 Coming up on CTV Sports a double header with league titles at stake first the girls of Santa Cruz and Soquel both 10 and 1 by for an outright SCAL title and the one seed in the turning then the boys of Soquel try to knock off first place Santa Cruz to capture a share of the league title. Championships at stake now on CTV. A gym, legendary gym here at Santa Cruz High School for our CTV double header of the week Soquel and Santa Cruz. Along with the coach Kurt Edwards my name is Tim Swartz and Kurt so much at stake tonight. Tremendous amount of stake first place as a matter of fact at stake Tim and after you go through first place that gets you the seating for the SCAL tournament and then you can go into the CCS tournament outside of that not of things were important about this whole game. Both boys and girls team from Soquel and Santa Cruz will be in CCS to look at their latest results and both these teams have just been smooth sailing. They really have they've gone right on through it these teams have met before Soquel coming out on top the latest results we got right there but they're going in on win streaks. Santa Cruz coming off a very easy one against St. Francis and then Soquel coming off a win against Aptos and of course they've got the games in front of them so winning programs here. Very evenly matched teams. Maybe one thing that you think is going to decide a win or a loss for these teams. Well probably it's going to be Soquel on the deciding and what they're going to do with Paulie Papas and Kloss and both two outstanding players for Santa Cruz. Soquel's defense is going to be the tail of the tape on this one. Tim is going to find out how they play again. The gym will be rocking here at Santa Cruz High School. It's the CTV game of the week as the girls of Soquel and the girls of Santa Cruz looking for an outright championship coming up next. Back here at Santa Cruz High School the CTV game of the week. 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They actually had a huge winning streak. The St. Francis snapped a couple of games back. So they're sitting one two and three. It doesn't really vary very much. Kirby prep down on the bottom. And we go off to the visiting team for this contest. The so Cal coaches keys with coach Wilson. Coach Wilson is what he's going to have going. Is just very simple. Stop costing in Papas handle the pressure. And of course you're going to have to get the offensive rebounds. And that's going to be very, very key for John Wilson and the rest of the Lady Knights is control the boards. There's coach Wilson right there. Multiple year coach here at so at so Cal and also coached here at Santa Cruz High School. Tremendous athlete and coach. And on the other side Patrick and Monique Jones there. Co held head coach coaches keys. They are and they're going to be defend the three. You Stewart can really shoot the three for the so Cal Knights. Control the paint. They want to get as many rebounds as they can to get in a good transition game as fast as they possibly can. Exe execute the offense and hit those shots. Clawson and Papas they want to get the ball in those two hands as much as they possibly can. So we're joined by a third member of our broadcast team. Rusty Reed who has a little on how Santa Cruz has been successful. Santa Cruz 10 and one records that was mentioned earlier. So Cal their 10 and one because of team depth. Team chemistry and and and they're just solid from one end of the other. Great balance for so Cal. Santa Cruz on the other hand they have to rely on a dynamic duo. The only two seniors on the Santa Cruz team. Ashley Clawson number 14 and Paulie Papas number 11. Of course if you have to rely on only two these are two good ones. They have a lot of talent experience and similarities between the two. All of their both four year varsity players. They both have CCS titles on their resume. They both put about the same number of points on the board 15 16 points a game. They're both good ball handlers relentless defensively as well as offensively. And what I think the most interesting point about these two girls and their similarities is they both know how the other one thinks. So Ashley will always know where Paulie is on the court and Paulie will always know where Ashley is on the court. So it'll be interesting to see what kind of dance they choreographed tonight. Bottom line as Ashley and Paulie go so go the Cardinals. We'll see how it all unfolds at Santa Cruz and Soquel for the regular season league championship right after this. A championship at stake tonight. Soquel and Santa Cruz first with the girls and we'll have the boys later on here on CTV Sports. Tim Swartz along with you with Kurt Edwards and both these teams ready to go here at Santa Cruz. And we'll look at both these teams starting lineups. We start out with the Soquel Knights and for Soquel as Rusty mentioned, this is a very balanced scoring team. You look at all five players and maybe the best athlete is going to be the four guard. Regine Graves who is a division one setter in volleyball. She's a fantastic shooter out there. She'll be in double figures. And of course over for Santa Cruz you've got Papas and Kloss. And those are your two number one and number two scores for Santa Cruz. Soquel they're going to be coming out all the way around. McBride Stewart is a very, very good shooter of the three pointer. If you remember last year in the SECAL tournament, she lit the place up from outside three point land. And she's back again. One of the thing about Polly Papas is a forward. She also clears the board. She's averaging right around 10 rebounds a game. So both of these squads are deep. Both of these squads have a lot of talent. There's Monique Jones right there, right in the foreground. One of the co-head coaches, if you will, for the Santa Cruz Cardinals with her head. And there's the referees, John Hadley on your left. Curtis Gomez not really in your picture. That's Bill Bunder behind him. Frank Paws, there's Curtis way to the right, tying his shoe. Frank Paws to one of the referees. This year taking a little time out after some knee surgery. Here's a shot of that Santa Cruz bench with me. Are very enthusiastic. And one thing Tim, you're going to be able to find Kloss. Look for the orange shoes. Looks like a Calpram. You see him on your screen. You also see the pink and gray Argyle socks. That's a first for Santa Cruz. But it's work for them this season. We mentioned they're 10-1. And the first time these two teams matched up, Kurt, it was an edge, really, that was the difference. Just a game of inches and it was a real close one. It really was. It turned out Santa Cruz jumped out on top really quick. Actually owned the game through the first two quarters. Still had the lead in the third one. And then Soquel pulled great defense, only allowing Santa Cruz seven points while scoring 13. That was the difference in the ball game, 44 to 40, in favor of the Soquel Knights. And I guarantee you one thing. Pat Jones is going to want a little bit of revenge, especially with the title on the line. And that number one seed going into the SECAL tournament. That one seed is a real big thing, too, because that gives you an extra buy. You don't have to play in the first round if you have the one seed in the SECAL tournament with seven teams in the league and the one seed getting the night off. You see Coach Wilson, you'll probably see him at some point in the game, courtside, is Pete Newell Jr., who really has an incredible coaching tree. He really does. He coached Wilson. He coached Coach Jones right there, here at Santa Cruz High School. Coach Newell Jr. has been, was here for 20-some-odd years an incredible legacy. He coached a tremendous number of coaches and athletes in the area. And you see Coach Newell Jr. We open up this tip with the Cardinals controlling it. And as Mr. Edwards mentioned, Ashley Kloss will be very easy to find on your screen with the bright orange shoes. She goes to her teammates and one of her good friends, Polly Pappas, who's averaging 15 a game and she pours one in 2-0 early for the Cardinals. They made that one look very easy to Pappas and Kloss. Backed house here in Santa Cruz as Roka is up the left wing, flips it up top for Tori McGrath, right-wing grave. Rotated around the arc, left-wing. It's Roka with eight on the shot clock, looking to penetrate. This is out up top, open three stepped into and it's off for Tori McGrath. Good zone defense put on by Santa Cruz. Here is Kloss with the ball and she's gonna go between the circles, set up the offense. Kloss in his acceptance of scholarship to play at Southern Oregon University. Nice ball rotation by Santa Cruz. Soquel in a man-to-man type of defense. Left side stepping into this one, or a pace side, it's no good. The loan listed forward, Clark ends up with the rebound for Soquel. They play a four guard line up with a forward. Graves tries out the back door, bounce pass and it's taken away. Coast to coast Kloss in, puts it up and good. Now there's a situation, Tim where Soquel didn't hustle back and Kloss in saw that opportunity. Soquel didn't hustle back, they turned their back on her. Roka on the back side, pulls up to 15. Front iron no good, Graves takes 30 bounce. She