Che Castro, Jake Smith, Will Sommer and Julian Arulanantham earned singles wins, the Santa Cruz High’s boys tennis team opened the 2023 Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League season with a 7-0 win over host San Lorenzo Valley on Tuesday.
UC Santa Cruz senior Shea Wissler qualified for the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships with his first-place finish in the heptathlon at the Midwest Qualifier at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, on Saturday.
Hartnell College sophomore Alan Bedolla, a Pajaro Valley High alum, was named to the United Soccer Coaches Association’s 2022 Junior College Division III Men’s All-America team.
Tyler Kessinger had 17 points, five rebounds and five assists, but the UC Santa Cruz men’s basketball team lost to No. 1 seed Christopher Newport 81-73 in the Coast To Coast Athletic Conference Tournament semifinals at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Friday.
Aden Cury had 14 points, 12 rebounds and four steals, and Santa Cruz High’s boys basketball team beat visiting Aptos 44-36 in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play Tuesday.
A pair of locals, Chapman University senior running back Marcos Reyes and University of Redlands senior defensive back Scott Tinsley, were named 2022 all-Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference first team.
The bad news? Santa Cruz County had all three of its first-round qualifiers in the Central Coast Section girls volleyball playoffs suffer losses Saturday.
The No. 6 seed Scotts Valley High girls lacrosse team lost 13-12 in double overtime to No 3 Los Gatos in the Central Coast Section quarterfinals on Saturday night.
Scotts Valley High’s baseball team scored twice in the top of the seventh inning to rally past Santa Cruz 5-3 in the SCCAL Tournament semifinals on Thursday.
Freshman outside hitter Julien Pally had 15 kills, and Santa Cruz High’s boys volleyball team beat No. 7 The King’s Academy 25-20, 21-25, 25-17, 25-17 in the quarterfinals of the Central Coast Section Division II playoffs Tuesday.
Harbor High sophomore Gwen Grigsby and freshman Isla Johnson defeated Scotts Valley’s Hannah Fleming and Morgan Lipman 21-11, 21-14 to win the inaugural Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Beach Volleyball Championships on Saturday at Harbor High.
Pacific Collegiate School junior Katharina Guth placed in the top seven in four events at the Pacific Coast Athletic League Masters Meet on Friday at Gilroy High, meeting the criteria to advance to the Central Coast Section semifinals in all four events.
Kirby School’s boys volleyball team, the Pacific Coast Athletic League Cypress Division champion, lost 25-10, 25-27, 25-21, 25-20 to Palma in a Central Coast Section play-in game at Santa Cruz High on Thursday.
Mariah Segura hit three of Watsonville HIgh’s five home runs as the Wildcatz softball team earned a thrilling, 16-15 walk-off win over San Benito in nine innings Wednesday.
The Cabrillo College women’s beach volleyball team beat San Mateo 5-0 and Sierra 3-0 in the NorCal Regionals at Main Beach in Santa Cruz on Tuesday to qualify for the state championships.
Monte Vista Christian School’s Jack Brothers and Ryan Kenyon, and St. Francis’ Charlie Valencia made college commitments and will continue their athletic careers.
Santa Cruz’s Autumn Hays tied for fifth place Sunday at the World Surf League’s Jack’s Surfboards Pro, a Women’s Qualifying Series 1,000-point event in Huntington Beach.
Harbor High’s beach volleyball team used three forfeits for a 5-0 sweep of Mount Madonna on Friday to finish the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League regular season with a share of the title.
Sophomore Alyssa Struthers hit two doubles, had three RBI and scored twice as the San Lorenzo Valley High’s softball team rolled Aptos 15-1 in its mercy-rule shortened, five inning Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League game Thursday.