 It's championship Saturday here at Aptos High School game number one the girls of Soquel and Santa Cruz tip-off with a chance for an STCAL championship coming up on CTV Sports. Good evening and welcome to the gorgeous gym here at Aptos High School for the STCAL 2012 championship. It should be a lot of fun today and our first game is a rematch of our CTV game of the week last week. With the coach Kurt Edwards, I'm Tim Swartz and Kurt for both these teams they've gotten know each other very well including last week's matchup as I just mentioned right here on CTV. They know each other way too well between league games, AAU games and probably pickup games throughout the summer. These they know exactly what's going on the coaches know each other. Tim one of the things matchups I want to look at today is the point guard position where you've got Ashley Clausen for Santa Cruz and Tori McBride for the Lady Nights. One's a little younger than the other and we saw him do battle last time and McBride really did a fine job even though Clausen scored over 20 points. She made her work very hard for those points both these teams last time out one of them really had to work hard for their victory in the semifinals of this tournament the other Soquel really just rolled. They just flat rolled right on through it. John Wilson's has a team unit he has Clark in the middle he's got five or six or seven girls that he can go to and that's going to be one of the things. Monique and Pat Jones we already talked about those they got Pappas and Clausen those are the two and then it starts to go down so that's what Soquel's going to try and do is make those other three or four or five people step up and play ball. Real quick Kurt last time these two teams met it was a victory for Soquel rather easily at Santa Cruz what needs to change this time for the the Cardinals to come out on top. Well somebody else is going to have to score outside of the two main guns and who that might be that's going to be one of the fun things to find out and the other one is they're just going to have to get more rebounds they being the Lady Cardinals is more control of the board. Should be a lot of fun the Knights and the Cardinals coming up next on CTV Sports. So back here at Aptos High School it is the CTV Sports Game of the Week and a special edition of the Game of the Week the SECL championship will start out with the girls of Santa Cruz and the girls of Soquel. Reminds you CTV Sports is a presentation of community television at Santa Cruz County nonprofit membership organization serving county residents by providing education and tools to access media visit us at community TV dot org. 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and St. Francis they got eliminated last week they'll be playing in the CCS one of the small division so they'll have a chance to make some noise in the CCS tournament both these teams of Santa Cruz and so Cal will also be in the CCS tournament so we wish them the best of luck after this game in Nats you see the head coach the co-ed coach I should say Patrick Jones there's his and his wife Monique's coaches Keats well they're gonna have to shut down graves and that's gonna be kind of easy to do since right now that shooting guard for so Cal isn't there limits so Cal's rebounding and that's that's gonna be key they're gonna have to square off and get them and balance out the scoring it can't be Papas and Clausen all the time there's Pat Jones great basketball player in his day which you know you're looking at that young face this couldn't be too many years ago there's on the other side John Wilson on the right Gus Aguirre one of the officials and coach Wilson we're gonna have to stop Clausen and Papas definitely on that one offensive rebound they want to get two sometimes three shots on the offensive glass and take care of the ball and that's where Tori McBride's gonna come in the young sophomores an outstanding ballhandler tough tough nut out there that's a Tori McBride of very good sophomores did a great job against Clausen last time these two teams that you see John Wilson courtside also is Pete Newell Jr. who was a mentor for both these head coaches and it's great to see coach Newell Jr. in the house now we'll go over to the third member of our broadcast team Rusty Reed well Tim we've got a rematch of last week's regular season finale which certainly had a championship air to it so Cal won the game despite the great efforts of the dynamic duo the two senior captains for Santa Cruz Ashley Clausen and Paulie Papas between the two of them they accounted for 80% of the cardinal scoring so if Santa Cruz has any hopes to win an SCAL championship this year the rest of the team has got to rev it up and one other item of note so Cal won last week because of their big senior shooting guard Graves she led so Cal to the to the victory last night she's not in the building tonight so chalk up an advantage in that column for Santa Cruz should be a good one Tim thanks a lot Rusty coming up next we'll have the opening tip and starting lineups between Santa Cruz and so Cal here at Aftos it's the SCCL 2012 championship right here on CTV back here on a special edition of the CTV game of the week the SCCL 2012 championship starting lineups being announced for the game between second seated Santa Cruz and top seated so Cal with the coach Kurt Edwards I'm Tim Swartz we start out with the Santa Cruz Cardinals the Joneses their co-head coaches and Kurt their starting lineup we've got them Orpeza Clausen I'll believe although she's gonna be taken played up Paul's gonna be in a spot for that one Jamerus and Papas and of course we've already talked about Clausen and Papas and how effective they are for the Lady Knights Tyler Stewart McBride Rocha Clark and Diaz Graves noticeably absent by not being over here so Stewart who is a very good three-point player is gonna have to step up and that interior is gonna have to do a better job banging the boards for the Lady Knights and their head coach John Wilson how does he change his game plan you think he's got to change it well he doesn't have the go-to point score get her because that's what Graves has been the last couple of days there's Monique Jones the co-head coach for the Santa Cruz Cardinals and Pat Jones they've got to be happy that Graves is not in Graves scored over 20 25 points in the last time these two teams met and she was on fire offensively she's been responsible for a little bit more than now maybe less than half of what so Cal could score but she is the go-to go-to person so they're gonna have to look inside for Clark a lot more Stewart on the outside and Rocha to come up big and the other side for Santa Cruz we've really mentioned it we'll mention again they have two strong players maybe two of the three or four best players in the entire league in Ashley Clausen and Polly Papas and both those players averaging over 15 points a game and of course the last time they play they both went 20 points a game so Cal wins the tip 41 combined points last time these two teams met but for those two wasn't enough so Cal's able to win 27 from Regine Graves were underway so Cal was officially the home team as the top seed Clausen works to looks to work it in transition so Cal be wearing their home white uniforms and the traditional cardinal uniforms with the white and silver for Santa Cruz wasn't had a pretty good look takes it down the middle off the foot here come the Lady Knights Stewart works in transition bounces it to McBride she bounces it off the backboard and in early two for the so Cal Knights they lead to zero good job by McBride to use the glass so many times players don't use it and end up with a missed shot straight away for the freshman Shiloh toll is a 5-8 post player back out to Clausen's headed to southern Oregon right wing Papas pullback high floater from 13 catches nothing ball is loose jump ball go out to the Cardinals but they only have two seconds as the bench over here to my right for Santa Cruz hollers in get that ball in they're gonna have to get a shot up pretty pretty quick hopefully they'll go to Papas and she can get one off the fast awesome takes it out Papas short and that is jump ball or excuse me a shot clock violation off of the jump ball you know that's pretty good for so Cal too because they don't get the arrow but they turn the arrow and they basically get a free turn over with two on the shot clock yeah plus tall got a foul reaching over the top on that Aaron shot so they have a trifecta now score points so Cal got it Roka drives right baseline dishes out up top for Clark rotated down low McBride lays it up the good great movement without the ball by McBride Tori does a nice job of continuing to move the ball working on screens trying to break free and she got underneath and also a nice passing by the so Cal Knights the outstanding freshman Diaz his garden closet she's bombed off the ball by tall good help side by Clark to deflect it and an Aaron shot is collected by McBride right almost through that way you got to be patient then there's a turnover underneath the basket easy lane for Papas off the pass for a Pesa and they got a press go nice job by Roka Roshi to hit the brakes Diaz in the lane hook shot off the glass it's no good in Papas he's also collected about 10 rebounds again hesitation dribble drive high arc or no good second effort will bounce out for Jomris but she'll get to the line for two Melissa in good position to make that rebound Clark with her first panel the first foul first team foul by so Cal to for Jomris and her first is good now we talk about the importance of everybody on the floor one of the huge important things you're gonna have on any basketball game are free throws Melissa drops both of those four for the score both teams are gonna have to be very effective Clark in the backcourt releases to Stewart up the left wing McBride sophomore one of the quickest players in the league if not be quickest pull up jump or falls to Stewart for the left side nice little pop and stop by Stewart good first step there's one with a great first step closet or a Pesa just a little long long rebound is collected by Clark off the far corner McBride in transition forces the issue tall deflection and here comes closet got to be able to shut her off so she doesn't get a free shot nice little move by Papas