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    Four Orange County schools win CIF-SS competitive cheer championships
    • January 23, 2024

    Garden Grove, Marina, Mater Dei and Santa Margarita won CIF Southern Section titles Saturday at the traditional cheer competitive championships.

    The four Orange County schools won their divisions in the competition at ML King High in Riverside.

    Santa Margarita won in Division 1AA, Mater Dei in Division 1A, Garden Grove in 4AA and Marina in 4A.

    Marina and Mater Dei won CIF-SS traditional cheer championships for the third season in a row.

    Mater Dei also won a CIF-SS title in the sport in 2019, the first year for traditional cheer competition in the CIF Southern Section.

    The traditional cheer championships season continues Saturday with CIF Southern California Regional competition Saturday at Mira Costa High in Manhattan Beach.

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    Clippers had belief, and now their potential appears limitless
    • January 23, 2024

    PLAYA VISTA — Tyronn Lue wanted to imagine the possibilities. Victories – lots of them, extended playoff runs and maybe even a championship. There would be no stopping the Clippers with newly acquired superstar James Harden.

    “I tried to,” Lue said, before laughing at the memory.

    Instead, reality stepped in before Lue and the Clippers could bask in the afterglow of lining up Harden alongside Kawhi Leonard, Paul George and Russell Westbrook. Their first game together showed a dispirited and disjointed team, resulting in a loss.

    Then another. And another and another two followed, throwing cold water on any dreams of instant success.

    “We got off to a rough start, but I did think we had a chance to be a good team, you know,” Lue said. “(We needed) to sacrifice first with our four guys and then just understand how to play with each other.”

    Once the Big Four learned each other’s intricacies and needs, combined with a heavy dose of personal sacrifice, the Clippers began winning. Westbrook went to the bench, leaving Harden as the team’s primary ball handler. George moved to a new role playing off the ball and Leonard settled for fewer touches.

    Now, at the halfway point of the season, the retooled Clippers own a 27-14 record, one that has included winning streaks of nine and five games. They have won 10 of their past 12 and 24 of 31 since their 3-7 start. They sit in fourth place in the Western Conference standings, 2½ games out of first, and they speak with the confidence that they can win every game.

    As proof, the Clippers have beaten some of the top teams in the league and won games in various ways with different players starring every night. For example, there was Harden’s four-point play with six seconds left to beat the Houston Rockets, Leonard’s 41 points against the Utah Jazz and George’s game-winning 3-pointer in the final seconds to secure a one-point victory over the Golden State Warriors.

    Then there was Westbrook’s inspiring performance off the bench on Sunday afternoon, providing a spark that helped fuel a 22-0 run in the final five minutes to close out a 125-114 victory over the Brooklyn Nets.

    “We’re just finding ways to win, and whoever it takes to win,” Lue said. “We got a lot of different ways that we can win and beat you. And like I said, PG and Kawhi didn’t have it going tonight, so James had it going, Russ had it going. And they were willing and OK to play through those guys. It wasn’t a problem.

    “When you have guys that want to sacrifice like that, it means a lot to the team. And that means you’re establishing a winning culture.”

    The Clippers look to take that confidence into Tuesday night’s revenge game against the Lakers (22-22), who have beaten them twice this season. The Clippers had beaten the Lakers 11 times in a row before their cross-arena rival defeated them the night before Harden’s debut.

    The Clippers have been in this position before. In the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 season, they were 23-12 midway through and ended up reaching the Western Conference finals. Without Leonard, who had gotten hurt in the previous round, the Clippers lost to the Phoenix Suns in six games.

    This season, both George and Leonard are healthy, although Leonard missed four games because of a bruised hip.

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    “When we first made the deal, we believed right away that we would be good,” Harden said.

    Harden never doubted how well he would fit into the Clippers’ plans. It’s the main reason why he demanded a trade from the Philadelphia 76ers to the Clippers.

    “Obviously it didn’t start off well,” Harden said. “It gave people so much to talk about in a negative way and now those people that were talking are nowhere to be found. Like, literally nowhere to be found.”

