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Lady Warriors battle the Broncos

Fallbrook's girls' water polo team wins league, seeded third in Div. 1 playoffs

The Fallbrook High School girls' varsity water polo team secured the Valley League championship with a win over Ramona High School in the Warriors' home pool Friday, Feb. 6.

The win means the Warriors finished the league season with an undefeated 5-0 record which earned them a birth in the CIF San Diego Section 2020 girls' water polo Championships Division I tournament.

The Warriors finished the regular season with a 19-9 record, earning them the No. 3 seed in the tournament and a first-round bye.

The Warriors are scheduled to play the winner of No. 11 seed Canyon Crest Academy and No. 6 seeded West Hills High School in the quarterfinals at 2:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at Coggan Aquatic Center in La Jolla.

If they win that game, they will play at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, again at Coggan Aquatic Center in the semifinals, likely matching up against No. 2 seeded Rancho Bernardo High School, a team the Warriors lost a very close game to just a week ago.

If they get by Rancho Bernardo, or the team that beats the Broncos, in that semifinal game, they will play in the Division I Championship game Saturday, Feb. 22, at 4:30 p.m. at Coggan Aquatic Center.

If all goes well, there's a very good chance the Warriors will match up against No. 1 seeded Poway High School, the team the Warriors lost to earlier in the season and lost to in the finals of the Division II championship in 2019.

Coggan Aquatic Center is located at 800 Nautilus Street in La Jolla.

The Warriors rebounded to beat the visiting Bulldogs Thursday, Feb. 6, after suffering perhaps their toughest defeats of the season, an 18-17 loss on the road to Rancho Bernardo Wednesday, Feb. 5, and a 12-11 loss to Del Norte High School Tuesday, Feb. 4, also on the road.

The week ended the most difficult portion of the season for the Warriors, who played seven games in eight days and went 1-4 in the San Diego Open over the previous weekend.

The Warriors opened that tournament with an 11-7 win over Valhalla High School and an 8-7 loss to Del Norte Thursday, Jan. 30. They returned a day later to lose to El Camino High School 12-5, then dropped Feb. 1 matches with Poway (13-8) and West View High School (17-11).

"It was definitely a great experience for the girls," head coach Sean Redmond said. "The first quarters kind of hurt us, but we bounced back and had great games and started playing better later on. I think it should show the girls we still have some work to do, with CIF coming up, I think we'll be in pretty good shape on where we end up playing."

Jeff Pack can be reached by email at [email protected].

 

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