Nico Ramirez and D’Rell Hopkins each scored 15 points to help the No. 7 seed Soquel High boys basketball team beat No. 10 Stevenson 62-36 in the second round of the Central Coast Section Division IV playoffs on Saturday night.
Soquel High’s football team looked like it was going through the motions for much of the first half of its Central Coast Section Division II quarterfinal on Friday.
Soquel High’s girls volleyball team opened the Central Coast Section Division IV playoffs with a Saturday afternoon matinee, sweeping Monte Vista Christian 25-15, 27-25, 25-13.
Soquel High’s football team looked like it may be a spectator in its debut season in the prestigious Gabilan Division after being shut out by Salinas in the teams’ Pacific Coast Athletic League opener three weeks ago.
Marcus Northcutt’s first win as a varsity football coach was a big one: Watsonville High beat crosstown foe Pajaro Valley 12-0 in the Belgard Kup rivalry game Friday night in front of 1,500 fans.
Penalties, turnovers, and dropped balls … Monte Vista Christian School’s football team endured the gamut of blunders on offense Saturday, but still found itself in a tight game, thanks to their defense.
Five high school football teams Santa Cruz County — Monte Vista Christian, Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz, St. Francis, and Watsonville — help make up the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s newly created Mission North Division this season.
Aptos HIgh’s Caden Prichard clenched his fists and yelled emphatically after producing his third touchdown run of the second half, which essentially sealed the Mariners’ huge, 44-41 win over previously unbeaten Salinas on Friday night.
After a roller-coaster first-set deuce defeat, Santa Cruz High’s girls volleyball team tightened its defense and diversified its offense to roll to a 28-30, 25-18, 25-21, 25-14 victory to take control of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League race Thursday night.
Aptos High’s football team beat Alvarez 54-24 to set the stage for its anticipated Pacific Coast Athletic League Gabilan Division showdown with Salinas by surpassing 50-plus points for the third straight game Friday night.
Soquel High’s girls volleyball team is starting to find itself with talented outside hitter Jessie Dueck playing libero as she recovers from bicep tendinitis.
Soquel High quarterback Cole Johnson passed for 145 yards and three touchdowns — the last coming with 5 seconds remaining — as the Knights did all their scoring in the second half and rallied for a 27-21 nonleague win over host Hillsdale on Friday night.
Johann Brooks doubled home Langston Burkett, who reached on a double, for the go-ahead run in the fifth inning, and Santa Cruz High’s baseball team made it hold up to beat Menlo-Atherton 3-2 in the first round of the Central Coast Section Division III semifinals Saturday.
There has been a lot of talk about Aptos High’s stellar starting rotation, which features a pair of future Division I pitchers in UC Santa Barbara-committed senior Reed Moring and UCLA-committed junior Gabe Gaeckle.
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.
It’s not always about how you start, but how you finish. And both went incredibly well for Santa Cruz High’s basketball team at the Dad’s Club Tournament on Saturday night.
Josh Bendix had Santa Cruz High’s lone field goal in the fourth quarter, as the Cardinals held on for a 52-44 win over Monterey in the Dad’s Club semifinals at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on Friday night.
The underdog St. Francis High football team didn’t let its No. 7 seed or the fact it had to open the playoffs on the road crush its will Saturday. Instead, the Sharks turned it into an opportunity to open some eyes.
The No. 2 seed Cardinals (21-5) advance to Thursday’s semifinal at home against No. 3 Sacred Heart Cathedral (19-14), a West Catholic Athletic League power from San Francisco. A victory over the Fightin’ Irish will propel Santa Cruz into its first section championship match appearance in school history.