puts it up in the foul. I like the aggressiveness of Graves before the last time down for Soquel. That one too many pass sometimes, Tim. Can actually burn you, but that time Roka, Graves doing a good job inside, turning and trying to put the ball up. Good thing, you know, you could get the shot blocked, Tim, let's face it. But you might as well put that thing up because you could get it in and a foul. And the three point play completed by Graves. We mentioned she's going to be playing Division I volleyball as a center. Right side jumper is a little strong for Ably. Clark grabs that rebound and Pap is doing a nice shot. She brings it in, kicks it back out. Ably's had a nice shot. Just didn't get it to fall. Soquel slinging the ball around, trying to find an opening in that Santa Cruz zone defense. Off to the right corner for Taylor Stewart. Right side, high arching jumper. Nothing to net for Clark. That's one of the things on this zone to pay back off. You've got to take it Kloss in down very quickly. They do not hesitate on offense. Orapesa nails the jumper. And Santa Cruz retakes the lead six to five, two and a half minutes in. But Wilson not happy for the Soquel Knights. They've got to set that temper. They've got to stop the ball. In other words, if Boston's got it, you've got to put a body on her and slow her down. Hard to do. Orapesa has been the third option on this team averaging eight points a game. McBride up top with eight on the shot clock, bounces it to Roca. Just five on the shot clock. Clark with the three, long. But the rebound and the turnaround for Clark is good optimist from Stewart. That was a brilliant move by Clark. That ball didn't hit anything. The shot clock was still going. Stewart just a little bit long. Already our third lead change in the first three minutes in change of this game. Klossin gave up her dribble over the right wing for Poppins. Soquel manning up. They're marking up very, very well. Orapesa's got the ball. They're looking for a cutter. Klossin was that cutter. Great one-handed pass. Orapesa, just a little bit short. Stewart on the fast break. Leave it off for Graves. Looks to drive in on Klossin. Roca left wing. High arc-er, nothing but mess. I like that with Rocha doing a nice job of getting underneath. And then coming right back out. Nice shot. Got to move the ball on both of these teams. You have to take it inside. Let's open up that outside shot. Rocha did a nice job. Ball's rotated up top. Janus over to the right side. Great spin move from Poppins. Off balance, no good. And Roca ends up with the rebounds. Ballie Pappas does a nice job. You know that little shot. There's a nice release on her. She puts that ball up. Just good rotation off the shot. Good wrist movement. McBride of Klossin running the point guard. Roca's posted up up left wing. Here's Stewart, long on her shot. And the rebound is a air ball collected by Jammeritz down the court to hand check holds. It's the first style of this game that's called against McBride. Okay, one of the things, Tim, I think McBride's gonna have to do is stop Klossin and it's hard to do because she is such an aggressive player. Very, very quick, will not be denied a route. She's gonna have to stop her coming down the court somewhere between the circle. If you don't, she's got that extra gear that she's got. She's gonna be able to get by you and cause havoc. That time was just a foul on the floor. No shot. Klossin, nice bounce pass in and fouled as she went up with Shane Habli. She'll get two. Shane, you're gonna go to the line and that's where movement off the blocks on an out of bounds play. You're gonna set a screen and you wanna keep creating movement. It happened perfectly. Shane was able to get the shot off. Misses the first one. Gets down underneath against Clark, who put just a little bit too much on the body in there. And both free throws are made. It's a 10-7 lead for the Cardinals. Two, three zone. Klossin is at the top right of that zone. Substitution for Soquel Natalie Diaz, a freshman at 5-11's into the game. Graves right wing, three is too strong. Now's when you've gotta stop Klossin. They've not been able to do it. She just gotta run and she takes advantage of it. It's gonna be a blocking foul. That is what the damage of number 14 can do. Those orange sneaks that she's got, I don't know if they're painted or they came that way, but anyways, watch her go. Through that one right by McBride. The defense was not able to get set underneath. Graves took the shot. She's gonna be all right. John Wilson out to check on her. It's a third team foul against the Knights. It is against Graves. It's a blocking foul. She's just a little bit late. I think I like the call there of the aggressiveness from Klossin was rewarded. It was, and it's gonna be rewarded. That's one of the things that you watch basketball players. I don't care if you're watching Stanford, Cal, Soquel or Santa Cruz. That little bit of aggressiveness, that extra charge through Cal's got a young player on their women. Boyd, I believe, is her name. She is afraid of nothing. And she just charges a little. So if you ever get a chance to play basketball, go watch her play. You'll really be impressed. She is one good athlete. Klossin will make the first free throw. She is mentioned in all around players. She averages five and a half assists per game, four and a half rebounds. But I mean, can you put in a perspective is the second free throw is good? And it is a 10-9 game as Santa Cruz is down by. Now it's just one. But can you put in perspective how good is five and a half assists per game in high school? It's absolutely fantastic. It shows that she's got tremendous court aware and is able to move it off. Watch Soquel. They're looking for some kind of a shot to take in. And they're able to get that one off with Diaz with three points. And Diaz is just a freshman. And she is 5'11". Oropeza had that good shot look. But she pulled that one down. Diaz on her right now. Watch the constant movement for Soquel. Looking to get the ball down inside. Right now, great defense by the Soquel Knight. Papas drives the lane. Dishes out. Oropeza opens. 17-footer rattles out. And a rebound is knocked out of play by the Cardinals. So the Knights will get the ball. Berthelsen, number 21 on the battle and gets the ball out of bounds. Diaz is going to be in. One of these, you're going to see Soquel, Coach Wilson will change his personnel, will change the looks quite a bit. Coach Jones, not quite as much. But you will see some pretty good personnel come off the bench for the Cardinals. McBride, who's a sharp-looking point guard, brings it up the floor. Roka out of a screen. Backdoor cut for Graves. Double team put it up. It's no good. Graves tried to save it from going out of bounds. And instead, she'll lose it. As Papas is pressuring her. Balli Papas does a nice job on the offensive end as well as the defensive end. She's averaging over 15 points. She gained 15.7 and 10 rebounds. She's another one of those tremendous basketball players, but defensively is where she shines. Dawson, up top, dribble drive. Right wing, short on the shot, was Pavley. And Graves, who has very good hops, is able to collect the rebounds. She comes down, and she should take that ball all the way down to take it to the rim if she can. And she will. On the floor is where the fouls go. And it's against Papas. Papas just a little note. Most of our viewers probably know. You go down the middle. Papas puts her arms up, but she did not have her feet set. So she's going to get a blocking foul call on here. Hopley, number 25, going to the bench. And she'll bring the ball back in bounds to Soquel. McBride inbounds it off the left wing from Marissa Azua, 5'11", forward, who can take it to the lane. Backdoor cuts all alone as Diaz, and she'll lay it in. There's when you start to go down the middle, Tim. Defense goes to you. You've got to find that open player is a great job. Klossin gave up her dribble up top. And the turnover forced as Courtney Schmidt just came into the game, and it was a little bit too far out for her. And there's one of the things, though. I told you, you have to try and stop Klossin between the circles, get her to give up her dribble. They did, the defense was right on her. And the result was a turn up. Look at this tile of defense. Stale. Klossin takes it away, one on one with Azua. Great bounce pass. Left can lay up too strong. But towel will get two free throws, the five-eaten freshman. Goes to the line, foul underneath. Those are one of those pretty good fouls. Klossin takes a peek at the shot, does a nice job of drawing the defender off towel. Underneath doesn't get the cripple, but she goes to the chair just right. First free throw is just off the front of the iron. You know, you get a free throw from 15 feet away. That's the loneliest spot in the gym. And here's the second. No good. Klossin got there. And she was fouled. Now everybody was watching how they line up on the free throw. You got a defensive man underneath the blue then a white to the blue. Klossin doing a nice job of fighting through. Ball's gonna go out of bounds to the white. She just circled around. Nobody blocked her out. This is the aggressiveness this young player has. Had a tremendous AAU experience with Khalid Hicks, who also trains her a little bit. She is a great basketball player. So that foul went against Azua. That's her first personal full team foul. Graves, as she picked up the rebound, was fouled by Towel. Dude, as we mentioned, she's a freshman. That's kind of one of those freshman fouls you make about 70 feet away from the basket. Yeah, I'm sure that the coaches, there's Pat Jones is gonna have some nice words. Look it, you don't need a foul down here. If she beats you, fine. We're gonna get the defense down on the other end. Under a minute remaining in the first period, 15-9, the lead for the Soquel Knights. Roca, three-fourth sports star up top. Fakes the three, drives in against the zone, and she just tripped over. Now this is one of those no-harko fouls for Rocha. She just took that available drive to the hoop. She had a lane. Just tripped over one of the sneakers of the opposing team. So you see the confidence that John Wilson is in his freshman. Diaz, who's one-on-one up top with Klosson. 