 Coming up, it's the debut of the CTV High School basketball game of the week. First up, the boys of St. Francis try to stop the high flying Aptos Mariner. And in the night cap, defending SCCAL Tournament Champion St. Francis tries to knock off a tough Aptos team at home. It's the CTV Game of the Week, and it starts right now. Beautiful gym here at Aptos High School just a little bit south of Santa Cruz for the CTV debut of the basketball game of the week. With Kurt Edwards, I'm Tim Swartz. And Kurt, for these two teams, St. Francis and Aptos, two very different offenses. Completely different offenses. Aptos says they like to do the tempo thing. They like to run the ball up and down the floor. They haven't met a three-point shot that they're afraid of to try and take. On the other hand, the Sharks, this is going to be their third game so far this week. They like to slow the ball down as they did against Scott's Valley last week. So the Sharks, to do anything, they just have to stay in control. Use that shot clock all 30 seconds of it. And Kurt, let's look at the last time these two teams hit the court to illustrate the point exactly. More than 80 points for Aptos, less than 40 for St. Francis. Yeah, exactly, as I said. St. Francis went up to Scott's Valley on the Falcons 36-33 was a final score. Aptos was over to San Lorenzo Valley and hung a swift 80 on them. But also when they played against Harvard, Aptos hung an 80 on them. So they can score, folks. They can score. And real quick, for St. Francis to keep this one close, what do they have to do? They're just going to have to make sure that one, control the boards. Limit the number of shots that Aptos can get. In other words, one shot per time. Keep the touches out of the hand of victory because he loves to shoot the ball. He's also the point guard and that's really hard to do. But the other one is get Harrell off the boards. And we saw him last year in the playoffs. He's a beast on the boards. So coming up next, game one of our doubleheader, the boys of St. Francis and Aptos here on the Game of the Week on CTV Sports. Joining us in our CTV Game of the Week debut here in basketball, great doubleheader on hand, CTV Sports is a presentation of community television in Santa Cruz County, a nonprofit membership organization serving county residents by providing education and tools to access media. Visit us at communitytv.org. This presentation is made possible in part by the support of Cruz IO Internet, Santa Cruz County's largest independent internet service provider, offering high-speed wireless internet, a co-location data center, and flexible workspace with 10 gigabytes of fiber internet. Details online at cruiseio.com. Also, the Santa Cruz Diner. At Santa Cruz Diner, you'll always find great food at reasonable prices. Family-owned and operated since 1998. 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Yeah, they're going to continue to fight for it all the way through. You can see right at the top. Scotts Valley, very good. Santa Cruz also just outstanding. Down on the bottom, you've got Harvard, Santa Lorenzo Valley. They're going to have a tough time this year, but they are always rebuilding. Yeah, and it's going to be a very tight race at the top. We look at the Sentinel Power Pull and these teams once again are right next to each other fighting for that number three, maybe number four spot in the SCCALs. We see Watsonville in there. They're not in the SCCAL. No, they're not, nor is Monavista or Pajaro or Kirby Prep. But these two teams, you know, height wise, you look across the board. They're about the same height. They've got similar players as far as ability is concerned. It's just the style of play is so much different. If you let Aptos get out of the gates and those thoroughbreds start to run, they're going to be very, very tough to beat. So we look at these St. Francis sharks and we'll go to their keys for their head coach, Ed Kelly. Ed Kelly says we're going to handle the handle the pressure and they're going to get a lot of that one. You're going to make some shots cover the three rebound. They were going to have to make sure that they really get all of those classic rebounds. We talked to Coach Kelly before. We said, you know, what are what are some of the things you're going to be looking at? Some of the challenges you're going to have going into play in these Aptos Mariners. Well, Aptos is obviously one of the better teams in the league. They've got some good outside shooters, a lot of size. It's a long week for us. It'll be our third game of the week. So we haven't really gotten to preparing for them yet. But when we do, we'll try and deal with their combination of size and strength inside and outside. Joey does a good job with them. They're always one of the better teams in the league. And with our young kids, we'll see if we can compete. And there's Coach Kelly and he talked about Joe Smith. Here are his three keys to this contest. Joe says we're going to control the pace of the game. And his is going to be an Aptempo type of deal. Also play smart defense. They want to keep the ball out of the hands of Will Burkett. He had 15 points against Scott's Valley last week. He's a very good shooter, good ball handler. And control the boards. And with Harrell, they've got one of the better rebounders in the league. And before we got into this game, I had a chance to talk with Coach Joe Smith and his dad. And I said, so what are your challenges? What are the challenges you see coming up against somebody like the St. Francis? They execute very well offensively and defensively. They compete very hard. They're well coached. So we know we're going to have to play well for 32 minutes to give ourselves a chance to win. And there's Joe Smith where he'll patrol the sidelines for this game. And his team is a team that just likes to go up and down the court. So it should be a lot of fun to see them take on a St. Francis team that's going to try to clamp them down defensively. St. Francis and Aptos, the big game coming up next during the CTV Game of the Week. Back here for the CTV Game of the Week. Aptos and St. Francis here on CTV Sports. Starting a lot of thinking out, so we start off giving you the St. Francis team one guy to look out for, Curt on this offense. That's Will Burkett over there at number five. We've got Matthews, Salcedo, Figueroa, Divo Gallari. And those five guys, it's going to look like a hockey game at various point in time. There's a lot of line change because they played a lot. For the Aptos Mariners, Parker, Victory, he's the guy that you're going to want to see shoot the ball. Harold is right in the middle of the big center. Montoya, very active forward. And Segota also a very active forward. So that's your five for both of these ball clubs. We're ready to throw this ball up in the air. Curtis Gomez, one of the refs for E right in front of me with the basketball. And LaVon Dowey, he will be on the far side. So we're ready to play ball, Tim. St. Francis will be going left to right in the road. Maroons, Aptos here at home will be going right to left. So we start this one off with the Sharks moving it left to right. We mentioned they're not a very huge line up. Birket is listed as a guard. He's 6'4", the tallest player they have going. And he dumps it down low for Figueroa, who tries to look. They're going to try to spread and shred. Off balance, 18 footer clanks up the iron for Matthews. And a long rebound. Harold lost the ball, though. And on the other side already comes Birket all the way to the rack. Off balance. It's no good. And a rebound to Montoya. You can see the pace already picking up. That was a steal on the other end by Salcedo. We've got the ball back over. And that's what the Sharks are going to have to do, is limit the touches to the Aptos Mariners. Now they're in their office. See a lot of motion working around, man on man. And somebody got loose underneath, Montoya. And Montoya lays it up and in 2-0. Early lead for the Mariners. Aptos starting with a full-court press. Little UCLA type of a zone, you just pressure on the ball, trying to intercept the pass. Trapped in the near side. They'll release in the middle. No good on the off balance for Matthews. And a loose change filled up by Secota. Secota, a nice swing player. It's 6-2. Good size on the outside. Up top to Montoya. Right wing, victories three on the way. Front iron, no good. He had seven of those threes in a huge 33-point win over SLV earlier this week. Well, you can see he's not afraid to shoot the ball. Quickly down the floor, they want to get the ball all the way and clear out that center post. And now the Sharks are finding themselves standing around those a little bit too much. They have to have movement on this man-to-man type of a defense. Looks like Aptos has switched into a nice little soft man-to-man short jumper from the near wing. They go to Larry and on the other side, Harrell has it to the far wing. Aptos here at home, they are 2-1 in the league. St. Francis is 1-2 there. 