doesn't fall McBride collects the rebounds been very aggressive defensively for the full court for Santa Cruz extremely aggressive underneath Clark doesn't make it well they're gonna have to be aggressive Tim you know they want to go down a little bit farther and you know get some better shots and they want to be a tough on the rebounds happens that's all works in around or pace the left wing just about halfway through the first quarter six four lead so tell but we're tied up as caution pours in her first two for Ashley closet shoes the ball she's got tremendous release good hand and arm strength what you're thinking about it crowds around Melissa Diaz misses that one for a Pesa collects the long rebound looks for a point guard closet again closings a AU coach Khalid Hicks is in the building he's got several players out there he does a nice program he's got a program block underneath against Clark that's her second foul if it goes against number 22 it does Khalid Hicks got a program called got game get game this really if really brings it to a nice job down inside the tall who goes right to the rack you see she was able to get that inside shoulder and is able to pivot around Clark doesn't make the shot but is able to get the first of the three throws so Shiloh doing a nice job of getting in position getting the shot off going to the charity stripe three free throws by Santa Cruz three makes that could be a big big part of this game well if you remember the the Soquel Santa Cruz game on the boys side so Cal's main problem was they couldn't make a free throw and it came back to haunt him again just recently against Dapkos but the Soquel boys the CCS will meet on Sunday and they're gonna be in the tournament someplace passive press is broken quite easily by Soquel McBride top of the key substitution for the Soquel Knights up the left wing Marisa Azua who is a 511 center junior Diaz right wing three no good I think so far Diaz has already attempted four shots in the first five minutes looks like John Wilson's looking to her to potentially take out some of the scoring that Graves is missing it was a double high poster run by the Soquel Knights actually everybody came out of the free-throw line of free-throw light extended good rotation good movement by Soquel we gotta start setting some screens three right wing no good for Stewart Stewart does like that shot but here comes Klosson and she's gonna attack the basket she waits for the rest of the Lady Cardinals to get in position pullback three left iron no good not a lot of rhythm when she took that shot and you had a good trajectory but that jump back is a little tough to throw it throw down Azua through the lane and a blocking foul call that we've talked before to him on how I like it if you've got an opportunity to go in the lane you've got a scene you take that somebody's gonna have to stop you if they don't stop you've got that easy layup now otherwise you know take that foul go to the charity strike foul was against Shane Habli that was the second team foul against the Santa Cruz Cardinals checking in for the first time for the Cardinals is Ashley Larkin Larkin is a call-up from the JV team the second free-throws no good and the offensive rebound to Bertelsen Bertelsen wide open left wing and she pours in a three Ashley got a great look here comes Papas not really hesitating the Cardinals they get the ball down to the attack side of the basketball court 10-7 Soquel leads Bertelsen will collect the rebound with 201 and counting remaining in the opening frame of this four-quarter matchup again double high post McBride's got a nice look and an open three achievaries well McBride in the last time these two teams hooked up didn't score to the fourth quarter and she has seven in the first for a five point lead for the Knights well the Knights knows that they're gonna have to make up for Graves is absent here's a long three for Larkin that one doesn't catch rim McBride three on three if she hurries right wing Roka just checked back into the game dumps it down a zoo a turn around that can it hook shot is good and a seven point lead for the Knights notice how a zoo used her body to back on it and just back the opponent down great job and a nice little spin moving a good hook and the last time she did that against Hadley Hadley was called for a foul so looks like she gave her a little bit more extra space just so you're just enough that a zoo was able to get deeper in there and get a good percentage shot right wing Hapis that's a big three to try to break down that zone four point lead for the lady Knights quickly down the floor McBride up top swings right side for Roka Roka dumps it down Diaz double team bounce back out Roka three on the way just off that one bounced over the back board pretty live rim of course when you get that far shot you've got that high arching angle to come down so when it hits it then has a tendency to either bounce farther out or just go right over the top now see what type of a rotation that the part knows are going to get into is gloss and brings the ball down the floor that a six second shot clock game clock difference or how would you describe the zone somewhere with a matchup type of a zone it's a 2-3 but they're really extending out they're gonna force the Cardinals to take a long shot Larkin misses a three offensive rebound Jamras lays it back in he's got four in the first quarter eight seconds remaining in the first drive pushed the ball down they can't dilly-dally around as he was Bartelsen travel you know he's got eight seconds you've got to have a play with a sense of urgency and he went into the hands of Bertelsen and she didn't it sort of stopped right there 1.6 seconds is though to cross it in the back court let it run out on the first quarter 15 13 in the 2012 girls championship here on CTV the lead for so Cal we back with the second quarter or so stay here with for the second quarter 15 13 is the score so Cal lead Santa Cruz and any thoughts from the first quarter Kurt well I was impressed the way that McBride came out she looks like she's gonna take the whole load on her shoulders from Graves not being there I also liked what was going on inside a zoo was doing a good job CTV sports it's our home team folks SCCA wrestling championships on February the 26th let's hear what coach Jones has to say now they're trying to push you up a little bit they're going to Diaz you're doing a good job we don't do swing okay no sense you're doing a good job just play between her in the basket make a shoot over you okay and then I don't know if we need you to double so hard back in the fist coach Jones cool calm and assertive no it was a change up they can go cool calm and collected but that's in the mind of coach Edwards is with Kurt Edwards I'm Tim Swartz and Kurt you coach so many places you coach here I know at Aptos you coach girls basketball boys basketball baseball football what what did you enjoy a lot about when you coached girls basketball actually just the teaching aspect of it and the camaraderie on the court for the girls they really really work hard together they're up there to improve good job underneath by Clark to get that rebound and they'll reset with the fresh 30 seconds two-point lead for the Soquel Knights little rotation for the Soquel Knights Park looking underneath nice job great feed Roca lays it up and good with her left hand very patient on the offense where the Lady Knights make his shifted up and down setting screens and then Rocha found herself wide open underneath Pappas high right side and working around the arc back to the man to man Klosson trying to set a girl trying to set a screen for her Jamras was open underneath and they'll find her or a pace of feeds her down low we'll see what type of defense the Cardinals bring out and a man right now here's your rotation nice little pick and roll nothing there they'll set it up one more time Stewart tries to come through the lane Diaz step back catches nothing and or a pace picks up the loose ball hands it off to her point guard the senior Klosson hollers out the offensive pattern or a bazaar rolls back up in front there goes to look for Pappas she's got it and Pappas off the hesitation we've had the angle of Diaz and the slight push will be called against Clark and that's her third personal that time he just soquel knights did not do a nice job of screening out Pappas gets down underneath allowing everybody to be freed how believe was able to be in there and force Clark farther underneath the basket she makes that part of the free throw and the bad part about it is that's a big part of soquel the lady knights offense and defense is number 22 Clark and we probably won't see much of her for the rest of the second quarter Zulekia Rodriguez as replaced her the second free throw is no good still just a one point lead for soquel it looked by as many as seven in the first quarter you see some kind of emotion moving screen yes against Diaz that's the fourth team foul yeah that's a that is a foul that's common I don't care what level of ball you're in whether it's high school grammar school or NBA there's John Wilson the head man for the lady knights you're supposed to set a screen you see this not going to be effective you try and slide on out but you've got three officials work in the floor they're going to catch it underneath Pappas off the feed give an assist on a great feed from Havley seven points now on the evening for Pappas he starts to smell a little bit more on the offense Diaz that's a trouble early on taking about six shots yet to score McBride we've through the zone step back Stewart three in and out Jammers with the rebound Melissa's going to give it up to Ashley a lot of pushing and shoving inside between Holly Rodriguez Melissa says I'm going to travel no ticket necessary she had an open lane the basket I think she got a little bit it's too excited right in there with the hot dog I guess I got nobody in front of me and a timeout called for by coach Wilson 30 second timeout by Soquel and John's has to be somewhat happy of what the Knights are doing even though they're down by one but I know he would like to see a little bit more assertiveness and how they're running their offense and especially doing defensively there's Clark snicks it inside nice job to run you can see movement from the top once Clark