Blue Devils ready for regional playoffs

By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor

A new adventure awaits the Davis High boys soccer team that begins Tuesday.

That is when the Blue Devils start play in the California Interscholastic Federation Regional Soccer Championships. The CIF State is scheduled to release the brackets on its website — www.cifstate.org — today.

According to Davis High Athletic Director

Jeff Lorenson, this is the first time that the Blue Devils are playing in the CIF State regional playoffs since it started in 2018.

The CIF State has been holding playoffs for high school boys and girls soccer since 2008.

But only Fresno area to Southern California high school soccer teams competed until five years ago.

Davis (20-0-2), which beat Whitney 4-0 to capture the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I title on Conway Field at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento on Thursday, is ranked No. 2 in California and No. 3 in the nation according to MaxPreps.

“We’re peaking at the right time,” said Davis head coach Alex Park, whose squad has scored 17 goals in three section playoff games in the last two weeks. “We’re just getting better and better.”

Should Blue Devil soccer fans look further, the second-round game would be played

Thursday at the host site of the highest seed. The regional championship game would be played Saturday, also at 5 p.m., at the host site with the highest seed.

The Sac-Joaquin Section’s two teams that played in the Divisions I through IV title games last week receive an automatic regional berth. The section champions of Divisions V and VI only advance to the regional tournament.

Davis punched its ticket to play in the CIF State Regional Soccer Championships when it beat Oak Ridge 5-0 in a Sac-Joaquin Section Division I game at Ron and Mary Brown

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Blue Devil defender Emanuel Tames-Kaimowitz (7) leaps over a Whitney player in Thursday’s CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I boys soccer championship game at Cosumnes River College.

Tames-Kaimowitz and DHS are ranked No. 2 in California and No. 3 in the nation, according to MaxPreps.

Christoph lossin/ enterprise photo