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Thousand Oaks High last week became the first school in the area to produce two 1,000-yard running backs this season. With his 125-yard effort in the Lancers’ 39-14 victory over San Marcos, Quincy Jacobs (1,087 yards) joins backfield mate Cory Bowen (1,599 yards) in the quadruple-figure category.

It is a plateau that even the school’s celebrated M&M; backfield of Marc Monestime and Mike Moore was unable to reach. In 1986, Monestime rushed for 1,090 yards and Moore added 787. The following season, Monestime had 1,636 yards and Moore had 771.

Ventura can duplicate the feat this week. Derek Swafford already has rushed for 1,085 yards and teammate Devon Passno has 964. Both are juniors. Ventura had two 1,000-yard backs in 1990 in Swafford and Jack Hammond.

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Offense: St. Bonaventure tailback Toby Noblin has set school single-season records for rushing and scoring. Noblin broke the rushing record two weeks ago and has 1,277 yards in 224 carries (5.7-yard average). On Thursday against Brethren Christian, Noblin scored five touchdowns to eclipse the school record of 116 points. Noblin has 22 touchdowns and two two-point conversions to account for 136 points. . . .

Ventura has scored 50 touchdowns this season, 43 on the ground. . . . Poly senior tailback Jermaine Pledger finished with 1,329 yards in 170 carries (7.8 average). He had rushed for 100-plus yards in six games before an ankle injury limited him to just 50 yards in his last two starts. Pledger, who gained 903 yards in 109 carries as a junior, averaged eight yards a carry in two years.

Passing: Royal senior quarterback Ryan Fien finished his three-year career with 52 touchdown passes, tying the Ventura County record held by Santa Clara’s Tim Gutierrez. . . .

Saugus quarterback Bobby Cowan closed out his junior season with three touchdown passes and 248 yards passing in the Centurions’ first-round playoff loss to Loyola. Cowan, also a talented pitcher for the Saugus baseball team, finished the year with 1,607 yards passing and 10 touchdowns. . . .

In his last start at Quartz Hill, quarterback Jake Haro passed for 30 yards and threw three interceptions against Mater Dei. He finished his season with 666 yards, four touchdowns and 14 interceptions. As a junior, he threw for 1,176 yards with 15 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.

Receiving: Westlake senior wide receiver Erik Holcomb finished 21 yards shy of Seamus Gibbons’ 1990 school record of 1,053 receiving yards. Holcomb finished seven receptions shy of tying Gibbons’ 1990 record of 67. . . . Simi Valley senior wide receiver Dave Romines had 49 receptions this season, breaking Brian Balleweg’s school record of 40 set in ’90. . . .

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Poly’s Michael Vreeland, one of the region’s top City Section wide receivers, caught 38 of the Parrots’ 56 passes this season for 677 yards (17.8 average) and seven touchdowns. He caught at least one pass in 21 of 24 games during his two years on the team.

Streaks and records: Five of the six Valley Pac-8 Conference football teams lost in the first round of the playoffs last week. In the Northwest Valley Conference, four of the five teams won in the first round. . . .

San Fernando’s 35-7 victory over Birmingham on Friday moved Tiger Coach Tom Hernandez into a tie with Bill Marsh for most victories (66) in school history. . . . Buena has lost its past four playoff games dating to 1988. . . .

Thousand Oaks punter Danny Fitzgerald set a school record with a wind-aided 69-yard punt Friday, breaking the mark of 67 set by Todd Rawsthorne in 1986. . . .

Tonight’s playoff game against Lincoln marks the 36th consecutive start for Kennedy seniors Craig Garner, Troy Bregel, Alex Sawatzke and Anthony Jones.

Defense: Glendale has surrendered only five touchdowns in the second half this season and only two in the fourth quarter. On Friday night, Paramount penetrated Glendale’s 20-yard line three times in the fourth quarter but came away with no points. Glendale won the first-round Division II game, 28-14. . . . Saugus defensive end Chris Finicle set a Santa Clarita Valley record with 19 sacks this season. The old mark was held by Hart’s George Kase, now a redshirt freshman at UCLA. . . .

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St. Bonaventure strong safety Jeff Onstot intercepted two passes against Brethren Christian to raise his season total to seven, which Coach Jon Mack believes is a school record. Onstot, a senior, also has a fumble recovery and 80 tackles.

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