{"id":795082,"date":"2026-05-14T05:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795082\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:02:18","slug":"la-city-baseball-playoffs-open-division-semifinals-set-no-1-monroe-goes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795082\/","title":{"rendered":"LA City Baseball Playoffs: Open Division Semifinals Set; No. 1 Monroe Goes Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"75\">The Los Angeles City Section baseball playoffs are underway, and for the Open Division and Division I participants, dreams of playing at Dodger Stadium are on the line. It&#8217;s a City Section tradition unlike any other.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"78\">Granada Hills Charter, Carson and El Camino Real \u2014 the 2025 Open champs \u2014 got a step closer with victories on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7b\"><strong>Granada Hills 2, Bell 0 (8 innings):<\/strong> Luke Chau anchored the Highlanders from the bump with three strikeouts and allowing just two hits in a complete-game performance. Bell&#8217;s ace Jayden Rojas punched out 10 batters threw seven innings. An RBI single from Nick Penaranda followed by another run via a bunt gave Granada Hills the road victory.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7e\"><strong>El Camino Real 11, South Gate 0: <\/strong>The game was over in 5 innings due to mercy rule. Jackson Sellz gave up just one hit. JJ Saffie was 3 for 3 with a homer and four RBIs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7h\"><strong>Carson 6, Garfield 5: <\/strong>Xavier Allen delivered a walk-off double to keep the Colts alive and advance to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7k\">Birmingham will host Banning Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7n\">The Open Division semifinals will be played on Wednesday, May 20 at Cal State Northridge in a double header at 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7q\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/high-school\/california\/cif-southern-section-d1-baseball-playoffs-1st-round-pool-play-scores-2nd-round-matchups-01krfj7dntbt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>CIF SOUTHERN SECTION D1 ROUNDUP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTHER NOTABLE SCORES, NOTES<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7w\"><strong>Sylmar 7, Marshall 0: <\/strong>Matthew Torres threw a complete game with six strikeouts. Rickee Luevano had a HR and three RBIs in the Division I opener. The Spartans are the  No. 1 seed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7z\"><strong>Kennedy 13, Monroe 3: <\/strong>The special season for Monroe is over. Despite being the No. 1 seed in Division II, Kennedy&#8217;s more competitive schedule during the regular season paid off.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"82\"><strong>Palisades 1, Narbonne 0 (8 innings):<\/strong> Ethan Davis with the heroics to win the game with a walk-off single. Caleb Gitlin had 11 strikeouts from the bump.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"85\"><strong>WEST VALLEY LEAGUE:<\/strong> All WVL teams won in the opening round. Taft beat San Pedro 13-9. Cleveland beat Maywood CES 18-0 and Chatsworth topped North Hollywood 5-4. All in Division I.<\/p>\n<p>CITY BASEBALL PLAYOFF BRACKETS<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-14\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8b\"><strong>\u2014<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/high-school\/stats\/california\/baseball\/brackets\/17681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>OPEN DIVISION<\/strong><\/a><br \/><strong>\u2014<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/high-school\/stats\/california\/baseball\/brackets\/17682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>DIVISION I<\/strong><\/a><br \/><strong>\u2014<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/high-school\/stats\/california\/baseball\/brackets\/17683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>DIVISION II<\/strong><\/a><br \/><strong>\u2014<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/high-school\/stats\/california\/baseball\/brackets\/17684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>DIVISON III<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CIF SOUTHERN SECTION BRACKETSPOOL PLAY MATCHUPS FRIDAY<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-18\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8n\">All 1-0 teams will play each other while the 0-1 teams face off on Friday. The teams that go 2-0 automatically advance to the quarterfinals on May 22. The 0-2 teams will be eliminated. The two remaining 1-1 teams will play a third game against each other on May 19.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-19\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8q\"><strong>POOL A:\u00a0<\/strong>Norco at Notre Dame; Ayala at Maranatha<br \/><strong>POOL B:\u00a0<\/strong>Harvard-Westlake at Huntington Beach; Temecula at La Mirada<br \/><strong>POOL C:\u00a0<\/strong>Sierra Canyon at St. John Bosco; Oaks Christian at Cypress<br \/><strong>POOL D:\u00a0<\/strong>Orange Lutheran at Corona; Corona Santiago at Etiwanda<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow si.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles City Section baseball playoffs are underway, and for the Open Division and Division I participants,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":795083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-795082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116571181192231009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}