High school basketball teams statewide learned their division placements and seeds Sunday for the upcoming CIF regional tournaments. There were some head-scratchers. Plenty of them.
Santa Cruz’s Maddie Storrer tied for third place on Sunday at the World Surf League’s SLO CAL Open at Morro Bay, a 1,000-point Qualifying Series event.
In the aftermath of a rare snowstorm to hit the area a day earlier, Highway 17 had just one lane open for Santa Cruz HIgh’s girls basketball team to drive over the hill for its battle against Mills in the Central Coast Section Division III final on Saturday.
Santa Cruz’s Maddie Storrer advanced to the semifinals on Saturday at the World Surf League’s SLO CAL Open at Morro Bay, a 1,000-point Qualifying Series event.
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.
Sophomore Tiera O’Connor missed her first three attempts from beyond the arc Thursday. Admittedly, her confidence took a hit, but not so much so that she’d stop shooting.
Avri Finch and Treyson Keating recorded double-doubles, and the No. 4 seed UC Santa Cruz men’s basketball team beat No. 5 Warren Wilson 87-72 in the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference Tournament quarterfinals at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Thursday morning.
Talk about great starts: Aden Cury drove to his left along the baseline on Santa Cruz High’s first possession, and snuck a pass past an Archbishop MItty defender to teammate Kirby Seals, who attacked on the backside for an uncontested dunk.
Santa Cruz High’s boys basketball team is back in the Open Division for the Central Coast Section playoffs for the first time since 2016. In total, six boys teams and seven girls teams made the playoffs.
The Pacific Collegiate School boys soccer team beat host York 3-0 in its regular-season finale Monday to earn a share of the Pacific Coast Athletic Athletic League Santa Lucia Division title with Ceiba.
Bring on the Central Coast Section Open Division. Aden Cury and Santa Cruz High’s boys basketball team believes they’re ready for the highest level of the playoffs after their latest dominant showing.
The last time Santa Cruz High’s girls basketball team played Soquel, the Cardinals won by 20 points on Jan. 31. It was their smallest margin of victory in their unbeaten, 10-game run to three-peat as Santa Cruz Coast Athletic regular-season champion.
Santa Cruz County has wrestlers seeded in the top eight in each of the 14 weight classes for the Boys’ Central Coast Section Southern Regionals at Watsonville High on Saturday.
Gianna Winterhalder and Amelie Stotland were consistent in their barrage of 3-point attempts in the Santa Cruz Cruz Coast Athletic League Tournament semifinals on Thursday. So was Lily Thayer on the offensive glass.
The UC Santa Cruz men’s volleyball team, ranked No. 10 nationally among NCAA Division III programs, closed its seven-match road trip with a pair of wins Sunday in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
Senior guard Madison Yazalina had 23 points, six rebounds, four assists, and four steals, and Santa Cruz High’s girls basketball team beat Harbor 69-6 to finish Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play unbeaten on Friday.
Raul Calles scored on a pass from Brandon Jimenez in the 65th minute, and the Harbor High boys soccer team beat visiting Scotts Valley 1-0 to secure its second Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League title in the past four years on Tuesday night.
Ashley Kowack became the all-time top scorer in UC Santa Cruz women’s basketball history on Saturday, and the Banana Slugs routed visiting Bethesda 94-35 at the West Field House.
Claire Thompson posted a double-double, and Santa Cruz High’s girls basketball team won the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League’s regular-season title outright with its 57-17 win over Aptos on Friday.