JANN HENDRY/Acorn Newspapers NEXT STEP—Carley McKee and the NPHS girls' water polo team play at Palos Verdes this afternoon at 3:15 p.m. The girls' water polo teams from Newbury Park High and Thousand Oaks each won their CIF-Southern Section Division II wild-card games Tuesday.

Newbury Park advanced to play Palos Verdes today following a 11-7 win over El Modena.

Senior Kayleigh Sobieski led the Panthers with five goals.

Thousand Oaks was a 15-6 winner over Schurr on Tuesday.

TOHS will play at Laguna Beach, the top-seeded team in Division II, today at 3:15 p.m.

"To put it into perspective how good Laguna Beach is, consider this: We played pretty close with Agoura, the top team from (the Marmonte League). Laguna beat Agoura by 10 this year," Thousand Oaks head coach Mike Giles said.