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El Camino Real is the top seed in the City Section Division I baseball playoffs. San Fernando, the reigning City Section champion, is the No. 3 seed.

El Camino Real and Chatsworth shared the West Valley League championship. The Conquistadores won a coin flip last week to determine the top seed in the baseball playoffs. Chatsworth is the No. 2 seed.

Eight teams earned wild-card bids, including Arleta, Granada Hills and Sylmar. The wild-cards games will be played Friday. The first round of the Division I playoffs begin on Tuesday. The championship game will be at Dodger Stadium on June 2.

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The Chatsworth boys volleyball team opened the City Section Division I playoffs with a three-game sweep over Lincoln to advance to the second round.

Chatsworth will play third-seeded Woodland Hills Taft in the second round on Tuesday.

Second-seeded Granada Hills had a bye in the first round and will play Bell, which eliminated Fairfax in three games.

No. 7 El Camino Real plays 10^th-seeded Narbonne in the second round. No. 6 Van Nuys plays Sun Valley Poly in the second round. Poly knocked out Kennedy of Granada Hills in three games in the first round.

Here is a look at the second round matches in the City Section Division I playoffs:

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The first round of the City Section boys' volleyball playoffs begin tonight. Kennedy from Granada Hills, the No. 22 seed in the Division I playoffs, plays 11th seeded Poly from Sun Valley.

Chatsworth, the 14th-seeded team in the Division I playoffs, opens against No. 19 Lincoln.

Palisades is the No. 1 seed in the Division I playoffs and has a first-round bye. Granada Hills is the No. 2 seed and also has a bye in the first round. The second round of the City Section Division I boys volleyball playoffs starts on Tuesday.

Here is a look at the first-round matches in Division I:

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The San Fernando baseball team is off to Las Vegas next week for the annual Durango Classic. Awaiting the reigning CIF City Section champions will be Sierra Vista, a team many consider the second best in the state of Nevada behind Bishop Gorman.

San Fernando coach Armando Gomez plans on starting Alonzo Garcia against Sierra Vista. Garcia, a sophomore, has emerged as the ace of the staff. Gomez doesn’t exactly have a designated No. 2 starter yet. Rather, he has been using a pitching staff by committee to fill in the gaps between Garcia’s starts.

Three pitchers combined to shut out Van Nuys Grant, 11-0, on Friday. Carlos Robles started the game and went three innings. Ruben Armenta came in for the next two and Miguel Hernandez pitched the seventh inning.

Isaac Dominguez provided the offense going 3-for-5 with two triples and drove in four runs. Garcia, who also plays the outfield, had a two-run double in his only at-bat.

Gomez says he hopes his team plays Chatsworth at some point during the Durango Classic. Monroe, Verdugo Hills and Sun Valley Poly are teams from the San Fernando Valley that are also entered in the tournament.

San Fernando (11-3) has won all four of its Valley Mission League games. Gomez said his team could easily be 13-1 overall.

“The three losses we’ve had, we probably should have won two of them,” Gomez said. The Tigers lost to Paraclete, 6-5, in the second game of the season. They lost 2-1 to Agoura on March 24. The only blowout was a 9-0 loss to Buena on Feb. 29.

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The Granada Hills girls soccer team has forfeited it semifinal spot in the City Section playoffs.

The Chatsworth girls will play instead of Granada Hills against El Camino Real today in the City Section semifinals, according to a report by the El Camino Real athletic department on Twittter.

The game between Chatsworth and El Camino Real, the top-seeded team in the playoffs, will be at 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

The El Camino Real soccer teams have nice draws in the CIF City Section playoffs.

The El Camino Real girls have the top seed and open against Bell. El Camino Real (19-2-1) has won 10 City Section championships, one shy of Chatsworth's City Section record of 11.

All six teams from the West Valley League qualified for the City Section playoffs.

The El Camino Real boys are the No. 2 seed in the City Section playoffs and play Hamilton (9-9-3). El Camino Real (18-4-4) won the West Valley League championship with an 8-0-2 record, has won seven games in a row and has a 10-game unbeaten streak.

San Fernando is the No. 3 seed in the City Section playoffs and open against San Pedro.

Here is a look at the City Section soccer playoffs:

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The Grant boys basketball team earned the top seed in the CIF City Section Division III playoffs and will play Bravo on Friday night. Grant (24-5) won the East Valley League championship with a 12-0 record and has won 11 games in a row.

