Sophomore Lilly McGee and freshman Lanies Nunez each had a hit, two RBI, and a run scored as the Aptos High softball team beat visiting Scotts Valley 10-9 in the teams’ eight inning Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League game Friday.
Senior Tosh Woods took first in the 100-meter run (11.46), long jump (19 feet, 5 inches) and high jump (5-8) and Aptos High’s track and field team took first in every event Thursday in a Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League meet against visiting San Lorenzo Valley.
Scotts Valley High’s girls lacrosse team knocked Monte Vista Christian from the unbeaten ranks with its 17-8 win over the host Mustangs on Wednesday night.
Second baseman Dillyn Vasconcellos hit for the cycle — single, double, triple and home run — drove in three runs and scored twice as the Cabrillo College softball team routed Mendocino 13-0 in the opener of their nonconference doubleheader Friday.
UC Santa Cruz senior forward Kaylee Murphy was named an NCAA Division III Honorable Mention All-American by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association on Thursday.
The San Lorenzo Valley High and Soquel softball programs were evenly matched a year ago, when they shared the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League title. The programs squared off in the 2023 league opener Wednesday, and Cougars showed they’re an improved product.
Santa Cruz surfer Nat Young tied for 17th and earned 1,330 points on Sunday at the World Surf League’s MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal, event No. 3 on the Championship Tour at Peniche, Leiria, Portugal.
St. Francis High’s Diego Ramirez and Jayna Schalesky of Rancho San Juan were announced Thursday as the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s 2023 Central Coast Section Scholar-Athlete Award winners.
Three of five matches were decided by a third set, as Harbor High’s girls beach volleyball team beat Scotts Valley 4-1 in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play Wednesday.
The Santa Cruz Warriors’ bid to make the NBA G League playoff took a disappointing hit Tuesday morning, when they suffered a 127-112 loss to the Birmingham Squadron, which entered with the worst record in the league.
UC Santa Cruz senior Shea Wissler qualified for the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships with his first-place finish in the heptathlon at the Midwest Qualifier at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, on Saturday.
Mason Borrego had three hits, an RBI, and scored twice, and St. Francis High’s baseball team, the defending Central Coast Section Division IV champion, opened its season with a 7-1 nonleague win over host Scotts Valley on Friday.
Hartnell College sophomore Alan Bedolla, a Pajaro Valley High alum, was named to the United Soccer Coaches Association’s 2022 Junior College Division III Men’s All-America team.
Santa Cruz’s Maddie Storrer advanced to the semifinals on Saturday at the World Surf League’s SLO CAL Open at Morro Bay, a 1,000-point Qualifying Series event.
Tyler Kessinger had 17 points, five rebounds and five assists, but the UC Santa Cruz men’s basketball team lost to No. 1 seed Christopher Newport 81-73 in the Coast To Coast Athletic Conference Tournament semifinals at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Friday.
It came down to the final game of the regular-season, but Pajaro Valley High’s boys soccer team secured the Pacific Coast Athletic League Cypress Division title with its 4-1 win over host North Monterey County on Tuesday night.
The Pacific Collegiate School boys soccer team beat host York 3-0 in its regular-season finale Monday to earn a share of the Pacific Coast Athletic Athletic League Santa Lucia Division title with Ceiba.
Two of the top boys basketball scorers in Central Coast Section, Ceiba’s Anthony Toriz and Pacific Collegiate School’s Elias Golino, squared off again Friday at Gateway School in Santa Cruz on Friday night. And neither did anything to disappoint.
Santa Cruz County has wrestlers seeded in the top eight in each of the 14 weight classes for the Boys’ Central Coast Section Southern Regionals at Watsonville High on Saturday.
Junior Ibarra scored a team-high 14 points, and the St. Francis High’s boys basketball team beat host North Salinas 63-45 on Wednesday to remain in first place in Pacific Coast Athletic League Cypress Division play.
Senior Skylar Thayer scored 27 points, and the No. 6 seed San Lorenzo Valley High boys basketball team stunned host and No. 3 Scotts Valley 65-57 in the first round of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Tournament on Tuesday night.
Kristof Garcia scored on a pair of penalty kicks, including the winner in stoppage time, as Pajaro Valley High’s boys soccer team, the leader in the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s Cypress Division, edged second-place Rancho San Juan 3-2 on Monday.
The UC Santa Cruz men’s volleyball team, ranked No. 10 nationally among NCAA Division III programs, closed its seven-match road trip with a pair of wins Sunday in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
Monte Vista Christian School sophomore Rykin Resurreccion took second place at 132 pounds at the Pacific Coast Athletic League Wrestling Championships at Salinas High on Saturday.