The numbers are simply staggering.
The Agoura girls water polo team captured its 13th consecutive Marmonte League crown and extended its Marmonte winning streak to 142 matches this season.
“They were excited to not be the team that lost the streak,” Agoura coach Jason Rosenthal said.
Now Agoura is shifting attention to a grander pursuit — the chase for the program’s third CIF Southern Section title.
Agoura garnered the No. 1 seed in the CIF Southern Section Division 2 playoffs to lead 13 local playoff qualifiers, trying to bring home the program’s first CIF crown since 2007.
“We’ve got all the parts,” Rosenthal said. “We’ve got good whole-sets, good defenders, a good goalkeeper. We all get along, and we don’t rely on one person. We’ve got the speed and we’ve got everything we need, and we’re putting it together at the right time.”
Agoura will host Beckman on Thursday in the first round, but Rosenthal said nothing is automatic.
Rosenthal said the top five seeds — Agoura, No. 2 Riverside Poly, No. 3 Riverside King, No. 4 Schurr and No. 5 La Cañada — are quite familiar with each other.
Agoura beat Riverside Poly, which beat King, which beat La Cañada. Schurr also beat La Cañada, which hosts Dana Hills on Thursday. Crescenta Valley also made the Division 2 playoffs and travels to No. 3 Riverside King on Thursday.
“We all beat up on each other,” Rosenthal said. “The top five are pretty close. I definitely don’t think being No. 1 gives us any advantage.
“We’re just making sure we can take it one game at a time and make sure not to overlook anybody. We just can’t get ahead of ourselves.”
The CIF finals for all five divisions will be held Feb. 25 at William Woollett Aquatic Center in Irvine.
Division 1
Two-time defending Division 4 champion Royal makes its Division 1 debut and will host fourth-seeded Dos Pueblos on Wednesday.
Division 3
Harvard-Westlake, riding its own 97-match Mission League winning streak, earned a first-round home game Wednesday against Los Altos.
Division 4
Three local teams drew wild-card assignments on Tuesday.
Westlake travels to Charter Oak for a shot at Claremont. Notre Dame treks to Peninsula for the right to play at La Quinta. Newbury Park hosts Mayfield for a chance to play at Laguna Hills.
Division 5
Malibu and Alemany earned first-round home matches. Malibu hosts the Redlands-Arlington wild-card winner and Alemany hosts El Segundo.
Three other local teams drew wild-card matchups. Moorpark hots Cypress for a shot at No. 1 Pasadena Poly, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy travels to San Dimas for a shot at No. 4 Santa Ana Valley and Burroughs travels to Tesoro for a shot at No. 2 Beaumont.
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