    George was among those who believed right away.

    “We just didn’t know if it would work or how it was going to work, but we knew we had to figure it out,” he said. “All along, we knew we would be a good team.”

    A team that now can imagine a potential championship future.

    ​ Orange County Register 

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    Mother testifies 55 freeway shooter smiled at her before firing gunshot that killed 6-year-old boy
    • January 23, 2024

    A mother on Monday described a passenger in another vehicle smiling at her shortly before he fired the gunshot that killed her 6-year-old son during an apparent road rage confrontation on the 55 Freeway in Orange.

    Joanna Cloonan, the mother of Aiden Leos, took the stand Monday in the second-degree murder trial of confessed gunman Marcus Anthony Eriz, who has acknowledged firing the gunshot that killed Leos while riding in a car driven by his girlfriend in the midst of morning rush hour traffic on May 21, 2021.

    As a support dog sat at her feet in the Santa Ana courtroom, Cloonan described driving Aiden from their Costa Mesa home to Calvary Chapel Pre-School in Yorba Linda when the driver of a Volkswagen Gold SportWagen suddenly began “coming up quickly” behind her in the car pool lane of the northbound 55.

    “It scared me,” Cloonan said. “They swerved out of the carpool lane and in front of my car abruptly.”

    Speaking in a low voice and frequently pausing before responding to the prosecutor’s questions, Cloonan said that after cutting her off, the driver of the Volkswagen — later identified as Wynne Lee — flashed a “peace sign.”

    “I didn’t want to be near these people,” Cloonan testified. “I left the carpool lane. We were next to each other. I made a gesture. And I started to merge away from them.”

    Cloonan acknowledged that the “gesture” was her giving the middle finger to the driver of the Volkswagen. Cloonan said she briefly made eye contact with the man in the passenger’s seat of the Volkswagen — later identified by police as Eriz, Lee’s boyfriend — before she began merging her car into the lanes to her right.

    “He looked at me and smiled, after the gesture,” Cloonan said of Eriz. “I tried to get away as much as I could.”

    Moments later, Cloonan said, she heard a loud noise that she compared to “a big rock hit the car,” followed by Aiden exclaiming “Ow!” from his booster seat behind her.

    “I looked behind me and his head was hanging down,” Cloonan said.

    Pulling over to the side of the freeway, Cloonan said she struggled to talk to a 911 dispatcher, as the audio on her phone still was connected to her car speaker’s and she was holding onto Aiden. In 911 audio previously played in court, a hyperventilating Cloonan could be heard begging for help before repeatedly calling out “Aiden, Aiden, Aiden!”

    “I put my hand over his belly, held him up to my body to try to save his life,” Cloonan said.

    An off-duty law enforcement officer and later paramedics tried in vain to save Aiden. Investigators later determined that a bullet had ripped through the trunk of Cloonan’s car then traveled into Aiden’s back, through his liver and lung and piercing his heart before exiting his right abdomen.

    While the others were huddled around Aiden, Cloonan described the first time she realized her boy had been shot.

    “I looked at the back of my car and I saw a hole,” Cloonan said. “I asked a man ‘is that a bullet hole, is that what happened?’ and he said ‘It appears to be so.’”

    The mother denied ever posing a danger to Eriz or his girlfriend.

    “Did you at any point try to use your car as a weapon?” Senior Deputy District Attorney Dan Feldman asked.

    “No,” Cloonan replied.

    Eriz’s attorney, Deputy Public Defender Randall Bethune, asked Cloonan only one question: whether she had previously told anyone about what she described happening when she allegedly caught eyes with Eriz.

    “Did you tell police you recalled the passenger in the car smiling?” The defense attorney asked.

    “I don’t recall,” the mother answered.

    That Eriz, now 26, fired the single gunshot that killed Aiden hasn’t been disputed during his trial.

    The prosecutor has argued that the shooting was a result of Eriz’s “callous and total disregard for human life,” while the defense attorney has countered that it was “a mistake, a rash decision by a young man.”

