Baseball: Cleveland is No. 1 seed for City Section Division I playoffs

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Reseda Cleveland has been awarded the No. 1 seeding for the 18-team City Section Division I baseball playoffs. Chatsworth is No. 2, El Camino Real No. 3 and Narbonne No. 4.

Five West Valley League teams were selected.

The seedings were put together for the first time by a committee without coaches. They based their seedings on using an RPI formula, a coaches’ poll and a maxpreps.com poll. Ex-coaches and administrators made up the committee.

Two play-in games are scheduled for Monday, with the first round on Wednesday. The championship game is May 30 at Dodger Stadium.

Here are the pairings:

Play-in games Monday
No. 17 Granada Hills Kennedy (15-16) at No. 16 Taft (11-19)
No. 18 Los Angeles Marshall (16-12) at No. 15 San Fernando (19-11)

First round Wednesday

Kennedy/Taft winner at No. 1 Cleveland (23-7)
No. 9 San Pedro (20-11) at No. 8 Garfield (17-11)
No. 12 Granada Hills (13-16) at No. 5 Sylmar (20-9)
No. 13 Sun Valley Poly (21-13) at No. 4 Narbonne (21-9)
No. 11 Wilmington Banning (17-14) at No. 6 Palisades (22-9)
No. 14 Los Angeles Roosevelt (27-7) at No. 3 El Camino Real (21-9)
No. 10 Bell (15-10) at No. 7 Verdugo Hills (24-6)
Marshall/San Fernando winner at No. 2 Chatsworth (26-4)

-- Eric Sondheimer