15 seconds, shot clock dead. Well, half the travel did get a travel. Pappas, you can see with that little head fake. Drags that pivot, I mean, I gotta give Santa Cruz some props. They've got some color for sneakers. They got the basic blackout there, too. They cried all the way up. Graves drives in, great backdoor pass, and a big clock from Pappas out of bounds. There'll be three tenths of a second left in the first quarter. Just enough to get a shot, so it's going to be a pass in. Should be a nice three-off. Who's your best three-point shooter? I don't get anybody is right now. Just get it in, blow it up. Rocha has that one blocked by Pappas. Nick Klosson puts some extra emphasis knocking that one away. A little bit of momentum for Santa Cruz. We reached the end of the first quarter. 15-9 here in a game of the week between Soquel and Santa Cruz here in the historic Santa Cruz gym with Kurt Edwards, Bob Tim Swartz, while the third man, Resty Reed, who's part of our broadcast crew. And any thoughts in the first quarter? Well, I've been impressed with the way Soquel is playing defense. They're doing a good job of just trying to slow the ball down. Pappas has not really been that much of a factor in the game. She only has two points Klosson with four. I believe it was just a free throw and Orpeza with two points. Take a peek at this block. You come down in, work it down in. You can see the defense set up underneath real quick. Pappas in there in towel. So one goes going to get her high, the other one low. Here's some upcoming games we've got. Of course, the SCCAO basketball championships. Always fun. Tim and I will be there. And the wrestling championship. A bunch of grappers rolling around on the mat, having a whole bunch of fun. Pat Lovell and I will be down there having fun bringing that event to you. You see the Santa Cruz huddle. 15-9 is the score. You see our CTV sports broadcast position just across the court right next to John Wilson. Offensively for Soquel, you had Diaz with five points. Clark with four points. Graves with three. And Rocha, excuse me, with two. Calls rotated around the arc for Soquel. Diaz for Graves. Santa Cruz is saying, OK, Soquel, you want to beat us? You got to beat us out far with those long-range bombs. But Soquel is doing a nice job of working their way into the paint and moving the ball around. I'd like to see a few more cutting actions going through on an angle to see maybe they can open up something inside. Jamras was called for the foul. It's her first personal 15 foul. Ball's released up top for Tyler Stewart. Gives it off for McBride. Tori McBride. It's not her job to score. She hasn't scored yet, but she's facilitated well. It's sort of the John Stockton of Soquel. She fires one up a long way. Nice bet of going inside by Stewart to keep the ball alive. Graves, great idea in the middle of the zone. Lays it up and good. And you talk about the 2-3 zone, that's the weak point if you can get into the key. It's just nobody knows whose responsibility it is, really, to get the player. Now, you've got to be that rotation through it. Nice lead pass to Pappas who lays it up and in. There's one of those many assists that you're going to see from Glosson. Glosson's excellent court vision. As I was just mentioning, you see Diaz in the middle of the zone. That's where they're trying to work the ball. Yep, you're right now. McBride's got it over there into the corner. They don't want to get a trapping in that side. Nice job. Clark comes in, but it gets it knocked away. Glosson, hesitation dribble drive, leaves it off. Pappas, three-pointer, right wing rattles in. And it's back down to a three-point game. You don't want to have Pappas get hot. She can hurt you. That was a good job by Glosson, came down. They stopped her, but she's got that good court vision, gets another assist with the pass over to Pappas. McBride rotates it up top. Diaz wide open, Graves right wing, three on the way. Back iron, no good. And Pappas, who's averaging more than 10 rebounds per game, picks up another. She has been here, this is her fourth year. Just as I saw, remember her as a freshman. She has just, she's improved tremendously. Of course, her dad, Pete Pappas, good golf coach, was a women's basketball coach here at Santa Cruz also for many years. Pappas, pull-up jumpers, no good. Or a pace of fighting for the rebounds, not a bounce. And it's last off of Stewart's. So the Cardinals will keep it. So one of the things you're seeing is we're getting a little peek at Rocha. Everything's being contested. Ball going out of bounds. Ball everywhere. Kind of gives you an idea that these clubs realize this is the battle for first place. Glosson, left wing, long three is no good. Great rebound by Graves. Graves does not the point guard, but she can work the ball like a point guard underneath and wide open there for a moment and knocking the ball out of bounds off the defender. And there's Clark, who for just a moment there had a nice little scene, but a good defense from Pappas to get a hand on it. She was looking that way and if you hesitate on a pass and you could be a basketball or football, that defense has an opportunity to read your eyes and react to it. And there's a perfect example as Glosson has got to stop her. Pulls up from 12. Back iron, no good. And Diaz with the rebound. Diaz dribbles out of trouble. I like that. Goes one way, because she had blocked off, does not give up her dribble. She'd have given up the dribble. The double team would have been on her so fast. Broca, straight away, long range three. Front iron, no good. And the rebound is out off of the cardinals. Excuse me, off of Soquel. That was off of Graves number four. Now she may be a setter in volleyball, but she's playing one of the big positions underneath and she is fighting. She's up there contesting for every rebound. I like watching her play. She plays with a lot of intensity. Here's really, I think become the matchup of the game. Diaz on defense. The man-to-man defense of Soquel as Pappas goes down and lays it up a good bit. Diaz and Klosson's been a really intriguing battle. It is. And Diaz just sits right on her. She knows where Pappas is and she's also looking for the ball. So one eye on Klosson and the other one on where is the ball? You gotta move the ball around a little bit quicker if you want to rotate through and beat that zone. Diaz inside of the zone from 12. She's got seven leading the Soquel Knights to a three point lead. And on top of Pappas is Rocha. And I think this is wisely Klosson's gonna reset that offense. They switch on the screen so Graves picks up Klosson up top, plus bounce to Pappas. Rocha on her and the off balance shot is good. That's 11. Pappas as you know, she was coming through the key. She had her hands up, calling for the ball and got it. And then she knew exactly what she was gonna be able to do with it. One point lead for Soquel. Both these teams head and one of the SCCAL with just under four minutes remaining in the first half. And another nice move and groove from Graves. She's got seven now. She does, four here in the second quarter. She's got the only points in the second quarter scored by the Soquel Knights. And Santa Cruz has styled it up defensively. Pappas, one on one with Graves. Graves on the overplay, double team for Thazua. They go up top for Klosson in the lane. Running, Flower is good. Klosson sees that opportunity. A lot of movement offensively. A lot of switching back and forth defensively. Cohen Wilson calls a timeout. 