4-5 in the league with 4-5 in the Santa Cruz Sentinel power rankings. Notice how quick Aptos moves the ball around. Always looking for a shot. Ball's going to be out of bounds. Sharks are going to be able to get that ball. But that time, Tim with St. Francis, he did a nice job of trying to box out in the center. Aptos will crash those boards. And you can see it right now. Montoya's is they're going to take that nice soft little man-to-man slash zone. Not going to really force him to put the ball up. And we got a whistle on the far side, stepped out of bounds. Yeah, it looked like Solcedo to the far side lines just touched the line. You see Ed Kelly, and when he gave us his starting lineups, he listed Will Burkett as tallest player as a point guard. So you see number five on your screen play a little bit of point forward. Seems like all five of these St. Francis players though can bring it up the court. Left wing three for Matthews off the back eye are no good. And the rebound to Aptos. Long pass, all alone, Danny. Victory left-hand layup good, 4-0, Harris. That's what Aptos likes to do, transition basketball. They get that one, victory with the steal. Gets it tipped away, but Aptos is going to continue to fight the ball up to the middle. Secota was fouled on the floor. The call made by Curtis Gomez. About three minutes in, it's a four point lead for Aptos. He watches seeing the fight underneath, put that ball up, and he gets kind of stuck right up in there. Balls released up top to Secota. Now they've got a full shot clock to work with. Harold underneath, lays it up beneath. Remember last time we were here for an Aptos game, it was Harold just went off, and the SECL championship lost that game, but he ended up with a huge double-double. Yeah, ain't just coming off a double-double from last week too. So he's somebody that everybody's got to deal with throughout the season. Nice rebound for Wells. He caught the ball at its highest points. Victory, no look pass for Harold. He loses this ball out of bounds. Yeah, Aptos last season, they finished their SECAL season before that CCS right here on the home floor, falling to Santa Cruz. Do you think Santa Cruz coming into this year, Curt, is maybe the favorite in this league? There's no doubt about it. They've got a lot of people back. Jonah Hodge is being one of them, and he's quicker than you can get. And just talking to Dom Hodge and everybody else, they've got a lot of horses to get down there. Underneath St. Francis with some trouble, and the shot is too strong for Matthews. They've still yet to score. Long pass, a little bit too high for Wells. We mentioned he had a very good game as well, and that 87-54 victory over San Lorenzo Valley, 15 points and seven rebounds. And he's a fiza, just a sophomore. Great kid to have on your ball clubs, says Coach Smith. And he's enjoying coaching him. All the way down the rack is Figaro. He's double teamed to the far side. Birkett collects it, but he's blocked by Harrow, who just kept himself up, but trying to break the ball up and stole it all the way down the rack, leading up on the classic good for Diego Fogolera. And it's a 6-2 game. And that is one of the things Coach Smith's calling. We got a timeout. Here's what Jack Smith, the assistant coach, the father is going to say, or Joe Smith, the son and the head coach. Got that, folks? Don't have to force the ball up. That's what Harrow was trying to do. He got his pocket picked down the other end, and they picked up two points. So this day in history, July 13, 1962, Will Chamberlain with the Philadelphia Warriors scored his NBA record 72 points against the Chicago Packers. Warriors went on to win that game, 135 to 117. Did you ever know that the Packers actually played basketball, Tim? I did not know that. Chicago's been home of three different NBA teams that I know of. The Chicago Stags in the 40s, then it was known as the Basketball Association of America, then the Packers, and the Chicago Bulls. How about that? Will Chamberlain still has the record for points in the game. It's 100, though, not 73. That one rims out. It was collected in the far sidelines by Dakota, but stolen away by Figueroa. St. Francis runs the floor. Watch St. Francis are going to look inside. They've got it. Nice job on a nice little pick. Matthews with the layup. Matthews continued to just run the floor, and that's what they want to do. Coach Kelly says, run the offense. Run the offense. Look for the open man. They did it really well that time. Balls worked around the arc. Secota to the left wing. Back up top for Danny. Victory had 25 points. Five assists for these steals against SLV. Harold is fouled underneath the baskets. There'll be two free throws, and the foul is against Will Burkett. Burkett with that one, said he got him on the arm. Looked like a pretty clean block. There's just too much arm on that one. He was also getting pummeled pretty good underneath. So that foul could have been called against any three of the sharks. Harold will miss the first free throw. I always get up to the charity stripe, and they say it's going to be the easiest shots you're going to have all day, but you're 15 feet away. Everybody's looking at you. You just sometimes just don't get that shooter's rhythm. Harold misses both the shots. Here's your guard, Burkett, the biggest man on the floor. Remember Magic Johnson? He used to be one of the big guys to do that one. Burkett just takes it right to the rack, makes a p-line his first two. And a 6-0 run that started this game from Aptos is responded to with a 6-0 run for St. Francis. Now Aptos has shot themselves in the foot here in the first quarter by too many turnovers, two tiny times forced in the ball. Burkett with a nice rebound on a missed by Harrell. And Burkett playing that point forward position. Little Scotty Pippin-esque, you mentioned Magic Johnson. Turnaround spin move from Matthew is way too strong. Harold doing his typical good job, sweeping the boards. Watch Aptos. They're going to set out high. They're going to try and move somebody down underneath the paint. And Harrell was unguarded as he went into it. Later up and good. Aptos retakes the lead, 8-6. Tim, if you're a big man, that's what you want to be able to do to slide up and down from the base up to the free throw line, but always be moving, head looking to the ball, hands up, always calling for it. Burkett, hesitation dribble drive. Nice cut in the middle of the lane by Matthew. He was hacked and he puts it up and good. And Drade, who just came into this game, hacked him on the arm and we could hear that court side. That was a big loud thought. Watch Matthews. He comes from the top on a nice angle, a seasoned lane that he can come through. Does it very well and his hands are up. He's looking right at the passer. Good pass. And Matthews does a nice job of being very demonstrative and very strong going to the basket. Matthews, very nice free throw. Credit to our audio team back in the truck. You can hear the nice swish for the free throw. We've got a great crew, including those guys in the truck. Our producer, director, Craig Jetson, who I will hear throughout the night in my ears. St. Francis takes their first lead of the game underneath Montoya, misses it. All the way down the court. This one is laid up and good and Stigarola. What a great feed from John Russo, who just came into this contest. 