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SC surfer Nat Young advances at CT event in Portugal | Local Roundup Mar 04, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Santa Cruz surfer Nat Young advanced from his opening heat Friday at the World Surf League’s MEO Pro Portugal, event No. 3 on the Men’s Championship Tour in Peniche, Portugal. Young, ranked No. 16 of the CT through two events, took second in the final heat of the Opening Round. He posted a two-wave score […]
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No. 15 Aptos loses lead late, falls short in upset bid at No. 2 Oakland | NorCal Regional Roundup Mar 02, 2022 | By Gordon Kass

OAKLAND — Six-time NBA All-star Damian Lillard roamed the hallways and basketball court at Oakland High 14 years ago. “Dame Time” refers to Lillard’s history of making clutch shots. On the same floor on Tuesday night, it was “Cam Time” as Aptos senior point guard Cameron Saldana led his 15th-seeded Mariners to the precipice of […]
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Aptos edges Santa Cruz in grudge match, advances to D-III championship | CCS boys basketball Feb 25, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

SANTA CRUZ — With its top two players, senior guard Cameron Saldana and center Jack Spinelli, fouled out, Aptos High turned to its unsung heroes to deliver Aptos High’s boys basketball team its biggest win of the season in front of a capacity crowd. Senior forward Marcel Martin made a wide-open layup on an inbounds […]
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Santa Cruz’s bid for D-III section title repeat ends against unheralded Mills | CCS basketball roundup Feb 25, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Every year in the Central Coast Section basketball playoffs, there’s a team that slips under the radar. A program that gets hot late in the regular season, slips into postseason play and pulls off a massive upset or two.
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Kaitlin Imai scores 35 points in Scotts Valley’s D-IV win over Carmel | CCS basketball roundup Feb 22, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Senior guard Kaitlin Imai made nine 3-pointers and finished with 35 points as the No. 4 seed Scotts Valley High girls basketball team beat the No. 5 Carmel 51-32 in the Central Coast Section Division IV quarterfinals on Tuesday.
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Santa Cruz seeded No. 1 in D-III; Five county teams make CCS playoffs | Boys basketball Feb 16, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

The Aptos High and Santa Cruz boys basketball teams, co-champions of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League, could square off in the Central Coast Section semifinals, if they win their playoff openers. The rivals split their regular-season meetings.
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Wildcatz’s boys basketball team wins share of PCAL’s Santa Lucia Division title | Local Roundup Feb 15, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

At the outset of each basketball season, Watsonville High coach Marcus Northcutt and assistant Mike Blum tell the Wildcatz how cool it would be if they won a league title: In addition to adding a championship banner to the school’s gymnasium walls, years later, they could come back and see their banner and cherish that […]
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UCSC rally falls short against nation’s top-ranked D-III women’s basketball team | Local Roundup Feb 12, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Junior guard/forward Ashley Kowack scored 25 points, but the UC Santa Cruz women’s basketball team suffered a 74-70 loss to Christopher Newport, the nation’s top-ranked NCAA Division III team, on Saturday.
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Dez Litel lifts St. Francis over MVC with OT 3-pointer | Local Roundup Feb 12, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Dez Litel produced the game winning 3-pointer in overtime as St. Francis High’s boys basketball beat crosstown rival Monte Vista Christian 59-57 on senior night Friday.
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Santa Cruz’s unbeaten girls soccer team earns SCCAL title outright | Local Roundup Feb 11, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Julia Moore had two goals and an assist to help Santa Cruz High’s girls soccer team beat host Harbor 6-0 and win the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League title outright Thursday night.
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Santa Cruz tops Soquel, earns share of SCCAL boys basketball title with Aptos | Local Roundup Feb 10, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Aden Cury and Kosi Warren-House posted double-doubles to help Santa Cruz High’s boys basketball team beat Soquel 76-25 on Tuesday and earn a share of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League title with Aptos.
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Santa Cruz tops SLV in shortened match, clinches SCCAL girls soccer title | Local Roundup Feb 08, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

