• Santa Monica High School’s boys soccer team hosts Corona del Mar in the second round of the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Division IV playoffs today at 3 p.
The Santa Monica Rugby Club dominated Eagle Rock Athletic Club in league rugby play Saturday. The Dolphin U16 boys started the day with a convincing 17-10 win.
SAMOHI — Santa Monica High School girls basketball routed Anaheim High School, 65-25, in a CIF-SS Division I-A first round playoff game Thursday at Samohi.
PACIFICA — The little program that could seems to still be doing it. Pacifica Christian’s boys basketball team qualified for the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section’s Division VI-AA playoffs as the no.
• St. Monica High School’s boys basketball defeated Milken Community 51-46 in a Division V-AA first round playoff game on Wednesday evening. The Mariners will advance to play Notre Dame in a second round matchup at St.
SAMOHI — Coach James Hecht likes flying under the radar. His Santa Monica High School boys basketball team came into the season as the hip pick to win the Ocean League.
SAMOHI — A pair of third-round playoff defeats in a row has junior point guard Thea Lemberger frustrated. In her third year on varsity, she would love nothing more than to make it to the quarter finals of the Division I-AA California Interscholastic Federation’s playoffs — and perhaps even further.
• St. Monica, the no. 9 seed in the Division V-AA girls basketball playoffs, will play host Ontario Christian at 7:30 p.m. The Mariners finished the season as the third place team in the Camino Real League.
CITYWIDE — This season has been kind to area sports teams. Santa Monica High School, Crossroads School, Pacifica Christian High School and St. Monica all will be heavily represented in the California Interscholastic Federation playoffs in soccer, basketball and girls water polo this year.
SAMOHI — If the boys soccer team is going to repeat as state champs, the ride will be wild. Having finished third in the Ocean League, the defending champs will have to win a play-in wild card game against Covina’s Gladstone High School (11-11-1 overall, 6-6 in Montview League play) today at John Ad
SAMOHI — Nobody ever said that defending a state title was easy. Santa Monica High School’s boys soccer team manhandled the competition last season on the road to a California Interscholastic Federation championship over San Diego’s Poway High School.
SAMOHI — If Athletic Director Norm Lacy had his way, a new league would be in his program’s future. The problem is, not every school that would be affected by the changes sees it the way Lacy does.