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LAGUNA SPORTS UPDATE By Frank Aronoff | LB Indy
FALL SPORTS UPDATE
CROSS COUNTRY Girls 2nd and Boys Finish 3rd at
Wave League Meet The Breaker Girls Cross Country squad ran a team time of 1:40.06 to finish second to Wave champion Corona del Mar in the league cross country meet held on Oct . 29 at Central Park in Huntington Beach . Laguna was led by Yolo Javier and Brighton Welch , who both earned first-team all-league honors . Kira Flores , Sydney Sydney , Karina Pitz , Hayden Joseph and Anoua Carrie all earned Second Team All-League .
On the boys ’ side , Senior runner Christopher Drews ran a 16:21.0 3-mile to finish fifth and earn a first team All- League selection . Theo Drews and Enzo Casolari earned second team honors . Huntington Beach won the Boys ’ meet followed by Corona Del Mar , Laguna and Marina .
CIF : The Girls are ranked # 9 have qualified and will run in the prelims on Nov . 12 . The top 16 teams in Division 4 advance to the finals on Nov . 19 at Mt SAC . Only the top seven teams in the finals will advance to the State on Nov . 26 . Christopher Drews qualified
The Laguna Beach Breakers Water Polo varsity team topped San Juan Hills at home 14-8 on Oct . 28 . Photo / Mitch Ridder
as an individual to run the SSCIF D4 preliminaries as the only Laguna Boys representative .
For more information , visit www . lbxc . org for girls ’ cross country , and www . lagunabeachcrosscountry . com for boys .
FOOTBALL ( 7-3 , 3-0 ) Breakers League Champs ! – Host
West Torrance In CIF
After 75 years , Laguna has finally put together back-to-back league titles capturing the Pac 4 League last
Friday night with a 40-0 victory at Ocean View in Huntington Beach . Not since the days of Vern Dugger has Laguna put together a two-year league dominance , and the Breakers will be the favorites next season , with Westminster their chief obstacle . Laguna was rewarded with a home game to open the SSCIF D9 playoffs this Friday , Nov . 4 , at 7 p . m . at Guyer Field for their 21st post-season run in 88 seasons of varsity football at the school .
Breakers will face West Torrance
( 5-5 ), the third-place team from the Pioneer League . The Warriors have wins over Santa Monica , Peninsula , South Torrance , El Segundo , and Torrance with a ranking of # 151 , just behind the Breakers and appear to be a very similar team to Laguna . The Breaker connection to West High goes back to Dennis Haryung , head coach for Laguna from 1974- 77 and 1982-84 . Dennis came to the Artists after ten seasons with the Warriors . Haryung was the P . E . instructor at Thurston .
The new CIF rating system instituted last season does the division placement after the conclusion of the regular season . The 16 schools in the assigned playoff division are all ranked in a cluster , so there are no easy contests . D9 schools are ranked between # 141 and # 162 of the 372 Southern Section schools playing football . Two of Laguna ’ s 2022 opponents were ranked higher than the Breakers – Crean Lutheran is # 126 ( Breakers lost 35-27 ) and Northwood is # 130 ( a 35-31 Breaker win ). They are in D8 , while four other opponents have also made the postseason – Capo Valley Christian and Segerstrom in D11 , Dana Hills and Westminster in D10 .
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