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Temecula Valley High School Girls Soccer Playoffs Start Saturday

Temecula Valley High School heads to Division 1 playoffs on Saturday, vs. Sunny High School of Fullerton.

TVHS women's soccer, pictured after winning the Best in the West tournament in late December, plays for the Division 1 title starting Saturday.
TVHS women's soccer, pictured after winning the Best in the West tournament in late December, plays for the Division 1 title starting Saturday. (Photo: Courtesy TVHS, Suzette Jacobsen)

TEMECULA, CA — The CIF Southern Section Division 1 Girls Soccer brackets are out as of Tuesday, leaving high schools across the southland scrambling to see where they fall in the coming playoffs. Brackets were announced for all divisions on the CIF-SS website.

In Division 1, the Temecula Valley High School girls soccer team, ranked at #2 in the CIF-SS Division 1 poll, is slated to play at home vs. Sunny Hills on Saturday, Feb. 12 with a projected start time of 5 p.m.

Sunny Hills is an At-Large finisher from the Freeway Division with a record of 17-6-2. Temecula Valley High School clinched the Southwest Division with a record of 17-1-1.

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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


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


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