30 second timeout called by the Soquel Knights. So everybody's gonna have to hang around. We're not gonna go very far, very fast on that one. And we look at this day in basketball history. It was an NBA all-star game played at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. And some of the best of all time, Moroff Sampson, the former Virginia player was the MVP. But a rookie by the name of Michael Jordan, I believe, was pictured there. And now it's his first all-star game. You know what? You look at when these all-star games were and you're just thinking 35 years ago is when he was just a rookie. And you know, his name is so always prominent as we take a peek at the Santa Cruz Hanoi that you think it was just yesterday that he stopped playing. You see this nice little give and go. There's that gap right in there. And the motion of the offense, creating all that switch by Soquel, gives that gap and Klassen has that quick first step. And also a very aggressive dribble. She puts it on the floor. Her head is up and she's going for it. And another timeout. Well, we'll get this game started again soon. 316 remaining in the second quarter, along with Kurt Edwards. My name is Tim Swartz. We thank you for joining us here on Community Television. Remind you, we will have the SECAL postseason championship. This is the championship game tonight, 10-1 Soquel, 10-1 Santa Cruz. And I think if you look at the banners here, Girls' Basketball Championships, two of the last three years in the CCS. I mean, Santa Cruz, they've always been known kind of as a boy's basketball power, but they've become a girl's basketball power as well. Well, they have definitely done that one. Pass all the way over to Graves. Nice little fake. All you've got to do is make a little bit of a head and shoulder fake. You watch the defender fly it on by. Nice step to the left and then you start going to the basket. If you're not challenged, keep going. If you are, pull up and take a nice little high percentage jump shot. It is a packed house. You see, I mentioned earlier, and you see Patrick Turner, you see the socks, that are the special socks that these Santa Cruz players are wearing. Style. It's about style sometimes in women's basketball. You see the different shoes. Yep. You've got orange. You've got the blue. Nikes with the soles. You've got red. Kind of like a Stanford Cardinal look. Who goes there is also ribbons on the socks. Some breast cancer awareness month. It's supported by the Cardinals. Great to see that. Roka out of the break. Left wing three is short. And the rebound is cleaned up by Kloss. A long length of the court pass. Pop this though. That's that one stripped away by McBride. And that's defensively where you don't give up. You know you're burned on that long cherry pick and pass. Here comes McBride. Perfect job of getting that handle right on top of the basketball. You know it's been really impressive to me, Kurt. Because McBride is running the point as a softball. Like Diaz has been very big in this game. She's on the ball out to the far corner as a freshman. Yeah, I mean, the underclassman has come up big time for the Lady Nights. There's no doubt about that. Ball is loose and it's thrown up by Orpese. But Diaz, she does not look like a freshman and she just ripped that ball out of the air. And SoCal right now is just trying to maintain a good pace of the game. They're going to slow it down. They're up by one. McBride running the points. I'll tell you, Tim, on this two, three zone, they just got a little bit more. They should try and get somebody to post up right there in the center of the key. Easy to say. Tough to do. They do that right now with Diaz but they couldn't get the ball through it. And a great idea by Graves as soon as she was bumped a little bit. Decided just to throw that one up and get two free throws. A foul is against Klosson. That's an experienced basketball player. Go on in. There's the bump but you're on your way through so you might as well throw it up to make that extra sell to the referee that you are in the act of shooting. Graves first free throw is in and out. I get Coach John Wilson so much credit because just watching college basketball, I've seen a lot of teams that do not execute this well to division one level against the zone. I mean, his team is executing very well. They're very patient. That's one of the keys to executing against the zone where you will be executed as patients. Moving the ball around, looking for it. Not there, keep moving. But it's also how quickly you move that ball. Graves goes one of two at the line and it's a two point lead for Soquel. They've led by, as many as there is eight. Pappas to Glosson, left wing driving in is Lindsay Frankels. She lost the ball for a moment and a foul score. Fouls probably going to go against Azua. Nope, it's going to go against Burtleson. That ball gets on the floor and everybody starts to go with it. Azua's coming out of the game right now. Clark coming back in for the Soquel Knights. You see some of the fans on here. Some of the boys, basketball players there. And they'll be hooping it up in part two of our double header. And that will be for a league championship as well. Soquel can win low in at least a share of the championship. Pappas through the lane. Scoop shot is no good. Diaz again clears the boards. She does a great job. She might want to have a little bit more patience before she dribbles right on out because she dribbled into trouble. Burtleson up the left wing. Skip pass, Graves. They give her the three. She takes it. 11. I'm loving this one. Seven so far here in the second quarter. After eight. After three in the first. I'm just liking Diaz. Tim, you've alluded to it a couple of times. She's playing like an upperclassman in today's game. One of the great things about youth basketball you see everybody hit the deck. 23. Frankel going on the bottom four. Cardinals. Clossin will collect it up top. But one thing Soquel's made her do every time she touched the ball. It's work for the ball. You got to. And that's what you're gonna hit her. She probably will not come out of the game. She and Pappas may never come out of this ballgame. There's the shooter. Straight away. Orapesa. Cheyenne looking very good with that shot. Three point lead for Soquel. Graves. Great pump fake. Pulls up 17 footer rattles it in. Patience. Tim, she had a lot of patience. Set it up. Gave that one little fake. Didn't start her dribble cause she didn't have to. And there's a little two for one too with a five second shot clock. Game clock differential. Clossin pull up 18. Yes. Straight away. Eight for her. Here comes McBride. The last shot. We'll see how they're gonna do it. Clossin. Pressure's Graves. Eight seconds. McBride through the lane. He's fouled. Perfect job. Just what a coach would wanna do. McBride saw the opportunity. She was coming off the right side. She gets by Orapesa. Nobody there. Could have been going either way. The blocking call was called underneath. So McBride's gonna get a chance to go to the charity strike. Five point four seconds left to go on the speed dial. And that's one of the things that as the coach, John Wilson will say it and Pat Jones, two great, great basketball coaches. Please make your free throws. Both no good. Pappas ends up with the rebound. Three seconds up the closet like a streak of lightning off balance short. And that will do it. The end of the first half, 27-24. They run into the locker room. And so Kel has a lead. They led almost the entire first half and the Soquel Knights have a 27-24 lead here at the half. John Wilson is about to join the third member of our broadcast crew. It's Rusty Reed standing by with John Wilson at the half. I'm with head coach John Wilson, Soquel Knights. Your girls are moving the ball great in this first half but yet only a three point lead. What'll have to be the difference in the second half? Well, we got to stop Klosson and Pappas. You know, it's like, it's the Klosson and Pappas show right now and you know, if we can stop then I think we'll have a better shot in the second half building maybe a lead on it. You had them both under wraps. They each only had two points in that first quarter. What was the difference between the two quarters? Well, they started attacking with the dribble a little bit more and getting closer to the basket. They were getting to the rim and we couldn't stop them. And their shots start going in. All right, we'll let you go coach. All right, thanks John. We'll stop by John. We'll be back with the second half right after this. It's Soquel with a three point lead, 27-24. Well, we expected a close one. We've gotten it so far. Soquel 27-24 in our CTV game of the week. The battle for the SCCAL regular season championship. We want to thank some of the people that made this broadcast possible. First of all, Santa Cruz diner. Well, you'll find always great food at reasonable prices. Family owner and operator since 1998. Santa Cruz diner is kid-friendly and offers a wide selection of traditional vegan items. Their great staff and comfortable atmosphere will make you feel right at home. Featured on the food channel. Easy to find on Ocean Street in Santa Cruz. On the web at SantaCruiseDiner.com. Great food, priced right at the Santa Cruz diner and by Upper Crust Pizza. On Santa Cruz west side at Mission and Swift. Family owner and operator since 1979. Upper Crust offers nightly dinner specials in every Tuesday night. I love it. All you can eat pizza, dine in or take out. On the web at uppercrustsc.com or call us at 423-9010. With the coach, Kurt Edwards, I'm Tim Schwartz. A lot of fun here in the first half. A tightly contested game. Let's check out how the first half was played between these two teams. Well, we're going to come in. We knew there was going to be a Polly Pappas type of a night. You see she comes right down the middle. Nice little touch. Just drops in that little teardrop type of a