SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL PLAYOFFS BRACKET
The South Coast Conference champion Long Beach City College men's soccer team has received the No. 11 seed for the upcoming Southern California Regional Playoffs and will travel to face No. 6 Oxnard College in an opening-round game on Saturday (Nov. 21) at 2 p.m.
LBCC will be making its third consecutive postseason appearance. Under head coach Cameron Beaulac, the Vikings have reached the playoffs in nine of the past 12 seasons.
Long Beach brings a 13-6-2 overall record to the postseason while the Vikings went 9-4-1 in SCC play to capture the program's first conference title since 2006. LBCC was one of just two SCC teams to make the playoffs, as runner up Mt. San Antonio College finished the regular season with a higher RPI and earned a No. 8 seed.
Oxnard won its fourth straight Western State Conference championship with a 12-3-1 record. The Condors, under head coach Ross Greaney, are 14-4-3 overall as they head to the playoffs.
Saturday's playoff game will mark the first meeting between the two squads this season, but there is recent postseason history. Last year in Long Beach, Oxnard and LBCC played to a 1-1 draw with the Condors advancing from the first round 4-3 on penalty kicks. And in 2011, the Vikings lost a 2-0 second-round game in Oxnard.
The winner of the contest will advance to play either No. 3 Southwestern College and No. 14 San Diego Mesa in a second-round game on Tuesday (Nov. 24). Three wins in the Southern California Regionals will advance the Vikings to the California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) Soccer State Championship on December 4 & 6 at Feather River College in Quincy located in Northern California.
