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Scotts Valley High’s football team still has four games remaining in the Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission North Division, but the Falcons continue to look like the title is their’s to lose.

A week after scoring its first points of the season, the improving Pajaro Valley High football team produced its first win Saturday.

Monte Vista Christian School’s football team dropped from the unbeaten ranks Friday. But the Mustangs’ decisive loss, a 55-19 nonleague setback to powerful Monterey, started and ended with an emotional appearance from injured lineman Taylor Fernandez.

For the second straight week, St. Francis High’s unbeaten football team got off to a quick start.

Niko Iles, Isaiah Velez and Caden Stratton ran for touchdowns in the first quarter, and the Scotts Valley High football team beat rival San Lorenzo Valley 32-14 on Saturday to post a perfect record in the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s Cypress Division.