steps inside the defense shifts toward if you can have movement either stepping away or continuing to go to the basket that person coming towards the bucket they're going to get a ball they're going to get some attention so you just might as well pass it off unless you know you've got that nice clean open shot that time Clark did a nice job just finding Rocha for the easy layup Soquel again they haven't really had any trouble with this full court pressure this time Stewart takes it all the way to the hoop nice help side defense happily up the court to cross in a one point lead for Santa Cruz their first lead of this game Rodriguez almost picked up his pocket looks like a switch on all screens defense in that time it confuses Santa Cruz the steal to Rocha one handed he passed too strong Rodriguez that's one of those situations where you see the open pass and sometimes you just might as well swallow that pass and move the ball down Pat Jones head man great basketball player in his career at Santa Cruz high school she just you sometimes did that extra pass is one too many Lawson forced the issue and she'll pick up a pair of free throws it's against Rodriguez the foul Lawson saw that opening that you alluded to Tim and then just immediately went right through the gears very very quickly you've got to keep a body in front of her if she passes off she's doing you a favor unless of course she's passing it off the pappers the fifth team foul against the Knights Lawson will go to play division two basketball Southern Oregon the second free throw is good and we were talking to her a U coach before last game he thought she did get some division one chances confused he picked up the steal but she felt the most comfortable in Southern Oregon so that's where she ended up Hapis nice turn around with the right hand she throws it in and nine points which leads all scores for the freshman for the senior Pauley pappers now that defense is getting a little bit tough is right now in the ball game to captain that basketball down the floor and you can see that Soquel's having a little bit of trouble and McBride wasn't in the game for Soquel the last couple of possessions when they've had trouble working the ball down the floor and now McBride comes in somebody has to come out there we go Berthelsen comes out also in the game is Azua number 30 so a little bit of a different lineup more of the starting lineup there's two people that go after each other a lot and that's Clausen and McBride on the same AAU team nice pick set by Orpeza and the back door to Pappis high off the glass and in she's in double figures and a seven point lead for Santa Cruz after Soquel had a seven point lead in the first I believe this was a 15 to eight game at one point so this is a 16 and two right this is I say that the three is poured in by Tory McBride her second trifecta of the day I guess Soquel the Lady Knights are gonna have to do a better job of boxing out on the boards and keeping their eye on whoever it is they're guarding on this man-to-man defense that the Lady Knights are putting on the Lady Cardinals 24-20 250 remaining in the first half 2012 SCAL championship good switch steel McBride tries to pass it up to Azua Pappis reached in honor and is called for a foul of course last season Soquel under semi similar circumstances they were the favorite coming into the championship game they were without regime graves and they were shocked I mean double overtime by the St. Francis Sharks McBride tried another three shots no good and Pappis picks up the rebounds Pappis as you said averages a right around 10 rebounds a game no press this time put on by Santa Cruz here comes McBride just they just need more motion being the Lady Knights we're getting some decent looks and let's see what we got a foul blossom is going to get called with a push like a traffic jam when she comes through a screen she lowers her shoulder delivers a blow you're taught as a basketball player to fight your way through a screen that means drop your shoulder a little bit or find find that little gap in that screen and get through it sometimes you may get called for a push or something like that sometimes you may get him called for a blocking foul Annalise Bryant's with the ball senior five six guarding for the game for the first time McBride just drives through three players throws that one up it's no good as Zua ripped it away from Hamley jump ballcalls possession is going to Santa Cruz as well played underneath a Zua doing a nice job of aggressively going at them after the ball and not getting a foul called against her so the two main offensive thrust for Santa Cruz and the ball off to each other Pappis brings it in to Closson Closson slowly crosses half court Pappis collects left elbow she drives in on Diaz it's no good and the rebound was picked up by the traveling called or a pace fell to the floor she fell to the floor and got that dribble started very quick but apparently slipped us a little bit too much gusagiri the official on that side made the call Patrick Jones didn't agree with that when he thought or a pessa she fell down starter to dribble 27-20 the lead for the Santa Cruz Cardinals Zua way out top you can see this nice little start down low bring it back outside a zoo turn around too strong all alone or a pessa who has yet to score tonight but where a pessa has been really including that last time she was called for traveling is is really cleaned up the boards she's done a nice job Gettner's works very hard to get in good position to get the rebound Larkin left wing three on the way in and out rebound tipped around to Diaz Roche's got a look at that one not gonna do it good pulls up her dribble good job Closson settled that offense has really been on her all night and it's done a really nice job as I say that Roka comes to the lane and just misses shot Closson two on one takes it all the way herself she's fouled by McBride who helps her up and their longtime friends Bryant number 13 did a good job of hustling back down the floor McBride loses that half a step now what Bryant could have done on that one as granted there was another Lady Cardinal coming down on the left hand side but she could have stepped up and stopped that ball and either forced the pop and shoot stopped the momentum or or a pass off now sometimes Tim on a situation like that you're darned if you do and darned if you don't if you stop the ball there's two other people coming down on the wings which is the way you're supposed to run a fast break and you yourself have watched Stanford the Lady Cardinal they run that fast break very very well in and out for Closson and are you talking to the Closson's AAU coach he thought she could play a pack 12 and as somebody who watches and calls a lot of past 12 games I definitely think Closson's tough enough defensively and she can run the fast break you see Closson just can test that through the shot clock was dead Soquel shot with 10 seconds left Closson drives left side swings Larkin three good luck get it out or a pace on that one would have counted it's no good and we have reached half time 27 20 Santa Cruz leads Soquel might tell to just five points in that second quarter of play and really in the first half Soquel had a 15 to 8 lead and they just really couldn't score they got outscored at one point it was about a 16 to 2 run for the the Santa Cruz Cardinals they held Closson and Jack pretty well just four but Pauli Papis the other head of that two-headed monster had 11 points in the first half Patrick Jones is standing by with the third member of our broadcast crew Rusty Reed Pat here we go you must be pretty happy with things up 27 20 yeah well I mean the score is nice but I you know I think we can do some things a lot better we you know we let them score some buckets that we could have stopped we have a little bit of confusion on defense but you know we have a little bit more balance on our offense than we have in the past so that's good last week you relied on just the two and Papis has had a great first half but you a lot of good balance from all ages yeah from all ages well you know we found Melissa underneath the basket a couple times and then we're able to get them some turnovers which then in the fast break situation it's whoever's open so you know the girls move the ball pretty well and hopefully we can you know maybe get some more turnovers in the second half all right good luck all right Pat Jones Santa Cruz high but girls basketball coach heading in for the half Santa Cruz up 27 to 20 we'll be back with the second half right after this 27 20 Santa Cruz leads so Cal at the half here in the 2012 SCAL championship you want to thank some of the people to help make this 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coach John Wilson so two words for you coach Tori McBride 10 points in the first half yeah she had a nice half we just need some of the other girls to pick it up on offense we need a little bit more scoring from the rest of the girls out for sure yeah so Tori is the good news the bad news you're down by seven here at the half would you tell the girls to adjust we just have to have a little bit more patient on offense you know we're getting shots I think we can get better shots and we just got to keep playing hard like they're doing it will be fine all right when and you have the league championship all to yourselves yes yes good luck have a good second half John thanks for stopping by all right over to you Tim thanks so much Rusty and we are here with the coach Kurt Edwards we'll take a look at this first half Tori McBride was very strong early on in this one the first quarter was all about so Cal really early on they opened up as big as a seven-point lead and there's the pride first basket of the game yes they did a good job pushing the ball down the floor their offense beat it was in just a much better pacing than they came up in the second half Azua doing a nice job you see she was able to fake one side and use that beautiful left-handed hook to get that bucket right down in against Halbleve who's guarding her so that was the 15-8 lead and in Santa Cruz we go on a 16-2 run in the middle of that first half which really I think was the story the first time it was and the big story was down underneath Tim as you can see right now Melissa doing a good job underneath they're getting