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With about 14 minutes to play in Game 6 of the Naples Daily News Holiday Shootout, Community School star Jamie Navarro took an elbow to the face.

Navarro left the game with blood streaming from her cheek, the remnants of a nasty gash an inch below her left eye.

"It hurts," Navarro said afterward, smiling through the pain. "I'm going to get stitched up."

Just don't touch the Seahawks. With Friday's 47-34 rout of Erie (Pa.) Central, CSN showed it has the chin to take a punch on the big stage.

The score, in reality, didn't reflect CSN's dominance. The Falcons did not reach double digits until after Navarro left the game.

Navarro, who finished with 14 points, didn't seem to mind the battle scar. Not after she and her teammates put their fingerprints on CSN's history books.

The Seahawks have played in the Shootout several times. This was their first win in the opening round, following a consolation victory last year.

"It was definitely our motivation," said Navarro, who watched the final 14 minutes from the bench, with a wad of ice on her face.

By then, she wasn't needed.

CSN seemed to have victory in hand as they took the floor for the second half. They led 28-6, a margin that would increase to 32-8 in the next two minutes.

That's when Navarro, defending, caught a shot from Central's Ashley Olson, who was trying to shake free from a trap. A CSN assistant coach walked Navarro to the bench, where the point guard's mother soon arrived to provide solace.

The rest of the game, for her teammates, was a formality. The Seahawks, who have four senior starters, were cruising to history.

Maybe even more than they knew. Asked afterward if it was the team's first win against a non-Florida opponent, CSN coach Mitch Woods struggled to find an answer.

"That's a great question," he said. "This could be the first."

It came so easily, in part, because CSN knew what to expect. Coaches and players scouted Central when it played at Lely the previous night.

But even Woods didn't expect such a blowout. He figured CSN could beat the Falcons, but he thought it would go down to the wire.

Not so.

"We were real patient on offense," Woods said. "And then we knocked the shots down."

Erie (34) 

Jagodzinski 4 0-2 11, Bricher 0 2-3 2, Donajkowski 4 0-2 9, Zielinski 0 1-4 1, Fabrizio 0 0-2 0,Olson 2 0-0 4, Williams 2 2-4 6. Totals: 12 5-19 34. 

Community School (47) 

Navarro 5 3-4 14, Kent 1 0-0 2, King 2 0-0 4, Baretta 1 0-0 2, Feinstein 1 0-0 3, Woods 2 6-6 10, Allen 5 2-4 12. Totals: 17 11-14 47.

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Erie 11 17 11 8 -34 

CSN 2 14 7 21 -47 