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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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Six county girls advance to semifinals | CCS Wrestling Championships Roundup Feb 18, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

The local girls flexed their muscles on Day 1 of the Central Coast Section Girls Wrestling Championships at Watsonville High on Friday. Six Santa Cruz County wrestlers advanced to the semifinals.
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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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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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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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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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SC’s Nat Young ties for 17th at Billabong Pro Pipeline in Oahu | Local Roundup Feb 01, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Santa Cruz’s Nat Young was eliminated by Italy’s Leonardo Fioravanti 9.66-7.33 Tuesday in the Round of 32 at the World Surf League’s Billabong Pro Pipeline in Hawaii, the season opener for the 11-event Championship Tour.
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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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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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Austin James leads Cabrillo men’s basketball team past MPC | Local Roundup Jan 21, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Sophomore guard Austin James scored a game-high 26 points, and the Cabrillo College men’s basketball team beat Monterey Peninsula College 64-54 in the teams’ Coast Conference South Division game Friday night.
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Back at full strength, Santa Cruz holds off Scotts Valley in girls basketball | Local Roundup Jan 21, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Senior Bella Stevens saw her first real action of the season, and Santa Cruz High’s girls basketball team knocked off Scotts Valley 51-44 in the teams’ make-up Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League game Thursday.
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Sarah Eichhorn named MVC’s swim coach | Local Roundup Jan 20, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Sarah Eichhorn had been named swim coach at her high school alma mater, Monte Vista Christian School.
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Kaitlin Imai helps Scotts Valley’s girls basketball team beat Mariners for first time since 2017 | Local Roundup Jan 19, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Senior guard Kaitlin Imai scored 19 points and Scotts Valley High’s girls basketball team beat Aptos 45-36 to snap an 11-game losing streak to the Mariners in the Falcons’ league opener Tuesday.
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Wrestler Mike Pena leads Santa Cruz at Jim Root Memorial | Local Roundup Jan 15, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Santa Cruz High senior wrestler Mike Pena took third place at 132 pounds, and the Cardinals finished 14th out of 35 teams at the 58th Jim Root Memorial at Prospect High on Saturday.
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UCSC men’s volleyball opens season with pair of losses | Local Roundup Jan 14, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

UC Santa Cruz men’s volleyball team opened its season, as well as the UC Slug Slam, with a pair of losses Friday at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Friday, falling 3-1 to Westcliff in the morning and 3-2 to Cal Lutheran in the evening.
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Soquel boys soccer blanks SC, moves to 2-0 in SCCAL | Local Roundup Jan 14, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Senior Luis Carrasco had a goal and assist to help Soquel High’s boys soccer team beat host Santa Cruz 3-0 in the teams’ Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League match Thursday night.
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PCS girls soccer tops MVC in Mission Division opener | Local Roundup Jan 10, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Rosalyn Bourdow scored 90 seconds into the second half, and Pacific Collegiate School’s girls soccer team beat Monte Vista Christian 2-1 in the teams’ Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission Division opener Monday at Depot Park in Santa Cruz.
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Aptos-SC basketball games rescheduled for Wednesday | Local Roundup Jan 10, 2022 | By Jim Seimas

Aptos High’s boys and girls basketball games at Santa Cruz on Tuesday have been rescheduled for Wednesday.
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