pass. And her running mate, Klaus, watch her. She is just a freight train coming right down now. Gets that lane opening and lays it right up in here. Soquel has been able to do some stuff too. There's Regina working her all the way to Rocha. She throws one way out for three and is able to knock that thing down. And this game was seesaw back and forth all the way around. Diaz also sets up behind the three-point arc because she really puts one on in. And that's one of the things that Soquel's been able to do. Here's Pappas again, working hard on Rocha. Goes underneath and she's able to make that layup. That good first step by the young senior all the way through. Soquel working to try and beat that zone. Regina able to throw that one in all the way. Graves is having a fantastic 13 points so far on the afternoon. There's Klaus and a little step back from about 17 feet straight in, nothing but the bottom of the net. So you can see that offense for all these teams has definitely been part and parcel of what's been going on, Tim, and taking a peek at the Lady Knights as they walk out. And they're just working on some of that inside game. They'd like to get the ball inside right now. Santa Cruz has yet to take the floor. So underneath their basket is just a whole bunch of possible wannabes to should-bees out there going through. But Tim, you look at some of the scores that we've had here. Soquel, Regina Graves with 13 points. Rocha with two points, three points. Clark with four. And Diaz with seven. There's a shot of Rocha right there. There's two ugly guys in the booth. Hey, speak for yourself. I did. It's been a great game here so far. And we talked about Graves being such a great athlete and doing so many different great things. She's got 13 points. She's done it in a variety of ways. She had the end one. She's hit the three. She's hit the mid-range game. And I think she's kind of been the player of the game so far for these two teams. She has been. She's been very tough defensively. She's done a great job getting those rebounds underneath. She's actually fostered some shots and gone to the charity strike. She is that major different. But look at, you can take Papas and Klossin, 16 points, 15 and 16 points. And they're the top leaders for Santa Cruz. Papas with 11, Klossin with eight. Halby with one or a pace with five. Nobody else scored for the Cardinals. 27-24 is the score here at the half. And we go quickly to Rusty Reed, who's standing by. I'm with head coach Matt Jones, Santa Cruz High School, another close one, just like the last time out. What did you say to Paulie at the end of the first quarter? She came alive after only two points. She was talking about how she was being overplayed. She wanted to set up some kind of backdoor. So we drew that up at the quarter and it worked. And I think it just got her going. And she felt it from there. From two points to 11. How do you put the clamps on graves? That's the big question. She had 10 of their 12 in the second quarter. So we talked about ways to stop her here. And hopefully we can shut her down. She's hitting a lot of runners and tough shots. So, you know, we've got to lock it down. Good luck that checker. All right, we're going to go back to the booth. Kirk and Tim. Thanks, Rusty. 27-24. We thank Coach Jones also for taking a few seconds out right before the start of the half. And here we go. So, Kel will be moving left to right on your screen with the Navy uniforms and the Cardinals will be going right to left. And Santa Cruz comes out in a man-to-man defense. They were in that zone primarily the first time. McBride off the skip pass. Graves straight away, three. Regina a little bit. They didn't do very well that time. So, Kel immediately retrieves defensively. And I'm going to put that press on unless they have to. Get back and defend their half of the court. Pauly Pappas, as we mentioned, is the leading scorer in the first half. Klossin travels. Klossin doing a nice job coming off the pick on the far side. And just had a little bit too much momentum. Diaz inbounds the ball for Soquel. Roca up top for McBride at the circle. Different defense from Santa Cruz. Right, they're in that man-to-man. They'll try and switch out of it. Graves just takes Klossin to the rack. 18. Loving man-to-man. Watch her play volleyball. She's quick there too. Quick 5-0 mini run makes a 3-point lead and 8-point lead for Soquel to start up the second half. Straight away, jumper clanks off the right side of the iron, but it's saved by the Cardinals. Graves reflects that pass, McBride chasing after it, but cruising in was Klossin to keep it alive. You watch Klossin, she went and got that ball, got it in the left hand. She's a right-handed player, you can see her dominant on that right side. Don't blink, because she'll try and go and rack on you though. Pappas. Pavley. Pappas. Pump fake. Diaz over-played her. Pappas pulls up from 10. This versus the Regina Graves show on the offensive side. Good double team right here in the corner, but fortunately Clark was able to get out of it. Roca drives right baseline, has a step-under defender, puts it up, just in and out, but she'll get two free throws. Tim, how many times have we seen in basketball games you do the Stanford Cardinal game up there when you aggressively go into the paint that you get a foul called in your favor? And exactly is the first free throw is no good, but they talked about how the overplay from Santa Cruz, and once you get a step on an overplay, the help has to come, and there's going to be somebody open or you're going to foul. Yeah. She misses both ends of that one, and that's going to be one of the things. If this game gets close, and it turns in disfavor of the Soquel Knights, it's the free throw line that's going to come to hunt them. You see Graves knocked up a lot of bounds. She has been the player of the game so far with 18 points. Blossom gets a screen, dishes out left side, jumper on the way in and out for, or a pace-out. Graves with that battle for the ball, wrote you with it, slows it down. You set up their office, you can see Blossom really push it. Santa Cruz trying to push that Soquel offense as far away as they can. And Graves nails a three. I think Kurt, the message is going to be simple for the coaches, the Jones. You got it. You can't go underneath the screen on Graves. Now you watch Santa Cruz trying to get the ball inside. They're able to do it. They're fighting job by Hadley. She's going to go to the line to shoot two. Again, these teams have seen each other. They've played once before, Soquel with the type. Good job by Shane, she just works it inside. A lot of head and shoulders and moving around. That's one of the key things, if you're going to be underneath, I think that way, is using your body, trying to get your defense to move. Head fake, shoulder fake. Do something. These teams have struggled from the line. Three for six is Santa Cruz. And on the other side, just one for six is Soquel. Ball, so even though they missed two free throws, Santa Cruz is going to be able to take it out underneath the left of their own basket. Blossom will take it out. Blossom will recollect it. Drive towards the lane. Roka put a hand on that. The blocking closet up top. 15 on the shot clock. Habli leads it off for Pappas. It drives the lane and a nice little block hip check. And that's a foul with a call against Tizua. That's her second personal. Tizua was there in the hands and the hip check. Down in there looked like John Habli, one of the two, because he's Curtis Gomez, the other one. Gave that foul call. Curtis Gomez with the basket ball taking it out. To Klossom. 35-26, the lead for Soquel. Battle for first place. That's regular season game of the season, and the winner will get the one seed in the SCCAEL tournament, and they'll get a buy into the semifinals. Blossom left wing, three, front iron, no good. But the rebound of the shot is just a little bit high, and Soquel will end up with the board. A play by Clark to keep that one in. Nobody really screamed out. Good job by McBride doing a nice little change of pace, little crossover, and got Klossom going the wrong way, and Klossom fouled her right up at the top, right in the middle of the court. Again, it's one of those fouls that you don't want to see happen, but it's just a good job offensively to get your person out of balance. Klossom is such a quick defender, and you saw, I guess, McBride super quick to cross her over there. Graves, dishes. The turnaround is no good for Clark, but a foul. Jammer is number 13 with the foul. Nice work underneath by Clark. Keep moving, trying to find some way you can get that shot off. Clark doing a good job because starts right up at the free throw line, slides down the lane, gets that nice pass, doesn't get the basket, but she had a good percentage shot. The foul caused her not to make it. And two free throws. Free throws shooting woes continue for both these teams. I think they went to the Wilt Chamberlain or Chaco Neo free throws school. Seconds is good, so just 3 for 10 for Soquel today, and they have a 10 point lead, and you do 50% right now, right? You're just going to move it up just a little bit more. 60%, you can see how important free throws are. Pappas, the closet. Back to closet between the rings, gets a screen off the switch. Balls rotated on the skip with 8 on the shot clock. Pappas is fouled by McBride, just got her arm tangled up there. That's the third team foul. That's a nice move by Pollock. She catches the ball, McBride reaches in. At that point there's not a foul, but as Pappas continues to rotate away, McBride continues to foul through. The third team foul against Soquel. Stewart comes into the game for the Lady Knights. McBride comes out. Quickly, a little bit too strong for Jemez, since there is a foul called. Melissa doing her nice job. She put it up hard with them fighting for it. Got that jump ball call over the possession arrow now. Glosson gets a screen, loses that ball for a moment. Look up all alone. Relay this one up. Too strong. Great backside defense from Towel. That is just fantastic. Hustled by the freshman. Glosson doing a good job using her body, getting in a great position to make an easy little jump there. Glosson's into double figures with 10. 