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So Bakersfield and Hancock have wrapped up the playoff berths with consecutive wins over Ventura entering rivalry week. Hancock finished its regular season by holding off the Pirates. The Bulldogs can share the conference title with Bakersfield if the Renegades fall at Canyons Saturday. Ventura can clinch rival Moorpark's first winless season with a second straight Citrus Cup win. San Gabriel Valley rivals Pasadena City and Glendale will play for fifth place.

Week 9 Scores
Hancock 28, Ventura 21
Glendale 41, Moorpark 27
Canyons 29, Pasadena City 22 (OT)
Bakersfield, bye

Week 9 Standings
Bakersfield 8-1 5-0
Hancock 9-1 5-1
Ventura 6-3 3-2
Canyons 6-3 3-2
Pasadena City 4-5 1-4
Glendale 4-5 1-4
Moorpark 0-9 0-5

Week 10 Schedule
Ventura at Moorpark
Bakersfield at Canyons
Pasadena City at Glendale
Hancock, bye

Click the jump for the box score from the Moorpark College football team's 41-27 loss at Glendale Saturday night.

Click the jump for the box score of Ventura's 28-21 loss to Hancock Saturday night.

GLENDALE -- A tipped pass doomed the Moorpark College football team's bid for its first victory Saturday night.

With the two teams locked in fourth-quarter deadlock, Glendale College's Osa Aikhionbara picked off a tipped pass from Raiders' quarterback Ian Shultis and returned the interception 23 yards for a touchdown to propel host Glendale to a 41-27 victory Saturday night.

Moorpark faced a third and 13 from its own 6-yard line, when Shultis' pass was tipped by the intended receiver and settled into the waiting arms of Aikhionbara. The interception and return broke a 20-20 tie with 11:06 remaining.

Anthony Dawkins' second touchdown of the night, a 2-yard run with 3:04 remaining, and a 67-yard fumble recovery by Max Williams with 57 seconds upped the lead to 41-20.

Shultis' 9-yard completion to Chris Gant with 15 seconds left provided the final margin.

Moorpark will enter Saturday's Citrus Cup game with Ventura 0-9 overall and 0-5 in the SCFA Northern Conference. Glendale College improves to 4-5 and 1-4.

Shultis had another big night, completing 34 of 64 attempts for 351 yards and two touchdowns. Justin Bradley caught 11 passes for 129 yards, and Chris Gant had 11 catches for 133 yards

(From Loren Ledin in Glendale)

Backed up to second and 18, Hancock quarterback Gunnar Jespersen finds big-play receiver Maquelo Suel down the seam for a huge 47-yard gain.

Two plays later, Sua scores his fourth rushing TD of the night from a yard out for a 28-14 Hancock lead with 13:07 to play.

Down 28-14, Ventura drives to the Hancock 9, but Sims fumbles on a third down run and Hancock takes over with 8:12 to play.

UPDATE: VC gets the ball back and drives to the Hancock 19, but Sims is sacked on fourth and 6 with 3:48 to play.

Dominic Morris' 5-yard touchdown run pulls the Ventura College football team within 14-7 with 6:07 left in the third quarter of its "playoff play-in" game with Hancock.

Morris' 11-yard draw play and subsequent late hit by Hancock set up his touchdown run.

Hancock comes right back with a 8-play, 77-yard scoring drive. Thomas Sua's 30-yard run sets up his third TD of the night, from 1-yard out, which makes it 21-7 Hancock with 3:01 to play in the third quarter.

But the Pirates are not done yet, pulling within 21-14 on Sims' 32-yard scoring strike to Nick Karam with 23 seconds left in the third quarter.

Moorpark College trails 13-0 late in the second quarter of its key game with Glendale.

UPDATE: A pair of Zach Shultis field goals has Moorpark within 13-6 at the half. Set up by an interception by Kevin Kawamoto, Shutlis was good from 31 and 20 yards in the final three minutes of the second quarter.

Thomas Sua's second touchdown run on third and goal from the Ventura 15 gives Hancock a 14-0 lead with 11:20 left in the first half.

