Righetti blocked two of Newbury Park place kicker Kevin Kircher’s point-after-touchdown kicks Friday night.

When it mattered most, though, Kircher delivered.

He knocked home a 43-yard field goal with 30 seconds left to give the Panthers a 29-27 win at Righetti’s Warrior Stadium in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Northern Division playoffs. Kircher’s kick didn’t make it by much, but that didn’t matter.

“He’s three-for-three on field goals this year,” said Newbury Park coach Gary Fabricius.

“I wasn’t really worried about his state of mind,” after those two blocked kicks. “The first looked like a line issue. The second he might of kicked a little low because he hurried it a little.”

Newbury Park is 9-2. Righetti’s winning streak ended at seven games. The PAC-7 League champions wound up 8-3. The Panthers finished in third place in the rugged Marmonte League.

Righetti went unbeaten in its five PAC-7 games.

The Warriors trailed 26-7 with 8:10 left in the third quarter after Notre Dame-bound Cameron Roberson broke away for a 55-yard scoring play on a pass from Jake Geringer. Righetti scored the next 21 points.

Uso Taua’s 8-yard run brought Righetti within 26-20, then Jared Miller kicked the extra point with 9:32 left to play. The Panthers recovered when Taua fumbled a punt a few minutes later, but Miller put Righetti ahead shortly thereafter.

He put Righetti ahead by grabbing Geringer’s pass after the ball bounced off a downed Newbury Park receiver’s back and sprinting 70 yards into the end zone. Quarterback T.J. Jordan’s two-point conversion pass failed.

“He’s an athlete,” Righetti coach Gary Wilson said of Miller’s big play. “He’ll make those kinds of plays.”

Miller made another big play after Kircher’s field goal by running the kickoff back to the Panthers 30. A holding call wiped the play out.

“I didn’t see (any holding on the play),” Wilson said wistfully. “But if the referee thinks he sees it, he’ll call it.”

Phillip Muscarella intercepted Jordan’s desperation pass on the last play of the game.

After falling behind by 19 points, the Warriors did what they needed to put themselves in position to win. Mainly, thanks in large part to linebackers Cody Berry and Brandon Escobedo and the Warriors front line, they stopped Robertson after that 55-yards scoring play gave him the last of his three touchdowns on the night.

“We just started playing our assignments more,” said Wilson. “When you play your assignments, good things will happen.

“Coach (Ron) Prober is an excellent defensive coordinator. He decided we needed to get after him, bring more guys, and we did.”

There were a lot of holding calls in the game. Most of them went against Newbury Park.

“That was because of their front six,” said Fabricius. “They really come hard. Our guys felt like they had to hold.

“We tell them, ‘look, if you get beat, you get beat. Don’t hold,’” Fabricius said with a chuckle. “But they want to protect their quarterback and their running back.”

Righetti looked about done midway through the third quarter. The Warriors trailed by 19 and faced a fourth-and-25 thanks to a personal foul penalty against them. Jordan kept the drive alive by finding Eric Wilson for a 35-yard gain to the one. Jordan scored on a sneak the next play.

Warriors senior Michael Hale, one of the leading rushers in the area, had 91 yards on 24 carries. Hale’s 64-yard touchdown run and Miller’s PAT gave the Warriors a brief 7-7 tie.

Roberson had 96 yards rushing in the first half, five in the second.

Oaks Christian 70, Santa Ynez 14

WESTLAKE VILLAGE — The Santa Ynez Pirates were no match for the defending Northwest Division champion and No. 1-ranked Oaks Christian Lions Friday night in Westlake Village.

The Lions scored seven first half touchdowns for a 49-0 lead before the break. Malcolm Jones scored the first three for Oaks Christian on runs of 1, 55 and 76 yards.

Oaks Christian quarterback Nick Montana put the Lions up 28-0 with a 13-yard touchdown run. Montana then threw three touchdown passes — 6 yards to Brett Medders, 35 yards to Jordan Payton and 19 yards to Blair Holliday — to close the first half.

Jones opened the second half with his fourth touchdown, this one a 68-yard run, before getting the rest of the night off.

Backup quarterback Trevor Gtetzky hit Holliday with a 9-yard pass to put the Lions up 63-0 in the third quarter before the Pirates got on the board.

Santa Ynez quarterback Tyler Shean broke through the Oaks Christian defense with a 5-yard run for the Pirates’ first score. A.J. Woronovich caught a 13-yard touchdown pass from Shean in the fourth quarter to close out the scoring.

Oaks Christian (11-0) will be on the road at Harvard/Westlake in a quarterfinal matchip Friday night.

Buena 41, Atascadero 14

VENTURA — The Atascadero Greyhounds’ season came to an end with a first round loss to Buena in the Northern Division playoffs.