Santa Cruz’s Maya Letona took fourth place in the women’s freestyle competition at the three-day 2023 Senior Nationals at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Texas, which ended Sunday.
Aptos High’s boys basketball team rallied past visiting Scotts Valley in the fourth quarter for a 47-44 win in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play on Tuesday night.
Freshman midfielder Alexa Castañeda had two goals and an assist, as the Aptos High girls soccer team beat visiting Harbor 3-1 in the teams’ Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League match Friday night.
Junior guard Hannah Morley scored six points, as San Lorenzo Valley High’s girls basketball team lost 59-13 to Crystal Springs Uplands and finished in second place at the Lady Shark Shootout at St. Francis High on Friday.
Scotts Valley High’s tennis duo of senior Emma Dyc-O’Neal and sophomore Sofia Niklaus, the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League champions, went 1-1 at the Central Coast Doubles Tournament on Tuesday at Bay Club Courtside in Los Gatos.
Senior opposite Zack Stack had 12 kills, 10 digs and three aces as Kirby School’s boys volleyball team rallied for its first win over Pacific Collegiate in more than a decade, 22-25, 25-13, 27-25, 17-25, 15-9, on Tuesday night.
Santa Cruz County produced dozens of magnificent sports feats in ’21, and it’s no surprise that surfing was among the sports that dominated headlines. The following is a recap of some of the most memorable feats of the year.
The good news: Five Santa Cruz County football teams qualified for the upcoming Central Coast Section playoffs. The bad news: Four of them are the lower seed and will play on the road.
The UC Santa Cruz men’s and women’s cross country teams won titles at the Coast-To-Coast Conference Championships at Baylands Park in Sunnyvale on Saturday.