    In an interrogation by investigators after his arrest that was played in court earlier Monday, Eriz quickly admitted to his role in Aiden’s death.

    “We went in front of that lady, the lady came up to us and started acting hostile toward us,” Eriz told the police. “I don’t know why, I have no answer why, but I pulled out my Glock and pulled the trigger and it was gone.”

    The officers spent the bulk of the hour-long interview with Eriz trying to figure out the reason why he pulled the trigger. Eriz told the officers ” I didn’t even take a second to aim, I just pointed it out (the car window) and popped it off.”

    Eriz said he started carrying a gun with him during his commute “because people have been acting crazier on the freeway.” He also described struggling to explain himself when Lee got mad at him in the aftermath of the shooting.

    “I didn’t have an answer,” Eriz told the investigators. “Because I’m stupid? I don’t know. I didn’t think about it. I didn’t think about the consequences.”

    Eriz and Lee were arrested after a two-week manhunt. Eriz said he only learned he was responsible for the shooting a week after it occurred, and told the investigators he decided not to turn himself in because he didn’t believe Lee had done anything wrong and didn’t want her to get in trouble.

    “Do you regret doing it, or do you regret being caught,” an officer asked him at one point.

    “I regret doing it,” Eriz answered.

    “Would you have ever turned yourself in?” the officer asked.

    “I don’t know,” Eriz replied.

    Eriz told the officers where to find the Volkswagen, which he had left in a grandmother’s garage, and the semi-automatic handgun, which was in a locker at the car repair shop he worked at in Highland.

    Moments after the officers left the interrogation room, Eriz said softly, apparently to himself, “I’m sorry Wynne, I love you so much, I’m so sorry.”

    Closing arguments in Eriz’s trial are scheduled for Wednesday. Lee — who is facing lesser charges that include being an accessory after the fact — is expected to be tried separately at a later date.

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    How two Navy SEALs died in rough seas off Somalia
    • January 23, 2024

    By Lolita C. Baldor | Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — Under the darkness of night, in the roiling high seas off the coast of Somalia, members of the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team 3 began to climb aboard an unflagged ship that was carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen.

    Department of Defense via AP

    Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers.

    As Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Nathan Gage Ingram began climbing the ladder onto the boat, he slipped, falling into a gap the waves had created between the vessel and the SEALs’ combatant craft. As he went under, Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers jumped into the gap to try to save him, according to U.S. officials familiar with the incident.

    It was an instinctive act, honed by years of training, one teammate going to another’s aid. But weighed down by their body armor, weapons and heavy equipment, the two SEALs plunged into the depths of the Arabian Sea and died, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details of the Jan. 11 raid.

    The mission came as the interdiction of weapons to Yemen takes on new urgency. The Yemen-based Houthis have been conducting a campaign of missile and drone attacks against commercial and Navy ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. And U.S. retaliatory strikes have so far not deterred their assaults.

    The 11-day search and rescue mission to locate the two SEALs was called off on Sunday and became a recovery effort. And on Monday, the Navy released their names, after their families were notified.

    “Chris and Gage selflessly served their country with unwavering professionalism and exceptional capabilities,” said Capt. Blake Chaney, commander of Naval Special Warfare Group 1, which oversees SEAL Team 3. “This loss is devastating for NSW, our families, the special operations community, and across the nation.”

    At the White House, President Joe Biden said in a statement that, “Jill and I are mourning the tragic deaths of two of America’s finest — Navy SEALs who were lost at sea while executing a mission off the coast of East Africa last week.” He said the SEALs represent “the very best of our country, pledging their lives to protect their fellow Americans. Our hearts go out to the family members, loved ones, friends, and shipmates who are grieving for these two brave Americans.”

    The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet is conducting an investigation into the incident. That probe is expected to examine whether the SEALs were properly equipped and trained for the mission, whether procedures were followed, and any decisions regarding the timing and approval of the raid, including the weather and the state of the seas.

