Junior guard Brooklyn Williams drained a 3-pointer to put Scotts Valley High’s girls basketball team ahead by five points with a minute left and the unbeaten Falcons held on to beat Pioneer of San Jose 42-41 in Sunnyvale on Thursday.
Nash Horton had 25 points, 10 rebounds and five steals, and the St. Francis High boys basketball team beat host San Lorenzo Valley 64-57 in nonleague action on Tuesday.
Sophomore guard Max Parmigiani scored 14 points, and the Cabrillo College men’s basketball team rallied past Alameda for an 84-72 win in the first round of the Saltwater Classic in Aptos on Friday.
Forward Javan Johnson made six 3-pointers and scored a season-high 22 points, but the Santa Cruz Warriors suffered a 121-118 loss in overtime to the Valley Suns in their NBA G League game at Mullett Arena in Tempe, Arizona, on Thursday night.
Sophomore forward Renee Parker scored a game-high 19 points, and the Cabrillo College women’s basketball team beat visiting Modesto 65-48 for its sixth straight win in nonconference play Tuesday.
Sophomore point guard Sophia Marello, playing in her second varsity game, had 14 points and 10 steals, and San Lorenzo Valley High’s girls basketball team beat KIPP San Jose Collegiate 41-11 in nonleague action in Felton on Monday night.
Forward Kevin Knox II scored a team-high 18 points, and the Santa Cruz Warriors beat the visiting South Bay Lakers 89-76 at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Saturday night.
Monte Vista Christian School’s boys basketball team jumped out to a big lead early and beat visiting San Lorenzo Valley 65-57 in the Mission 831 Tournament championship in Watsonville on Tuesday.
Santa Cruz High senior Eli Fitchen-Young and Scotts Valley junior Ava Decleve ran personal bests to secure individual titles in Division IV at the Central Coast Section Cross Country Championships on Saturday.
Senior Eli Fitchen-Young broke Santa Cruz High’s 16-year-old course record at UC Santa Cruz and led the Cardinals to a 15-50 win over Harbor, 15-50, on Thursday. Mount Madonna had an incomplete squad in the tri-Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League meet.
Scotts Valley High’s Lauren Ohlsson earned medalist honors, and the Falcons’ girls golf team beat Soquel 138-161 to finish 10-0 in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League on Tuesday.
Senior outside hitter Isla Johnson had 16 kills and Harbor High’s girls volleyball team repeated as Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League regular-season champion with its 25-17, 25-11, 27-25 sweep of Scotts Valley on Thursday.
Aptos High’s girls tennis team won three singles matches and two doubles matches to secure a 5-2 win over Scotts Valley in the teams’ Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League match on Tuesday.
Scotts Valley High junior Ava Decleve and Monte Vista Christian’s Kylie Brunelli posted top-five finishes in the small school division cross country race at the Artichoke Invitational in Half Moon Bay on Saturday.
Junior center Violet Rubin scored seven goals and drew two exclusions, and the Santa Cruz High girls water polo team emptied its bench in a 21-9 win over Harbor in the teams’ Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League match on Thursday night.
Seniors Giulia D’Souza and Daphne Olson each scored three goals to lead Santa Cruz High’s girls water polo team past Aptos 10-7 in the teams’ physical Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League battle Thursday.
Harbor High’s girls volleyball team, the defending Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League and Central Coast Section Division IV champion, held off Scotts Valley 13-25, 25-18, 17-25, 26-24, 15-11 in the teams’ league match Tuesday.
Aptos High junior Maya Schiro took first out of 66 runners at the nine-team Tom Leikam Invitational at Pinto Lake County Park, in Watsonville on Saturday.
Harbor High’s girls volleyball team unveiled its 2023 Central Coast Section championship banner in its first home match of the season Thursday, and added to its feel-good evening with a 26-28, 25-22, 25-20, 26-24 win over Soquel in the teams’ Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League match.
Aptos High’s Brady Bliesner took seventh and teammate Sam Hansen was eighth at the fifth annual Jackie Henderson Memorial Cross Country Invitational at North Monterey County High on Saturday..
On a breezy afternoon great for flying kites, Scotts Valley resident Nathaniel Guillory and Soquel High senior Jonelle Scott were both flying high after they won events at the Central Coast Section Track and Field Finals at Gilroy High on Saturday.