Four Laguna Beach teams qualify for CIF playoffs

Four Laguna Beach High fall sports teams have qualified for the CIF

Southern Section playoffs, which began Thursday with two Breakers

squads kicking off their postseasons.

In girls’ tennis, Laguna, which tied for the Pacific Coast League

championship with Corona del Mar but carries the league’s No. 2 seed

into the playoffs, began its quest for the Division I crown Thursday

against visiting Canyon of Anaheim.

The Comanches are ranked third in the Century League.

A win over Canyon would put Laguna, which reached the semifinal

round last year, into a Saturday second-round match against the

winner of another Thursday match between Foothill and Etiwanda.

The Laguna boys’ water polo team also made its way into the

Division I playoffs, earning the PCL’s No. 3 seed and took on Sea

View League champion Foothill Thursday.

A victory over the Knights moves Laguna into a second-round match

against the winner of Thursday’s match between Loyola and San

Clemente.

Laguna’s boys’ and girls’ cross county teams will participate

Saturday at the CIF Southern Section prelims at Mount San Antonio

College in Walnut.

The Breaker girls will run a Division IV heat at 8:27 a.m. and the

boys will run their Division IV heat at 9:51 a.m.