Ventura linebacker Ryan Panapa's heroics keep Ventura within 14-0 at the half. Panapa's fumble recovery on the Ventura 2 with :03 left Q2 keeps Ventura within 14-0 at the half.

Sua has 102 yards and two scores on eight carries. Bakcfieldmate Ryan Anglin has 61 yards on 15 carries.

Hancock has 241 yards of total offense, including 218 yards rushing, at the break. Ventura has 123 yards of total offense.

No score between Ventura College and Hancock College after the first quarter at the VC Sportsplex.

Ventura took the opening kickoff and converted two third downs and a fourth down, but an offensive pass interference flag halting the drive.

UPDATE: Hancock takes a 7-0 lead over Ventura on Thomas Sua's 4-yard touchdown run with 13:49 left in the second quarter.

The Oxnard College men's basketball team leads 36-35 at the half at L.A. Trade Tech. Condors close first half on a 11-3 run.

Keep it right here for live coverage of the Ventura College football team's bid for a playoff berth against second-place Hancock and the Moorpark College football team's bid for its first win of the season at Glendale.

Both games kick off at 7 p.m. I'll be at the VC Sportsplex. Loren Ledin is in Glendale.

We will have updates both here on the blog and on our Twitter page, which you can access by either clicking the link or using the Twitter feed down the right hand side of this page.

Running its win streak to seven games, the Cal Lutheran football team clinched at least a share of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title with a 45-3 win at La Verne Saturday.

CLU (7-1, 5-0) can claim the title outright, and earn its first NCAA Division III playoff berth, with a win next Saturday against Redlands.

On a day when the Kingsmen were able to clear their bench, Antoine Adams ran for two touchdowns, Bobby Rodrigues and Derek Martinez had one each, and Jericho Toilolo -- the first of five CLU quarterbacks -- threw for a score. But the biggest play was Derek Wilson's 89-yard kickoff return, erasing a short-lived 3-0 La Verne lead.

(From David Lassen in La Verne)

The Leopards are now 0-8, 0-6.

VALLEY GLEN -- Spencer McGrath and Jonnie Pare scored four goals apiece and goalie Cody Womack made 14 blocks in a dominating performance as the Ventura College men's water polo team defended its Western State Conference championship with a 13-6 win over rival Cuesta Saturday afternoon at Los Angeles Valley College.

Ventura (19-4) scored the first three goals in opening a 11-1 lead on Pare's goal three minutes into the second half.

"We played our best game as a whole," said Ventura head coach Mark Schmidt. "We played very, very well. We took control of the game and kept it.

"I was really proud of the guys."

Hopeful of a Top 4 place, Ventura now awaits their Southern California regional playoff seeding Monday.

Although the Ventura men could be without starter Mike Crowley and key reserve Michael Craft for its first postseason game. Both were ejected, along with two Cuesta players, as the game unraveled in the second half in the face of Ventura's huge lead.

"I felt like the game was going to get physical and I asked (the officials) to keep control of it," said Schmidt. "But they lost it."

Cuesta had as little luck handling Ventura's counterattacking speed as it did beating Womack.

"Cody was a wall today," said McGrath.

"He was definitely today's MVP," said Pare. "He played huge."

Carly Clark scored four goals, Emily Allen scored two goals and Marissa Herold made 11 saves, including a point-blank save to preserve the win with 37 seconds left, as the Ventura College women's water polo team defended its Western State Conference title with a 7-6 win over Citrus Saturday afternoon at the WSC Championships at Los Angeles Valley College.

Ventura (17-4) awaits its Southern California regional playoff seeding Monday as WSC champion.

Two previous 13-8 wins over Citrus (14-10) meant nothing when the Owls opened up first quarter leads of 3-1 and 4-2.

"We knew if we could just hold on, we were better conditioned," said Ventura coach Mary Giles.

Citrus kept Ventura's leading scorer, Clark, off the scoreboard for the first 10 minutes.

"I was getting a little frustrated," said the Agoura High product. "It was physical out there."

But the Pirates used man-advantage situations to work their way back into the game.

"Once we started drawing ejections, we were able to set the tempo," said Clark.