11 to 3, St. Francis has claimed their style so far. All release going, Drade up to the right arc. Harold drives, terminates, left free throw, line extended, swings right side for victory. Back to Harold. St. Francis in a soft, man-to-man. Harold, spin move, nice dish off the left side. It's laid up and good for Wells. Burkett loses that ball for a moment to Harold. Nice pass out. Victory. Harold takes it all the way down to the hoop. With the fouls, he falls down. Aptos starting to pick up the rhythm and the pace of the game. He says, Harold doing a nice job. As you watch him come up, or he takes that pass, watch the determination. One ball, one on the floor, two big, aggressive strides into it, and he lays it up and in. He's hit hard, but that great determination of being able to get up high on that glass gets that ball down in the bucket. Harold continues his troubles to free throw line over three. Under a minute remaining, first quarter of this game of our eight quarters we'll see in the double header. All alone, straightaway jumper. Good for Trey Yee. His first touch of the ball, 13-12, the lead retaken by St. Francis. Well thought about in NBA ranks three. It definitely, and you know what? These kids work very hard throughout the entire year. A lot of them play AAU basketball, so they never really get out of basketball shape. Figueroa with the shot clock dead, and a wasted possession. Yee defired that one behind Rousseau. Joe Smith over there on the far sidelines for Aptos High School. Avid telling Jake, you know, kind of sit down there for a little bit. Pace, no, he's not. I thought he was coming out, and nobody knows what's going on. Now we're gonna get this whole change in. Substitution for St. Francis. Matthews checks back in, replacing Burkitts. Burkitt with one foul already. Good idea to take him out for one defensive possession. I think so. You know, given that, given that little extra time to rest, they really want him in for offense. Herald a handoff up top for Parker, who just saves the over and back, but he gets it right to Matthews. All the way to the hoop. And he's blocked, rejected by Montoya, and that's how the first quarter will end. 13-12, St. Francis, the Aptos here in our CTV, game of the week. Fun first quarter. Both of these teams really sizing each other up. I'm very surprised to see the Sharks come out with that aggressive pace that they've had. So I want to thank a couple of the people that have made this possible. First of all, Santa Cruz Diner. You see, it's open 24 hours at Santa Cruz Diner. 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We mentioned perhaps the battle for first between Santa Cruz and SoCal. It's going to be a good one. Stu Walters has got a good ball club with the Knights. And of course, Domhoff is always tough without Santa Cruz Cardinals. Left wing three on the way. Fryer, no good. Just a little bit too short for Ryan Parker. One of the gunners off this bench for Abtas and I think one of the themes for this game is Ricky Carrero just comes into the game. He holds the ball. But I think Abtas is a little bit deeper bench. They do have a deeper bench and they will throw it up from anywhere inside that they have court line. One thing Parker's going to have to do next time he shoots it is follow the shot. Matthews gave up the dribble on the middle of the floor. Birkett up the right wing. Eight on the shot clock. Birkett rise and fire. Banks it in for 18. Big smile on his face. I don't think he called. Bank doesn't matter. Three point lead for St. Francis. Now I'll tell you if you call bank or not. If you call bank you get another shot. You get another point on that one. Victory left wing. Carroll shows his range of perfect three for Jake Carroll who has nine in the first quarter in a minute. He's a type of a ball player. They can take it inside and score. We saw that. Also from outside he's not afraid to shoot the ball. He's very aggressive on the offensive end and defensive end watching play defense. Birkett over to the right side and he's a little bit short. Parker all the way back as Aptos moves it quickly. Carroll the same spot he hit the three. The tightest one up at 15 in the second quarter. Victory out on top seeing slow this pace down. Let's get our big man to start to move. Extra pass Parker open three back iron. And Birkett tips this one to himself for the rebound as he fights off Carroll for it. One thing you've got to remember as a rebounder if you get a long shot that means the rebound could be a little bit longer on a bounce so you can be farther away from the rim. Carrera one on four is fouled as he went up. It'll be two free throws for Ricky Carrera the five nine guard. Watch Ricky comes right on in against the treetops. He realizes that he's got a great shot of getting fouled because he's coming in and the defense really has not had an opportunity to get set. Carrera misses the first free throw. I think something he did well there too is so many times you see a guard come into the lane and he'll terminate his dribble and that's probably the worst thing you can do. Oh that's the case of that. Now you're in there and you've got nowhere to go and everybody's just standing on top of you with their arms out waiting for you to do something. Carrera makes one out of two. You don't like his odds one on four but he can get the free throws and he got a point out of it and a lead for St. Francis 16-15. Well you like those slashing guards that are coming in because that'll get the big men to slide on over and you get a blocking foul call. Dakota putting the line jumpers no good but Harold scoops it in. He's in the double figures with 11-17-16 aptots. Jake just having a great day on the offensive end of the court and he's doing pretty well on the defensive end, cleaning that glass up too. Park it over to the left wing. Three on the way short for Rousseau and Rousseau tried to follow his shot but committed an unnecessary foul. Well Rousseau did the right thing. You follow your shot but then you've got to have the smarts to realize when that rebounder hauls off and gets what he's going to be able to do. That's his first personal and the fourth team foul. Victory pushed out 35 feet so they're working around the arc. Victory's been held at just two points but in regard to Victory Hart you leave a Ryan Parker up and Parker buries a three. Biggest lead of the game equal for aptoss of four. One on one, sort of a nice little man to man. Parker on Burkitt, now see how much movement goes underneath. He's just trying to clear the lane out for number five. Let him work. Up and under move, no good for Burkitt but he's fouled Parker who goes six one Burkitt at three inches on him and he used him. Kind of an NBA style offense if you will team. Clear the decks, move everybody out. I've got the ball this time. Let me go one on one because I can beat my man. Two free throws for Burkitt and it makes the first. You can see Coach Kelly is going to be substituting his men quite liberally to keep all of those fresh legs on the floor all the time. Just a 11 man team. 11 man team that means they've got 11 less than the football team had by the time the season was over with. Burkitt makes both. He's got four in this one. Two point game halfway through the second quarter. Victory open three left wing. Now when it flanks off the right side of the rim. Nice screen by Segota but no avail. Victory had a nice look at it. It takes a while for these long range bombers to sort of get that shooter's touch. Bigaroa banks it in. His second basket. We're tied at 20 in the second quarter. St. Francis is attacking the key. They spread it out. They run people through at angles. They clear out and they get nice passing zones. Harrell spin move that one will roll in. That was some nifty moves and Harrell has 13. He continues to impress me. It is nice move. Aggressiveness able to find just a little daylight. Get his body through it. Figaroa having a tough time getting the ball up the floor. Aptos back up by two. Not going to be anywhere close to a 10 second call. I mean getting it over and then a good idea by Ed Kelly he sense that with eight seconds left you're at your own free throw line. Usually not a good sign. Now that's one of the great things when you're the coach and the official is sitting right in front of you. You can haul our timeout. Curtis Gomez the official over on that side. Heard the timeout call gave the timeout as a great bit of coaching by Ed Kelly. Veteran tremendous basketball coach. There's a nice little toss in using the body and then being able to feel where your defender is and then spin off to one side and make the bucket. Just heard a little bit of Ed Kelly. And yeah that move from Harold is one of those that you just practice it when you're alone. At home shooting he knew exactly where he would just threw it right into the rim. Yeah you know where you are. You got a few where the defender is. Take the defender down to the