Irvine Valley, Santa Ana Play for Berths in State Tournament

Irvine Valley and Santa Ana can advance to the community college state women’s basketball tournament with victories tonight.

Irvine Valley (26-5) is seeded third and hosts No. 6 Los Angeles Harbor (27-7) at 7 p.m. in the third round of the Southern California playoffs. Irvine Valley had a bye in the first round and beat Southwestern in the second round.

Los Angeles Harbor advanced with a second-round victory over Rio Hondo.

Santa Ana (23-9), the ninth-seeded team, is at No. 1 Ventura (29-3), also at 7 p.m.

Santa Ana beat Mt. San Antonio and College of the Canyons to advance and Ventura eliminated Fullerton.

The state tournament Thursday at Concordia University with the championship game Saturday at UC Irvine.

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Tom Caffrey has been named the first football coach at Fairmont High, Athletic Director J.T. Cameron announced Thursday.

The Huskies will play a freelance schedule in 1999 and have been accepted into the Academy League for 2000.

Caffrey was coach and athletic director at Heritage Christian, and previously coached at Whittier Christian. He began both 11-man football programs at each school, and will get a chance to do the same at Fairmont, where he will teach social studies and physical education.

Heritage Christian dropped football for the 1998 season for lack of participation; it was 3-6 overall, 2-5 in the Victory League under Caffrey in 1997. His career record is 200-88-3.

Enrollment at Fairmont is 255. Cameron said the program is still looking for a game in Week 8 to complete its 10-game schedule.