Happy Mother's Day? The CIF Southern Section released it's baseball playoff pairings on Friday afternoon instead of Saturday afternoon, which frees up the weekend to celebrate mothers national wide. But it also gives teams an extra day to prepare, especially the Division 1 teams which will start playing earlier than all the other divisions (2-9). Division 1 will start pool play on Tuesday, May 12. The extra day is huge for the Division 1 teams. It’s one thing to practice, it’s another to practice knowing who your opponent is. “The extra day to prepare is huge, no doubt,” Harvard-Westlake coach Jared Halpert said. If the pairings were to be released Saturday afternoon, it would leave most teams with one practice on Monday to prepare because it’s against CIF rules to do any team activities on a Sunday. Halpert feels like first-year CIF assistant commissioner in charge of baseball, Joe Hoggatt, had a lot to do with the early release.…