Down 4-2 after one quarter, Ventura scored five of the next six goals to take a 7-5 lead with 4:57 left in the third quarter.

Clark and Allen each scored twice on the man advantage during that span.

Citrus star Meghan Turner, who had been held to a single goal in Ventura's previous two wins over the Owls, scored her fourth goal to pull Citrus within 7-6 with 4:27 to play in the third quarter.

The final 12 minutes became a swim meet as Ventura turned up the defense.

"It was swimming back and forth," said Clark.

"That's what we train for," said sophomore Mary Dugan.

Ventura sophomore Marissa Herold kept her net empty for the final 12:27, making a huge point-blank save with 37 seconds to play as Citrus pressed for an equalizer on the advantage.

"That was fabulous," said Giles. "What a storybook ending for her, and for us really."

"She saved us," said Clark.

The Ventura College men's basketball team trails powerful Citrus, 45-32, at the half in its season opener at the VC Athletic Event Center.

Former Ventura center Randy Hunter leads Citrus with 10 points.

Playing without a pair of starters, the Moorpark College men's basketball team fell to host Los Angeles Harbor, 74-53, in its season opener Friday night.

The CLU football team is halfway to clinching no worse than a share of the SCIAC title, leading winless La Verne 24-3 at halftime.

La Verne drove for a field goal on its opening possession, but Derek Wilson returned the ensuing kickoff 89 yards for a touchdown.

The Kingsmen have since added a 25-yard touchdown pass from Jericho Toilolo to Eric Rogers, a 35-yard Jackson Damron field goal, and a 2-yard run by Antoine Adams.

When is an equalizer a winning goal?

When it clinches a conference championship.

Kendall Dreyer's scrambled goal off Sinead Vaughn's corner kick three minutes into second half stoppage time gave the Moorpark College women's soccer team its second Western State Conference title in three years at cross-county rival Ventura with a 2-2 tie Friday night at the VC Sportsplex.

Dreyer scored twice for the second time this week to keep Moorpark (13-0-4, 8-0-2) unbeaten.

It was in a cluster of players and it found my head," said Dreyer, an Agoura High product, of her dramatic winner. "I somehow got it in the back of the net."

The Raiders have a seven-point lead in the WSC North over Ventura (14-3-1, 6-1-1), 26-19, with two matches to play.

"It was so competitive," said Dreyer. "We never put our heads down at all. I think that goal was scored as a team."

Jazmarae Strozier, the state's goalscoring leader, headed home her 23rd goal of the season to give Ventura a sixth-minute lead.

Dreyer evened the score for Moorpark in the 33rd minute, but six minutes later, the Pirates regained the lead on Monique Orocio's goal, set up by by Strozier.

After Ventura dominated the first half, Moorpark slowly took control of the play before its late pressure paid off.

Kendall Dreyer's stoppage time goal gives Moorpark the 2-2 draw it needs to hang on to the lead in the WSC North.

The Agoura High product scored twice for the second straight game.

More to come.

Kendall Dryer equalizes for Moorpark women's soccer in the 33rd minute, but six minutes later, Ventura retakes the lead on Monique Orocio's goal, assisted by Jazmarae Strozier.

Looks like the match for the WSC North will come down to a vibrant second half.

Strozier's headed chance to clinch the game for Ventura flashes just wide off a 80th minute corner kick.

In second half stoppage time, Moorpark heads a potential WSC-winning chance just wide.

UPDATE: VC still leads 2-1 after 53, 58, 65, 73, 79, 81, 88 90 minutes.

The host Moorpark College men's soccer team defeated first-place Santa Barbara City, 1-0, this afternoon to pull the Western State Conference race tighter.

The loss was the first by the Vaqueros (8-5-4, 8-1-3) in WSC play. Moorpark (9-6-2, 7-4-1) pulled within five points of Santa Barbara in the standings, 27 to 22.

The Oxnard College men's soccer team (10-5-4, 6-3-3) is a point back with 21 after defeating visiting Glendale, 1-0, Friday on Sam Nellis' goal set up by Johnny Martinez.