    According to officials, the commandos launched from the USS Lewis B. Puller, a mobile sea base, and they were backed up by drones and helicopters. They loaded onto small special operations combat craft driven by naval special warfare crew to get to the boat. It was the type of boarding for which SEALs train routinely, and illegal weapons moving from Iran to Yemen-based Houthis have been a persistent concern, particularly as the rebels continue to target commercial vessels in the region.

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    Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Nathan Gage Ingram.

    The team boarding the dhow was facing more than a dozen crew members. They ultimately seized an array of Iranian-made weaponry, including cruise and ballistic missile components such as propulsion and guidance devices and warheads, as well as air defense parts, Central Command said.

    The raid was the latest seizure by the U.S. Navy and its allies of weapon shipments bound for the rebels, who have launched a series of attacks now threatening global trade in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The seized missile components included types likely used in those attacks.

    Chambers and Ingram, who were assigned to a West Coast-based SEAL unit, “were exceptional warriors, cherished teammates, and dear friends to many within the Naval Special Warfare community,” said Chaney.

    Chambers, 37, of Maryland, enlisted in the Navy in 2012, and graduated from SEAL training in 2014. His awards include the Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal with Combat “C” and three Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medals. Ingram, 27, of Texas, enlisted in 2019, and graduated from SEAL training in 2021.

    ​ Orange County Register 

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    Orange County girls soccer Top 10 rankings, Jan. 22
    • January 23, 2024

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    O.C. GIRLS SOCCER TOP 10

    (Records through Sunday, Jan. 21)

    1. Capistrano Valley (15-1-1)

    Previous ranking: 1

    2. Santa Margarita (9-1-2)

    Previous ranking: 2

    3. Los Alamitos (11-4-5)

    Previous ranking: 3

    4. Huntington Beach (12-5-3)

    Previous ranking: 4

    5. Mater Dei (5-6-2)

    Previous ranking: 5

    6. JSerra (7-3-4)

    Previous ranking: 9

    7. Pacifica (10-1-4)

    Previous ranking: 7

    8. Rosary (13-3-3)

    Previous ranking: 6

    9. Woodbridge (10-3)

    Previous ranking: 10

    10T. Edison (11-6-2)

    Previous ranking: 8

    10T. Newport Harbor (13-4-3)

    Previous ranking: not ranked

    Please send feedback to Dan Albano at [email protected] or @ocvarsityguy on X and Instagram

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    CIF-SS girls basketball polls, Jan. 22
    • January 23, 2024

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    This week’s CIF-SS high school girls basketball polls, released Monday, Jan. 22.

    CIF-SS GIRLS BASKETBALL POLLS

    (Selected by the CIF-SS Girls Basketball Committee)

    OPEN DIVISION WATCH LIST

    (Schools in alphabetical order)