Bravo (12-12) finished in third place in the Southern League.

Chatsworth (9-22), the reigning Division III champion, has the No. 9 seed and plays Panorama (20-8). Panorama won its first Valley Mission League championship with an 11-1 record. The Pythons lost their league finale, 56-44, to Kennedy.

Here's a look at the City Section Division III playoff pairings:

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WOODLAND HILLS – The smiles are coming a little easier for the players on the El Camino Real boys soccer team. The celebrations are a little more joyous. The wins are not as important and the time together on the field is all the more precious.

The memory of Francisco Rodriguez Jr., the El Camino Real goalie who was shot and killed in front of his house after a game against Taft on Jan. 11, still weighs heavy on the players.

Before El Camino Real’s game against Chatsworth on Monday night, the first home game since Rodriguez was killed, there was a 26-second moment of silence. Rodriguez wore No. 26 when he was on the El Camino Real soccer team.

The goal was empty before the start of the game, the same tribute paid to Rodriguez in the first game El Camino Real played at Cleveland of Reseda after his death.

After the kickoff, goaltender Randdi Misrahi ran onto the field and took his position. Once the game was under way, El Camino Real put on an offensive display scoring three goals in the second half in a 5-0 shutout over Chatsworth.

Lucas Ladek scored the first goal for El Camino Real (11-4-4) in the fifth minute. Erickson Penate put El Camino Real up 2-0 with a goal in the 17^th minute.

The Conquistadors went into halftime with a 2-0 lead. Misrahi was barely tested in goal in the first half by Chatsworth. Once the second half started, El Camino applied more pressure, but didn’t score again until the 62^nd minute.

Kayvon Parsa and Latif Al-kassir scored within three minutes of each other and gave El Camino Real a 4-0 lead. Mark Gomez knocked in the final goal for El Camino Real rebounding a shot that went off the goal post in the 73^rd minute.

It was the 10^th shutout of the season for El Camino Real. Misrahi has recorded two shutouts in the three games since the death of Rodriguez.

The game between El Camino Real and Chatsworth was originally scheduled for Friday, but was rescheduled because of the funeral for Rodriguez.

El Camino Real is 2-0-2 in its past four games and hasn’t lost since Jan. 5, 1-0, to Mililani in the Hawaii Invitational.

Chatsworth (0-5-3) lost its fourth game in a row.

Fans, supporters and celebrities poured out in support of the San Feranando baseball team after the Tigers won their first CIF City Section championship since 1991.

San Fernando beat Chatsworth, 8-6, in the championship game at Dodger Stadium. But when it came time to buy rings commemorating their championship season, the players and parents didn’t have the money to pay for them. It was later discovered that the 1991 team was in the same boat and never received rings for the championship season.

The baseball players started selling T-shirts recognizing both championship teams, 20 years apart, to raise money for equipment, uniforms and hopefully rings.

That’s when comedian George Lopez stepped in. He graduated from San Fernando High in 1977 and played a little baseball when he was a student. He offered to buy the players their rings and help out raising funds for equipment.

At least the 2011 San Fernando players will have a precious memento from their championship season.

Cleveland of Reseda, the sixth-seeded team in the City Section girls tennis playoffs, upset third-seeded Eagle Rock, 4-3, and advanced to today's semifinals.

Cleveland plays No. 2 Palisades for a spot in the championship match.

Top-seeded Granada Hills moved on to the semifinals with a 6-1 win over Chatsworth. Granada Hills plays No. 4 Van Nuys, which eliminated Woodland Hills Taft, 4-3, in the quarterfinals.

Here's a look at the quarterfinal results and the semifinal matches in the City Section championship and invitational playoffs:

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The ninth-seeded Chatsworth girls tennis team swept Carson out of the City Section playoffs, 7-0, and will face top-seeded Granada Hills in the quarterfinals today.

Tenth-seeded Narbonne squeaked past Los Angeles CES, 4-3, and will play second-seeded Palisades.

In the other quarterfinal matches, No. 3 Eagle Rock plays No. 6 Cleveland of Reseda and No. 4 Van Nuys plays No. 12 Woodland Hills Taft.

