Webb Tries to Snare Eagles

By BEN BOLCH

Nov. 16, 1999 12 AM PT

Capistrano Valley Christian has won six games in a row and is seeded third.

Yet, those accomplishments will mean little to Eagle Coach Keith Patefield if his team doesn’t advance past the first round of the playoffs. And Patefield concedes there’s one reason to think Capistrano Valley Christian could be ripe for an upset: The Eagles haven’t been tested during the second half of their season.

Capistrano Valley Christian outscored Academy League opponents 219-24 and hasn’t been challenged since a 14-0 victory over La Canada Flintridge Prep in Week 4. The Eagles meet Claremont Webb, the division’s only at-large qualifier, in the first round.

“Playing a better-quality team like Webb, we’re going to have to get our kids to focus,” Patefield said.

St. Margaret’s, which finished third in the Academy League, faces Prep League champion Brentwood in the first round.

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

Webb Tries to Snare Eagles

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