Freshman running back Peyton Hatten made himself a fixture in the end zone, and Cabrillo College’s football team shined in all three phases in its 43-7 rout of visiting Gavilan to pick up its first Coast Conference win Saturday.
Aptos High tennis teammates Natalie Victory and Neci Hoeptner won 6-1, 6-3 at No. 3 doubles to clinch the Mariners’ narrow, 4-3 win over visiting Scotts Valley in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play Tuesday.
Monterey Bay F.C. wingback Walmer Martínez has been selected to join the El Salvador National Team for its two upcoming matches in the 2023 CONCACAF Nations League group stage.
Senior goalie Lucas Primovera made nine saves to help Santa Cruz High’s boys water polo team beat Soquel 12-10 in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League action Tuesday.
To commemorate the inaugural records Nikki Hiltz and Sam Prakel set at the championship on April 25, the City of Des Moines along with Drake Athletics has renamed 13th Street to “World Record Way.”
Senior Fiona Carey had seven goals and one assist, and Aptos High’s youth-laden girls water polo squad sailed past Harbor 21-1 in its Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League match Tuesday.
Javier Fonseca threw two touchdown passes and rushed for another, and St. Francis High’s football team beat visiting Pajaro Valley 28-13 on Saturday in Watsonville.
Senior middle blocker Daisy Manako had eight kills and three blocks, and Santa Cruz High’s girls volleyball team swept visiting Aptos, 25-12, 25-15, 25-16, to stay unbeaten in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play Tuesday.
The nationally ranked UC Santa Cruz women’s volleyball team opened its 14-match road trip with a 25-18, 25-18, 25-17 of host Caltech on Wednesday in Pasadena.
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.
Lynden Gooch, a 27-year-old Santa Cruz native and former Soquel High standout, has signed a two-year deal with Stoke City F.C. of the English Football League Championship.
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.
The No. 22 ranked UC Santa Cruz women’s volleyball team was swept 27-29- 22-25, 24-26 by Salisbury in the Coast-To-Coast Tournament semifinals in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on Friday.
Archbishop Mitty sophomore Evie Marheineke, a Santa Cruz resident, won the individual title at the West Catholic Athletic League Cross Country Championships on Wednesday in Belmont.
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’s Nat Young helped Team USA win the title at the 2022 ISA World Surf Games, securing the Americans one extra slot at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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.