baseline spin back in and shoot the shot. Double team of Birkin up top turned into a triple team and ends up with a wide open 12 footer left side. Carrera is first field goal 22 all twos are wild here in the second quarter. Tim what I'm impressed with is that extra pass. You alluded to it a little bit before. Dakota near wing three is no good. Abtos has been more effective when they've gone down inside that three point shots not there but knowing coach Smith and being around the game a couple of years you're going to keep shooting because sooner or later you start to develop that rhythm in that touch. You may want to bring it into more of a mid-range jump into the long range bombs. Popping open was Russo but he's not going to take the three. They put Montoya on Birkin wild fadeaways no good. Rebound finally grabbed by the Sharks and they'll reset their offense with a new shot clock. Good hustle by Figueroa to get that loose ball. And yeah now you've got a long shot clock to work with but they just did not get a percent of shots to come to Mariners. Montoya revs up the engines all the way to the hoop when he'll lay it in. So there's that transition game that makes Abtos so deadly. Abtos regains the lead 24-22 just under three minutes to go in the first half. Nearside open three just too strong and the Sharks give up the rebound. Mariners harrow all the way to the hoop. No good. Blocking foul took one to take for Carrera as he ends up on his back. Well again you've got Harold that grabs the rebound and he did a nice job. He realized it was a long range shot hit the back of the iron. It's going to get a long bounce out. So he moved out got it. Then with his speed and ball handling ability brought the ball down the floor. And he realized he had a chance to get at least the layup if the defense doesn't collapse on him which they did. So now he has to work for it and with the two free throws making the first one. That's Harold's first make out of four attempts. Three point lead with Harold pouring in 14 of the 25 for Aptos second free throw is also good. Jake Carroll every time we've had him here on CTV he's had a huge game in 19 and 10 last time against SLV. He's making a little bit of a case for player of the year. He is. And we just started the year. I mean these guys have been going for about 15 games so far but he's the last couple of games. He's really stepped up and played some great basketball. Just the fourth league game for each of these teams. St. Francis is one and two, two and one Aptos and the up and under move the shot is good for Yves. The matchup of styles Aptos who likes to go up and down the court. St. Francis who last time out lost the game 36-33. Well St. Francis knows how to play defense. Right now they're trying to fund Harold but he's not, they're not doing a very good job. Montoya blocked shot underneath. Nice block. Matt Clifton but the rebound from Montoya is sliced in and just in Montoya with six four point lead from the Mariners. All the way down the court figure of finds an open Burke it gives up the three drives terminates just inside of the free throw line and the traveling stall against Clifton at the left wing. Lifting had a shot but he debated on whether to shoot it dribble it and it ended up traveling with it. Just a young sophomore played quarterback for the Sharks this year on their football squad. They got a lot of talent both of these squads a lot of talented athletes. Sikota the up and under move from the right block and the quickest lead of the game for Aptos is six. Sikota again you get down inside and that's where Aptos is really killing St. Francis down low on the board whether it's Sikota, Montoya or Harold. Open three rims out for Yves and a long rebound for the Mariners might be time out Tom soon for Ed Kelly on the St. Francis bench. This team down six with one minute remaining in the first half. Still a lot of time on the shot clock Aptos can take their time but Sikota says no I'm gonna go right down the middle on it and we're gonna get a charging call and that's where the youthful aggression sometimes comes up and bites you. You have plenty of time. The lane was there but the Sharks did a nice job at his closing right out in the middle. There's Clifton on one side. Figueroa taking the bulk of that collision so the Sharks are gonna be able to get this. Turnovers Tim have really hurt the Aptos Mariners here in the first two quarters of play. So there's just about a 20 second shot clock game clock differential. Birkin takes the inbound pass, picked up full court by Montoya. Double teamed in fact. And it forced the turnover. Well, collection. Sikota with contact, count the basket and the foul. As Birkin's called for his second foul, just a blocking foul. And Sikota with back to back baskets. He is what Aptos likes. Nice lead pass down there on the side. Look to the far side, draw contact, not a lot, but just enough for the official to blow the whistle. Good body control, nice easy bucket. And a very nice free throw from John Sikota. Matthews picked up the foul. That's the 16th foul of 40 seconds remaining. Birkin gives up his trouble and St. Francis against his hard defense. You see Coach Smith on the top left of your screen is urging his team to play some aggressive defense. Birkin straight away, a long three. And he cuts it to a six point game with 20 seconds and the shot clock dead in the second quarter. Aptos now is gonna look for that great percentage shot. Harold would be the first, but number 22, victory gonna take his time. We've got nine seconds to go, so he's gonna have to start moving for it now. Victory with four seconds. Sikota had that one knocked out of his hands. Two seconds remaining in the first half. Good defense by the Sharks. Great defense by the Sharks. Forcing the ball to stay outside, keeping their body on the Aptos Mariners. Harold fade away, 17 footers, no good. And that'll do it for the first half of play with the score. The Aptos Mariners 33. St. Francis is staying with the 27. That's the score at the end of the first half. We back after this with the rest of the CTVs. We'll keep it here for the Aptos Mariners and St. Francis 33 to 27 after the first half of play. And well, what are some of your first half thoughts? Well, I'm definitely impressed with Jake Harold. He's just done a fantastic job on the offensive side of the ball, making those nice little inside moves, shows me some three points to take capability. But defensively, he's a working man's rebounder. He knows how to position himself for the rebound. He's able to kind of just figure out where he's gonna be able to go to get it. And he does a great job. What's been killing the Mariners, folks, is the turnovers. That's one of the one thing that's been killing them. And I don't know how many they've got, but I know it's double digits. But that's going to come with his fast-paced offense that the Aptos Mariners run. Yeah, for Jake Harold, he has 15 points in his first half. On the other side, Birket's got seven, Matthews has got seven. That's about what we kind of expected coming into this game. Yeah, the Sharks tend to like to spread out their offense. It's a little bit more than, say, the Mariners. Although the Mariners have got some guys that can go really well, too. They've got Wells, Segota. I mean, they've got a lot of guys who score victory who just shot the lights out last time they played. He's been stoned cold. So you want to check out this game anytime you want. You can pop in your DVD player on your computer or on your big screen. DVD copies are available for this game for $25. Just go to communitytv.org slash dubs or call us. The number's right there, 831-425-8848. Go to communitytv.org. We'll have that number for you as well. So we will step aside. Let me come back with the first half highlights. Aptos 33, St. Francis 27 here in the first game of the week for basketball season here on CTV Sports. Back here at the half, Aptos leads St. Francis 33, 27 in our CTV game of the week with Kurt Edwards. I'm Tim Swartz. And Kurt in this first half, it was action packed first half. And for both these teams, I'd say they were pretty satisfied with this first half. I think both coaches have got to be tremendously satisfied with each one. And here's the one mistake of the entire first half for Jay Carroll. He tried to go a little bit too quickly. St. Francis, this actually capped off a 6-0 run that made the game 6-6 to start out. But then as