{"id":168396,"date":"2026-02-07T18:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168396\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:53:08","slug":"press-telegram-preview-first-round-schedule-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168396\/","title":{"rendered":"Press-Telegram preview, first round schedule \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Press-Telegram area will be represented by 16 teams in next week\u2019s CIF Southern Section boys soccer playoffs, led by Warren in the Division 1 bracket.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears are the Gateway League\u2019s No. 3 seed. Warren finished with the area\u2019s highest total ranking of any team that earned an automatic or at-large playoff berth.<\/p>\n<p>Downey, the Gateway League\u2019s second place team, will be the No. 1 overall in the Division 2 playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the Division 2 bracket, Paramount, the Gateway League\u2019s No. 1 seed, will host Millikan, the Moore League\u2019s No. 1 seed, in an all local first round match on Wednesday, Feb. 11.<\/p>\n<p>Another local match will be played in Division 6. Firebaugh, the Mid-Cities League\u2019s No. 2 seed, host Valley Christian of Cerritos, the Olympic League\u2019s No. 2 seed in the first round on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Artesia, the 605 League\u2019s No. 3 seed, will be the No. 1 overall seed in the Division 7 playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Second round games will be play on Friday, Feb. 13. Quarterfinals will be play Feb. 17. Semifinals will be played Feb. 21. The CIF-SS finals will be played on Feb. 27 or Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>CIF-SS PLAYOFFS SCHEDULE<\/p>\n<p>BOYS SOCCER\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Round 1, Wednesday, Feb. 11<\/p>\n<p>Division 1<\/p>\n<p>Warren (8-8-6) at El Toro (18-2-5)<\/p>\n<p>Division 2<\/p>\n<p>Salesian (8-5-1) at Downey (12-4-6)<\/p>\n<p>Millikan (18-3-3) at Paramount (13-5-2)<\/p>\n<p>Division 3<\/p>\n<p>Colony (11-6-2) at Los Alamitos (9-16-2)<\/p>\n<p>Palmdale (8-2-4) at Long Beach Wilson (10-10-4)<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Poly (11-7-6) at Channel Islands (16-3-1)<\/p>\n<p>Division 4<\/p>\n<p>Hemet (9-6-6) at Lakewood (16-8-2)<\/p>\n<p>Division 5<\/p>\n<p>Riverside Prep (8-13-4) at Bellflower (7-7-6)<\/p>\n<p>Norwalk (9-5-3) at AB Miller (9-2-2)<\/p>\n<p>Division 6<\/p>\n<p>Valley Christian (13-4-1) at Firebaugh (9-7-2)<\/p>\n<p>Division 7<\/p>\n<p>Loma Linda Academy (11-4) at Artesia (9-12-2)<\/p>\n<p>San Gabriel Academy (11-9-1) at Glenn (9-6-5)<\/p>\n<p>St. Bonaventure (10-8-1) at Cerritos (13-4-2)<\/p>\n<p>St. Anthony (5-11-3) at\u00a0 Academy for Academic Excellence of Apple Valley (8-6-3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Press-Telegram area will be represented by 16 teams in next week\u2019s CIF Southern Section boys soccer playoffs,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,54213,2044,131,133,132,137,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-168396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-high-school-soccer","10":"tag-high-school-sports","11":"tag-long-beach","12":"tag-long-beach-headlines","13":"tag-long-beach-news","14":"tag-los-angeles-county","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}