Water polo
Sacred Heart Prep top seeds in CCS water polo
The Sacred Heart Prep boys’ and girls’ water polo teams, which both captured the West Catholic Athletic League regular season and tournament titles, were selected as the top seeds in the Central Coast Section Open Division bracket — which also means they are the top teams in the section, overall.
The CCS tournaments begin Saturday with quarterfinal matchups and concludes the follow Saturday, Nov. 9.
On the boys’ side, SHP (16-10) will host No. 8 seed Mitty (17-10) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Menlo School (18-9), which finished fourth in both the WCAL regular-season standings and the league tournament, garnered the No. 4 seed. Despite being the higher seed, the Knights will go on the road to take on No. 5 Santa Cruz (19-5) at 11:30 a.m. at Aptos High.
Division I sees the Peninsula Athletic League’s Bay Division tri-champions in the bracket, along with Serra. Woodside (16-6), which earned the top seed out of the Bay Division based on tiebreakers, got the No. 3 seed in the Division I bracket and will host No. 6 Gunn (12-13) at 1 p.m.
The Bay Divisions other two champions, Sequoia (16-7) and Menlo-Atherton (15-10), will meet for the fourth time this season at 2:30 p.m. at M-A. The fourth-seeded Ravens and fifth-seeded Bears split their regular-season series, with M-A posting a 13-9 win Sept. 23 and Sequoia returning the favor with a 14-11 Oct. 21.
The two met for a third time in the Serra tournament Oct. 26, with M-A posting a 14-9 victory.
Serra (16-11), despite going just 1-6 and finishing in a last-place tie with Valley Christian in WCAL play, earned the No. 2 seed in Division I and will take on No. 7 Westmont (17-6) at 11:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart Prep.
In the girls’ Open Division, SHP (24-2) will host No. 8 St. Francis (11-13) at 10 a.m. Menlo School (11-11), which finished runner-up to SHP in the regular season and WCAL tournament, was given the No. 6 seed and will face No. 3 Stevenson (18-8) at 1 p.m. at Aptos High.
The PAL’s top three qualifiers — undefeated Bay Division champion Menlo-Atherton, second-place finisher Woodside and third-place Aragon — were all placed in the Division I bracket.
M-A (18-5) earned the top seed and will host No. 8 Wilcox (17-2) at 11:30 a.m. Woodside (13-8) got the No. 6 seed, but will host No. 3 Los Altos (17-8) at 2:30 p.m. Aragon (10-5), which won the PAL CCS play-in game over Ocean Division champ Sequoia, was seeded No. 7 and will face off with No. 2 Mitty (11-13) at 10 a.m. at Menlo-Atherton.
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