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CIF-SS Playoff Brackets Released For Four Long Beach Teams

The562’s football coverage for the 2025-26 school year is sponsored by Long Beach Poly alums Wendell “WoWo” Moe, Jr. & Tyson Ruffins.

The CIF Southern Section playoff brackets have been released, revealing the path for four Long Beach teams:

Games will be 7pm on Friday and feature plenty of exciting storylines–including Lakewood and Millikan potentially meeting in a second round matchup if both advance. Long Beach Poly finished with the highest rating of the local teams on HSRatings.com, used by the CIF-SS to create the playoff divisions–but the Jackrabbits withdrew from the playoffs on Friday and won’t participate for just the second time since 1979.

Division 4: Wilson vs Paraclete

Division 5: Lakewood at La Serna

Division 5: Millikan at Aliso Niguel

Division 11: St. Anthony vs El Monte

Mike Guardabascio
An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 18 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous state and national honors for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
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