4-3 victory<\/a> against No. 3 seed Fullerton in a nonleague regular season finale on May 6. Millikan likely moved up from Division 2 to Division 1 because of that win.<\/p>\n\u201cWe have the ability to beat a top-ranked team,\u201d Lehr explained. \u201cEverything is going to have to come together in order for that to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Lauryn Kim #48 of Millikan scores past catcher Janelle Morris #5 of Long Beach Poly in the fourth inning of a prep softball game at El Dorado Park West in Long Beach on Thursday, April 16, 2026. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News\/ SCNG)<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Long Beach Poly (15-4), the Moore League\u2019s second-place team, earned the No. 4 seed in the Division 2 bracket. They will host Moorpark (11-8) on May 14. The Jackrabbits won the CIF-SS Division 4 title last season. It was the program\u2019s first CIF title.<\/p>\n
All eight divisions will be 32-team single-elimination brackets.<\/p>\n
The CIF-SS softball championship games will be played at Deanna Manning Stadium at Barber Park in Irvine on Thursday, May 28, through Saturday, May 30.<\/p>\n
Here is the first-round schedule for local teams:<\/p>\n
(All games will begin at 3:15 p.m. unless noted otherwise.)<\/p>\n
DIVISION 1<\/p>\n
First round, Friday, May 15<\/p>\n
Millikan at Orange Lutheran<\/p>\n
Los Alamitos at La Mirada<\/p>\n
DIVISION 2<\/p>\n
First round, Thursday, May 14<\/p>\n
Warren at Thousand Oaks<\/p>\n
St. Joseph\/Lakewood at Aliso Niguel<\/p>\n
Moorpark at Long Beach Poly<\/p>\n
Yorba Linda at Gahr<\/p>\n
DIVISION 3<\/p>\n
First round, Friday, May 15<\/p>\n
Oak Park at Valley Christian\/Cerritos<\/p>\n
DIVISION 4<\/p>\n
First round, Thursday, May 14<\/p>\n
Harvard-Westlake at Lakewood<\/p>\n
Pasadena Poly at Paramount<\/p>\n
DIVISION 5<\/p>\n
First round, Friday, May 15<\/p>\n
Anaheim at Norwalk<\/p>\n
Long Beach Wilson at Temple City<\/p>\n
Ontario at Cerritos<\/p>\n
DIVISION 7<\/p>\n
First round, Friday, May 15<\/p>\n
Windward at Artesia<\/p>\n
Bellflower at Edgewood<\/p>\n
St. Pius X-St. Matthias at Ramona Convent<\/p>\n
DIVISION 8<\/p>\n
First round, Thursday, May 14<\/p>\n
Santa Clarita Christian at Avalon<\/p>\n
Calvary Chapel\/Downey at Hawthorne MSA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The La Mirada, Millikan, Los Alamitos and Long Beach Poly softball teams each earned a notable spot in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,85900,2044,131,133,132,137,127],"class_list":["post-307953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-high-school-softball","tag-high-school-sports","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307953","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=307953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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La Mirada head coach Brent Tuttle congratulates Riley Hilliard (11) after hitting a home run on the first inning against Warren in their Gateway League softball game at La Mirada High School on Thursday April 30, 2026. La Mirada defeated Warren 6-0 to clinch the Gateway League Championship. (Photo by Keith Durflinger, Contributing Photographer)<\/p>\n