13 for Pappas. 36, 28. Soquel leads down to 8. Nobody stops. She'll miss the lay in. Hustled by Glosson though. Clark doing a nice job of getting that rebound back through. Roach is coming down twice and missing two cripples. That's going to be one of the things. One way you can miss a lay up is if you start to stop concentrating on the basket and start worrying about where's the defender? Oops, I pulled up and started my travel to the basket a little bit too soon. There's Clark with it right back out to Diaz. The hustle underneath by Clark and the ability for Diaz to be very quick switching defensively has been key. Soquel nice to keep this lead. Diaz with 8. 37, 28, 305 in the third quarter remaining. The lead for Soquel. It led by as many as 10 in this game. Glosson trying to set some kind of a pick on. Graves couldn't do it. Graves tenacious defense on top. Glosson up top. 7 on the shot clock. Has to make something happen. With 4 on the shot clock. Backs up even more. 2-1 off. Gallons! No good. But she follows her shot and collects the ball. Happens. Pump fake. Leaves it off. Or a pace through the lane. No good. For all sense of rebound. This one is deflected away. Or a pace that went up with it. Graves knocked it away. Great inside positioning by the Santa Cruz Cardinals. Halbleed number 25 got underneath to the nice job. Just walled off. Two Cardinals walled off. Three of the Lady Knights to get that rebound. Santa Cruz continues to apply pressure by having the ball out of bounds underneath their own basket. 2-21 remaining in the third. 37, 28. The lead for Soquel here at Santa Cruz High School. Or a pace that is double teamed. Leaves it off for Tal. The aggressive defense. Produces a missed shot. Roca in the back court. Double teamed. Numbers for the Knights if they push. Left wing wide open. 3 is no good. Rebound tips off a few pairs of hands. It ends up with Santa Cruz. A foul called. It'll be the fourth against the Knights. John Wilson right out. Slightly disgusted with that off. Although Stewart got a great look. She is a good three point shooter. She got a good look. Just came up a little bit short. But it's aggressiveness of going after the offensive rebound that I'm sure is frustrating. Coach John Wilson and the rest of the Lady Knights. As well as on the defensive end. Not really getting in position to get that defensive rebound. If you want to check out this game or any of our other games this season or last season in CTV Sports. Go to community TV dot org slash dubs and you can download that form. You can either mail it to us. You can call us 831-425-8848 is the number. The reset for you third quarter. 152 remaining in the third quarter. So kill 37. Santa Cruz 28. These two teams are playing for an SCCAL championship. What's at stake. As you hear the Santa Cruz bands playing the Imperial March with Star Wars. What's at stake is the one seed in the SCCAL championship as well as a chance to put up a banner. A lot of banners here at Santa Cruz High School including a 2009 and 2010 girls basketball championships. Tim Swartz along with the coach Kurt Edwards. Closet just a little bit short. That's what so Kells got to do is get a rebound and a nice outlet pass. Graze pulls up lays it up and good. Nice jump stop. Good hustle back by tall number 42. Right wing three on the way in and out for a pompous. Biggest lead of the game 11 for the Knights with 115 remaining in the third. Where Pays are trying to do a backside steal. Look at McBride taking advantage of that lane. Closet drives in. Good job by Stewart to turn her away. Closet dribbling through all five players finding open Pappas three on the way. Bingo. That's somebody that got hot in the second quarter with nine points. Needs to get hot for Santa Cruz so they can have a chance of winning this game. Still a lot of time to play though. Got one more eight minute quarter to go. Up the left wing. Stewart's. High right side. For Azua Roca left wing pullback for second three of the game in and out. Shot clock dead as the Cardinals collect the rebound. They've got a three on two. You're gonna leave it off for Pappas. Drives left baseline and now Closet will recognize shot clocks dead 13 seconds remaining in the third corner. Gonna set a pic to try and see if they can isolate with Closet. Good job by McBride. Nice switch over there by Rocha. Swings it. Left corner three. No good. And it's an eight point lead for the Soquel Knights as we go into the fourth quarter here on the CTV game of the week. Both these teams are playing for a league championship and thus far Soquel's got the better of Santa Cruz here in Santa Cruz 39 31. I'll tell you Tim that last 20 some odd seconds was great defense for Soquel Knights. You can see that they're gonna try and isolate Closet to do something on McBride. They had the pic set up but Diaz does a nice job. They recognize the pics he goes by. She switches off on Closet. Closet really has nowhere to go. Thumbs it off to Orbeza but there's not a shot. We take a peek at Coach Jones in the middle right there of the Santa Cruz huddle. Let's take a peek at that defense there. We're gonna just slow that ball down and here comes Closet. Now we're gonna move that ball around. Good job by Diaz. The motion is fantastic or a pace that gets right down in the middle but here's where it comes in handy. Great block out. Tall number 42 with a good offensive rebound. This isn't a monique. It was simple from Coach Jones. This is it. Your last chance to win a regular season championship. Both these teams wouldn't be surprised if we see them in about a week and a day, Kurt. The SCAL girls basketball final as we are underway here in the fourth quarter. 39-31 Roken. They gave her the center of the court. She takes it. She couldn't put it in and the rebound off the hands of Clark at a bounce to the Santa Cruz Cardinals. If you wanted a motivational speaker at between the quarters, Monique was your speaker. She did a great job. Hit it in that third quarter, Tim. Santa Cruz scored seven points. Five of them were by Papas. Two of them were by Klosson. So Kell on the other side, they scored 12 points and it was Graves with ten of them. Blocked by Diaz. But she'll be called for a foul. This is the seniors. Both of these clubs have a chance to take a league title as far as the league games are concerned. Obviously they're going to probably be called for a foul. I shouldn't say probably. You never know. But you've got the SCCAL championship game that we will be telecasting. Which is always an exciting tournament. Last year's girl's final was lost by Soquel to the St. Francis Sharks in double overtime. I'll tell you one thing. Free throws now are going to be very, very important. Seven point differential. Papas with 17. It's a seven point game. We know the teams that will be in the tournaments. The one seed will either be Sokeller, Santa Cruz. Scott's Valley is going to be the three seed and the four seed will be the upstart St. Francis Sharks which were winners of the SCCAL championship last year. Graves is too long on her jumper and Klosson just keeps it in. Papas looking to push it up but she says I'll bring it up wisely. Gives it to the hand of the floor general. Klosson, right wing cuts it in, pulls up and rolls it through from ten feet. Five point game now. She has a very quick release. Here's that full court defense. It could be problematic for Soquel and it is that time as McGride had the ball knocked away from her. It's going to be out of bounds. Santa Cruz is going to have it just to the right of their own basket. And that was just a hustle play. Papas knocked it off of Soquel Knight as she was flying out of bounds. Tall trying to get in position to get the ball. She's down low on the block against Clark. Back court cut. Klosson pulls up. No good from the right side. Naroko with the rebound. Smart idea to get it back to McGride. Yeah, McGride is going to be pestered all the way down the fourth by Klosson. Soft defense. Again, you can't, you know, back quarter ten seconds anywhere with his basket ball. Watch this defense. Santa Cruz is going to come out and really push down the look. They're going to try and get that ball away from number four who's just got a hot hand. Diaz with just five on the shot clock. Graves recognized it. She'll make a mad dash and just heave it up in Maryland. 