Southland Girls Get Honors

Sade Wiley-Gatewood, a 5-foot-9 guard from Lynwood, and 6-3 center Lindsey Pluimer of San Clemente have been selected McDonald’s All-Americans and will compete for the West in an all-star game March 31 in Oklahoma City.

Candace Wiggins of La Jolla Country Day and Charde Houston of San Diego are the other Californians on the McDonald’s team.

Wiley-Gatewood also is one of 20 seniors chosen to the Women’s Basketball Coaches Assn. High School All-America team. The players will compete in an all-star game April 3 at Tulane as part of the NCAA Women’s Final Four festivities.

Pluimer and Camille LeNoir of Harbor City Narbonne were among 20 players who received honorable mention.

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When you have faced down a Fighting Frog, how excited can you get over playing a dog? For Ojai Thacher, which plays a Southern Section Division V-AA semifinal tonight at Redondo against the Palos Verdes Estates Rolling Hills Prep Huskies, it will be tough.

The defending champion Toads are coming off a 58-46 victory over the Ribet Academy Fighting Frogs.

Second-seeded Thacher is led by 6-2 senior center Whitney Livermore and 6-1 senior forward Steffi Rauner. The Toads are trying to get to the finals for the second year in a row but must do so against a Rolling Hills Prep team that has a 14-1 record.

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There is no shortage of compelling games tonight in the Southern Section playoffs, including matchups of teams ranked in The Times’ top 25.

In Division I-AA, fourth-seeded and No. 12 Temecula Valley (24-4) plays at No. 13 Long Beach Millikan (20-8). In Division III-A, top-seeded and No. 15 Fullerton Rosary (24-4) plays No. 25 Pasadena Muir (21-6) at Pasadena High, while third-seeded and No. 24 North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake (25-3) plays second-seeded and No. 11 La Puente Bishop Amat (26-3) at El Monte Arroyo.

In Division I-A, two teams with terrific scorers face off as Latara Darrett leads Chino Don Lugo (24-5) against Ashlee Trebilcock at No. 7 Newhall Hart (26-1).

In Division II-AA, high-scoring San Bernardino Cajon (27-1), which is riding a 24-game winning streak, plays at third-seeded and No. 16 Norco (25-3).

Martin Henderson

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Girls’ Soccer

L.A. Notre Dame Academy hadn’t beaten Pasadena La Salle in more than four seasons. The Regals had no luck in two Sunshine League attempts this season, but on Friday, when it mattered most, they came through with a 1-0 victory in a Southern Section Division V quarterfinal playoff game at Brentwood.

Senior forward Kendall Doherty scored off a corner kick by sophomore midfielder Miranda Moriarty in the ninth minute. Notre Dame Academy (14-6-1) will play either Cerritos Valley Christian or Big Bear, which play today at 2 p.m., in the semifinals.

“It’s hard to beat a team three times in a season,” Notre Dame Academy Coach Marc Argoud said.

Defending Division II champion Westlake Village Westlake was knocked out of the playoffs Friday by Brea Olinda (21-4-3) in a shootout. After a 3-3 draw, sixth-ranked Westlake (18-2-2) converted on only one penalty kick in falling, 3-1.

Elia Powers

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Boys’ Soccer

San Pedro (16-4-4), the No. 5-seeded team in the City Section playoffs, will be without three starters when it plays at top-seeded Canoga Park (17-1-2) in a semifinal game Monday at 3 p.m.

That’s because midfielder Dustin Castania, goalkeeper Logan Adams and defender Mike Martinez were issued red cards in the Pirates’ 3-2 overtime victory at Reseda in a quarterfinal Thursday.

Castania and Adams were issued red cards for using improper language near the end of the second half and Martinez received a red card after running into Reseda goalkeeper Tony Santana while going for a ball in overtime.

“We’re going to have to go to our bench,” first-year San Pedro Coach Paul Butterfield said. “But we have a deep bench, so we should be fine.”

-- John Ortega