you'll see, Jay Carroll had a monster first half. Ball goes inside to Harrell, and he's able to put it up. He works very well underneath the boards. And he runs the floor very well. And that's one thing that the Mariners love to do is get out on the wings and then run. And Harrell does that very, very well. Birkett on the other side, he likes to shoot the rock. And you can see him put it up there. He had seven points. Here's Harrell. Again, this was an and-one, an acrobatic shot. He had 15 in the first half. He also nailed the three. Montoya in off-balance shot. It was all the way out to an eight-point lead, a nine-point lead, in fact, at this point. But the last basket of the first half was a huge one. For Birkett, cut it from a nine-point game to our current score 33-27, just a two-possession game. And that's huge. I mean, you still have two quarters to play, but it's very important that what you're going to be able to get. You want to have, you want to keep Aptos tight. When Aptos played Harbor, Harbor, it was over at halftime. When they played San Lorenzo Valley, it was over at halftime. Neither one of those other ball clubs could keep him tight. So it's very important, and the Sharks have done a great job of just keeping the Mariners, working hard for their shots. They're forcing the Mariners to do turnovers. And you can see by the score 33-27 in 18-62 in the year of our Lord. Original five for both teams, Figueroa, Birkett, Matthew, Salcedo, and de Vogue Lair is the five for St. Francis. Montoya, victory hero, who has 15. Zicota with five, and well are the five. It was an early turnover, and Montoya runs the fast break. Left link for victory. Swings right side, stepping into a three-pointer. Nice shot, but it's a little bit too strong for Well. And Harold loses his ball out of bounds. Again, notice how aggressive St. Francis is underneath the basket. They really want to force Aptos to take that tough shot. They also want to get it in the hands of number five. Birkett up and under move. Nice give-off, and Figueroa is partially blocked by Harold. Ends up with the rebound. All the way to the hoop. Montoya leaves it off Well, he's blocked, but he's fouled. Now that's a very fortunate play for the Aptos Mariners, Tim. Harold does a nice job of digging the ball out and getting the ball up to Florida, Montoya. The numbers are slightly against him. You can see that one. Great no-look pass. Credit Parker with following the ball down the court, and he gets a foul, and he's going to end up going to the free throw. Excuse me, Well is going to go to the free throw line. Well with two free throws. Had just one basket in the first half, and he'll make the first free throw. I'll tell you, if you can make your free throws, Tim and basketball, you've got a great opportunity to win almost every basketball game you're in. Both are good for Well. Looks very good on both of them, too. As you said, Cole last game had 15 points and seven rebounds, so he's a good workhorse. Young basketball player, just part of the very loaded group of basketball players for Aptos. Just two seconds across half-courts, and that's a back-court violation. Jump ball is called, and Aptos will lose the arrow, but it should be a back-court violation, because the ball never crossed half-courts, and there was no possession. And it is a 10-second violation. Two officials, Dewey and Curtis had a nice little conversation, and the correct call was made. I'd say one, buddy. Joey Smith was very demonstrative on trying to get that call, and he won. Carroll shot is no good. Dewey will roll out. Well had the rebound, but it's knocked out of his hand by Birket. It's St. Francis comes out. I bet you had some big call, though, Kurt, because that's an extra possession that you get. Yeah, it is. Watch Birket. He jammed a finger or a hand, and that last time down, it was shaking his right hand. See how that's going to affect either his passing or his shooting capabilities. Or a thumb. Matthews opens three. Marrys it. Nathan Matthews. He's the first shark in a double figure. Five-point game, minute and a half into the third quarter, and St. Francis not going anywhere. No, they're going to stay right with it. I'm beginning to wonder right now whether that game against San Lorenzo Valley was just an offensive fluke for the Sharks. Only scoring 33 points. I know that Scott's Valley has a good defense. Antonio picks up the offensive rebound, and he will roll in. A nice eight-footer in the middle of the lane. Got a little shooter's roll on now. When it looked like he was caught between, do I just want to try and drop it right on in the bucket, or do I want to use it as a bank? We're about ready to get a basketball in our front laps. Birket saves it in front of Kurt. The very athletic Kurt Edwards. Are you talking to me? I am. All right. Must be my twin brother twice removed. Matthews, step back three. Nothing but nets. Aided Matthews back-to-back 30s, and it's a four-point game. And that's what they're going to have to do is start to hit those threes, see if they can't get Aptos to come out and get them, and then start going back in that inside game. Victory underneath, Harrell's fouls, and with 5-22 remaining in the third. Jake Harrell, who's two for five at the line in the first half, gets two more cracks at him. Birket gets a whack at him, although, again, he can go underneath. Figaro could have easily also gotten that foul called on him, so it's where the official is looking and who's got the more damaging foul, I guess, as Harrell makes the first one of two. Well, right there. I like watching him play basketball. He hustles, he moves, he works to get in position all the time. Second free throw. Harrell, I think, was fooling us. He missed his first three and his last four free throws have all been perfect. He's got 17 points, six-point lead for the Mariners. Here's one thing you don't want to do, Tim. You don't want to pull your dribble up that far underneath or on your own side. Figaro will not get the 10-second call. You pull that basketball up to stop your dribble. That 10-second is starting to count. Now some of your players are gonna have to come back and help you out. Chances of making that long pass, and there's Ed Kelly, the very veteran, very talented and very good basketball coach for the Sharks, yelling a few words of encouragement, or at least correcting somebody. Six-point lead for the Mariners here at home. Two-and-one in league, St. Francis, one-and-two. The number four-and-five team from the SCCAL thus far. Victory, long three. Can't get it going yet. That's seven-threes, and his last game is yet to nail one yet. Montoya somehow keeps that one in bounds. Dakota dishes underneath. Well, counted them a foul. Great patience, great discipline by number 44. Cole, well, watch him. He's got it out on side. Look at Rapper out. He's getting beat up inside, but he keeps his eye right on the backboard. He uses the glass, banks it in so many times. Tim, young basketball players just try and arch it over the top of that 10-foot high rim, and they end up missing it. Not Cole. He says, I'm going to use that backboard because somebody put it up there for my benefit. Well, nice game with seven points. Five of them here in the second half. Nine-point lead for Aptos. Right elbow jumper for Figueroa. Too strong. Rebound ends up with Harrell and a three-on-one. Well is going to collect it from Montoya. He lays it in. I think it's time-out time for Ed Kelly. He's going to have to look for one really quick. He's going to do a substitution, but that was good offensive play by the Mariners. Watch the Mariners play very aggressive defense. They're going to try and force the Sharks out as far as they can. Birkett going one-on-one. Back cut pass from Matthews to the far corner. Both knocked out of his hands by Harrell with 4-0-3. Remaining in the third quarter to 16 on the shot clock and a substitution, checking in John Russo. I'm really am surprised, Tim, and you mentioned it. I thought that the Sharks were going to go for a time-out. They really don't want this game to slip away. They're down by 11 at this point in time with four minutes to go here in the third quarter. Birkett loses his ball, but a foul called Secota. A little bit of a push. It's going to be the first team foul of the second half against the Mariners. Yeah, watching Secota on the offensive, and we made that nice pass to Well. He got out there, starts to go out. The defense