The Boras Classic South tournament, among the top high school baseball tournaments in Southern California, released its bracket Tuesday.
Seven of the top eight teams in the Orange County Top 10 are in the tournament: No. 1 Mater Dei, No. 2 Santa Margarita, No. 3 Villa Park, No. 4 Orange Lutheran, No. 5 JSerra, No. 7 Cypress and No. 8 Huntington Beach.
The tournament will played April 11-14 at JSerra and Mater Dei, with the championship game April 14 at JSerra.
The winner will play the winner of the Boras Classic North tournament on April 29 at Santa Clara University.
Among the first-round games April 11 is Etiwanda at JSerra at 6 p.m. Those teams are both in this week’s CIF Southern Section Division 1 Top 10 poll.
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Non-Orange County teams entered include Notre Dame, which is No. 2 behind Santa Margarita in the CIF-SS Division 1 poll, Aquinas, La Mirada, Corona and Norco.
Aquinas features senior third baseman Eric Bitoni (6-4, 215), who signed with Oregon and is projected to be an early-round selection in the MLB Draft.