hurt you know they're getting second shots all the way through Papus establishes her presence down underneath the boards misses that shot but battles back for the rebound and that nice little hook move gets those two points so Santa Cruz doing a good job of I said before establishing where they want to do and one of the reasons is they've got an outside game that's also been very very effective because as they're going back to Larkin and just dropping those three bombs in there so outside inside Santa Cruz is really being an effective so Cal a little slow getting the ball down on offense Tim I have to you know they miss graves last year they're missing graves this year too and Santa Cruz outscored so Cal in the second quarter 14 to 5 after so Cal took the first quarter what do you see that was different in the second quarter well again as I said before a lot of stuff that was inside they were starting to get inside Papus and everybody so Cal was beating Santa Cruz excuse me Santa Cruz is beating so Cal down the floor and they were able to get good presence walks out really deny any opportunity for a defense rebound for the so Cal Knights so the offensive board was owned by Santa Cruz and so Cal they got the 10 from McBride but other than the 10 but McBride there's nobody else who scored more than three so they need somebody else to step up and add some scoring so if you want to get a DVD of today's games or any of the other great games that we've done Tim and I've done throughout the so far this part of the school year copies of $25 learn more about it at communitytv.org for the dubs backslash dubs or if you use the old-fashioned way you can call us at 425-8848 I still have a rotary phone do you what is that it's an old-time phone so you dial it up the operator comes on says how may I connect your call and then you have to do you have to run to the place and yeah hop in the the wires yourself exactly so Cal comes out of their huddle and yeah we'll say the one key is during that 16 to 2 run for Santa Cruz McBride missed a bit of time in that run I don't think she's going to sit the rest of this game she might not she's the one person to get the ball down the floor effectively for the Lady Knights second half under way so Cal who's left to right on your screen they're the one seat so they're wearing their home uniforms and Santa Cruz and their road cardinal uniforms for the Cardinals they'll be moving right to left he has given up her dribble so the Knights are going to have to come to her aid Diaz through the lane travels I have a feeling that that call was attributed to coach Pat Jones who is screaming for a walk in the referee John Hadley gave it to him there was a travel in there anyways crossing slowly up the courts over to the right wing for Papas Santa Cruz Cardinals proud program trying to get back on top left wing or a pace that's a two-pointer her foot was on the line she did not score in the first half but she pours in two big ones there well both of these ballcubs are going to advance on to the CCS dance but so Cal would definitely love it if they could be the undisputed champion of the SCAL McBrides gets a step on cross and goes underneath lays it up this is it but she's fouled she's going to get a chance to go to the charity strike and for the CCS basketball tournaments something it's a little bit different as opposed to the football the football is based on power points so you can't argue and some other sports as well most sports actually the CCS are based on power points as McBride he's up to 11 points but basketball is not it is a sport both free throws are good that is based on just representatives from leagues arguing really oh those those meetings are fun yeah you get the power points then you get a whole bunch of teams that have about the same number of power points then it becomes the reputation of a coach the reputation of a league who do you have on your side and sometimes the number one team looks something like to beat that team i may not beat that team i want that one but i think the the big point with that the CCS is winning a outright regular season in the tournament championship would have a lot of weight for so cal if they can come back they would have down inside Diaz gets the ball tied up or do we have a foul we have a foul Jamras is going to call for it listen Jamras that is her first foul first team foul in the second half Paul's released right side for Stewart's McBride back up top against the 2-3 zone you watch McBride she gets rid of the ball on her passes she gets the ball back with the block you see claustin when she collects the ball her head immediately goes up pulls up left free throw line extended can't get the roll rebound to Stewart's Rocha down low Diaz can't get her first basket but she'll get a chance to the free throw line Jade Halblad with that foul i think that might be her possibly her third yes Diaz the freshman all free throws are important and when you are behind they become even more important especially for so cal just had five in the second quarter not much rotation sometimes when you get that rotation on the ball Tim that little little backspin when they when they get it it's a little softer it gets into that cylinder not as much rotation the ball tends to rattle around just a little bit both of those rattled on out for Diaz so cal Knights having some trouble offensively they've scored just seven points since the first quarter we've got four five twenty four in the third left a seven point lead for the Cardinals Diaz odd Pappas nice nice free swiss wide open shot for claustin straight away claustin nice touch you're just talking about the touch actually she just showed a nice rotation claustin with the foul against her AAU running mate uh McBride that's the second foul on number 14 claustin and yeah and down here there was a nice little screen Pappas put a nice screen McBride could not fight through it claustin had basically a free throw Stuart reverse lane is too strong Farton fought for the rebound for so cal and you see court side we mentioned earlier the mentor for both these head coaches Pete Newell jr yeah we got the coach's corner over there Pete Newell and over there Stu Walter there's John Wilson not a happy camper Monique Jones Pat Jones right next to us quite a good crowd here a lot of basketball enthusiasts McBride pulls up the floater from Tang's too strong the second efforts and Clark was knocked on the arm well that time Clark did a great job using your body getting good position to get the rebound a little floater up beneath when you see Clark had already established good inside position user body to screen off the defender now she gets the opportunity to go to the charity stripe that is the fourth against Habli and tall will check in for Habli you had mentioned before that she thought Santa Cruz is playing a very aggressive ball game today and they are and I think they have to Clark makes both free throws four for six from the line for so Cal in the second half that's their only points in the second half and one night you want to try and cut theirs and again a nice free good switch by the so Cal Knights now you might have this a little bit of a mismatch tapas doing a good job up again tapas first time she's lit up the scoreboard in the second half and it's up to a nine point lead for the Santa Cruz gardeners you know who's actually gone quiet right now is McBride even though she has she had a couple free throws she's got 12 points on the afternoon you got to get the ball to her she's got a good look at a three beautiful pass it's in and out good job by Tyler Stewart but she gave her a perfect pass to give her a wide open three against the aggressive defense but Santa Cruz the aggressive defense that time worked out in their favor stealing the ball away tapas high right side tall wasn't expecting the pass knocks it down and collects the pappas out of a screen roka fowler blocking foul you can see the defense was moving and pappas realized that as she came around the top from the left back over to the right there's a shot of Rocha and pappas when you know that you've got your player your defender backing up keep taking them to the basket because you're going to get that blocking foul called against them first free throw is no good for pappas as the first team foul against soquel and there have been already five against Santa Cruz in the first less than five minutes pappas makes the second first double-digit lead for either team today 34-24 Santa Cruz jammeress now just call underneath call for the foul now it is jammeress on the wrist second foul on number 13 jammeress i don't wonder about that fall it just seemed like it was just part parcel to the play up top for Bertelsing looks to release McRide that pass is too tall for her students one thing that soquel can't do or they're gonna have to really fight hard not to do is panic you still have a lot of basketball to be played a credit much tall really moving she's at the top right at the free throw line working hard against azua pappas it's double team leaves it all right open or it's uh that one is too strong rebound tipped around it's off and soquel's in it's not able soquel is not able to really establish any kind of continuity or rhythm on the offensive side of the ball blossom having trouble inbounding the ball releases up top heads up play by or a pastor to just go up to the top and cost him will reset the offense you got a lot of time 23 seconds on the shot clock get the ball into motion nice little zone defense right now being applied by the lady knights take three on the way pappas can't get it to go and loose ball fouls against bally pappas well pappas showed me a good thing she shot the ball she didn't react as quickly as maybe you would have wanted it to anybody if anybody knows the shot is not going to be going in it's the shooter they should know that right out of their camp well this is big two because that's the 17th foul so with 230 remaining the third quarter soquel who's only scored via the free throw line is going to have free throws arrest in here and out that's a big foul you're right tim they're going to have to be able to convert azua was blocked by jamras with the second effort well she'll just kind of shove it up there and in jamras again with the foul that's her third that is the third so that's one of