Briefs: CIF sets football parameters

New rule for state football title games will be based on competitive equity and enrollment.

The CIF announced Monday that it plans to use both competitive equity and enrollment to determine which teams it selects to participate in the State Championship Football Bowl Games.

“The divisions within each of our 10 Sections were placed within the state bowl game structure based upon both competitive equity and enrollment,” CIF Executive Director Marie Ishida said in a news release. “This new system for selection is the result of meetings with the section commissioners and input from the State CIF Football Advisory Committee.”

The five state bowl games feature a North versus South format. There are bowl games for the Open Division and in Divisions I, II, III and IV.

A school must win their respective section championship to be bowl eligible.

The selection committee is scheduled to meet on Dec. 12 to determine the competing teams for the State Championship Football Games at The Home Depot Center on Dec. 17-18.

The sections in the South Division I are the CIF Southern Section Pac-5, Northern and Inland divisions, the Los Angeles City Section Division I, the CIF San Diego Section Division I, and the CIF Central Section Division I.

Newport Harbor High is in the CIF Southern Section Pac-5 Division.

The sections in the South Division II are the CIF Southern Section Central, Southwest, Western, Eastern and Southwest divisions, the Los Angeles City Section, the CIF Central Section Division II and III, and the CIF San Diego Section Division II and III.

The sections in the South Division III are the CIF Southern Section Southern, Mid-Valley, East Valley, Northeast and Northwest divisions, the CIF Central Section Division IV and V, and the CIF San Diego Section Division IV and V.

Corona del Mar, Costa Mesa and Estancia are in the CIF Southern Section Southern Division, while Sage Hill School is in the CIF Southern Section East Valley Division.

— David Carrillo Peñaloza

Jock 7th at nationals

DES MOINES, Iowa — UC Irvine All-American Charles Jock finished seventh in the final of the 800 meters at the USA Track & Field Championships Sunday at Drake University.

Jock, who led the first lap, finished with a time of 1 minute, 51.23 seconds.

Nick Symmonds of Oregon TC-Nike won the race in 1:45.98.

Next up for Jock is representing the USA in the North American, Central American and Caribbean Under-23 Championships at Miramar, Fla., July 9-11.

Jock, the Big West Conference Athlete of the Year in men’s track, will be a junior at UCI this fall.

— From staff reports

Chin aids U.S. win

Former UC Irvine standout John Chin helped the United States win the Palmer Cup international golf competition completed Saturday in Northern Ireland.

Chin, an All-American in 2010, when he earned his third Big West Conference Golfer of the Year laurel, helped Team USA top a group of European stars, 13-11, at Royal Portrush Golf Club.

It’s the first Palmer Cup for the U.S. on European soil since 2002.

The win ends a string of two straigth Palmer Cup wins by Europe, and gave the Americans a 7-6-1 lead in the series.

Chin lost his singles match, one-up, to Patrick Spraggs on Saturday.

— From staff reports

Duo wins title

The doubles team of Andy Stewart and David Roditi won the first Mesa Verde Pro Open Invitational Sunday at Mesa Verde Country Club.

Stewart and Roditi defeated Pat Crow and Gene Carswell, 6-2, 6-4, in the title match.

— From staff reports