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P.V. not only secured its first win of the season and of Cordova’s head coaching career with a 30-0 victory over Lynbrook High at Carl Conelly Stadium on Saturday but the youthful Grizzlies also learned a thing or two about how to deal with a win.

Carlos Hernandez and Russel Pablo combined to rush for 224 yards and four touchdowns and the Pajaro Valley defense came a few plays short of pitching a shutout in the Grizzlies’ 45-6 rout of Harbor.

Behind Monserrat Hernandez Marquez’s hat trick, Aptos High rolled past St. Francis High in a 9-0 Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League victory on Thursday night in Aptos.

The Grizzlies nearly forced a tie in the closing minutes of Wednesday’s contest at Emmett M. Geiser Field, but the Sharks’ defense held tough through a pressure-packed flurry over the final five minutes of their 2-1 win, their fourth straight victory.

No. 10 Pajaro Valley eliminated unseeded Greenfield from the Central Coast Section Division III playoffs on Friday night with a wire-to-wire 58-41 win despite shooting just 32 percent from the field.

The girls captured their sixth straight title and 13th over the last 15 years in a miraculous one-point upset of Santa Cruz High, while the boys finished off their dominant league season with a commanding 47-point victory to repeat as league champs.

Paul Kane, St. Francis, (Sr.): Sharks’ senior placed second to help St. Francis capture the PCAL Cypress title and a trip to the CCS...

APTOS—Natalia Ackerman knows what it’s like to hoist a Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League and Central Coast Section Division III basketball title in a...

Monte Vista Christian senior Marissa Cortes banked the game-winning jumper for the Mustangs’ girls basketball team in a 40-38 victory against Watsonville on Friday. With...