goes and forces him. Well doing a nice job of just continuing to work his way down inside the paint, found himself with a great opportunity, and he did do well, got the bucket. Andrade into the game for the first time in the second half for the Mariners. And checking back in for St. Francis, Ricky Carrera, who had a nice first half with three points. Matthews wide open, rhythm three near corner, no good. Rebound tipped out, and the Sharks will collect it. Jumper it up to the next. DeVogaleri back in the single digits at nine. DeVogaleri is again one of those types of kids that you don't, he shows up at the right place at the right time. He's a good hard worker. Victory, shorts. Rebound back to victory. Harold, his second three attempt is shorts. And the rebound to St. Francis. DeVogaleri going to go all the way down the hoop himself. This is it off for Birkin. Birkin, I don't think he's going to get a blow the rest of this one. Now he's going to be in it for the duration. And one thing all the guards do on both of these clubs is they push the ball all the way down the floor as far as they can. Harold is fouled hard underneath the basket by Matthew. Good foul by Matthews. That's it. If you're going to, this is an easy layup for Harold. He's already proven he can make that one. It's the charity strike that he sometimes struggles at, although he made the first two that he had here in the third quarter of play. So make that, if you've got a foul to give, give that foul. Hope these teams 10-5 coming into this game. Harold makes the first three throw. And as I mentioned, he started out missing his first three freebies, but he's made his last five. But I think these are two different 10-5. Daptos played a much more difficult non-league schedule. They did a nice job by Birkin just screening off well. Birkin, the guard slash forward slash center just takes it down himself. Takes a hard foul. That's the second against Daptos. Jake Carroll picks up the foul. It's his first person. He sees that opening. He goes right on through it. The Aptos Mariners then converge on him just as he starts to get underneath the net, but they don't establish their position. So his contact is made by Birkin. The charging foul, the, excuse me, blocking foul is called. Birkin with two. Makes the first. Shooters rotation. He liked to see that nice backspin coming right off the fingertips. Last shot that Victory threw up. Looked like that one was coming more off the center of his hand and his palm. So he wasn't getting a good rotation on the ball. Birkin stays perfect at the free throw line tonight. Nine points, eight point lead for Aptos. St. Francis has really stayed in this contest. And they've done it from the charity stripe and their aggressive style of defense. Harold turn around short. Birkin collects the board. Watch Brigadier comes down the floor under control, kept looking behind him. He doesn't want to have the ball punched out of his hands. Straight away, three just off the right side of the iron and Victory, smallest player on the floor collects the rebound. Montoya pulls up, nails it. The lost start of the pull-up jumper. Justin Montoya in double figures. Ten point lead for Aptos. Right up on the other side though for Stray Yee. Aptos gonna time move it. I like how they just open up the lanes just by their offensive movement without the basketball. Heads up play by Montoya after he missed the shot. Yee had the rebound low. He grabbed it. There is a significance of Coach Smith asking for a 10 second violation earlier in this quarter as opposed to the alternating possessions because now he gets the ball. It was good heads up by Coach Smith. That's why they pay him the $1.22 a game. Carroll misses his first attempt. He misses his second as well. Watch Montoya play defense. Keeps the body right in front. Good job. Hands were out there. Good athleticism. Pull-up, left elbow, way out of control from Carrera. Carroll with the rebound. Victory, one on two, pushes DSU, puts it up. No good, but a foul called against Carrera. That's the second time he's fallen on his backside after trying to take a charge and not gotten the call. He didn't quite get set. Watch Victory come down the right. There's Carrera. He continues to move. He's sliding. He doesn't have his feet set. That's going to be your blocking foul. If he can set up, get both feet set, be in a permanent location, then the charge foul could have been called against Victory. Victory, not to be down in his first free throw. But I applaud Victory. I thought Danny was going to pass that ball off because I didn't see where he's going to be able to come in, but he noticed that his opponent continued to move back so he continued to charge the basket. Under 100 seconds remaining in the third quarter. 10 point lead at home for Aptos. Birkin gave up his dribble to the near side, gets the ball back, thought about a 24 footer, swings it right side for Yieldle. Reached it to Carrera up top. Carrera, dribbles it left on Victory. Looks for a screen. Birkin asked wearing it up top. Still get it. Still plenty of time, Jim. Again on the shot clock. Birkin off balance in the lane with contact, no good. Saves the ball and then just throws it off the wall. They got to throw it off something. But I was watching Birkin and he was looking for that shot and as the shot clock goes down, as you start to play basket the more you can take that sneak peek and realize you have time to work with because Birkin still has about eight, nine seconds to go on that shot clock to get a better shot off. Left to wing. Marker just came into the game. Harrell throws it up. Locking foul is called against Matthews. I've taken a lot of shots of it hitting the deck and getting the blocking foul. Watch Harrell come over. Same type of situation we saw before with Carrera. Still sliding over, trying to get in position. Harrell continues his motion right towards the basket. He gets the blocking foul called against his opponent and he gets to the charity strike. Harrell misses the first. Adam Truman is in the game for the first time for St. Francis wearing number 12 in the Marine jersey. Harrell second attempt. Good. On this quarter, Harrell's done nothing but shoot the free throw. He hasn't had a field goal yet. Birkin trouble crossing half 40. Will to Truman. Truman double teams. Time out out to Kelly. See that's where as these young ball players continue to play basketball. They can realize that they're in trouble and call time out on their own or have one of their fellow people come in and call time out. Let's see what Coach Kelly's got to say. Yeah, listen, I gotta have him down here, guys. You guys down there. So when they double, Will can throw it out to you. Okay. One shot. Let's go. One, two, three. Clarks. That was 14 seconds. I tell you, Tim, when they were talking about double team and they got that time out over there on the side. You double team on the sidelines. You've now basically triple team because you have walled that person in unless he can jump over the top and get a leaping pass on in. It's very difficult. So that's one of the things you force your opponent to the sidelines. Quickly get in a double team. It was fouls. The second personal against Harrell, the 13th though. Already in the bonus, the Aptos Mariners with 16 fouls against St. Francis. That'll kill the shot clock too with 35 seconds, less than 35 seconds, 34.5. Birket still gonna take a wild shot with 25 seconds remaining in the half. St. Francis looks like they're in the regular offense. They do and they have to realize that, you know, back it out. Finally, Coach Kelly is telling him, you know, it starts where I'm gonna play. You've got 13 seconds to go. Birket looking at the game clock and he's gonna start going right about now. It's about seven seconds left to go. Looking for the last shot. Birket off the alley and cannot hit the shot. An Aptos with a half century, 39 for St. Francis here at the end of three of game one of our two game double header here on CTV Sports. Now that time, Aptos out scored the sharks by 17 to 12. And that's the type of thing that Aptos likes when you start to move it away. But you saw a little bit of an undisciplined offensive style trying to force that shot up. You've got the last shot of the half. You might as well take advantage of it and run a good play. We remind you DVD sales and DVD copies of this broadcast are available for $25. Go to communityTV.org slash dubs or call us at 