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The Fairmont Prep and Sage Hill girls basketball teams are seeded first and second, respectively, in Division I for the CIF Southern California Regional while Kennedy tops Division V.
The SoCal regional, which starts on Tuesday, send its champions to the CIF State finals March 14-15 at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.
Fairmont Prep (21-10) and Sage Hill (19-11) both competed in the CIF-SS Open Division but drop one division for the regional.
On Tuesday, Fairmont Prep plays host to No. 16 Birmingham (22-7), a semifinalist from the L.A. City Section’s Open Division. Sage Hill takes on visiting No. 15 Westchester (22-7), the Open Division runner-up in the City Section.
All regional games start at 7 p.m. unless noted.
Mater Dei (28-3) is Orange County’s lone team in the Open Division. The third-seeded Monarchs play host to Bishop Montgomery (22-5) on Wednesday and would travel to Etiwanda (22-5) for the semifinals on Saturday with a victory. No. 2 Etiwanda has a bye for the first round.
Kennedy (17-13) earned the county’s other top seed. The Fighting Irish, a semifinalist in CIF-SS Division 4A, plays host to Santana (25-6) in Division V on Tuesday. Santana captured Division V in San Diego.
Tesoro (23-11) and Savanna (21-6) will clash a Division IV first round game Tuesday at Tesoro. In the CIF-SS Division 4AA semifinals, Tesoro beat the Rebels 53-45 en route to its first section final.
El Toro (18-11), which also claimed its first section title, drew the No. 16 seed in Division III and a first-round game against Palisades (15-15) at Birmingham High on Tuesday at 5 p.m. Several players from the City Section team lost their homes in the Palisades fire.
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