the things you're looking at how to leave with four jamras with three pappas with two and clauson i believe also has two she's got to make those free throws and soquel as a team is four for eight in the second half and five for ten in this game down by 222 third quarter to go or a pace at a pappas who's double team find an open jammer swings right elbow jumper cost him back iron no good steward just had that one taken away by or a pace that easy seven-footers she missed jamras had to go off her foot jamras i've got melissa is really working hard she came in nobody blocked her out she got a better rebounding position than any of the soquel knights she didn't get the rebound but she was there and she was contested for it knights are bringing the ball down the floor with McBride right now tim santa cruz is working harder yeah roka took the baseline she was fouled by pappas pappas that's her third now one thing you have to leave the offensively that was a nice move by rocha leans to the right just a little bit and then a quick first step but you have to deny the baseline if you want to overplay somebody overplay him towards the baseline you're going to get more help in the middle then you will go with baseline oh to say that there's no help baseline usually with those heads upplayed by rocha who's a second year varsity player who goes two for two and a timeout call for by santa cruz it'll be double bonus time for the rest of the game for this soquel knight steam 30 second time out look like that's all pat jones really wanted to convey here's uh john wilson always in fact mark morango who is his assistants right gave some instructions there sometimes you just have your assistant coach talk a little bit it's nice to hear things from a couple of different voices yeah if you look at a lot of the college games and even the pro games they have their head coach but they've also have two or three assistants whether it's a an offensive assistant a defensive assistant or big people a little bit it doesn't matter but it's nice to have something said maybe the same thing different tenor one different word it clicks and very often at the next level where clauson will be playing his or pace is in and out the assistant coaches at college and pros actually more often than not run practice as opposed to the head coach broke a long heat check so good say santa soquel excuse me the knights are just gonna have to get if they could make some of those threes that would be good but they're just gonna have to get some better looks at those threes they've yet to make a field goal in the second half but they've actually gained a point on santa cruz because they've had a free throw made we've talked about it many times in many different games those free throws will win and lose ball games for you clauson very slowly up the court tall right there at the free throw line look at her work from sliding her all the way around follows the ball gets right back up right at the free throw line center of the key where the ball goes she goes cap is on a nice drive it almost looks like because the shot was no good that was a good offensive position a possession cap has got a good look but almost like they're kind of even playing a triangle offense they are it's exactly what they're looking at trying to do deus is found it's against tall answer second personal steward getting ready to check in the game for the soquel knights could you explain a little bit though with forty seven eight point eight seconds left in a six point lead for soquel to try to come back against but can you explain to the listeners a lot of people use the term triangle offense what is a triangle offense if you can get that geographical little geography on that one you've got one person to say it's tall she's going to be one one point of that triangle and you're going to have somebody whether they're top of the key extended or to the left or the right and they're going to work the ball that direction and try and get somebody to cut either back side or on the same side of the triangle but you're working off of three players with the other two working independently of the ball right side pappas can't get it to go just a five point lead and again soquel has not had a field goal since the second quarter now they've got six free throws on the uh so far here in the third quarter getting around quickly as you are looking inside not there see that's what the lady knights are going to have to do is move quicker without the basketball left hand is off the glass and it's cut the three seconds left to a three point game clausen step back left elbow got it that's a big shot because it had been cut to a one possession game but clausen the talented senior pours it in and it's back out to a 36 31 game as we head to the fourth quarter of play here on ctv did just like last year's a game of the championship here at aptos the girls game is coming down to the wire it was and that was a great job by clausen she knew that the time was running out on her she forced it down nobody slowed her down she was able to get right at the free throw line still nobody really get in the face somebody like her and understanding that this time santa cruz is doing a little bit better job of distributing the ball around than they have in the past john wilson that intent look that i remember him from a pitcher and baseball from years gone by i think it was two years ago but if you can stop clausen but watch azua nice little pivot back inside she's used that play a couple of different times fake fake to the left spin back to the right nice little left-handed hook very effective if you can give that upper body just some kind of a move and get your defender to go from one side to the other spin back you have an opportunity to have a pretty easy shot you got to know too if you're playing against azua defensively she's left-handed player she's left-handed dominant player right yeah you can do that with you watch some of these players they'll they'll fake and then go back out the other way they want to make sure that they establish their pivot foot they may make that fake step inside and turn back not so much in women's ball but you get up in the men's and they'll just fade away a little fallback jump shot one of the guys that made that pretty famous and he didn't have to because he was so doggone tall is the late great will chamberlain clausen into the front court larkin jv call-up was just a freshman comes back with the hand it off to clausen who pulls up from eight still good rebound was off of abley who's back into the game with four fouls but you've got to have her back in she's a presence underneath the boards oh steward had a shot but could not quite get in shooting rhythm ds turnaround jumper no good she fights for the rebound she'll tie up abley and ds will keep the ball on the side for soquel five point lead for santa cruz it's steward clark wrote jadias and mcbride the original five for soquel nights on the floor clausen and pappas have not come out yet for santa cruz now and they're not going to you know that's your offense as a defense nice movement of the ball by the lady knights and three for steward mcbride was double teamed at the top of the two three zone and immediately she cut and got it off to her teammate steward a lot of switching back and forth might right now i'm sure coach wilson would like to have mcbride on clausen but ds is on her pappas is foul pappas is just uh half of the step quicker than the night that was gardener and that was mcbride that got her but mcbride was summoned over from a pick position paulie pappas to shoot two nice location by paulie not so many field goals in the second half just five between these two teams yeah of course her dad pete pappas basketball coach golf coach oh it hangs on the room not there park with the rebound ds hook shot too strong at a bounce off the soak out one of those you know the hook shot if you don't get a nice little high release that's a hard shot if you're just going to do an a side armor shovel order yeah that's a little tough because you don't have any kind of a rotation on the shot you're not really using the backboard as effectively as you possibly could going on a bounce the defense by mcbride over on the far side the soak out defense is picked up a little bit here in the second half it's going to have to pick up a little bit more because there's still three down they have to get a couple of stops there's a couple of baskets the sanikers didn't leave this game until deep in the second quarter so kell hasn't led this game since sanikers took that lead with about two minutes remaining in the second roca is called for traveling it's good ran over pappas yeah great defensive position by pappas roca the ball is behind her just a little bit and of course good job by claustin you see she goes by claustin claustin reaches in try and get the steal and that causes roach and to pull the ball back a little bit prematurely and then that stumble bumbled fall and traveling claustin swings right side jamras back to claustin pick and roll that couldn't find the cutting pappas claustin steps back put them online jumper no good jammer the second effort's no good McBride collects the rebounds McBride long pass up the courts she finds claust back up McBride trying to swing it outside pappas takes it away pappas drives to the lane with contact it's no good pappas is fouled from behind great effort by number 11 paulie pappas she comes down neither player really hangs around long enough could have a blocking but pappas does not quit on the shot she realizes she missed the shot right after upon release so she's going where the rebound's gonna bounce off to gets it takes it out underneath crossing high life swing the screen from pappas throws it down for paulie spins and a hand check looks like stewart's gonna get credit for the foul so instead it'll go against clark actually that's her fourth personal so good is the movement without the ball by the lady cardinals primarily pappas but you know you look around melissa jammer is also the one that has definitely really done a lot of it for me in that she gets down underneath she establishes position she doesn't take her eye off the ball and as soon as the ball goes up she starts to work into a good rebounding position her old-time nba guy is not really old but denis rodman