831-425-8848. And you wanna make sure to get this DVD out to your family if you're watching this game or if you ever wanna see it again. We'll take a look at Burkett when he had a nice take to the rack and try to keep it in. He tries to, I'll tell you one thing, watching him play and Harold play, they're two, they're a little bit different in build but boy, they play similar styles. They like to go to the basket. They're not afraid to shoot the ball. They'll go underneath and mix it up pretty well. Well, I've got a chance like to thank the Aptos High School Athletic Department, Mark Dorfman, Athletic Director for their kindness to let us come in here a little bit early and set up and get ready for tonight's games. The Sharks inbound the ball. They need to make up points and they need to make them up in a hurry. Down by 11, 58-minute quarters here in high school. Reminder, we'll have game two right up ahead of the girls game between Aptos and St. Francis. The last time St. Francis played here, they won an SCCAL championship and a wild win over Soquel. The ball's knocked out of play and it'll go to Aptos. Matt Clifton number 15 in for the Sharks. Doing battle underneath, gets the ball knocked out of bounds. Let's see if, I doubt Aptos will slow the tempo down is just not in coach Smith's nature to do that. Victory underneath the Montoya, left side Parker, victory straight away. NBA range, nailed his first three of the contest. That's seven points for Victory and Aptos continues to put the pressure on. They let the ball come in, that's Parker with the steal. And he just missed it, easy layup. He tried to keep it in as he was falling down and he just kind of was falling and couldn't keep his balance and that was kind of an unfortunate situation for him so the ball would Aptos. Victory gonna take it out of bounds. Let's see if he forced it out as I would have said. Bring it into the big man. While they were setting up, one thing I did notice that Jake, Jake Harrell was doing he set his position down low, shark was right behind him so he was in good position to get that inbound pass and either back up, get the shot off or be fouled. Harrell misses the first and the second is in. And Harrell's up to 20 points. He may get all of his free throws, he'd be at 25 by now. Harrell seven for 13 at the line, out of bounds. 17 foul two on St. Francis and C. Coach Smith fired up for this entire game. Oh, he doesn't sit down, he goes all the way. Out of bounds. Yeah, Yves tried to bounce that to Figaroa and it was out of bounds. I'm trying to remember how many times I saw Harrell sit down in this game and I can't think of maybe just more than one. Parker up the left wing, moving away from the ball for the Mariners, Harrell looking for the ball coming on top. Now watch the Aptos Mariners defense. They'll let the ball come in. Oh, they did test it, contest it this time. It's a 15 point lead for the Aptos Mariners at home, the 6-40 remaining. Another steal, Montoya swings left side. Victory, rhythm three, short. Parker went up for the ball and tipped it out of bounds for the rebound. Victory had a nice clean shot at Montoya, doing a nice job. Cross-court pass, not always advisable, but when you've got a wide open victory, he was known to be able to hit his three points, make that pass. Then you've got all those Aptos Mariners underneath the board and they're getting ready to go for the rebound. Andrade sits down for the Mariners. Carrera, trying to go in the wrong way. Now, looks like he was about to meet a double team. He's got a hurry, just beats the 10 second call again. St. Francis down by 15, two minutes into the fourth. Now remember, this is St. Francis third game of the week. So their legs may be starting to fall off from underneath them a little bit. And if you're going to be a good shooter in basketball or just any type of sports, you want to make sure that your legs are nice and strong. And they just fell to Scott's Valley at 36-33. They were down with under three minutes by nine points. They came back. Aidan Matthews missed a three as time expired and that's what was the difference between a win and a victory and a win and a loss, excuse me, against the Vikings. Shot clock violation. Going to have to throw a desperation up every once in a while. But that's the great tenacious defense that the Aptos Mariners bring every time you play them. Mariners are two and one. Their only loss is against Santa Cruz. And that was a 69-48 loss to the Cardinal. Victory blocked out of bounds. Birkin just rejected him. He tried to go through the middle. The C's parted for a second, but quickly the help defense came from St. Francis. And you got that call exactly right. You saw the opening at the top of the key, shot right on through it. But then the big guy said, no, not in here. 23 seconds on the shot clock. Victory for Secona Travis. Now the NBA, they don't call that. No. College, 50-50. High school, all the time. Nice little jump stop right out in front of us. I like the fact that motion continues to go on for the Sharps. Birkin just outside of the three-point range. No good. Montoya, very nice slasher. He's no good. Wells left hand, chuck up, no good. That was almost knocked in by St. Francis. Finally, Harrell takes it over and he's gonna be called for a blocking foul with Yee and the one-and-one for Harrell with just a notch below five minutes left. 54-39, Sharps are trailing here at Aptos High School. Give you an idea at least how Aptos was playing on that one. They've got that big lead now just inside five minutes to go. Harrell had the ball outside. Brand new shot clock, 35 seconds. He could have backed it out. Got a nice percentage shot instead of this one-on-one that he just made the first one on, but he decided to press the issue and go in for a bucking. The second for Harrell. Birkin going to sit down for the Sharps. He has been up and down the floor and occasionally on it. Harrell goes one for two. The lead's been extended to 16. Yee wide open three, no good. He gets his own rebounds and will get a shooter's roll from eight feet away. He's got eight points. The first is four and the second half. He just killed that ball right up there and has let it roll right on in. Yeah, let's see how Aptos goes. This right across Montoya that's looking for some kind of a cutter to go across the key. Just steals it away. Jake Harrell, 23 points. Jake saw the opportunity and took it and took it again. Harrell all the way to the hoop. It's no good, but a blocking foul underneath against Salcedo. Salcedo saw that. I'm going to deny him the opportunity to go right to the basket. Quick hands. Good job, steals it away. Salcedo says I'm going to get a blocking foul. I know that, but I'm not going to give him that easy bucket. What Harrell also had on the other side if he wanted to do it was victory coming in on that side. So he could have passed that ball up to victory if he wanted to have had a nice easy layup. Good job. Still make these foul shots. Put them in, Jake is late. So a nice sneak peek into the huddle for Coach Joey Smith. 57-41 is the score here at Aptos High School along with Kurt Edwards. I'm Kim Swartz for our CTV game of the week and in the future we'll have some other great games. Harburn and Scott's Valley. Scott's Valley's girls team in their divisions one of the top, probably 10 teams in the state. Santa Cruz and Soquel, that's a potential battle for first with both those teams undefeated in the league thus far. And finally the SECAL championships. And that'll be held right here at Aptos High School. You heard Coach Smith, they were in the huddle talking to Jake saying, okay, shoot the free throws but use your legs. Drive right up through, right through the shot. Theoretically, it's supposed to go in. But he was about a half an inch too short. Hit the front of the rim. 50-50 for Harrell at the free throw line. Eight for 16, makes the seconds. 24 points. And again, the Mariners not backing off. The big people up underneath. Nice play by Harrell. He's gonna get fouled and go to the charity stride but you can see the quickness that he has with his hands and he has that because he's in good defensive position. Passes over there, he's anticipating the pass. Little behind the back. Harlem Globetrotters. Of old. Repeat Merovic of my day. Pistol Peep before the three point line. Yep. There were some long bomb shooters back in the day of the NBA in the 60s and the 70s. That probably would have been had two or three or 4,000 more points had there been that three point line. Merovic having to be one of them. Harrell misses the first. He has been to the free throw line 10 times. Still four minutes left in this game. I'll help you there again. Just by the way he works underneath to get the basketball. Joey Smith gonna use his full timeouts. 