The 2016 CIF Southern Section Ford Girls Softball playoff pairings were also released Monday, May 16, and 12 local teams begin the fight to be the best of the best this week with wild card games set to start as early as Tuesday, May 17.
Division 1
The Great Oak Wolfpack (15-6, 9-1), fresh off their first ever league title, ended the season ranked at No. 9 in the final CIF-SS rankings and are the #1 seed in Division 1, Vista Murrieta (16-7, 7-3) secured the #2 seed and Murrieta Valley, who were tied with Chaparral and Murrieta Mesa with 4 wins and 6 losses in league, got the nod securing the #3 seed.
Round one games will begin Thursday, May 19, and the Lady Wolfpack, who will be the home team, will battle a West Ranch team from Valencia that was 5-5 in league and 19-8 overall.
Vista Murrieta and Murrieta Valley will be on the road as the Lady Broncos gear up to play Chino Hills (22-9, 7-3) while the Lady Nighthawks prepare to be tested by Norco (23-5, 9-1) out of the Big VIII.
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Division 3
West Valley (17-9-1, 7-3), the co-champs out of the Mountain Pass League are the #1 seed as the playoffs start, while San Jacinto (13-15-6-4), who placed third behind the Mustangs as well as Beaumont, took the three seed, but will have to first play in a wild card game in order to advance to the first round.
The Lady Mustangs will be home to face San Clemente (12-10-1, 6-2), the second place team out of the Sea View League and San Jacinto will hit the road Tuesday, May 17, to take on the Santa Fe (15-12, 7-3) from the Del Rio League. If the Lady Tigers win on the road, they will have to then travel to Mission Hills to take on the No. 5 ranked Alemany Warriors (19-8, 7-1), the #1 seed out of the Mission League.
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Division 4
The Lady Linfield Lions, ranked at No. 9 in the final CIF-SS rankings, lost only one game all season, garnishing the best ever overall softball record by a local team at 23-1, winning league with an almost immaculate record of 13 wins and 1 loss. Needless to say, Linfield are the #1 seed out of the Ambassador League as the first week of playoffs begin. Temescal Canyon (20-6, 13-2), who edged out Paloma Valley (17-9, 12-3) for the top spot in the Sunbelt League also drew a #1 seed, while Paloma Valley must now fight in the wild card game early this week in order to make it through to the first round. The Lady Lakeside Lancers (12-15, 8-7) also squeaked by into the playoffs and also find themselves having to go the wild card route as well.
Linfield will be at home Thursday, May 19, facing the winner of a wild card match-up between Segerstrom (15-7, 8-2) and Santa Barbara’s San Marcos Royals (16-10, 6-6). Temescal Canyon also sits in a position where they will be the home team, but must wait to see who wins between Temple City (12-9-1, 9-3) and Sultana (20-8, 6-4) during wild card action Tuesday, May 17, the same day that Paloma Valley will be home to take on San Gorgonio (16-8, 8-7) and Lakeside will also be home to face Valley Christian out of Cerritos.
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Division 7
In the Division 7 bracket the ladies of Santa Rosa Academy have much to smile about after winning the South Valley League championship, drawing the #1 seed Calvary Murrieta came in a close second and will be #2 seed in the post season brackets and Hamilton of the Arrowhead League caught a good break as well, advancing to the first round as the #3 seed, where they do have to face the Lady Rangers Thursday, May 19. The wild card games that start Tuesday, May 17, include California Lutheran (6-14, 4-6) and Temecula Prep (12-7, 7-3), who will both be home to face their opponents.
Calvary Murrieta will travel to face Upland Christian Academy (9-7-1, 7-3) in round one action as Cal Lutheran hits the wild card round where they will face the Majestic League third place team, Bethel Christian from Riverside (3-11, 3-5). A win there will pit the Lady C-Hawks against Canoga Park’s Faith Baptist (12-10-1, 8-0) in round one. T-prep will welcome the Academy of Academic Excellence (10-12, 5-7) from Apple Valley to their fields in hopes of winning that wild card game where they would advance to play the Archer School for Girls (11-7, 8-0) on Thursday.
The championships will be held at Deanna Manning Stadium at Colonel Bill Barber Park in Irvine Friday, June 3 and Saturday, June 4. All games with the exception of championship games are scheduled to begin at 3:15 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
*Schedules, standings and rankings provided by MaxPreps and the California Interscholastic Federation – Southern Section.
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