and charles barkley they used to do that the holy cross seventh grade basketball team having a good time here at the palatial and aptos we're going to see those kids down the road tim yeah hopefully yeah we'll see them in some sccl championship games five 12 remaining in the game and santa Cruz will take a timeout off of so kills a little bit of a chess match now sometimes you you you take that timeout to see what's going on kick it outside to McBride she steps in and that's what I'm saying see how that the movement with the ball McBride coming in the defense rotates inside she's able to kick it out for a nice season a good three-point look some of the things that the lady knights really have not been able to do on much at all this afternoon and it's been a very aggressive santa Cruz defense but in that particular possession against an aggressive zone if you're able to penetrate and rotate it quickly you'll get open shots yeah you take duke stanford cal's having a great men's basketball but even on the women's side tennessee ball goes in the defense rotate the ball as quickly goes right back out because the rest of the offense has shifted either stepped up or rotated over so it's playing in these are both good teams so kill and santa Cruz with great coaches monique and pat jones for santa cruz john wilson down there for for soquel they've taught these kids how to do it teaching is one thing and sometimes you get just forget how to execute three point lead 37 34 for santa cruz 5 10 remaining claustin thought about a long range bomb takes it doesn't have to think long does she load that cannon and fire and that is a big three 40 to 34 fouls from behind on the floor that first step tim you've seen it many many times and you can pick this sport or just about any other sport if you can set them off balance one side the quick first step going the other way you're gonna beat him now is against have believed that's her fifth now there's a there's a discussion on who got called for what you're right if it's have believed it's five and it's out of there they're saying it's on pat jones and correct should be on or pay or pays it should stick up her hand going one of them ought to step up go go across and be a good Samaritan say I did it and jammer us we'll get the foul that's her fourth personal no so now they moved it to the other person so now you got have believed with four jammer us with four and if you didn't get a minute or a paisa she had that would have been her first one Diaz get no rotation and you can hear it hit sometimes jen and jensen director producer for community tv sports does a great job in the truck works tirelessly to get these games hit before we even get here and then produce and everything else makes the second one out of two they've got those ambient mics up by the on the basket you can hear the difference on on a flat shot or no rotation on the ball versus one that's got a little bit of rotation well it's seven for 14 at the line for so cal the second half they're down by five you attend for 14 this game's really interesting still a good one five point lead great dish jammer us blaze it up pita jammer us on that one as she stayed active she kept looking for the basketball and of course the defense pulled away from her because they decided to ignore her azure puts it in i'm just liking how azure is just using her body establishing position that gets the ball down low backs in and that nice little hook azure is in double figures with ten happy to switch abley fed a nice strong block by car good job by car to come from the other side she realized that the double team switch had left to shoot her open she came over and did a nice job of covering well so cal's only down by five with three and a half minutes left but they do have to almost move a little bit quicker a lot of time McBride off the floor right now for the lady knights Diaz has to turn around bank shot and lost and just took it away she'll go all the way to the hoop and that one is knocked away from her by steward pappas open left wing three on the way back iron no good abley has a great job by how we underneath her aggressive attacking of the ball shot goes up you can see that stewart's underneath she's got a block off so does azure neither one does abley saw where the rebound was going made a beeline right for it so she gets the honor going to the free throw line to shoot two so cal gets the honor having a foul called first free throw is good and McBride got a very short rest she walks back into the lineup and she'll replace azure position on rebounding we talk about barkley even the great rebounders they don't back away you know what stewart did is she backed away from the ball towards the outbound she's got a swing back where the players could be going coming from like abley block them off second free throw is no good strong rebound for clark six point lead for santa three minutes left pull up bankers no good Diaz with the rebound and she is fouled by pappas fourth personal fourth personal foul you know what i i might just try to go to work on her you know on on either halbley who's still in the ball gave more pappas but primarily pappas to get that fifth foul called against her and and work on getting her out of there Diaz will make the first she's got three points on seven foul shots this is an important defensive rebound for the cardinal breaking block out by halbley use the body defense on the rebounds there's that switch crossing long shot get off the back iron and a fresh shot clock off the miss all right now it's a good one-on-one battle out in front jammeress and melissa jammeress from nice medium range and even a third score today curtain they got it 10 for jammeress listens doing a great job her presence is underneath the board and that was that nice shot so kehl's gonna have to answer with a three long two is in Clark's first basket four points on the evening for clark and rightly so since you don't have to worry about a 10-second violation in women's basketball boston taking her sweet time boston backdoor cut jammeress and that's a gonna be a cold a foul every time i think stewart might have gotten all ball but you just can't half from behind what yeah you're right if you're reaching around it doesn't matter if you got all ball or not the official sees that hand come around the body of the person who has the basketball they're gonna nine times out of ten they're gonna blow the whistle so with 137 remaining so kehl will use a timeouts and the so kehl knights if really have just had a trouble scoring from the field we'll see nice awesome that nice crossover with notice everybody comes up to go after her stewart gets it underneath the melissa melissa starts to go up stewart reaches in from the right side gets the foul called against her but all of that was set up simply by having clausen drive so you heard the strategy as soon as a pass is made to somebody's not made sauce in a pappas they're gonna start fouling maybe not a bad idea is the 137 left there have been worse ideas that have come out of huddles not so much the so kehl huddles it's been worse out of any huddle you've you've had a great staff over there with mark morango cayenne thomas who's also the frost soft coach and john wilson and this is a giants probably gonna say she was in the shooting motion and that's important because she missed the first free throw so jammers will get another shot at it yep big rebound opportunity so kehl has to control the boards on this one they're gonna have to block out second is missed rebound is collected by pappas clausen up top just gonna hold it Mcbride all over her and it's a five second call ride really pushing the heat pushing up tight on that one i think there's maybe some mental block on clausen as well yeah she probably fanned it on just you know mentally for just that brief moment roca has a three needs to hit this one it's no good Mcbride popular rebound she couldn't get it in a blocking foul it's going to be called by stewards on steward way away from the basket 111 left clausen will have free throws she'll have the one-on-one clausen with the one-on-one first one that's 12 on the night so far for the point guard shooting guard offensive machine for the lady cardinals it's up to a seven point game 110 remaining so kehl's got to move quickly back up three stewards getting the double figures steward last year was she came in and she was really throwing down the threes this is what coach wilson they're missing one of their primary offensive weapons of course they did that last year too and they need some people to step up now Mcbride's done a fine job she had 10 points in the first half only two so far in the second half with 12 azua is doing a nice job of stepping up and trying to take up the slack steward nailing two threes here in the fourth quarter but they may be just a little bit too little too late so clausen has the one-on-one clanks the first one so kehl's still with a chance 54 seconds left Mcbride hurries it up left-wing steward open three there she is she did it last year she's fired up this year there's a 16 second shot clock game clock differential john wilson saying get back they didn't jam race this is the first she missed the second it's still loose and thrown up by happily even she'll get two free throws but they had a chance to just play straight up defense john wilson was screaming at his team to get back and they just didn't know they were lazy getting back on defense they've occurred to them a couple of different times here how they've getting a chance to go to the charity strike and these could this could put it out of her way jammer's had two golden opportunities to put it out of reach all she had to do is just make that work this is the first see this is the other thing where so kehl has been needed a lot of help the first time around they did really well on the offensive defensive boards this time not quite as well second free throw also no good and the rebound is so kehl three second shot clock game clock differential timeout john wilson 29.2 seconds left possession error point to santa cruz both teams the double bonus 47 46 so kehl is trailing santa cruz they have not led since the second quarter midway through and they're trying to take their first lead of the second half how many times let's listen in if we've got it uh i know hey i just