Without a rivalry win over Paso Robles on the final day of the regular season, the San Luis Obispo High football team would have been home alone Friday night.

Instead, receiver Robert Rose and his teammates gave top seed St. Bonaventure High the type of first-round playoff game the Seraphs aren't used to experiencing.

A competitive one.

Darrell Scott rushed for 137 yards and two touchdowns on 18 carries as St. Bonaventure held off San Luis Obispo, 27-7, Friday night in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Northern Division playoffs at Larrabee Stadium.

"He brought his A' game," said St. Bonaventure's Patrick Hall of Rose and his teammates. "We weren't expecting that much."

St. Bonaventure (10-1), which will play Westlake (8-3) Friday in a quarterfinal rematch of the 2002 and 2003 CIF-SS Division IV title games, had won its previous nine first-round games by an average margin of 50-12.

But the frisky Tigers (6-4-1) moved the ball on a St. Bonaventure defense lacking injured cornerbacks J.B. Dock and Troy Hill.

Quarterback Dave Shultz completed 28 of 46 passes for 247 yards and a 5-yard touchdown to Robert Rose with 4:28 to play.

"We stressed it all week that we needed to come out and compete and make plays," said San Luis Obispo coach Craig Winninghoff. "I'm so proud of these guys."

Shultz converted eight third downs and a fourth downs, he just couldn't get the Tigers, who couldn't score from the Seraphs' 1-yard line on the final play of the first half, in the end zone until St. Bonaventure led 27-0.

"If we could have just converted in the red zone, you never know ... ," said Winninghoff.

A large contingent of burnt-orange-clad Texas fans came to watch Scott in person, cheering every time he touched the ball. Scott, one of the most sought-after recruits in the nation, is considered attending Texas, along with other schools.

Despite Scott's numbers, the Seraphs scored just 27 points — their lowest first-round total in more than a decade.

"We should have scored off all three takeaways in the first half," said St. Bonaventure coach Todd Therrien. "But we nailed it down in the second half."

Leading 6-0 at the half, St. Bonaventure scored three times in a seven-minute span in the third quarter to put the game out of reach.

Casey Serna hit Blayne Lewis for a 40-yard scoring strike, Patrick Hall broke a 43-yard touchdown run and Scott rolled in from 4 yards away.

The Seraphs took an early 6-0 lead on Scott's 11-yard run. But it was a first half full of missed opportunities.

St. Bonaventure got nothing from drives that traveled as deep as the San Luis Obispo 11 and 36.

Despite failing to gain a first down on two first quarter possessions, the upstart Tigers should have had a halftime lead.

Shultz completed 11 of his last 17 first-half passes. On one drive, he moved San Luis Obispo 72 yards to the Seraphs 13. But a fumble kicked the Tigers 22 yards backward and Hall blocked Rob Nadalsky's

51-yard field-goal attempt.

After Serna threw incomplete on fourth-and-2 from the Tigers 36, San Luis Obispo used six straight completed passes to drive 73 yards to the St. Bonaventure 1-yard line.

But on fourth-and-goal, on the final play of the first half, Shultz's fade pass to the left corner of the end zone fell harmlessly incomplete.