Banning, Reseda Boys Enter Soccer Semifinals as Favorites

Top-seeded Wilmington Banning and second-seeded and defending champion Reseda can continue their paths toward a showdown for the boys’ City soccer title if they win their semifinals today.

Banning plays host to 13th-seeded Locke. Reseda plays host to third-seeded El Camino Real. Both games are at 3 p.m.

Banning defeated Canoga Park, Harbor City Narbonne and Van Nuys Birmingham to reach the semifinals. Locke beat University, fourth-seeded Franklin and Monroe en route to the semifinals.

Reseda beat Fremont, Huntington Park and San Pedro in the first three rounds. The Regents play an El Camino team that defeated Bell, Chatsworth and Belmont.

The girls’ Championship and Division finals are set, but the site for all championship games was changed from East Los Angeles College to Van Nuys Birmingham because the college mistakenly double-booked the facility, City Section officials said.

Defending champion Chatsworth will play San Pedro in the girls’ Championship final Saturday at Birmingham at 4 p.m. North Hills Monroe plays Belmont for the Division title at 2.

The boys’ Championship game will be played at 6 p.m.

The boys’ and girls’ Championship games will be broadcast live on KLCS-TV, Channel 58.

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Competition in baseball, softball, boys’ volleyball, boys’ tennis, swimming and track and field began this week.

Woodland Hills El Camino Real is the defending City baseball champion. Wilson won last year’s 3-A title, which has been renamed the Division championship.

Other defending champions:

Softball--San Pedro (City); Westchester (Division).

Boys’ volleyball--Palisades (City); Poly (Division).

Boys’ tennis--Palisades (City); Van Nuys (Division).

Swimming--Venice (boys); Granada Hills (girls).

Track and field--Dorsey (boys); Woodland Hills Taft (girls).