want to get to the foul line okay we just need a two-pointer but we don't need to shoot the ball right away because we want to give them time okay so um what what favorite play do you guys like interesting how about that what's favorite play do you and that's a brilliant thing a lot of coaches do that okay i can call this play or i can call this pitch taking a whatever sport you're with the old basketball i call it kids go out and have to execute but if they don't feel good about it quickly down the floor nice right into shooting rhythm goes steward and says nothing but nylon on that one is that's almost like the best angle to shoot at kind of i like that angle yeah that's to me is one of the better angles here comes McBride oh you want to get a shot off the first good shot you can get you don't want to force it McBride together the four-second shot clock game clock differential 15 seconds remaining Clark down DA's throws it up she's found by Jameris Jameris with the foul great patience he did exactly what the coaching staff for so cal said that they're supposed to do patience patience nice bounce pass had steward try to throw an aerial pass that pass would have been intercepted and down the floor would come Santa Cruz and probably called a game set and match still not a game set match with 11.2 ticks on the clock Diaz is going to be shooting two but they're going to take the full 30 seconds they're going to make Diaz think about these two free throws the freshman at the line she's three points all on free throws in the second half in comes Larkin who has three points nice thing from a JV Collop to come in and you know be part of a pretty big ball game and she's a shooter too so she's got a chance she's going to let it fly 11.2 seconds left Diaz first free throw no good okay now the rebound becomes used Pappas underneath Halblee but underneath half the blocked out Clark and McBride right next to him and the seconds got it five ball game 10 seconds left Flosson they don't want to foul brings it up timeout cold by Santa Cruz with seven seconds left it's a big decision here by the referees now they'll take it out they're going to have to go to the backcourt yeah timeout was called when the ball was still in the backcourt so it wasn't advanced John Wilson screaming that gives you about a second and a half left because it takes maybe a more about two and a half seconds to get from the point they were at yep it's up there you see Diaz gets that ball in Pappas really quick you know who's going to go into is right into Colosson and John Wilson seeing that they had that but he doesn't want to have a foul called would you almost even with this little time left with seven seconds of would you almost even double Colosson off the inbounds pass but instead of having somebody on the ball would you think about that Kurt I think Colosson's may be the one taking the ball out of bounds but yes I would think about that to answer your question if it's Pappas I want to keep the ball away from her hands double her let the ball come in if that's the case what Santa Cruz may do run Pappas away you know as far away from the ball as you possibly can run another one of the players over to it get the ball to it get it right back in Colosson's hands and have her bring the ball up very quickly she can shoot she can get inside about 23 feet let her rip she's got a good chance to make it Santa Cruz has two timeouts remaining they're going to use one to talk this one over a little bit more I think they're going to they're save the last one the last one is a really pivotal timeout too because if you have trouble getting the ball you've got that timeout you need that timeout and both of these coaches are very very aware of it if that referee starts going on the five count after he hits once four has been gone down maybe it's different in high school ball I'd have to check to check the rule books which unfortunately I don't have one right here left it at home tonight I never bought one what after after the four count is gone at certain levels you can't call that get me out of here timeout we'll see how they set up they're going to set up with four stacks so no real ability to double Colosson yep nobody on the ball this is a good job and Colosson comes out free Diaz his honor four seconds left Colosson for the championship it's going to have an off-balance shot that is no good and for the second straight year we are headed to overtime the SCCAL girls basketball championship second straight year so Kel and John Wilson are headed to overtime I think we're going to we're going to step aside for a moment 47 all is the score you're watching the game of the week the SCCAL championship here on ctv sports back here court side at Aptos High School 47 47 Santa Cruz and so Kel this was a one-point game with 11 seconds left two free throws the second on the wave for Diaz to tie this one up and she got it so the 11.2 seconds left and the freshman in a high pressure situation sends this game to overtime it'll be a four minute overtime and there'll be a tip at the start of this overtime if there's a second overtime there'll be a tip from then on now there's one thing about this tournament Tim we saw it last year it's intense it's exciting and usually these two teams one has won it you know as far as the league is concerned they had the better record all the way on through and in this case so Kel with 11 and one and the other team would like to be a co-champion so both teams will shoot the same side they were shooting in the second half as well they'll shoot towards their bench big tip Diaz and Pappas and it goes to Santa Cruz now it's just called patience and run the ball look at Larkin left alone didn't even think twice but she misses it they cried her opposite 15 on the fast break bounces it for Diaz kick ball kicked out by Klosson wise decision by 14 she's sitting back there underneath you know me I may have wanted to stop and pop from a couple of feet right on out here's a turnover and the fast break Klosson for Stewart Stewart scored on by Klosson 16 too quick you give her that head of steam you've got to come out and stop her you can't keep back pedaling at one point time you got to stop her at the free throw line Tyler Stewart who hit two monster threes late in this game Diaz no good and it's off the sewer out of bounds Diaz just takes that shot and she releases it just a little bit too low if she could get just a little bit higher on that get that higher release may have different results slowly up the floor comes Klosson there's no hurry Pap is setting that screen Stewart against Klosson they want to isolate Klosson step back 18 47 you're kind of darned if you do and darned if you do with Klosson if you come up on her she's quick enough as you make your move up to step around you if you leave her that shooting area she's able to make it look at Diaz coming alive Diaz a big basket 51 49 Klosson is picked up by Diaz Larkin McBride is on Larkin screen set out high as a little crossover move again another great nice little pick and roll underneath the pappas and she has that one stolen away Diaz ends up getting credit for the steal but it was a sewer who put her hand on it right wing Roka for the lead in Rocha who can also shoot the tree has been quiet and this is the first lead for the Soquel night since the second quarter we're in overtime two minutes remaining Klosson gave up her dribble pappas steps back she's got an open three shorts but it will bounce in shaders roll good rotation soft on their iron and it goes that's 18 points on the night for Polly Pappas 54 52 Diaz left wing rotates it steward has the baseline goes up no good second effort is also no good knocked out of bounds by Larkin Soquel will keep it 91 seconds left Clark coming in Azua going out Azua has just had a great second half with you know the presence down low in the key working hard to get some good percentage shots and some big points Diaz three on the way from higher no good that would have given Soquel the lead and Shanifers can take a little bit of air under out of the basketball it's about 118 remaining now they're gonna roll up double high post it is again to see how they're gonna move it out the basketball pappas I think that's gonna go against Clark and if it is that's her fifth it is and Clark just ran into pappas now Polly Pappas moves very well without the ball but you can see she's got a very quick first step she gets underneath and she's she's one of those players that is enjoyable to watch because she doesn't rest on the offensive side nor the defensive side you know offensively you know if you go by the theory of basketball you can rest on the offensive side and pappas doesn't rest on either side Azua checks back in I think correct me if I'm wrong too Azua was at St. Francis last year in this game first one is good you maybe right on that one 19 points for pappas 16 points for Clausen and 10 points for Jamerson I think you know Melissa she has been he up the court minute remaining so cal down by four Azua 20 on the shot clock McBride looks to pass underneath that's a foul yeah pappas that's five again offensively Tim when you create movement reset and picks a little reach in but more than anything else it was that hand right on the hips just a little bit of a push off pappas just picked up her fifth and you're gonna take the full 30 John Wilson taking advantage of that one to bring his ball club over Shiloh tall comes into the game number 42 for the Lady Cardinals outstanding basketball game by pappas I mean you you work as hard as she does tailing some of these better back some of these good basketball players Stuart goes to the line and these are two giant free throws have to hit the first one she does Stuart has been one of the players that has really stepped up tonight at 14 points up to 15 with 13 of those in the second half right I wonder who's more nervous she or her dad who's a great who's a great athlete still does play baseball more nervous I'd go with the dad I would too crossing all the way down she ran over Roka jammer this one just jammed in the middle finally so kill with a seven second differential takes over smart move by McBride everybody was hustling down and she says wait a minute I'm gonna slow this horse down Roka to the hoop that one just wouldn't roll for her and you have to foul now crossing