Coin flips set playoff sites

UPCOMING PLAYOFF GAMES

TODAY

Girls’ tennis

Division I

San Clemente at Corona del Mar, 2 p.m.

Division V

Sage Hill at Chaffey, 2 p.m.

Victor Valley at Estancia, 11 a.m.

Girls’ volleyball

Division IV-A

Sage Hill at Grace Brethren, 7 p.m.

TUESDAY

Boys’ water polo

Division I

Newport Harbor at El Toro, 3 p.m.

Corona del Mar at Harvard-Westlake, 3 p.m.

The Corona del Mar High and Estancia High girls’ tennis teams won coin flips Friday and will play host to their CIF Southern Section playoff matches today.

The two teams were the only winners in five coin flips involving area teams. CIF Southern Section officials conducted the tosses Friday morning to determine the hosts for playoff contests involving teams with equal numbers of home contests in the postseason thus far.

The Sea Kings will play host to San Clemente in a Division I second-round match at 2 p.m. Estancia will play Victor Valley in an 11 a.m. Division I match.

Sage Hill’s girls’ tennis team lost its coin flip and will travel to Ontario to play Chaffey in a Division V second-round match today.

In water polo, both Newport Harbor and Corona del Mar lost their coin flips and will be on the road. Newport Harbor will face El Toro, and Corona del Mar will play at Harvard-Westlake.

It will be the second time that Corona del Mar’s girls’ tennis team has faced San Clemente this year. The Sea Kings won easily, 15-3, in a nonleague match on Oct. 12.

Likewise, the Sea Kings’ boys’ water polo team saw Harvard Westlake earlier this season, defeating the Wolverines, 11-7, in their season opener.

Newport Harbor and El Toro are well acquainted this season in water polo, having met three times this autumn. The Sailors won two of them -- winning, 9-4, at the South Coast Tournament; and, 16-11, at the TruWest Memorial tournament in San Jose.

El Toro won, 12-10, in the Oct. 25 nonleague meeting, a controversial match in which Newport Harbor’s Clinton Jorth fractured bones in his cheek. Newport Harbor parents and players have alleged that an El Toro player deliberately kicked Jorth -- who is out for the season, but Chargers officials said there was no wrongdoing.

In today’s other playoff action, Sage Hill will play at Brethren Christian in a Division IV-A quarterfinal match. The Lightning won the two previous Academy League meetings against Brethren Christian this season.