Birmingham is looking to defend its City Open Division title with the No. 1 seed

It was one of the strangest Saturdays of Jim Rose’s coaching career. He is the head soccer coach for defending City Section Open Division champion Birmingham and also the head coach for the girls soccer team. So there he was waiting to see what playoff seed his teams would get while doing double duty.

“It’s kind of cool,” he said.

The 11-man soccer team was, as expected, the No. 1 seed for the Open Division. Birmingham hasn’t lost to a city section opponent since 2017, winning 39 straight games. Birmingham will begin the eight-team tournament at home on November 9 against no. 8 Narbonne. No. 5 Granada Hills is at No. 4 Carson, No. 6 Palisades is at No. 3 Gardena and No. 7 San Pedro is at No. 2 Garfield.

The Patriots flag football team drew the No. 1 seed. 7 in the inaugural Open Division Championship tournament.

The 16-team football tournament starts on Wednesday. San Pedro is seeded no. 1 and Crenshaw No. 2. Birmingham will play No. 10 Bell at 3 p.m. Rose will schedule 11-man practice after that game.

Banning drew the No. 1 seed for Division I in 11-man football, Arleta is the No. 1 seed in Division II and Bell is the No. 1 seed in Division III.

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This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.