Sa’de-Wiley Gatewood is back in the hunt.
The Victory Christian coach sends her No. 1 seed against No. 4 Playa del Rey St. Bernard Thursday in a Southern California Division VI-AA semifinals game at the Knights’ Chula Vista venue.
The winner will meet the survivor of he Corcoran-Los Angeles Franklin game for the championship.
Four teams are entered in the bracket. Others opted out for a variety of reasons, including the pandemic,
Wiley-Gatewood, who was born in San Diego but moved to the Los Angeles area when she was 10 and became a legendary, superstar player at Lynwood, was head coach of the Serra Conquistadores in 2019-20 and won the San Diego Section D-I championship.
The Q’s were beaten by Santa Monica, 49-44, in the Southern California playoffs and finished 20-10.
Victory Christian was joined by St. Joseph, the tiny school in San Marcos, as one of the San Diego’s Section’s two No. 1 seeds.
St. Joseph has a quarterfinals bye and will play the winner of Fallbrook-Capistrano Valley Christian in the semifinals. St. Joseph defeated Fallbrook, a school with several hundred more students, 45-44, for the San Diego Section D-III title last week.
Seeds precede numbers in parenthesis, which represent the statewide rating of the team by Max Preps.
QUARTERFINALS
TUESDAY, JUNE 15
OPEN DIVISION
5 (4) Studio City Harvard-Westlake (22-3) @4 (6) Cathedral (19-3).
6 (11) Bonita Vista (24-4), @3 (7) Clovis West (19-0).
7 (9) La Jolla Country Day (16-4) @2 (2) Corona Centennial (22-1).
D-IAA
8 (59) Lynwood (15-6) @1 (10) Mission Hills (21-6).
5 (33) Carlsbad (16-5) @4 (21) Garden Grove Orangewood (12-8).
7 (51) The Bishop’s (12-8) @2 (34) West Torrance (17-4).
D-IA
7 (22) Anaheim Fairmont Prep (16-7) @2 (55) Mount Miguel (19-5).
D-IIAA
5 (71) Mater Dei (17-9) @4 (20) San Bernardino Cajon (13-1).
D-IIA
5 (46) Westview (17-7) @4 (39) Newport Beach Sage Hill (18-6).
6 (32) Ontario Christian (22-2) @3 (45) El Camino (17-6).
D-IIIAA
7 (75) Temecula Rancho Christian (8-2) @2 (71) Rancho Bernardo (19-8).
D-IIIA
6 (113) Del Norte (12-12) @3 (148) Lawndale Leuzinger (13-2).
D-IVAA
6 (201) Burbank Providence (15-5) @3 (151) Eastlake (15-9).
D-IVA
6 (178) Newport Beach Pacifica Christian (15-5) @3 (165) Our Lady of Peace (16-5).
D-VAA
1 (86) St. Joseph (23-2), bye.
5 (123) Fallbrook (21-8) @5 (462) Capistrano Valley Christian (8-7).
D-VA
6 (188) Catalina Avalon (9-3) @3 (307) Classical (17-9).
D-6AA
4 (457) Playa del Rey St. Bernard (8-5) @1 (317) Victory Christian (13-6).
