, a coin flip determines the home team.
For example, in Division 1 Orange Lutheran has played two playoff home games and its quarterfinals opponent, West Ranch of Valencia, has played one. So West Ranch is the home team. Mater Dei and Esperanza both have played one home and one away playoff game, so a coin flip was needed there.
Other county teams that lost coin flips today: El Dorado (Division 1); Oxford Academy (Division 6); and St. Margaret’s (Division 6). In Division 6, Capistrano Valley Christian won its coin flip.
Updated brackets are here at ocvarsity.com.
The quarterfinals schedule involving Orange County teams (all games 3:15 p.m. as of this writing):
Valencia rising junior Gabriel Perez (6-4, 215) has been offered by Boise State, he confirmed Friday.
The Boise State Broncos – who have identified and signed several somewhat under-the-radar O.C. players in recent years – are the first school to offer Perez.
Perez was ranked No. 25 in the last OCVarsity recruiting rankings for 2013.
Please send football recruiting news to Dan Albano at dalbano@ocregister.com
Orange County teams that qualified for the CIF-Southern Section playoffs as at-large teams:
Division 1 — Brea Olinda, Huntington Beach, San Clemente (St. John Bosco of the Trinity League also is an at-large team in D1).
Division 2 — Valencia.
Division 3 — Segerstrom.
Division 4 — Troy, Century.
Division 6 — Sage Hill.
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