Soquel High sophomore Riley Shank, the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League’s individual golf champion, shot 7-over-par 78 to lead Santa Cruz County’s contingent at Central Coast Section Qualifying. He tied for 41st.
Hollister sweeps the Gabilan Division track finals; Pacific Grove wins the Mission Division boys; North Salinas the Cypress Division boys, Gonzales the Santa Lucia Division boys, and Rancho San Juan the Cypress girls team titles
Senior Jake Escalante hit two doubles and drove in three runs, and Soquel High’s baseball team beat visiting Aptos 9-3 in a matchup of the top two teams in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League standings on Tuesday.
Santa Cruz’s Grace Bailey made her U.S. Women’s Beach Soccer National Team debut at the 2026 BSWW Acapulco Beach Soccer Cup — one of the team’s biggest tournaments of the year — in Mexico on Thursday.
UC Santa Cruz golfer Adeline Truong took third place and led the Banana Slugs to second place out of 14 teams at the two-day UC Santa Cruz Invite, which concluded Sunday at Pacific Grove Golf Links.
Watsonville High senior forward/center Leilani Yasin-Espinoza shined at both ends of the basketball court, but was honored as the Gabilan Division Defensive Player of the Year after leading the Wildcatz to a three-way tie for fourth place in the highest tier of the Pacific Coast Athletic League.
St. Francis High junior basketball talent Robert Gomez Jr. took advantage of opponents focusing on drive-and-create wing Nash Horton in 2024-25. His senior season, with Horton graduated and competing in his freshman season of baseball at Pepperdine University, and after seeing Gomez bury 84 3-pointers and average 16.73 points last year, opponents were prepared to […]
UC Santa Barbara committed junior pitcher Luke Shoemaker struck out 10 batters in five innings, and the Soquel High baseball team began its Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League title defense with a 10-0 win over visiting Scotts Valley on Friday.
Watsonville High senior forward Diego Guillen was named Offensive Player of the Year in the Mission Division during 2025-26 All-Pacific Coast Athletic League boys soccer voting.