59-41, Aptos, their biggest lead of the game. They just led by six to half. They've really pushed out this lead. They've won the second half by 12 points so far. As we just mentioned it, there are the games we'll have in our future here on CTV. Harbour and Scott's Valley, that will be fun. You already mentioned Santa Cruz and SoCal, Bill Domhoff and Stu Walters, long time friends and they just love to go at each other. And they're always popular and we have a great time doing it, SECAL championships. But just mentioning it, Kurt, first half was one by six points by Aptos. Second half, they've doubled that winnage. Winning it by 12, so they're up by 18. What have they done differently in the second half? Well, they've actually done better. They've gone inside more with their shots and they're starting to win more at the free throw line than they were the first time. But the big thing is they started to limit their turnovers. Their turnovers have gone down here in the second half and the Sharks turnovers have actually started to increase. So, St. Francis Girls sitting down there in the corner. Yeah, last time they were here, we mentioned it was a double overtime win. Very exciting ball game. You see the fans, they love being on CTV. They do. And they're kicked back in the nice, comfortable bleachers here at Aptos High School. It is the, I think we could say this without bias, maybe the best facility you think in the SECAL? Hands down. The only other one that may come up within some kind of a reach would be the one up in the Scotts Valley. But I'll take the bleachers here over the bleachers in Scotts Valley. Long pass. And, made by Wells, he is rejected. Devogaleri. Devogaleri did a nice breakaway but he had to wait for that pass. Well, didn't do anything, just kept his hand up there. And Devogaleri just shot it right up into his hand. Figueroa with contact, gets the basket. He'll get a chance for a three point play with 4-0-1 remand. One thing that the Sharks want to be able to do, they're down by 16 now, is close, keep playing aggressive basketball. Fight all the way to the end, because you know, as coaches, we want our athletes to continue to do that, but show the Mariners that there's a lot of fight in them, and this is the first of two games that these teams will see each other, to say, hey, you may have us right now, but we can come back and make this game close. Harold, into the lane. Bank shot, Q-it, Parkin, a little bit of a gamble trying to go for the steal. Harold, the speed of the basket. Now, right now, that's what St. Francis is going to have to do, is take more gambles, go for the ball, but Aptos, you can see the defense, Montoya, using the body. Parkin is rejected in the lane by Harold. Harold, though, is out of bounds, he touches the ball up. 330 to go, and a big lead by the Mariners, but you watch them play defense, and you would not think that this lead is 17 points. 330 remaining, Parkin. Hook shot is short, rebound is kicked out to victory. But Montoya may have inadvertently kicked out. Not a deliberate, the officials will let a play ball. Good job by victory, slow the pace down, make sure his offense and compadres are down there, ready to do something. Harold on the cut, near wing through well. Still a lot of time on the shot clock. Montoya has that one knocked away, Parkin. High, high up in the air with this pass, bounce down, Figueroa will lay it up in good. It's a rainmaker pass, that actually almost hit the lights up here. It was, great job by Saucero to get that ball and Figueroa coming down and do a nice little bounce pass with his back to his running mate. 15 point lead for Aptos at home. Stay with us, our next game will feature the girls of Aptos and the girls of St. Francis. Victory, step back, three, short. Maybe you should have stepped forward on that shot. Parkin loses this ball off of his foot and Saucota all the way to the hoop. He's fouled by Russo. There's no doubt that through these young players, playing career in the coaches that they have had through a U ball in here at the high school level, they see a gap right there in the defense. You exploited, Saucota did that one, you're either gonna get the layup in and the foul, but you're definitely gonna get to the charity stripe for the opportunity to make two. First free throw is due for Saucota. And the second, it's off the front of the iron, rebounded by Clifton. Almost, almost hit that line. Hand check, hits the Mariners, 62-46, 147 remaining. And Joey Smith's I think gonna call the dogs off with three substitutions. Justin Colena. With Andrade, who's in the first half, and Ryan Reyes will come in, nice. Peril will check out with 26 points, lost. And Kurt Edwards gets to show his handles, as the ball came up to our table. Balls is coming at a really slow pace on time. Yeah, the Mariners are just doing your wholesale changes. Great job by that starting unit. And about three or four good substitutions. You can see that they play a good, solid basketball game together. And it's got, the Mariners have a good feel as far as a team is concerned. Ball is tipped out loose. Mariners pick up the rebound with another new player, Chris Galvick, five-eight guard, junior. A little bit of a far side for Solona, who's a five-seven junior up top, Brett Breckwitz. Just run the offense, run the pattern. That's what Coach Smith wants you to see. You get an opportunity to shoot it. Pours it in, 19-point lead for Aptox. Aiden Truman over to the left wing, drives left baseline, releases to Aiden Matthews. Matthews off-balance three is no good. And the rebound to the Mariners. 50 seconds remaining. A 19-second shot clock, game clock differential. Matthews at his stealers. Killing it up a few. Shot clock is dead, 30 seconds remaining. Matthews going for that second steal. Mariners are just going to let it roll. Parking the corner, watching the Sharks. They're going to continue to play basketball. All the way to the hoop, the shot is no good, but the put-back for Andrade is good. And there's just five seconds left. The final shot is nailed by the Sharks, but that will do it here from Aptox High School. The Aptox Mariners take the boys' game, 67-50 over the St. Francis Sharks. We'll take a break and when we come back, we'll have the highlights of this one in a preview of the girls' game. You're watching the Game of the Week here on Community Television. All here from Aptox High School. The Mariners defeat St. Francis, 67-50 in the boys' portion of our double header here on CTV Sports. Withford Edwards, I'm Tim Swartz. Great game for the Aptox Mariners. St. Francis kept it close to the six-point game at the half, but the second half, this is how it went down for the Aptox Mariners. They early on were having some trouble. In fact, this game was down to less than a five-point lead. Now Matthews hauls off right from the get-go and bombs away for a three-point line, but the Mariners are going to start taking control again. And Vogalera also with three, but now watch Montoya. He works his way right into the paint. Nice, easy touch on the basket all the way through. And Victory, who had a sizzling day last time out against San Lorenzo Valley, finally dropped in his first three-point from way out yonder. And now you watch big number 22, big Jake. Nice, easy layup. He goes back to setting himself up on defense and whoop, and they end up with another ball of steel. And he's going to go to the charity strike. That bucket does not count. And you're going to watch a little bit from the Knights. Watch Salcedo. Nice little no-look pass to Figueroa. Easy layup. But it was a game-set match by the end of the third quarter. Yeah, and I do think, I don't think, I know our player of the game, Jake Harrell, who ended up with 26 points tonight. He had a day offensively. He had a day defensively. Great job by big number 22. And I think we look at coming into the rest of the season. We'll see some other teams. But for Aptos, the statement, they belong in the top half of the SECAL. They do, definitely. So, once again, the final in this contest for the boys, 67 to 50, Aptos defeats St. Francis.