Harbor High’s girls volleyball team made its first trip to the Central Coast Section finals in 10 years, but ran into a powerhouse Mercy of Burlingame team.
Harbor High girls volleyball coach Matthew Schutz wrote a list of the Pirates’ recent results in the Central Coast Section playoffs on a whiteboard and showed his players.
The No. 2 seed Soquel High’s girls volleyball team defeated visiting No. 10 Saratoga 25-11, 25-22, 25-17 in the Central Coast Section Division III quarterfinals on Tuesday night. Santa Cruz (D-III) and Harbor (D-IV) also earned wins.
Aubree Westjohn scored twice, and the Cabrillo College women’s soccer team beat West Valley 4-0 — the Seahawks’ seventh straight win by shutout — to stay unbeaten in Coast Conference South Division play on Friday.
Santa Cruz High’s boys water polo team closed the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League regular season with a 10-4 win over rival Soquel to cap a perfect run through league play Thursday in Santa Cruz.
Gigi Brown led Santa Cruz High’s girls volleyball team with seven kills and eight digs in its 25-15, 25-16, 25-10 sweep of host Aptos on Tuesday to lock up no worse than a share of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League regular-season crown.
After a roller-coaster first-set deuce defeat, Santa Cruz High’s girls volleyball team tightened its defense and diversified its offense to roll to a 28-30, 25-18, 25-21, 25-14 victory to take control of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League race Thursday night.
Andrea Estanquero had two goals and an assist, and the Cabrillo College women’s soccer team routed Foothill 12-0 in the teams’ Coast Conference South Division match Tuesday in Aptos.
Scotts Valley High juniors Maya Bensen and Samantha Warner won at No. 2 doubles to help the unbeaten Falcons tennis team secure a 4-3 win over previously unbeaten Aptos in the teams’ Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League match Thursday in Scotts Valley.
Julian Garcia scored the winning goal on a penalty kick in the 44th minutes, and the Cabrillo College men’s soccer team knocked off host Foothill 2-1 in Coast Conference North Division action Friday.
Santa Cruz High cross country runner Eli Fitchen-Young finished the 2.08-mile course at UC Santa Cruz with a time of 11:06 but Scotts Valley won the teams’ Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League meet 23-32 on Thursday.
Senior Sonja Ukropina and junior Zoe Ann Watson each scored four goals, and the Santa Cruz High girls water polo team beat host Harbor 13-1 in the teams’ Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League match Wednesday night.
Santa Cruz High’s girls volleyball team traveled south to face Aptos on Thursday, looking to rebound from a loss to Harbor two days earlier. A win was crucial for the Cardinals to remain in contention for their first league title since 2001.
Riding a wave of momentum, the Harbor High Pirates’ youth-laden girls volleyball team followed up upsets over Santa Cruz and Soquel on Saturday at the Harbor Tournament with another win over the Cardinals on Tuesday, this time in league play.
Santa Cruz High sophomore Eli Fitchen-Young produced his third win on the young season, this time at the Jackie Henderson Memorial at North Monterey County on Saturday.
Soquel High’s girls volleyball team is starting to find itself with talented outside hitter Jessie Dueck playing libero as she recovers from bicep tendinitis.
Sophomore outside hitter Holly Rejfir had 17 kills, and Harbor High’s girls volleyball team defeated host Scotts Valley 25-15, 26-28, 25-22, 25-15 in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play Tuesday night.