The Los Alamitos, Mater Dei and Santa Margarita girls volleyball teams are in the eight-team Division 1 for the CIF Southern Section playoffs.
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Brackets were released Friday.
Division 1 will use a pool-play format. Pool A teams, in order of seeding, are Mater Dei, Oaks Christian, Santa Margarita and Harvard-Westlake. Pool B teams in order of seeding are Sierra Canyon, Mira Costa, Los Alamitos and Marymount.
Divisions 2-11 are 32-team brackets.
Teams were placed into Division 1 and the other 10 divisions according to their power-points total as provided by Massey Ratings. Newport Harbor was No. 9 in the Massey Ratings of CIF-SS girls volleyball teams, so Newport Harbor is the No. 1-seeded team in Division 2.
The playoffs begin Tuesday for Divisions 2-11.
Division 1 pool play begins Wednesday.
The Division 1 schedule Wednesday for Pool A: Harvard-Westlake at Mater Dei; Santa Margarita at Oaks Christian. The Division 1 schedule Wednesday for Pool B: Marymount at Sierra Canyon; Los Alamitos at Mira Costa.
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Among the Division 1 pool-play games for Oct. 27 is Santa Margarita at Mater Dei in Pool A. Mater Dei and Santa Margarita split their two Trinity League matches. (Santa Margarita’s win over Mater Dei was the Monarchs’ only regular-season loss.) The teams were Trinity League co-champions.
Los Alamitos won the Sunset League championship with a 12-0 league record.
Last season Santa Margarita was the Division 2 champion and Cypress won the Division 3 title.
Division 1 last season was a 12-team group placed into a 16-team bracket. Four Division 1 teams had first-round byes last season.
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In 2024 Division 1 was an eight-team group with a pool-play format.