Santa Cruz High wrestlers Vera Bentley and Onyx Escobar, and Harbor’s Kira Demma took first place in their respective weight classes at the sixth annual Ladies Coast Classic at Santa Cruz High on Saturday.
St. Francis High’s Liliana Whitmeyer, Watsonville’s Taylor Alves-Lopez, and Pajaro Valley’s Denise Magallon received special honors during all-PCAL girls flag football voting for 2025.
Junior forward Kat Buckley had 24 points, 12 rebounds and six steals, and Pacific Collegiate School’s girls basketball team beat Monte Vista Christian 55-23 in the teams’ nonleague game at Gateway School on Monday.
Keyondre Randolph buried a 3-pointer on Santa Cruz High’s first possession to give the Cardinals a quick lead, but the night — as well as the 69th annual Emmett Thompson Memorial Dad’s Club Tournament title — belonged to Los Gatos’ boys basketball team.
Santa Cruz High’s boys basketball team endured stretches without scoring. Still, the Cardinals found a recipe for success: heart, hustle and suffocating defense.
Sophomore guard Emilie Ngo continued her offensive ways, and the UC Santa Cruz women’s basketball team, an NCAA Division III squad, rallied past D-II UC Merced 79-72 at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Tuesday.
Against the wishes of all three schools, Aptos will drop to the Mission Division North for football next fall, with North County moving to the Mission South and Greenfield falling back to the Santa Lucia Division.