    Bishop Montgomery

    Brentwood

    Centennial/Corona

    Etiwanda

    Mater Dei

    Moreno Valley

    Ontario Christian

    Orangewood Academy

    Sage Hill

    Sierra Canyon

    St. Anthony

    Windward

    DIVISION 1

    1. Sierra Canyon

    2. Etiwanda

    3. Ontario Christian

    4. Sage Hill

    5. Mater Dei

    6. Bishop Montgomery

    7. Brentwood

    8. Centennial/Corona

    9. Windward

    10. Orangewood Academy

    11. Santiago

    12. Orange Lutheran

    13. La Salle

    14. Redondo Union

    15. Esperanza

    16. North Torrance

    DIVISION 2AA

    1. Moreno Valley

    2. Mira Costa

    3. St. Anthony

    4. Fairmont Prep

    5. Buena Park

    6. Glendora

    7. Flintridge Prep

    8. Rancho Christian

    9. Ventura

    10. San Clemente

    11. South Pasadena

    12. Los Osos

    13. Rialto

    14. Crean Lutheran

    15. Claremont

    16. El Dorado

    DIVISION 2A

    1. Lakewood

    2. Louisville

    3. Buena

    4. Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks

    5. Shadow Hills

    6. Aquinas

    7. Los Alamitos

    8. Pacifica Christian/Orange County

    9. Burroughs/Burbank

    10. Chino

    11. Beckman

    12. South Torrance

    13. Diamond Bar

    14. Santa Margarita

    15. Xavier Prep

    16. Whitney

    DIVISION 3AA

    1. Oak Park

    2. Anaheim

    3. Dos Pueblos

    4. Notre Dame Academy

    5. Crossroads

    6. Oak Hills

    7. Silverado

    8. Saugus

    9. Glendale

    10. Cantwell – Sacred Heart of Mary

    11. La Habra

    12. Temescal Canyon

    13. Providence/Burbank

    14. La Canada

    15. Irvine

    16. Burroughs/Ridgecrest

    DIVISION 3A

    1. JSerra

    2. St. Margaret’s

    3. Jordan

    4. Villa Park

    5. Dana Hills

    6. St. Monica Prep

    7. Heritage

    8. Oakwood

    9. California

    10. Segerstrom

    11. California Lutheran

    12. Millikan

    13. Huntington Beach

    14. San Jacinto

    15. Godinez

    16. La Serna

    DIVISION 4AA

    1. Rancho Cucamonga

    2. Canyon/Anaheim

    3. Pacifica/Garden Grove

    4. Gahr

    5. Ramona Convent

    6. Corona

    7. Newbury Park

    8. Montclair

    9. Fontana

    10. South Hills

    11. Marshall

    12. San Marino

    13. Beverly Hills

    14. Pasadena

    15. Capo Valley Christian

    16. El Rancho

    DIVISION 4A

    1. Eastside

    2. Palos Verdes

    3. Whittier Christian

    4. West Ranch

    5. Immaculate Heart

    6. Apple Valley

    7. Ramona

    8T. Chaffey

    8T. Diamond Ranch

    10. St. Joseph (Lakewood)

    11. United Christian Academy

    12. Hesperia Christian

    13. Palm Desert

    14. Magnolia

    15. Tahquitz

    16. Schurr

    DIVISION 5AA

    1. Savanna

    2. Grand Terrace

    3. La Mirada

    4T. Adelanto

    4T. Colton

    6. Katella

    7. Loara

    8. Marymount

    9. Indian Springs

    10. Ontario

    11T. Estancia

    11T. Hemet

    13. Desert Hot Springs

    14. Fullerton

    15. Lucerne Valley

    16. Santa Ana

    DIVISION 5A

    1. Antelope Valley

    2. St. Pius X – St. Matthias Academy

    3. Hamilton

    4. Samueli Academy

    5. Southlands Christian

    6. Temecula Prep

    7. Desert Christian Academy

    8. Vasquez

    9. St. Lucy’s

    10. Sherman Indian

    11. Norte Vista

    12. Sultana

    13. Bloomington

    14. Hawthorne Math and Science Academy

    15. Morningside

    16. Los Amigos

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    Harley Rouda: Character matters. That’s why Katie Porter is unfit for the United States Senate.
    • January 23, 2024

    When you get a Google notice and your name is associated with a news article, and you’re out of political office, you take notice. So of course, I read the San Francisco Chronicle’s article comparing the memoirs from the top three democrats running to become the next senator from California – Adam Schiff, Barbara Lee and Katie Porter – with interest. Why was my name mentioned when I’ve retired from politics? Why was I mentioned at all? Much to my extreme surprise, in the last part of the article according to the reporter, Katie Porter said I asked her to valet my car at a fundraising event. 

    As opposed to the memoirs of my former colleagues Lee and Schiff, Porter’s book reveals a lot about what makes her tick. Oh, and you’ll discover as I did, a very deep hatred of my family and me. It’s personal, and surprising. I’m referenced numerous times to illustrate points about privilege and class. Her anecdotes about me mistaking her for a valet, or about my real estate purchases, or airline seats, indicate she spent a grotesque and inordinate amount of her time in the House of Representatives keeping notes, keeping score, and lying about her peers.

