Fontana Seeded First in Division I : Prep Football: Fountain Valley gets Southern Section playoff berth because of Huntington Beach forfeits, and will face No. 1 Steelers Friday.

Fontana High School, The Times’ top-ranked team, was seeded first in the Southern Section Division I football playoff pairings, which were announced Sunday.

The Steelers (10-0), the Citrus Belt League champions, will play host to Fountain Valley, the defending Division I champion, Friday in the first round. There were 16 teams selected in each division, and the finals are scheduled Dec. 8-9.

Fountain Valley, which finished fourth in the Sunset League, qualified when Huntington Beach, the Sunset League champion, had to forfeit its eight victories because it used an ineligible player. Because of the forfeits, Fountain Valley qualified as the league’s third-place team with a 3-2 league record and a 5-5 overall mark.

The other seeded Division I teams are Long Beach Poly of the Moore League, Loyola of the Del Rey League and La Puente Bishop Amat of the Angelus League.

In Division III, Capistrano Valley of the South Coast League, is the top-seeded team with a 10-0 record. The other seeded teams are El Toro, the runner-up in the South Coast League, Los Alamitos of the Empire League and Paramount, the San Gabriel Valley League and defending Division III champion.

In a controversial decision, Dana Hills of the South Coast League received an at-large bid instead of Lynwood of the San Gabriel Valley League.

Dana Hills finished the regular season with a 7-3 record but lost three of its last five games. Lynwood (5-5) won four of its last five games. Lynwood, which played its early-season schedule without quarterback Charles Levy, has lost only to Bishop Amat, 28-21, since Oct. 6.

The seeded teams and at-large entries are:

DIVISION I--1. Fontana (10-0); 2. Long Beach Poly (8-1); 3. Loyola (8-1); 4. Bishop Amat (7-3). At-large: Eisenhower (5-5).

DIVISION II--1. Thousand Oaks (9-0-1); 2. Arcadia (9-1); 3. Santa Barbara (9-1); 4. Muir (8-1-1). At-large: Santa Monica (6-3).

DIVISION III--1. Capistrano Valley (10-0); 2. El Toro (9-1); 3. Los Alamitos (9-1); 4. Paramount (9-1). At-large: Dana Hills (7-3).

DIVISION IV--1. Hacienda Heights Wilson (9-1); 2. Palm Springs (9-1); 3. Glendora (9-1); 4. Upland (7-3). At-large: Montebello (8-2).

DIVISION V--1. Norco (10-0); 2. Cajon (9-1); 3. Canyon Springs (9-1); 4. Arroyo (8-2). At-large: Indio (6-4); Corona (6-4); Hesperia (6-4); Sierra Vista (9-2).

DIVISION VI--1. Sunny Hills (10-0); 2. Estancia (10-0; 3. Glenn (9-1); 4. Pacifica (8-1-1). At-large: Corona del Mar (7-3).

DIVISION VII--1. Lompoc (10-0); 2. Serra (10-0); 3. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame (9-1); 4. West Torrance (9-1). At-large: Mira Costa (6-4).

DIVISION VIII--1. Yucaipa (10-0); 2. Trabuco Hills (9-1); 3. Santa Clara (8-2); 4. Santa Ynez (9-1). At-large: Riverside Notre Dame (7-3).

DIVISION IX--1. Montclair Prep (10-0); 2. Whittier Christian (10-0); 3. Carpinteria (9-1); 4. Tehachapi (9-1). At-large: Desert (7-3); Santa Margarita (7-3).

Playoff Pairings: C20