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Caroline Sullivan and Sara Thornburg scored two goals apiece, Polina Oglesby made a trio of clutch saves in the second half and Monte Vista Christian thumped St. Francis, 8-2, in a battle of Watsonville private schools Thursday evening.

After Wednesday night’s 74-56 drubbing of the Gavilan College Rams (4-10, 1-3) in the Adobe Palace, and the 43-point beat down in Salinas over Hartnell College on Jan. 11, the Seahawks (11-3, 4-0) look like they are starting to find their groove just in time for the heart of conference play.

St. Francis exploded for 21 points in the fourth quarter to rally past host Pacific Grove for a 54-44 win in Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission division action on Wednesday night.

Jasmin Castillo scored two goals to help the Pajaro Valley Grizzlies force a Pacific Coast Athletic League Cypress division tie on Wednesday evening.

Aptos (16-6, 7-1) shot 29 percent from the field, and turned it over 18 times en route to its lowest scoring output in an SCCAL game since the 2016-17 season.

The visiting Saints (12-9, 5-0) outlasted the Seahawks (13-4, 4-1) in a neck-and-neck battle between the top two teams of the Coast Conference South division on Wednesday night.

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.

The girls, the top seed in Division II, will welcome in No. 8 Piedmont Hills for a 5 p.m. game, and the boys, the top seed in Open Division, will take on No. 8 Los Gatos after.

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.

Using a stifling full-court man-to-man trapping defense, the Falcons put the clamps on the upstart Grizzlies in a 62-38 win in the second round of the Central Coast Section Division III playoffs on Saturday.