Had a fun day yesterday, running around to surprise my fiancée with some gifts and then checking out a couple of league wrestling tournaments. There weren't many surprises — Bakersfield High dominated, as did some spectacular individual wrestlers like Centennial's Seth Hicks, Liberty's Greg Kapler and Ridgeview's Javier Sanchez.

You can read all about the SEYL and SWYL championships at those links if you like (I've got brackets if you're looking for a really specific result), but wrestling's real postseason begins next Friday in Lemoore and Mendota, where the Central Section divisional championships are being held — big schools in Lemoore, small schools in Mendota. Those will be knock-down, drag-out affairs, especially the one in Lemoore, where just six wrestlers will survive to the Feb. 28 Grand Masters tournament at East. Four wrestlers from Mendota make it to East, where seven of the 10 wrestlers in each weight will go to state.

It will be fun to see if Kapler and Hicks meet up at 135 pounds next week and if Sanchez and former BHS teammate Jonah Cruz meet at 140. Both have had extremely impressive seasons and are ranked 1-2 in the section at their weight, but neither matchup has happened yet.

Also keep an eye on heavyweight, where East's Antonio Hernandez avenged an earlier loss to Foothill's Angel Posadas with an overtime decision yesterday. Suffice it to say Posadas, who led most of the match, was not happy he let it get away from him. There are other top heavyweights around — Lemoore's own Loren Baize is one of them — but it will be great theater if Hernandez and Posadas resume their east Bako rivalry next weekend.

Meanwhile, another sport is ready for the section postseason, and that's soccer. On the boys side, Golden Valley earned the No. 1 seed in Division III for the second straight year despite some late-season stumbles. I think the Bulldogs are the odds-on favorites, but consider this: Highland is only the No. 5 seed in D-III, and the Scots took GVHS to double overtime just last Thursday.

Other notable boys seeds are Bakersfield as No. 4 in Division I (with Stockdale No. 5, Liberty No. 6 and Centennial No. 7), West as No. 3 in Division II and Wasco as No. 3 in Division IV. Here are brackets for D-V and the ridiculous Division VI.

On the girls side, Liberty received the No. 2 seed in Division I it was hoping for after running through the SEYL undefeated. Stockdale, a finalist from last year, is No. 4 and Bakersfield No. 6. Unbeaten Clovis is the top seed and defending champ Clovis-Buchanan has the No. 3 seed. Like its boys team, Centennial is No. 7.

Garces is No. 2 in Division II, SSL champion Tehachapi No. 2 (and Golden Valley No. 4 and Ridgeview No. 5) in D-III and Wasco No. 4 in Division IV. Bakersfield Christian earned the top seed in Division V ahead of SLO-Mission Prep, which beat the Eagles early in the year. Probably a nod to the strength of the Eagles' schedule there. As with the boys, there is an unnecessary Division VI.