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Laguna Beach’s Chase Shipp finished fourth at the state finals in Clovis on Thursday, while Newport Harbor’s Corinna Ruffini placed fifth.

The CIF Southern Section softball playoffs began on Thursday. Results involving Marina, Huntington Beach, Edison and Los Amigos.

The Lightning are riding a season-best seven-game winning streak into the CIF Southern Section Division 4 final at Santa Barbara on Saturday.

The Vikings won 11-7 at Oak Park on Wednesday afternoon, and will play Woodbridge for the CIF Southern Section Division 1 title on Friday evening at the University of Redlands.

Huntington Beach hosted Loyola after what had been an emotional week for the visitors. The Oilers will face Mira Costa in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 boys’ volleyball final on Friday.

An early lead vanished as the Oilers, who in January lost a player after she died in an airplane crash, fell to top-seeded El Segundo on Friday night in the Division 2 semifinals.

The duos of Andy Benesh and Miles Partain, as well as Taryn Brasher and Kristen Nuss, prevailed on Sunday afternoon on the north side of the Huntington Beach Pier.

The Sea Kings fall to the top-seeded Mustangs 25-13, 25-21, 25-20, missing out on a chance to return to the CIF finals for the second time in three seasons.

Sophomore Alyssa Ton won two individual events on her 16th birthday for the Barons girls, who swam well on a hot day at Mt. San Antonio College.

Big Canyon bettered Mesa Verde by two strokes to win the 26th annual Jones Cup community golf tournament on Thursday in Newport Beach.

The Chargers’ comeback bid falls short in a four-set loss to the top-seeded Monarchs at home on Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the CIF Southern Section Division 2 playoffs.

Laguna Beach’s Chase Shipp, Allison McNichols of Edison and Corinna Ruffini and Violet Carone of Newport Harbor each advanced at a qualifying meet Tuesday.