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CIF State 2025 high school softball SoCal, NorCal regional playoff brackets, pairings

North top seeds are Oak Ridge (D1), Vanden (D2), Hillsdale (D3), East Nicolaus (D4), Biggs (D5), and in the South, El Modena (D1), Christian (D2), Point Loma (D3), Pioneer Valley (D4), Rancho Mirage (D5).

Mitch Stephens

Clovis North is the No. 5 seed in the CIF Northern California softball regional and travels to fourth seed Whitney on Tuesday.
Clovis North is the No. 5 seed in the CIF Northern California softball regional and travels to fourth seed Whitney on Tuesday. / Photo by Bobby Medellin

The CIF State announced the Southern and Northern California regional high school baseball brackets and pairings Sunday afternoon, which consists of five divisions.

The CIF State does not have CIF State championship finals in softball, which means all the regional playoffs stop at the regional finals.

The tournament is one week, starting with first-round games on Tuesday with semifinals Thursdays and finals are on Saturday.

Top seeds in the North are Oak Ridge (Division 1), Vanden (D2), Hillsdale (D3), East Nicolaus (D4), Biggs (D5).

Top seeds in the South are El Modena (D1), Christian (D2), Point Loma (D3), Pioneer Valley (D4), Rancho Mirage (D5).

Defending Northern California champions are Amador Valley (D1), Destiny Christian Academy (D2), Sutter (D3), Alvarez (D4) and Big Valley Christian (D5).

Defending Southern California champions are Murrieta Mesa (D1), Etiwanda (D2), Otay Ranch (D3), Oceanside (D4) and Coastal Academy (D5).

Here are the brackets for the NorCal and SoCal regionals:

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SOCAL

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Mitch Stephens
MITCH STEPHENS

Mitch Stephens is a senior editor at SBLive Sports for California, a state he's covered high school sports since 1984. He won multiple CNPA and CPSWA writing awards with the Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Chronicle and MaxPreps.com before joining the SBLive staff in 2022. He's covered the beat nationally since 2007, profiling such athletes as Derrick Henry, Paige Bueckers, Patrick Mahomes, Sabrina Ionescu, Jayson Tatum, Chiney Ogwumike, Jeremy Lin and Najee Harris as preps. You can reach him at mitch@scorebooklive.com.

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