Ella Giguiere and Lauren Ambiel recorded double-doubles to help the Cabrillo College women’s basketball team beat Feather River 77-72 in overtime Wednesday and snap the Seahawks’ eight-game losing streak.
Junior forward Kaylee Murphy posted her fifth double-double of the season and 26th of her career to help the UC Santa Cruz women’s basketball team open the UCSC December Classic with a win Saturday.
Christian Magana scored a buzzer beating basket to lift St. Francis High’s boys basketball team over visiting Gilroy 43-42 on Tuesday in the teams’ nonleague game.
Santa Cruz High freshman Eli Fitchen-Young, representing Santa Cruz Track Club, posted a top-five finish at the USATF Junior Olympic Cross Country National Championships in Paris, Kentucky, on Saturday.
All seven games Friday and the remaining events at the Eagles Classic boys and girls basketball tournament at Alvarez High were canceled after multiple players tested positive for COVID-19.
Santa Cruz’s Evie Marheineke placed third out of 55 runners in the girls championship at the NXR California Regional at Woodward Park in Fresno on Saturday.
The good news: Five Santa Cruz County football teams qualified for the upcoming Central Coast Section playoffs. The bad news: Four of them are the lower seed and will play on the road.