    Katie, as you were watching and judging my family and, as you say, “comparing myself to Harley,” I was busy working, writing, passing legislation, and bringing home resources to Orange County. It cost my family money for me to serve, quite the opposite of what you imply. After writing a paragraph about your peers who traded stock while in Congress, you conclude the chapter with me. You write: “Before he was in office, Harley was a rich guy. In Congress, he ballooned into Representative Rich Guy. That transformation changed my occasional envy of him into institutional outrage.”

    That’s your outrage? Me? With all the enormous issues facing our country and the world, and your ability to address these issues head on, this is where your outrage lies? Really? It is shallow beyond the pale.  

    Katie Porter built her brand around being a minivan driving, single mom, but the truth of the matter is she’s a boarding school, Harvard, and Yale grad. Katie had more choices and more privilege than virtually everyone else. She lives in a deeply subsidized home – worth about two million dollars – courtesy of UCI and California taxpayers, because she is on “leave” from being a professor.

    Porter boasts about taking on powerful special interests – using her whiteboard prop to scold executives – but after pledging to reject their campaign contributions, she “has accepted tens of thousands of dollars worth of contributions from powerful people with influence at the highest echelons of Wall Street.” Talk about hypocrisy. Her whiteboard everywoman act is a fake. She is, at heart, an accomplished actor who stages classless photo opps on the House floor.  

    But she doesn’t want you to see her that way. Instead, she’s the victim. Always. 

    Drama is great for reality TV, but what we desperately need in Washington D.C. is leadership, people who will reach across the aisle to get things done. Not show people like Katie Porter and Marjorie Taylor Greene who use the office as their own personal promotional outlet. In the 2022 election, Katie had to spend $29 million – 9 times more than her opponent and 99% of it from donors outside the district – and still barely won the seat. Yet Katie still managed to cost our party a seat in LA by backing a primary challenger to Christie Smith, and likely cost Democrats two more seats in Orange County by her musical chairs conducted solely for personal gain. After winning, what does Katie do? She served a total of three days before announcing she was abandoning her constituents and running for the U.S. Senate, and hand-picked a convicted drunk driver as her hopeful replacement. 

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    Katie, because I know you will read this, let me say a few things to you directly: I never asked you to valet my car, I didn’t get rich from my time in Congress, and I didn’t purchase a, “DC penthouse for millions weeks after the election.” Those are all unadulterated lies and that makes you a liar. My wife, who you claim I flew “to Washington,” is an international best-selling author and can fly herself anywhere she wants. And she chose to join me in D.C., often, because we are a team. Trying to view our motives and our lives through your lens of isolationist outrage is unfair, and untrue. Projection doesn’t look good on anybody, but especially not someone who wants to be elected to the U.S. Senate. 

    As I read your book, one thing became very clear through all your lies. You say you want to be our next senator to provide, “a voice for the minivan drivers and parents who silently lament $20 field trip fees.” But that’s not your true desire. Like your own staffers have said, you’re in this for power and position, the ability to bully, and be in the spotlight. Your book revealed your true nature. Your minivan is a prop, and your life is of your choosing. As they say, you made your bed. But Californians still have a choice. 

    If you’re not Katie Porter, I hope you vote for someone with character, stability, and wisdom. To me, Katie’s not that person, she’s no better than a bully. A bully with a white board who is in this for power and her ego. The last thing we need is more self-centered politicians like Katie Porter. 

    Harley Rouda served in the House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. He lives in Laguna Beach.

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    CIF-SS boys basketball polls, Jan. 22
    • January 23, 2024

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    This week’s CIF-SS boys basketball polls, released Monday, Jan. 22.

    CIF-SS BOYS BASKETBALL POLLS

    (Selected by the CIF-SS Boys Basketball Committee.)

