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LONG BEACH — Los Alamitos and Yorba Linda’s football teams shared a more pressing matter Friday than their projected membership in the Alpha League in 2026-27.

The first football games between the schools arrived in the opening round of the CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs.

Los Alamitos and Yorba Linda turned out to be closely-matched in several areas except one:

The Ibarra factor.

Los Alamitos’ Colin Creason (3) is just out of the reach of Yorba Linda’s Isaiah Trujillo (30) during a game between Yorba Linda and Los Alamitos in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach. on Nov. 7, 2025. (Photo by Michael Goulding, Contributing Photographer)

Yorba Linda’s Thoma

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