Four standout track and field athletes from Santa Cruz County — Evie Marheineke of Archbishop Mitty, Eli Fitchen-Young and Heidi Green of Santa Cruz, and Logan Brantley of Aptos — were named 2025 Wharf to Wharf Scholarship winners on Tuesday.
Guard Yuri Collins recorded his 10th double-double of the season, but the Santa Cruz Warriors lost 125-117 to Memphis in NBA G League action at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Saturday night.
A pair of locals, San Lorenzo Valley High junior Gabriel Attia and Aptos High sophomore Cruz Contreras, met their goals of earning a win at the CIF State Championships at Mechanics Bank Arena in Bakersfield on Friday.
Cabrillo College freshman forward Gabby Brooks scored a game-high 27 points, and the short-handed Seahawks women’s basketball team needed every one in its playoff opener Wednesday night in Aptos.
Ivan Zavala scored twice and Nami Banks had a goal and an assist to help Aptos High’s boys soccer team beat Soquel 3-0 in a make-up game to close Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play Wednesday.
Santa Cruz freshman Vera Bentley took first place in her weight division at the Central Coast Section Southern Regional Wrestling Championships at Watsonville High on Saturday.
Nami Banks scored in each half, and Aptos High’s boys soccer team locked up the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League title with their 5-1 win over Scotts Valley on Friday.
Scarlet Stateler and Alexa Castaneda each had two goals and an assist, and Aptos High’s girls soccer team recorded its 10th shutout with its 9-0 win over visiting Santa Cruz on Tuesday.
Peyton Orradre scored twice, and the St. Francis High girls soccer team beat Anzar 2-0 in San Juan Bautista to secure the program’s first league title in sport on Monday.
Haziel Parra scored on a pass from Nicolas Topete 45 seconds in, and the Mariners’ boys soccer team beat host Santa Cruz 4-1 on Friday to maintain its slim lead in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League standings with two matches remaining in the regular season.
Senior Valeria Acosta scored twice in the second half, and Pajaro Valley High’s girls soccer team rallied for a 2-1 win over host Carmel in the teams’ Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission Division match Wednesday.
Minus some of their top contributors, the Santa Cruz Warriors turned in a golden performance in their 146-132 win over the Grand Rapids Gold in front of 2,476 fans at the teams’ NBA G League game at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Saturday night.
Max Aceves made five 3-pointers and scored 24 points to lead Watsonville High boys basketball team past Monte Vista Christian 81-55 in the teams’ Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission Division game on Friday.
Freshman Isabella Alvarez scored a game-high 23 points, and the Watsonville High girls basketball team stomped Alvarez 70-16 in Pacific Coast Athletic League Gabilan Division action on Thursday.
Freshman forward Gabby Brooks made two 3-pointers and scored a game-high 22 points, and the Cabrillo College women’s basketball team beat Mission 63-56 in the teams’ Coast Conference South Division game in Aptos on Wednesday.
Josiah Siqueiros, Ivan Zavala, and Ricardo Ortiz scored, and Aptos High’s boys soccer team earned a 3-0 win over San Lorenzo Valley in the teams’ Santa Cruz Athletic League opener in Felton on Wednesday.
Sophomore guard Isaiah Villalobos scored 13 of his team-high 19 points in the fourth quarter, and St. Francis High boys basketball team knocked off Soledad to gain sole possession of the Pacific Coast Athletic League Cypress Division lead Saturday.
Sophomore Nareni Carre Martinez scored twice for Santa Cruz High’s girls soccer team, and the Cardinals edged crosstown foe Pacific Collegiate 2-1 in the teams’ physical nonleague match Wednesday.
The unbeaten Santa Cruz Warriors had five players record double-doubles and beat the Sioux Falls Skyforce 110-96 in the teams’ NBA G League game at Sanford Pentagon in South Dakota on Friday.
Junior center Will Roden scored a team-high 12 points, but the short-handed and youth-laden Harbor High boys basketball team suffered a 71-44 nonleague loss to visiting Greenfield on Thursday.
Emily Santiago scored twice, and Aptos High’s girls soccer team scored four unanswered goals to rally for a 5-2 nonleague win over visiting Mountain View on Tuesday.
Forward Javan Johnson had 27 points and five rebounds, and the Santa Cruz Warriors rallied from an 18-point deficit to beat Rio Grande Valley Vipers, 106-103, at Bert Ogden Arena on Saturday night.
Senior forward/midfielder Valeria Acosta scored three goals to tie Pajaro Valley’s career scoring record, and the Grizzlies’ girls soccer team beat crosstown foe Watsonville 4-0 in nonleague action Saturday.