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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Whitney Burak Wednesday, August 21, 2013 [email protected]

Thom Simmons [email protected]

2013 CIF SOUTHERN SECTION FOOTBALL TELEVISION SCHEDULE KICKS OFF FRIDAY, AUGUST 30 ON WEST

“High School Spotlight Season Preview” Debuts This Friday at 10:30PM on Prime Ticket

Two CIF-SS Games Televised Nationally on

Los Angeles – FOX Sports West and Prime Ticket, in partnership with the CIF-Southern Section, today announced the “Ford CIF Southern Section Game of the Week” selections for the 2013 football season.

Kicking-off the 17th season of delivering high school football to Southern California, Santiago Corona hosts Hart on Friday, August 30 at 8:30pm on FOX Sports West. John Jackson returns to the booth alongside play-by-play announcer Mark Rogondino. This marks Jackson’s 17th season as “Game of the Week” analyst, while Rogondino joins the crew with over 10 year experience in the booth. Offering reports and updates from the sidelines this season, Angels Weekly Host, Alex Curry, joins foxsportswest.com columnist, Rahshaun Haylock.

Prior to select game telecasts, the “High School Spotlight” pre-game show will begin at 7:00PM offering fans a preview of the night’s match-ups with analysis, features, interviews and more. Teaming up for their second year in the Prep Zone studios, Host, Kevin Barnett will join FOX Sports Next’s Director of Scouting, Scott Kennedy.

Each game telecast will conclude with post-game coverage from site followed by the return of the “High School Spotlight Scoreboard” show. Hosted by Barnett with analysis from Kennedy, the live program will run viewers through the best action from across the Southland including final scores, analysis and more.

New to the lineup this fall, FOX Sports 1 will televise two CIF-SS football games. Calling the action from site are MLB on FOX play-by-play announcer Daron Sutton and analyst Ben Leber, a former NFL linebacker who also is part of FOX on FOX College Sports (FCS). Both games will re-air on FOX Sports West and Prime Ticket throughout the week.

And prior to the season kick-off, a special preseason edition of “High School Spotlight” airs at 10:30PM this Friday, August 23 on Prime Ticket. In this half-hour, Barnett and Kennedy reveal the CIF-SS Top 10 and look at teams and players to watch, while Haylock reports on the Gardena Serra Cavaliers and their transformation into a perennial powerhouse. Additionally, the Prime Ticket cameras spent a week at Monrovia High School for a behind the scenes look at the football team’s first practices of the year.

The 2013 “Ford CIFSS Game of the Week” Schedule on FOX Sports West and Prime Ticket is as follows:

DATE TIME MATCHUP TV PRE- POST- SCOREBOARD Fri 8/30 8:30PM (D) Hart @ Santiago Corona FSW n/a 11:00PM 11:30PM

Fri 9/6 7:30PM Bishop Gorman (LV) PRIME n/a 10:00PM 10:30PM @ Santa Margarita

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DATE TIME MATCHUP TV PRE- POST- SCOREBOARD Fri 9/13 8:30PM(D) Centennial vs Long Beach Poly (played at Mission Viejo HS) FSW n/a 11:00PM 11:30PM

Th 9/19 7:00PM Chaminade @ Oaks Christian FSW n/a 9:30PM Fri @10:30P on PRIME

Fri 9/27 7:00PM Edison @ Mater Dei FS1*** n/a n/a n/a

Fri 9/27 8:30PM (D) Westlake @ Crespi FSW n/a 11:00PM 11:30PM

Fri 10/4 7:30PM Match-up TBA PRIME 7:00PM 10:00PM 10:30PM

Fri 10/11 7:00PM St. John Bosco @ Santa Margarita FS1*** n/a n/a n/a

Fri 10/11 7:30PM Match-up TBA PRIME 7:00PM 10:00PM 10:30PM

Fri 10/18 10:00PM(D) Match-up TBA FSW n/a 12:30AM 1:00AM

Fri 10/25 7:30PM Match-up TBA FSW 7:00PM 10:00PM 10:30PM

Fri 11/1 7:30PM Match-up TBA FSW 7:00PM 10:00PM 10:30PM

Fri 11/8 7:30PM Match-up TBA FSW 7:00PM 10:00PM 10:30PM

Fri 11/15 7:30PM Playoffs-First Round Match-up TBA FSW 7:00PM 10:00PM 10:30PM

Fri 11/22 7:30PM Playoffs-Quarterfinal Match-up TBA FSW 7:00PM 10:00PM 10:30PM

Fri 11/29 7:30PM Playoffs-Semifinal Match-up TBA FSW 7:00PM 10:00PM 10:30PM

Fri 12/6 7:00PM Conference Final TBA FSW 6:30PM 9:30PM n/a

Fri 12/6 8:00PM Inland Conference Final PRIME n/a 10:30PM n/a

Sat 12/7 8:00PM Pac-5 Conference Final PRIME n/a 10:30PM 11:00PM

*Schedule Subject to change **All games live unless otherwise noted, D=Delay ***FS1 games will re-air on FOX Sports West and Prime Ticket

About CIF Southern Section The CIF Southern Section is comprised of 579 member schools and is one section in the 10-section California Interscholastic Federation, the largest state association in the country. The Southern Section, if it were its own state association, would rank No. 10 (behind California, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Florida and Missouri).

About Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket Together, Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket present more live, local sports programming than any other network or broadcast system in the market. Serving sports fans in Southern California, Nevada and Hawaii, Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket produce over 700 live sporting events and telecast over 2,000 hours of original programming every year. For complete regional sports news, provocative opinions, telecast schedules and updated statistics, log-on to www.foxsportswest.com.

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