The Santa Cruz High girls soccer team clinched no worse than a share of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League title with its 8-0 win over host San Lorenzo Valley on Tuesday.
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Danisha Nunez becomes first Watsonville female to win PCAL wrestling title | Local Roundup Feb 07, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Junior Danisha Nunez became the first Watsonville High athlete to win a title at the Pacific Coast Athletic League Girls Wrestling Championships at Alvarez High on Saturday.
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UCSC women’s basketball scores school-record 117 points in rout of La Verne | Local Roundup Feb 05, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Harbor High junior wrestler Diallo Thomas won the title at 162 pounds at the 12th annual Colt Invitational at El Camino High in South San Francisco on Saturday.
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Renee Parker posts triple-double as Cabrillo gets first win streak | Local Roundup Feb 05, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Renee Parker recorded a triple-double, and Cabrillo College’s women’s basketball team crushed Hartnell 52-23 in Coast Conference South Division action on Friday night.
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Cardinals embrace home-court advantage, pull even with Mariners atop SCCAL standings | Boys basketball Feb 03, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Aden Cury and the rest of Santa Cruz High’s boys basketball team was out to prove they had a better showing in them after enduring a gut punch on the road against rival Aptos last week.
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Santa Cruz avenges loss to Aptos, remains in driver’s seat in SCCAL title race | Girls basketball Feb 03, 2022 | By Gordon Kass

The challenge was directly in front of the first-place Santa Cruz High girls basketball team Wednesday as it looked for revenge against Aptos. Win and control the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League race. Lose and rely on others.
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Kaitlin Imai reaches 1,000-point milestone in Falcons’ win | Local Roundup Feb 01, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Kaitlin Imai reached the 1,000-point milestone in her Scotts Valley High basketball career as the Falcons posted a 70-11 win over Harbor on senior night Tuesday.
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Wildcatz overcome monstrously huge deficit late, win in OT to stay unbeaten | Local Roundup Jan 30, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Watsonville High’s boys basketball team rallied from a 19-point deficit in the final four minutes of its game against Rancho San Juan to force overtime and emerged with a thrilling, 79-72 win in front of dozens of energetic fans Saturday.
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Aptos starts hot, stuns SCCAL leading Santa Cruz | Girls basketball Jan 29, 2022 | By Gordon Kass

It was hard to tell which was the 2-3 team and which was the 4-0 league leader Friday night. The fifth-place Mariners exploded for a 21-point halftime lead over a stunned Santa Cruz squad and held off a late Cardinal rally for a 50-41 win.
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Jack Spinelli, Cameron Saldana lead Aptos past SC, into sole possession of first in SCCAL | Boys basketball Jan 29, 2022 | By Gordon Kass

The highly anticipated Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League boys basketball showdown between Aptos and Santa Cruz highs, according to their coaches, found one team “doing nearly everything right” and the other “missing in action.” 
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SC’s Qwentin Brown, SV’s Nolan Smith receive all-state football honors | Local Roundup Jan 28, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Santa Cruz High’s Qwentin Brown and Scotts Valley’s Nolan Smith were named to Cal-High Sports’ All-State football team for small schools.
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Local surfers Alex Fry, Shaun Burns eliminated in Pismo Beach | Local Roundup Jan 27, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

A trio of locals remain in the World Surf League’s SLO CAL Open at Pismo Beach, a a QS 1,000 event. The competition window opened Thursday and runs through Sunday.
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Watsonville’s boys soccer team hands nationally ranked Alisal first loss | Local Roundup Jan 26, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Watsonville High’s boys soccer team received goals from two unlikely sources and stunned nationally ranked Alisal 2-0 in the teams’ Pacific Coast Athletic League Gabilan Division match Tuesday night in Salinas.
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Makena Bedolla helps Sharks’ soccer team blast Greenfield | Local Roundup Jan 24, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Makena Bedolla scored three goals and St. Francis High’s girls soccer team beat Greenfield 5-0 in its Pacific Coast Athletic League game at Depot Park in Santa Cruz on Monday.
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