is fouled in the back court by Roka and Rocha picks up the foul 18.2 seconds left 56-54 56-54 18.2 seconds left Boston if she hits both free throws can put the Cardinals big step closer and she misses the first now it comes down to that nice little one possession game Wilson calls time out remember folks to hang on to our Player of the Game which is sponsored by George H. Wilson and mechanical contractors Rusty Reed will grab said player or players at the rate this is going right now I mean you've got to go if it's Santa Cruz you could go with Pappas you could go with Clausen maybe even Jemra Soquel McBride Stuart or you could bundle you can go to both maybe who knows well we'll reset it for you Soquel they're gonna be able to to have a chance if they can pick up the rebound at worst they're gonna have a chance to have down by three 18 seconds left what do you think about the foul or don't foul right here I wouldn't foul if I'm if I'm Santa Cruz I don't foul we get this shot for Pappas who steps back works it very well notice that great screen by Hobley but she was able to sit back in is that nice shooters bouncing and he goes very soft touch but right now you got to remember Paulie's out of the game with five fouls so offensively Santa Cruz is down a little bit they've got Clausen going the line she missed the first one Santa Cruz is saying we're gonna get people as far back as we can not going to contest this rebound we're going to give this rebound to Soquel but Soquel's got to remember to block out Clausen and they did and they did and Clausen just threw it up went asleep they were going for that one shot is up who knows better than whether they made it or not the shooter that was going to be a tough one but somebody out high whether it was McBride or Stewart as soon as that ball hits her they've got to step in front of that shooter to block them out now she gets to go back to put her out of sight heads up play two by her just to throw that one up because she knew she was gonna get fouled no matter what so just have the chance at the end one second he is also good back out to a four point games McBride up the floor Diaz takes it all the way herself pulls up too strong in the middle Azua lays it up and good and Soquel will use their final time out six point eight seconds left how big was that reaction and that setup for Clausen underneath there just they don't stop Diaz going down the middle they finally stopped her but she's right there had a good look and then Azua gets that offensive rebound for the put back and so that's one of the things that Santa Cruz has done so well is that offensive side of the board with Jamras and with with Paulie Pappas underneath and how I believe they've been able to control the boards a little bit more than the Lady Knights have Lady Knights are far from dead they've still got an opportunity they're gonna have to foul and you know the ball is going to go into the hands of number 14 so off the inbounds play Soquel six seconds left you can almost I think with six seconds you really don't even have enough time to to go for a steal really now balls in foul that's a last time out by Soquel so they did not have any more timeouts ball goes in and you just put the clamps on somebody hopefully you can get the ball to get to Oropeza Halbley bringing the ball in great job by Clausen they're gonna have to follow him they do and she just just slipped Diaz she did a nice job of working not only off of pigs but also off of the defenders and that good cutting ability by Ashley got her free and she goes back to the charity stripe good idea too to have McBride in the lane here in case there's a miss and you have to push it up quickly the first free throw Clausen with seven points in the overtime second eight five point four seconds left Stewart to Roca an extra pass Bryant's three doesn't matter and the Santa Cruz Cardinals in overtime take the victory 60 to 56 over the Soquel Knights say this tournament never ceases to amuse me amaze me great basketball tough break for the Lady Knights get it into overtime but it's the offense and of Ashley Clausen who comes up with four free throws and two field goals eight points in the OT Papas by the way also came up with five points in the OT so it went down to the deadly duo and the Santa Cruz Lady Cardinals come out on top 60 to 56 a big victory 60 to 56 in overtime the final for the SCAL championship the Cardinals take it home second straight year we've gone overtime and it was just an emotional win for both these teams ended up being an emotional game for Soquel it's cliche to say it but this is not the last game they'll play this season thankfully and they'll get a chance to show the rest of the central co-section the strength of the SCAL as they head out to the CCS playoffs now it'll be it'll be interesting to see where these two teams are seated both have a good preseason record both did very well in league so you'll find out what division they're going to be in and they very well could end up in in that same division and we have co-players of the game with Rusty Reed are George H. Wilson players of the game the senior captains for Santa Cruz of Ashley Klosson Paulie Pappas incredible game overtime victory how about that overtime they get eight points it was uh it was really stressful but you know we all came through and it went with us and you a little less stress because you watched the last 10 seconds from the bench uh what were your feelings at that point I was just hoping my team would pull through after all the hard work we've done and like everything and they did and I was so excited how were you able to regroup after the loss to the same team last week um we wanted to come out harder than last week because it last week wasn't enough so we did we came out harder and stronger and it was paid off Ashley your thoughts uh the week in between now and then I like Paulie was saying we want to work hard and also me and Paulie is just our senior year we want to get one more you know one more championship and you know our team pulled through and we all you know got the W the only two seniors on this team you're the leaders on and off the court what a great way to finish it off you only have a few more high school games left in your whole life Ashley yeah I mean I'm I'm glad I get to spend it with Paulie she's my best friend you know and I know it's just it's amazing it's it's great and just as a wrap up Paulie your thoughts going into CCS and how you'll be wrapping up your high school career I want to end it on a good note and I mean this makes me really happy so I'm just happy with whatever as long as we work hard and have fun well thank you Paulie Pappas Ashley Klosson co-scal champions this year congratulations and thanks for stopping to join us our George H. Wilson player of the game now back to you Tim thanks Rusty and thanks to Ashley and Paulie our George H. Wilson player of the game is brought to you by George H. Wilson mechanical contractors family owned and operated for over 90 years providing heating plumbing and mechanical contracting services George H. Wilson is a proud member of Think Local First on the web at geohwilson.com once again congratulations a picture perfect ending for the Santa Cruz Cardinals 60 to 56 they defeat Soquel in the girls championship game in overtime clearing out of Aptos High School anybody who came into the building tonight treated to a classic girls SCCL championship 60 to 56 the victory for second seeded Santa Cruz congrats to the Santa Cruz Cardinals are winning the championship with the coach Kurt Edwards I'm Tim Swartz and Kurt this was just a classic game it was and it was everything that was advertised you got the number one number two seeds in and they were pretty much you go either way with them the way they played hey I'll tell you this much Santa Cruz came to play and they played better in the paint than did the Lady Lady Knights and that was the difference you got to give the Lady Knights a lot of credit too because as we look at how this game kind of played out in our final game highlights they were down by as many as 10 in the second half Santa Cruz was really clicking on all cylinders Boston and Papis those are the two time big scores but they found or a pesa for that basket and as I mentioned it was as big as a 10-point lead for Santa Cruz in the second half it was an Azua doing a fine job she would establish her presence underneath and that little turn and that little jump hook but Santa Cruz you're right continued to make pressure push it inside then kick it all the way out you have a risk you see last time these two teams played there wasn't another score outside of Papis and Clausen tonight there were and Clark throwing that one down from outside but this was a couple of big threes from Stewart almost from the same spots she would hit back to back threes on back to back possessions and tie this game up late she is a shooter and watches great job one two fire it up great rhythm just nails the bottom of the net and so Kel finds themselves right back into it but a little errant pass and the quick hands of Clausen and that little crossover dribble and underneath she goes and lays that ball right up and in that was the first basket of overtime after Diaz hit a free throw with 11 seconds to send it to OT and this to me is a play of the game with a minute and 50 left the shooters roll for Papis at Github leave number 25 a lot of credit she set a nice screen out there to make that one here's my play of the game you forget to screen off the shooter when you've got the game within reach Clausen misses the second of two free throws but they don't box her out she gets the rebound does doesn't score on that one but goes back to the charity stripe drops in two free throws and from there on in it was just Katie Barthador Santa Cruz had it and he has so-called credit without their leading score they still took Santa Cruz to overtime so so Kel wins the regular season championship and the postseason championship goes to the Santa Cruz Cardinals we wish the best of luck to coach William coach Wilson and the Joneses the co-head coaches in the CCS fun so we hope you enjoyed that girls championship game do not go anywhere we're coming back at you with what should be a high-scoring affair Santa Cruz and Aptos in the boys game coming up next here on CTV scores