The Notre Dame Knights (26-2) will open Southern Section Division 1 baseball playoffs Thursday as the top-seeded team.
Orange Lutheran and Santa Ana Foothill made the 32-team Division 1 bracket as at-large teams, something that doesn’t always happen. Fortunately for them, there were only 30 automatic qualifiers.
If Notre Dame wins its opener Thursday, it could be facing a second-round matchup against a La Verne Bonita team that has two top pitchers in Justin Santiago and Garrett Patterson. But that’s the challenge of Division 1 — teams are loaded with top pitchers. Huntington Beach, with its outstanding hitting attack, will face one of the top young pitchers in Downey Warren sophomore Angel Cervantes, a UCLA commit. Santa Margarita is seeded No. 2, Huntington Beach No. 3 and JSerra No. 4.
San Bernardino Aquinas received the No. 1 seed for Division 2. Santa Ana Mater Dei earned its first playoff berth since 2017 and will open at home against Westlake Village Oaks Christian in another Division 2 game on Friday.
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