25. The Graves expression was great. She threw it in, came out with oh my gosh. Maybe Regine Graves is going to rethink playing division one volleyball. Yeah, she's had a heck of a time doing it right now. 25 for her. 41-34. At this. On the give and go. Graves is stolen away. Jump ball possession arrow keeps it with Santa Cruz but maybe not the worst thing because there's just 11 on the shot clock. We'll see this wild shot from Graves again. She's got to work. She knows going down. Klosson doing a nice job defensively and she just throws a wild one up and it goes in. Prayers aren't answered on the basketball floor. Pappas is going to let it fly. Got it. 20. And it's just a four point game. Soquel still leads. Graves will peel out for the Knights. 5-15 remaining in the regular season for both these teams. Try and get some kind of move it. Get it in the hand of the one who seems to have the hot hand and that's Graves. Still man to man defense by the Cardinals. I'd say if you're going to map some cutters you're going to have to cut a little bit faster. And a foul is called. It's Clark put up a high archer. She'll get her second trip to the free throw line of the second half. 4-55 to go. 41-37 Knights lead over the Cardinals. Four point lead and what's been the Achilles heel of both of these clubs? The free throws. First one's good for Clark. She's 2-3 at the line. But they've had trouble. Graves is 2-3. Rokas 0-2. McBride 0-2. D.S. just 1-2. And an outs. She had a good rhythm on that one that just banged around too much. 4-50. Fock rolling. Sell out here at Santa Cruz. The Thelman is rocking. And right now it's getting a little bit closer to nervous time. Awesome. Pure shots. This is down to a one basket game and McBride outs. Double team down on the baseline. That's one of the things that's pressed. One thing John Wilson had asked about anybody else is going to do. It's very difficult on breaking the press. There's two things about a press. It's all good or all bad really. If you do it effectively, you can change the momentum of the game. You get some easy shots underneath or get a turnover and have the ball underneath them underneath it. It's a transition game in an easy to go in the other direction. We'll see. This is just a pure shot from Glossom. Well talking with Colleen Hicks who works with number 14 Glossom and I know that also coach Jones, both of them on each and Pat, she has that quick release. You can see that not a real dribble down. She gets it in good rhythm. It's how you catch and get away all the way in NBA and anything else. The Pure Shooters come into it with rhythm. She got it. She was set. Knees were slightly bent. She went straight up in a nice release. It was just good rhythm. You know there's one thing too that we've noticed too from that shot in particular is the ability to turn the hips because she was at kind of an awkward angle in terms of she was square to left the basket and she was able to rip her hips through it. Yeah. You've got to be shoulder, square, hip square to the target that you're shooting at. She did a nice job of getting everything squared up. Glossom inbounds the ball. That one was kicked by Roka. It's alright. We just started all over again. Same exact inbounds play. Papis will collect it this time. Glossom, long range for the tie and now Santa Cruz is going to contest the ball. Stay with their man-to-man. Soft press if you will. Roka. Santa Cruz who's got some three-point shooters. Roka's bent and she's going to go right now. Not this rotation but it doesn't matter. That's a huge three or second into the game for Roka. And it is a six-point lead with under four left. I'm going to call traveling or carrying it over. That's great defense by the Knights. They saw a possible past in Glossom but just as she was ready to pass it the Knights suggested to that passing lane. She hesitated with it and put it back on the floor in a dribble, double dribble or carry in it. Glossom and Papis they played over 100 games together here on this not on this floor but on these uniforms probably played about a good 30-40 games on this floor but those are the two players that have not come out of this game. Nora Pace has barely come out of this game as well as Hamlin. Now they're starting five. That unit has been in for a long time. Taal who's number 42 who's now switched on McBride has probably been the only substitute. Coach Wilson not happy with that offensive pattern run by the Soquel Knights. McBride is back into the game for Soquel who got the points. Or a Pesa. Wants it up top. McBride's all over it. Papis fakes the three. The freshman Diaz right in her face against the senior right side angle jumper is no good. Graves picks up the rebounds. You gotta get an idea the senior Graves trying to take control of it. Nobody really screamed off. No one really wanted to go after the ball except number four. She went and got it. Time out on the floor. Full time out. So we're going to see what the two brain thrusts have got to see with two minutes and 52 seconds to go. There's John Wilson getting ready to diagram what he would like the lady nice to do. Let's see what he has to say. Well good thing that this game is not alive in the Santa Cruz huddle. We just saw Soquel go into the mind of a John Wilson who's such a good coach and you see him draw up the play. People talk about coaching coming into play in basketball but it seems like the last two or three minutes of a game is when coaches really kind of take over a little bit and guide their players the most. You're right on that with their coaching ability the ability to crawl time out set an offensive play. Soquel almost didn't get the ball in bounce. Good heads up by Coach Wilson to get Rocha to get over there to get the ball Ora pays a really really aggressive foul going to be called against her. The Soquel Knights that is the last foul before they'll be shooting free throws the sixth against Santa Cruz, five against Soquel Rocha up top Watch this defense it's going to be very aggressive in your uniform type of a defense. They don't want Rocha to get that three off. They'll give it to Diaz just running the weave up top bringing it down to 10 seconds six point lead for the Knights Rocha They're trying to push her away so she doesn't have that good shot. That's not what John Wilson drew up as he kind of laughs but that's the ability of a Rocha who throws it off the glass and good eight points for Rocha eight point lead for the Knights Here's one of those times I think Tim when you've got two dominant players like Santa Cruz has clausen with the ball in Pappas clausen but you've got to get that other player into the scoring mix and they really haven't had that happen at all in the second half 36 to the 41 have been between Pappas and clausen or a pace that has five nobody else has scored got to have some more movement offensively that being the Knights they're going to try and get the hands of Graves a nice good aggressive defense came away with the steal got the ball with the hand but too much body Rocha will have the one and one so 47-41 is the score with 1-28 remaining in this game Rocha not a whole heck of a lot of rotation on that one but it manages to go in a former coach at UC Riverside who a good friend of mine, Freddy Goss doesn't have to look pretty and the second's missed but the best case scenario for Soquel great job by Clark to clean up the boards Graves backdoor cut and Diaz might have just put this one away nine point lead for the Soquel Knights 1-10 remaining fabulous movement without the ball by Diaz he's going to look on the floor he's going to go out of bounds underneath the Santa Cruz basket so it's going to be Santa Cruz defensively they're going to have to gamble and that's going to last for possible open shots one minute remaining in the game crossing through the lane of blocking foul calls going to just keep right on attacking very very important free throws down by nine 62 seconds left to go every point is important but if you're going to go back and look at what may or may not have cost this game for the Santa Cruz Cardinals I'm going to say it's going to be free throws Flossing has not had much trouble with the line she's three for three including that last shot she just made 17 points for Flossing 50-42 1-02 remaining Flossing who's headed up to Southern Oregon to play point guard makes the second free throw now you're going to see the full court press put on by the Lady Cardinals McBride through that one and the push calls that's one of the things that you can do when you get in there is get your hand on somebody and just that little bitty push now whether it was a big one or not and if you've got some good actors on the other side you may get a pushing call against it you want to keep your presence Tim so everything's right there but you don't want to be able to lean in and have a foul called McBride this is a huge one-on-one if you make both these free throws 9 point game 59 seconds hard but if you miss the first one yep and Santa Cruz is able to come down and get a bucket really quick misses the front end but the rebound is collected by McBride she