The UC Santa Cruz women’s volleyball team swept Hamline 25-14, 25-16, 25-9 at the West Field House on Sunday to finish with a 5-0 mark in the UCSC Slugfest to open its season.
Center James Wiseman produced a double-double in his season debut for Santa Cruz on Saturday night, but the Warriors fell 111-91 to the South Bay Lakers in front of 2,488 fans at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Saturday night.
Gigi Brown led Santa Cruz High’s girls volleyball team with seven kills and eight digs in its 25-15, 25-16, 25-10 sweep of host Aptos on Tuesday to lock up no worse than a share of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League regular-season crown.
Two locals, Santa Cruz’s Kees Van Der Meer and Sae Ackerstein, won events in the FIN Rescue World Cup at the Lifesaving World Championships, which began Sept. 18 and run though Monday in Riccione, Italy.
Santa Cruz High sophomore Eli Fitchen-Young produced his third win on the young season, this time at the Jackie Henderson Memorial at North Monterey County on Saturday.
Santa Cruz High sophomore Eli Fitchen-Young and Scotts Valley junior Ashlyn Boothby won races at the 3-mile Monterey Bay Invitational at Toro Park on Saturday.
Sophomore forward Mohamed El Kaddouri scored three goals, and the Cabrillo College men’s soccer team beat Allan Hancock 5-2 in the teams’ nonconference game Tuesday in Aptos.
Senior outside hitter Marilu Pally had 15 kills to lead the Santa Cruz High girls volleyball team to a 25-14, 25-19, 19-25, 25-19 win over Harbor in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Tournament semifinals on Tuesday night.
Rebecca Fuller, Holly Hegna, Autumn Zaretsky and Ashley Lavender earned singles wins in straight sets, and Aptos High’s girls tennis beat visiting Soquel 6-1 to remain atop the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League standings Thursday.
Scotts Valley High’s girls and boys cross country teams won titles at the Bellarmine Terry Ward Invitational at Baylands Park’s 5k course in Sunnyvale on Saturday.
Goalie Grace Howard blocked two penalty shots in the fourth quarter, and the Soquel High girls water polo team rallied past Clovis West 10-8 in a nonleague matchup of state powers Saturday.
Scotts Valley High senior Ryder Brabo shined under the lights Saturday night at the heralded 40th annual Woodbridge Cross Country Classic at Silverlakes Sports Park in Norco.
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.
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.
Santa Cruz’s Autumn Hays won her opening heat at the World Surf League’s WRV Outer Banks Pro, a QS1,000 event on Thursday in Nags Head, North Carolina.