In all, 32 football teams will enter play in the Central Coast Section playoffs this week, and the Warriors clinched a berth by wrapping up a championship season with a league win last Thursday.

Westmont needed a couple of fourth-quarter touchdowns to pull out a hard-earned 24-20 win over winless Gunderson last week to clinch a title tie in the Santa Teresa Division of the Blossom Valley Athletic League. The Warriors finished up 5-0-1 in the division and share first place with Lincoln.

The Warriors (9-0-1 overall) will open the CCS Medium School Division playoffs at home on Nov. 19, 7 p.m., when they play host to Terra Nova (6-4).

Prospect, meanwhile, ended the season with a 35-21 victory over James Lick to wrap up second place in the West Valley Division with a 5-1 record. The Panthers, though, ended up 6-3-1 overall and did not qualify for CCS play.

Saratoga finished the year dropping a 35-14 nod to Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division co-champion Wilcox. The Falcons ended a tough 3-7 season and wound up 1-5 in the division.

Westmont needed a couple of TDs in the final period to battle from a 20-9 deficit to beat the Grizzlies.

The Warriors trailed 8-0 in the first quarter after a Gunderson touchdown and two-point conversion, but they grabbed the lead thanks to a 44-yard scoring toss from Kevin Pham to Ryan Kanzaki and a 29-yard field goal by Kevin Blakley.

But the Grizzlies fought back with touchdowns in the second and third periods to go up 20-9, and the Warriors had to battle back to keep from losing their share of first place in the division.

Stefan Fowler scored on a 3-yard run and Pham ran in for the two-point conversion to cut the Gunderson lead to 20-17. Pham came back later in the quarter to toss a 19-yard TD pass to Kelly Peterson and Blakley kicked an important extra point to give Westmont its margin of victory.

Panthers win

For Prospect, Elvy Harris tossed touchdown passes to Matt Lamb (55 yards), Kendall Hendon (23 yards) and Edric Egberuare (nine yards) and Zach Stevenson pitched a 34-yard scoring pass to Egberuare to lead the Panthers to the 35-21 win over James Lick. Lamb also returned a kickoff 85 yards for a score and David Matusewicz kicked all five extra points.

Falcons fall

Saratoga's Larry Liccardo ran six yards for a first-quarter touchdown to cut Wilcox's lead to 14-7, but the Chargers scored three more times before the Falcons could score again on the road to a 35-14 league win.

The Falcons closed out the scoring when senior quarterback Amir Gupta pitched a 21-yard TD toss to Alex Lagemann. Nicholas May kicked his second extra point, but it was too little, too late for Saratoga.

Wilcox finished league play with a 5-1 record and tied for first place with Los Gatos and Palo Alto.