throws it up and she was just shoved in the back hard foul Diaz that was a long bounce on that free throw that didn't necessarily happen that way but it was Diaz who was able to battle for it McBride breaking to the right after the miss ends up getting the ball now goes back to the free throw line okay that wasn't the worst case scenario but you know the good thing for Soquel is they still have the ball and they burn some time off there's Coach Jones you want to see some intensity look into those eyes John Wilson pitched here at Santa Cruz then went on to San Francisco State it was all American pitched in the bushes for the San Francisco Giants very very intent excuse me intense competitor he's intent on winning all coaches are intent on winning all players are too he saw the last foul by Kloss I don't know if you got a good look at that one but to me that was a borderline intentional foul I don't know about intentional it was borderline intentional foul this is a young senior who wants a league title they have a chance to do cold league titles if they can't pull it out here with 56 seconds to go when they get into the SCCAL finals and they're able to come back up again and play the Soquel Knights but in the season they're looking at their second loss against the Lady Knights McBride will hit the front end this time that's her, believe it or not that's her first point yeah and she's been a big part of this game but she has been defensively and moving the ball around you know she has been in Kloss in Jersey the entire night stepped on the line 8 point lead for Soquel 56 seconds remaining Kloss in to let it roll down clock starts as soon as she touches the ball Pappas is way downtown shorts did not have any shooting rhythm at all you can see you're kind of leaning into it could have taken that one little dribble and maybe gathered up some of her rhythm or at least set that set the offense up Curtis Gomez with the call Pappas is called for a foul and that is now 10 team fouls against Santa Cruz it'd be interesting to see how John Wilson plays it he has two guards back in Rocha and McBride so they're going to sit back there waiting to play defense as Graves goes to the charity strike first free throw 52-43 reset for you 41.7 seconds remaining 52-43 the lead for Soquel make it 53-43 we're in the fourth quarter possession arrow is pointing to Soquel and both teams are in the bonus Kloss just goes all the way down to the hoop left handed shot is no good Graves just rips down the rebounds looks for some help bounces it out to McBride Rocha is fouled and that'll probably do it with 26.6 seconds left yeah also Soquel has to do right now is play catch I didn't know baseball is right around the corner but they've got to keep the ball moving Santa Cruz is going to have to foul it's the back court foul you see Graves showing that she had a fantastic 23 points going into the fourth quarter she's been relatively quiet only four points fourth quarter Rocha has been the one that actually stepped up here in the fourth quarter making some big buckets she had that three she had a running banker at free throw to get into double figures she will not that one tips out 11 point lead for Soquel 23 seconds left Papas hands it off Kloss long range almost hit that one in Diaz though will be called for the foul that's one of those fouls that John Wilson not that he's not pleased about but with a nine with an 11 point lead he's not too upset but from that far out just don't commit the foul because now you're going to get with the clock stopped three opportunities to get three points so it looks like the one seed for the SCAL tournament will be Soquel the winning outright championship second free throw is good 20 points now for Kloss and on the night 20 points also for Papas not enough though 40 of the 45 and now 41 of the 46 between two players Rocha Papas tied up jump ball Tim the Feldman is filled we're getting running down on this one it's going to be Soquel Papas again with that aggressive foul really all the Cardinals can do right now as soon as the Soquel night touches the ball just follow there's Paul young freshman she's had she hasn't scored but her presence defensively and on the ball has just been fantastic Tal has done just very very well Rocha got the first one she's got 10 now second one is good as well I love that ambi another rep Boston you don't want a foul here she just throw up a thriller looking for the foul and the foul for more Pisa this one I think we can put a little bow on to this one 56-46 the Soquel nights are going to come out victorious and win an outright league championship I mean before the season I think a lot of people talking about Scott's Valley they won the regular season last year and returned basically everybody from a very talented team but a lot of people talking about Santa Cruz with Papas and Glossin they very well should they've cost them a 21 Papas with 20 tonight but it seemed like Soquel didn't get as much pub and they've kind of proved to be the best team in the regular season they've done a fine job one thing when you've got dominant players that Santa Cruz has the two primary players give them their points stop everybody else make it difficult for the other two and that's what Soquel has done even though the two Papas and Glossin have made their points they've had to work for last shot for a career here at Santa Cruz for Papas is a little bit long 57-46 that was a statement win for Soquel they win this game by 11 points the first time these two teams met Soquel won 44-40 but it was a game that Santa Cruz kind of controlled for the first three and a half quarters this time there really was no doubt I think the final score for this one was indicative that Soquel was a better team it was they came out and they were consistent 15 in the first quarter 12 in the second quarter 12 and 18 here in the all important fourth quarter for Santa Cruz they had that one slippy little third quarter where they only scored seven points and that ended up being too much for they scored 15 here in the fourth quarter a tremendous defense by the blue-clad Soquel Knights and Regina Graves just had a fantastic night with unofficially 27 points they had 27 points for Regina Graves who is our CTV player of the game Graves just a tremendous performance for Soquel and her final regular season game for Coach Wilson in the nights Rusty Reed is standing by with our player of the game Regine Graves we're with our George H. Wilson player of the game Regina Graves 27 points tonight every which way including that crazy left handed shot earlier on congratulations on the league championship thank you we really we worked really hard this season and I'm so proud of all the girls and my whole team for pulling that one out and stuff the last game between Santa Cruz and you a little closer are you able to handle them this time what was the difference this time we came out we knew what to expect from them we knew how to shut them down and we just came out not wanting to lose what will you do if you do in fact play them a third time in the league championship we'll do the same thing we did this time just come out play our hearts out and hope for the best Regina Graves George H. Wilson player of the game back to you Tim and Kurt thank you very much to George H. Wilson mechanical contractors family owned and operated for over 90 years providing heating plumbing and mechanical contract contracting services George Wilson is a proud member of think local first on the web at g-e-o-h Wilson dot com once again the final 57 46 the girls of Soquel SCAL outright regular season champion we back with the boys game after this our game of the week on community TV the final the SCAL girls varsity basketball regular season championship goes to Soquel congratulations to the Knights they defeat Santa Cruz 57 46 behind 27 points from Regina Graves with Kurt Edwards I'm Tim Swartz and let's take a look at the second half and how this game went down you see Graves right away with three and as Rusty mentioned when he was talking to Regina she scored in every way possible she did she got from outside here goes right down the middle nice little lift right over the top for quick five points across and she is just a dynamo controls the ball controls her body gets in a nice little percentage shot and puts that one right on in a crossing at 21 but it wasn't enough raising Graves a nice pull up old school laying yeah going over tall now watch crossing again working independently gets in the lane kicks it outside Papas she went a little bit cold in that second half but she had 20 points also a good senior you see the nice pull up from I mentioned last regular season home game for both those two players who've been four year of RC players they'll be playing at home in the CCS tournament they will and that's Roach in number 10 with one of her better ones and now inside McBride who only had one point but you can see the great passing all the way inside Diaz with that nice easy one moving with the ball moving without the ball very key to the Soquel win so the final was Soquel defeated Santa Cruz to win the outright girls varsity basketball championship here with Kurt Edwards I'm Tim Swartz in the boys game coming up next