Sports
Venice Squads Earn Postseason Berths
Three Gondos teams and two Animo squads make the City playoffs.
When the regular season ended Friday, the Venice High boys basketball team was playing better than it had all season and head coach David Galley was hopeful his team would get a chance to play a few more games.
On Saturday, post-season brackets were announced, sending five Venice teams to the city playoffs.
Boys Basketball
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Galley got his wish when the Gondoliers were awarded the No. 7 seed in the City Section Division II playoffs. Venice (12-15), which finished fifth in the always-tough Western League, will host 10th-seeded Verdugo Hills (18-9), the East Valley League runner-up, in the first round Thursday at 7 p.m.
Should Venice win it would either host No. 15 Bravo Medical (18-7) or travel to second-seeded Narbonne (18-8) in the quarterfinals Feb. 22
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Girls Basketball
The Venice High girls did not make the City Section playoffs, but (9-3), which finished second in the Ocean League, was seeded 15th in the City's and will travel No. 2 Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (21-9) in the first round Friday at 7 p.m.
If the Pirates can upset the Unicorns they will travel to either No. 10 Vaughn (9-11) or No. 7 Port of LA (11-13) for a quarterfinal game Feb. 23.
Boys Soccer
Also optimistic about his team's chances is boys' soccer coach . The Gondoliers (7-4-3) are seeded 24th out of 32 teams in the City Large Schools draw and travel to ninth-seeded Lincoln (10-2-0) for its opening round game Wednesday (kickoff at 3 p.m.). If Venice prevails it would either host No. 25 Hollywood (10-3-3) or travel to No. 8 Bell (11-4-8) in the second round Friday.
Girls Soccer
The Lady Gondoliers (9-5-4) are seeded 11th in the City Invitational playoffs and travel to sixth-seeded West Adams Prep (11-5-1), the Coliseum League champion, for their first-round game Thursday at 3 p.m. If Venice prevails, it would either host No. 14 Fremont (11-5-2) or travel to No. 3 Granada Hills Kennedy (14-5-3) in the quarterfinals Feb. 24.
Animo Venice (9-1-1), the Ocean league champion, is the No. 4 seed in the Small Schools Division and the Pirates will host Elizabeth Learning Center in the first round Thursday at 3 p.m.