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Aptos (20-6) and Pajaro Valley (20-4) were on opposite ends of the spectrum when the official postseason brackets were released on Wednesday night. The Mariners received the No. 1 seed in the D-III playoffs, and the Grizzlies were unseeded.

Magdaleno has scored at least 24 goals over the course of the season, and her head coach, Gladys Mondragon, estimates she’s made at least seven assists.

Aptos produced six league champions at the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Finals on Feb. 8 at San Lorenzo Valley High.

The 6-foot-5, 315-pounder was still the down-to-earth, small-city guy that left to play college football at Colorado State with dreams of one day playing in the NFL.

The St. Francis Sharks finished the regular season with pair of Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission division wins over Alvarez and Christopher.

Micaela Macias, a senior who had never played organized basketball before this winter, muscled away an offensive rebound, and managed to score her first points in the waining moments of Tuesday night’s 30-13 loss to the Pacific Coast Athletic League Arroyo division champion Hawks.

Down 22-11 at the end of the first quarter, Watsonville had to rally over the last three quarters to fight its way back into the Pacific Coast Athletic League Santa Lucia division title chase with a 52-46 upset of Oakwood.

The Grizzlies thumped visiting Gonzales, 59-17, to win the PCAL-SL title outright a night after clinching a share of the championship with a 60-36 win at Greenfield.

In six games as a starter, Seymour has accumulated 44 rebounds, 28 points, 18 blocks, five assists and four steals for Cabrillo, who tonight travel to Gilroy to play Gavilan College in a game that could determine the conference championship.