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Santa Margarita and Mater Dei’s girls soccer teams will play Saturday for a CIF Southern California Regional title and a trip to the inaugural CIF State championships.

The Trinity League rivals each won in the Division I semifinals on Thursday to advance to the final Saturday at Tesoro High at 3 p.m.

Top-seeded Santa Margarita defeated visiting Cleveland 3-0 in the semifinals behind goals by Felicity Nguyen, freshman Carys Fry and Riley Neves.

No. 2 Mater Dei beat visiting Oaks Christian 2-0 on goals by Lucy Mendiola and Brook Thies.

Santa Margarita is 2-0-1 against Mater Dei this season. The Eagles went 1-0-1 against Monarchs in the Trinity League and posted a 3-0 triumph in the teams’ CIF-SS Open Division final last weekend.

The inaugural Division I state final is scheduled for March 14 at Natomas High in Sacramento at 5:30 p.m.

In the Northern California final Saturday, Buchanan plays at Bishop O’Dowd.

In another result Thursday, Segerstrom lost at Coachella Valley 4-1 in the Division IV semifinals.

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