    OPEN DIVISION WATCH LIST

    (Schools listed in alphabetical order)

    Centennial/Corona

    Damien

    Etiwanda

    Harvard-Westlake

    JSerra

    Mater Dei

    Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks

    Roosevelt

    Sierra Canyon

    St. John Bosco

    St. Pius X – St. Matthias Academy

    West Ranch

    Windward

    DIVISION 1

    1. Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks

    2. Mater Dei

    3. Sierra Canyon

    4. Roosevelt

    5. Harvard Westlake

    6. St. John Bosco

    7. Centennial/Corona

    8. JSerra

    9. St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy

    10. Windward

    11. Etiwanda

    12. Damien

    13T. La Mirada

    13T. Redondo Union

    15. Santa Margarita

    16. Los Alamitos

    DIVISION 2AA

    1. Crespi

    2. Campbell Hall

    3. Heritage Christian

    4. Vista Murrieta

    5. Rolling Hills Prep

    6. Trabuco Hills

    7. Thousand Oaks

    8. Dana Hills

    9. St. Anthony’s

    10.San Juan Hills

    11. Fountain Valley

    12. Maranatha

    13. Oak Park

    14. Loyola

    15. Calabasas

    16. Saugus

    DIVISION 2A

    1. Pasadena

    2. Westlake

    3. Cypress

    4. Newport Harbor

    5. Long Beach Poly

    6. Corona del Mar

    7. Lakewood

    8. San Gabriel Academy

    9. Chaminade

    10. Marina

    11. Palm Springs

    12. Upland

    13. Glendora

    14. Oak Hills

    15. Temescal Canyon

    16. Palos Verdes

    DIVISION 3AA

    1. La Habra

    2. Serra

    3. Arcadia

    4. South Pasadena

    5. Wiseburn Da Vinci

    6. Pilibos

    7. Hesperia

    8. Oaks Christian

    9. Hillcrest

    10. St. Bonaventure

    11. Bonita

    12. Leuzinger

    13. Camarillo

    14. Palm Desert

    15. Mark Keppel

    16. Troy

    DIVISION 3A

    1. San Clemente

    2. Lynwood

    3. Northwood

    4. Woodbridge

    5. Don Bosco Tech

    6. North Torrance

    7. San Marino

    8. Santa Barbara

    9. St. Monica Prep

    10. Arlington

    11. Alemany

    12. Huntington Beach

    13. Arrowhead Christian

    14. Laguna Beach

    15. El Dorado

    16. Servite

    DIVISION 4AA

    1. Price

    2. Elsinore

    3. Burroughs/Burbank

    4. Royal

    5. Cerritos

    6. Milken

    7. Golden Valley

    8. Western Christian

    9. Hemet

    10. Yeshiva (YULA)

    11. Valley Torah

    12. Corona

    13. Moorpark

    14. Fontana

    15. Santiago

    16. Diamond Ranch

    DIVISION 4A

    1. Temecula Valley

    2. Mary Star of the Sea

    3. Northview

    4. Glendale

    5T. Estancia

    5T. Irvine

    7T. Rancho Mirage

    7T. Santa Paula

    9. Pacifica/Garden Grove

    10. Long Beach Cabrillo

    11. La Salle

    12. California

    13. Carter

    14. Hillcrest Christian/Thousand Oaks

    15. Redlands

    16. Norte Vista

    DIVISION 5AA

    1. El Segundo

    2. Dunn

    3. Godinez

    4. Buckley

    5. Hoover/Glendale

    6. Castaic

    7T. Cal Baptist

    7T. Westminster

    9. Vistamar

    10. Valencia/Placentia

    11. Silver Valley

    12. Ventura

    13. Granite Hills

    14. Paloma Valley

    15. Savanna

    16. San Jacinto

    DIVISION 5A

    1. Notre Dame/Riverside

    2. Bellflower

    3. Ontario

    4. Firebaugh

    5. Los Amigos

    6. Big Bear

    7. Rancho Alamitos

    8. Pioneer

    9. Lancaster

    10. Cantwell

    11. Vasquez

    12. Serrano

    13. Montebello

    14. Carpinteria

    15. Foothill Tech

    16. Nogales

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