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Orange County's D1 Girls Soccer Brackets Announced: Villa Park Tops Polls

In OC, Villa Park High School girls soccer team heads to the first round of CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs on Saturday vs. ML King High School.

Villa Park, shown here in the Best of the West Tournament, along with TVHS midfielder Annika Jost, ranked 4th in the CIF-SS Division 1 polls released Tuesday.
Villa Park, shown here in the Best of the West Tournament, along with TVHS midfielder Annika Jost, ranked 4th in the CIF-SS Division 1 polls released Tuesday. (Photo: Ashley Ludwig, Patch Staff)

VILLA PARK, CA — The CIF Southern Section Division 1 Girls Soccer brackets are out, leaving high schools across the southland scrambling to see where they fall in the coming playoffs.

Villa Park High School girls soccer is slated to play at home vs. ML King at home on Saturday, Feb. 12. Game times have yet to be announced.

ML King, of the Big VIII League, finished #3 in their division, with a record of 13-2-5. Villa Park High School won the Crestview Division with a record of 16-3-2.

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Games and times may vary and be updated in the first round of Division 1 CIF-SS playoffs.

(Team listed first will be hosting the first game in the contest for the Southern Section title).

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In Bracket 1:

Santiago vs. Huntington Beach

La Mirada vs. Brea Olinda

San Juan Hills vs. Santa Margarita

Etiwanda vs. Poly/LB

Capistrano Valley vs. JSerra

Newport Harbor vs. Chaminade

Claremont vs. Edison

Villa Park vs. ML King

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In Bracket 2:

(Team listed first will be hosting the first game in the contest for the Southern Section title).

Harvard Westlake vs. Aliso Niguel

Moorpark vs. Pacifica GG

Milikan vs. El Dorado

Los Alamitos vs. Saugus

San Clemente vs. University

Mater Dei vs. Alta Loma

Mira Costa vs. Marina

Temecula Valley vs. Sunny Hills

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The final CIF-SS Division 1 poll, released Tuesday, placed Santiago in the tops spot, Temecula Valley at #2 for the region with Harvard Westlake, last year's top winner, at #3.

The CIF-SS Poll ranked teams as the following:

  1. Santiago (Corona)
  2. Temecula Valley
  3. Harvard Westlake
  4. Villa Park
  5. Capistrano Valley
  6. Los Alamitos
  7. San Clemente
  8. Etiwanda
  9. San Juan Hills
  10. Mater Dei

View the official brackets on the CIF-Southern Section Website, as well as Division 2-7 brackets and wildcards.

This report will be updated.

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