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Watsonville High freshman Katelynn Ruiz took first place out of 44 runners and helped lead the Wildcatz to the team win in the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s third Cypress Division Center Meet on Wednesday. St. Francis sophomore Monserrat Ramirez took first place out of 28 runners in the Santa Lucia Division Center Meet.

Scotts Valley High sophomore Ashlyn Boothby won the 176-runner, 25-team S Varsity Girls race at the 42nd ASICS Clovis Invitational at Woodward Park in Fresno on Saturday.

Junior Dahlia Barranco and freshman Katelynn Ruiz led Watsonville HIgh’s girls cross country team to victory in the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s Cypress Division race Wednesday in Monterey.

Santa Cruz’s Autumn Hays and Keanna Miller are set to compete in the World Surf League’s Nissan Super Girl Surf Pro, a Women’s QS 3,000 event in Oceanside. The competition window opens Friday and runs through Sunday.

Aptos High senior football talent Vito Riccabona was named Cal-Hi Sports’ NorCal Defensive Player of the Week on Wednesday.

Santa Cruz’s Nat Young got off to a hot start at the WRV Outer Banks Pro, a World Surf League Men’s QS 1,000 event in Nags Head, North Carolina, on Friday.