Here is a look at the first-round results and quarterfinal matches in the championship and invitational brackets:

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1. Jonathan Sanders from New Jewish Community in West Hills finished in a tie for eighth place at the CIF boys golf state championship at Poppy Hill Golf Club in Pebble Beach. He was 1-over par 73. Johnny Ruiz from Camarillo shot 9-over par 81 and finished tied for 36^th place out of 48 golfers who qualified for the state final. Sanders was 2-under par after 11 holes, but ran into trouble on the 12^th hole, a 509-yard, par-5. He recorded a double bogey after hitting his tee shot out of bounds. He followed with bogeys on the 13^th and 17^th holes before recording a birdie on the 18^th. Ruiz, who lost in a playoff in the CIF Southern California Golf Association regional at Brookside Golf Club in Pasadena a week earlier, had a rought start on the back nine at Poppy Hills. He had a triple bogey on the 12^th and was 7-over par from the ninth to the 13^th holes. Alexander Schauffele from Scripps Ranch won the CIF state golf championship over Nicolo Galleti of Foothill in a playoff. Both were tied with 3-under par 69s after 18 holes. Schauffele won the tournament on the third playoff hole.
2. David Hubinger from St. Francis High School in La Canada Flintridge earned the most valuable player award in the fifth annual City vs. Southern Section All-Star Baseball Game. The Southern Section won the game, 15-3, at Birmingham High School. Hubinger, a catcher who’s headed to Pepperdine, was 2-for-3 with a double and drove in three runs. The Southern Section all stars won for the first time since 2008. The City Section leads the series, 3-2.
3. The San Fernando Valley boys and girls basketball all star teams won the War on the Floor Future Stars games against Ventura County all star teams at Moorpark High School. The San Fernando Valley boys won, 102-96, as 10 players scored in double figures. Terrell Funchess from Chatsworth led the San Fernando all stars with 18 points. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame’s Jonathan Bell had 14 and Cleveland of Reseda’s JR Williams had 12. Oxnard’s Matt Ramon, playing for the Ventura County all stars, led all scorers with 21 points and had 10 rebounds. The San Fernando girls won, 86-53, over the Ventura County all stars. Jasmine Smith and Rishonda Napier from Bellarmine-Jefferson in Burbank led the San Fernando Valley all stars. They combined for 29 points. Napier had 16 points and Smith poured in 13 and had eight rebounds. Brianna Barrett of Oaks Christian led the Ventura County all stars with 17 points.
4. Cami Chapus from Harvard-Westlake won the adidas Grand Prix High School Girls’ Dream Mile at Randall’s Island, N.Y. She set the fastest time in the nation in the mile this year and set a personal-best in 4 minutes, 42.71 seconds. Chapus finished ahead of Elanor Fulton of Highlands Ranch in Colorado and Alli Billmeyer of Torrey Pines in San Diego. Loyola’s Elias Gedyon was third in the adidas Grand Prix boys race in New York.
5. Agoura’s Jonathan Cabral missed setting the state record in the 110 hurdles by 0.02 seconds, but won the race in the Golden West Invitational at Folsom High School. He won the race in a wind-legal time of 13.41 seconds, the second-fastest time in state history. Kevin Craddock of James Logan High School in Union City set the state mark in 13.39 seconds in 2004. Cabral matched the time set by Steve Kerho of Mission Viejo in 1982. Cabral also won the 300 hurdles in 35.76 seconds, the fifth-fastest time in state history.

Hart High’s Tyler Glasnow was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the fifth round of the Major League Baseball draft Tuesday.

The right-hander, listed at 6 feet 7 and 200 pounds, is committed to the University of Portland

He was one of eight prep players from the LA North region selected on the second day of the draft.

Newbury Park’s Danny Keller, Golden Valley’s Scott Barlow and Campbell Hall’s Adam Ehrlich were taken in the sixth round.

Keller, a right-handed pitcher, was taken by the Milwaukee Brewers with the 191^st pick.

Barlow, another right-handed starter, was picked by the Los Angeles Dodgers with the 194^th pick. He has a scholarship offer from Fresno State.

Ehrlich, a catcher, was taken with the 200^th pick by the St. Louis Cardinals.

Oaks Christian’s Trevor Gretzky, the son of NHL Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky, was taken in the seventh round by the Chicago Cubs. The left-handed first baseman was expected to go to San Diego State.

