CIF-North Coast Section football brackets announced: De La Salle over Pittsburg in Open/Division I

Evidently 29 years of perfection means one thing. 

De La Salle’s soccer workforce, maligned a lot of the season attributable to three shut defeats to 3 Northern California powers, was picked No. 1 over Pittsburg as the highest North Coast Part Open/Division I seed on Sunday. 

The Spartans of Harmony (7-3) will open Friday in opposition to eighth-seed James Logan-Union Metropolis (7-3), whereas No. 2 Pittsburg (9-1) hosts seventh seed Antioch (4-6), a workforce it simply beat Friday 48-21. 

De La Salle is coming off a surprisingly lopsided 42-6 win at third-seed Clayton Valley Constitution-Harmony, which hosts sixth-seed California-San Ramon (5-5).

2022 NCS FOOTBALL BRACKETS

In an uncommon measure to fight De La Salle’s dominance, the part arrange the Open/Division I bracket in an effort to ship two of its high groups onto the CIF Regional, which solely accepts part champions. 

The loser of the highest half of the bracket, will tackle the the winner of the decrease half, and the winner of that will probably be thought of the Division I champion. The winner of the highest half is the Open Division champion. 

The highest seeds from the opposite six sections are: San Ramon Valley-Danville (8-2, Division 2), El Cerrito (10-0, D3), Marin Catholic-Kentfield (10-0, D4), San Marin-Novato (8-2, D5), Saint Mary’s-Albany (10-0, D6) and St. Vincent de Paul-Petaluma (9-0, D7). 

A gentle shock in D2, the place San Ramon Valley was picked over undefeated Campolindo (10-0), which beat the Wolves in final 12 months’s D2 part finals. 

All part champions advance to the CIF Regional Bowl championships, held Dec. 2-3. The winners from the south and north battle for state titles Dec. 9-10. The highest 5 divisions play title video games at Saddleback Faculty in Mission Viejo.