For the fourth consecutive year, the Chancellors were seeded No. 1 in the 16-team Los Angeles City Section Championship Division playoffs at a meeting of coaches and administrators Saturday at Birmingham High.

 

The Chancellors (27-2), champions of the West Valley League, will play host to No. 16-seeded Verdugo Hills (18-6-1), the second-place team in the Sunset Six League, in a first-round game Wednesday at 3 p.m.

 

A victory would pit the Chancellors in a quarterfinal game at 3 p.m. Friday at Chatsworth against the winner of the first-round game between No. 8 Banning (20-10), the second-place team in the Marine League, and No. 9 Poly (22-8), champion of the Sunset Six.

 

The semifinals are May 23 at the home fields of the two higher-seeded teams and the title game is May 27 at 2:30 p.m. Dodger Stadium.

 

The Chancellors are 2-0 against Verdugo Hills from 1980 to the present. The teams last played March 17, 2001, with the Chancellors winning at Verdugo Hills, 17-3.

 

Being seeded No. 1 has become commonplace for Chatsworth in the last several years. The Chancellors received the top spot from 1998 to 2001 and from 2003 to the present.

 

Trivia question: Where were the Chancellors seeded in 2002?

 

Complete Championship Division first-round schedule (all games Wednesday at 3 p.m., home team listed first): No. 1 Chatsworth vs. No. 16 Verdugo Hills; No. 2 El Camino Real vs. No. 15 University; No. 3 Kennedy vs. No. 14 Bell; No. 4 Roosevelt vs. No. 13 Westchester; No. 5. Narbonne vs. No. 12 San Fernando; No. 6 Cleveland vs. No. 11 San Pedro; No. 7 Palisades vs. No. 10 Sylmar; No. 8 Banning vs. No. 9 Poly.

 

WVL results: (Tuesday, May 9) Chatsworth 8, at El Camino Real 7; Cleveland 5, at Taft 0; at Granada Hills 8, Birmingham 1; (Thursday, May 11) at Chatsworth 15, Birmingham 5 (6 innings); El Camino Real 15, at Taft 0 (5 innings); Granada Hills 6, at Cleveland 4.

 

Final WVL standings: 1. Chatsworth 14-1; 2. El Camino Real 13-2; T3. Cleveland 6-9; T3. Granada Hills, 6-9; 5. Birmingham 5-10; 6. Taft 1-14.

 

JV: The Chancellors, second place in the WVL, were seeded No. 10 and travel to No. 2 Franklin for a first-round game Tuesday at 3 p.m. It is the first time the City Section has held playoffs for junior varsity teams.

 

Trivia answer: Sixth