Two players went in the 17^th round. Chatsworth outfielder Aaron Brown was picked by the Pittsburgh Pieates. The New York Yankees took Chaminade right-handed starter Mathew Troupe.

Oxnard infielder Austin Davidson went to the Boston Red Sox in the 21^st round.

LOS ANGELES – Chatsworth scored twice without a hit in the fifth inning and won a wild CIF City Section semifinal playoff game, 4-1, over Birmingham at USC’s Dedeaux Field on Wednesday.

Down 1-0, Chatsworth loaded the bases in the fifth inning and scored on a squeeze play and a groundout to take a 2-1 lead.

Birmingham starter Kevin Torres hit three Chatsworth batters in a row to load the bases.

Jared Holley, the No. 9 hitter, drove in the first run on a squeeze play that scored Ricky Obando. Steve Karkenny followed with an RBI groundout that scored Kiefer Kofman.

Chatsworth starter Christian Lopez pitched into the fourth inning, but was taken out of the game with two outs and the bases loaded. Reliever Angel Rodriguez struck out Daniel Rivas to end the fourth and held Birmingham scoreless the rest of the way to preserve the win.

Birmingham took a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning on an RBI single by Randy Medellin. He knocked in Torres, who led off the inning with a walk.

Torres kept his team in the game for the first five innings. He gave up only one hit in the five innings and struck out three.

But he ran into trouble in the fifth and sixth innings. After giving up two runs and the lead in the fifth inning, Torres gave up another two runs in the sixth.

Raul Camas led of the inning with a single and came around to score on a botched pop-up in front of home plate. With the bases loaded, pinch hitter Ernesto Prado hit a towering pop fly between the pitcher’s mound and home plate. Neither catcher Luke Jupp nor third baseman Erick Munoz could make the catch and Camas scored to give Chatsworth a 3-1 lead.

Pinch hitter Chris Carlin knocked in Obando with a one-out single to put Chatsworth up 4-1.

Chatsworth, winners of nine City Section championships, advances to the Division I title game at Dodger Stadium on Saturday at 2 p.m. against the winner of the other semifinal involving El Camino Real and San Fernando.

1. Justin Bowie from Birmingham won the 110 hurdles at the CIF City Section track and field finals at Birmingham High School. He led his team to a second-place finish at the meet. Dorsey won the meet with 110 points. Birmingham was second with 36.5. Mario Castillo from Woodland Hills Taft won the 800. Saul Sanchez from Granada Hills won the 300 hurdles in 39.84 seconds. Malik Johnson from El Camino Real won the high jump and Alex Hamidzadeh from El Camino Real won the pole vault. Kevin Adekayade from Chatsworth won the long jump.
2. On the girls side, Lexis Lambert won two events, the 100 and the 200, and led Woodland Hills Taft to a second-place finish at the CIF City Section track and field finals. She won the 100 in 12.16 seconds and the 200 in 24.88 seconds. Carson won the meet with 93 points. Taft was second with 63 points. The Taft 4-x-100 relay team won in 47.59 seconds. Laurie Henigan from Taft won the 100 hurdles in 14.32 seconds. Thomesha Smith from Chatsworth won the shot put.
3. The Harvard-Westlake boys tennis team is in the CIF Southern Section Division I tennis final against top-seeded University. The two teams meet Wednesday at the Claremont Club. Harvard-Westlake eliminted second-seeded Palos Verdes in the semifinals and third-seeded Corona del Mar to reach the championship match. University is making its sixth straight appearance in a CIF championship match and has won three of the past four Division I titles.
4. The Viewpoint boys tennis team is in the CIF Southern Section Division IV championship match and will play Laguna Beach at the Claremont Club. Viewpoint is the reigning Division IV champ. Laguna Beach is the second-seeded team in the playoffs. The two teams met in last year’s Division IV semifinal. Viewpoint won, 10-8, before beating Rowland in the championship match. Viewpoint is undefeated in CIF championship matches at 5-0. The Patriots won four CIF titles in a row from 2004-07.
5. The Oaks Christian softball team is in search of its first CIF championship since 2004. The top-seeded Lions are in the semifinals and play No. 4 Chino Hills on Tuesday. Chino Hills knocked Oaks Christian out of the playoffs last year with a 5-0 shutout in the quarterfinals. Oaks Christian is in the midst of a five-game winning streak, including three in playoffs, and has outscored its opponents, 29-0, in that stretch.