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BHHS Hosts Passing Tournament Saturday

The Normans are one of 16 teams in the summer seven-on-seven competition.

Beverly Hills High School will host its annual seven-on-seven passing tournament Saturday and 15 teams will join the Normans in the one-day football competition on the BHHS campus.

This year's tournament consists of 16 teams, divided into four pools of four teams each. Pool play begins at 8:30 a.m. and the top two teams in each pool advance to the single-elimination playoff round in the afternoon.

Games are played on shortened fields with no pads and will last 40 minutes.  

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Beverly Hills is in Pool D with Selma (from Fresno County), St. Bernard and Fremont. The Normans' first game is at 9:10 a.m. versus St. Bernard on Field 4. They follow with games against Selma at 9:50 a.m. on Field 4 and Fremont at 11:20 a.m. on Field 2. 

The Normans reached the semifinals last year along with Ocean League rival Culver City, which is not in this year's competition because it's playing in the Bonita Tournament in La Verne the same day. When the two teams met at the passing tournament last summer, .

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Pool A consists of Mira Costa, Atascadero, El Monte and Hawthorne; Pool B consists of Dorsey, Santa Ynez, University and Lynwood; and Pool C consists of Notre Dame, Cathedral, West Torrance and View Park. 

Highland of Palmdale won last year's 19-team BHHS tournament, beating West Torrance in the championship game. 

Beverly Hills went 6-5 last season and tied for second place in the Ocean League under head coach Donald Paysinger. The Normans lost to Gardena Serra 48-7 in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Western Division playoffs.

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