WATCH: Pittsburg defeat Manteca in the rain, 35-14 for the CIF Northern Regional D1-A Bowl title

PITTSBURG, California — At the moment of the season, each recreation, play, second is treasured. For the top is close to. Win or lose. 

Host Pittsburg, using much more emotion as a result of its longtime coach Vic Galli introduced a month in the past this may be his final 12 months, pulled out a soggy 35-14 win over Manteca within the CIF Northern Area Division 1-A Bowl championship recreation. 

The Pirates appeared in hassle, when Manteca’s highly effective operating recreation, led by Florida State-bound Blake Nichelson and Bryson Davis and an enormous, bodily line, took an 8-7 lead and managed the clock nearly your complete second interval. 

However Pittsburg stopped Nichelson an a fourth-down play with 50 seconds left within the half on the Pirates’ 35. Even with a gradual rain, Galli and Pittsburg quarterback Jaden Rashada determined to go for it. 

Rashada discovered speedburner Zachard Card, an Oregon State commit, on a 37-yard achieve. Then with 11.1 seconds left within the half, he discovered Card once more on a superbly positioned rainbow to the left nook of the top zone the place the speedy receiver made a fully good dive catch. 

That put Pittsburg up 14-8 at halftime after which sophomore operating again Elijah Bow took management within the third, dashing for many of his 161 yards, and scoring each of his touchdowns because the Pirates took full command. 

Watch the video above and all of the emotion — the bodily play, the fixed rain, the large celebration afterward and postgame remarks from Rashada and Galli. 

Pittsburg goes on to satisfy the group that eradicated it final 12 months, Liberty-Bakersfield, within the state finals at Saddleback Faculty in Mission Viejo. Manteca completed an excellent season at 11-2.