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Former Cabrillo volleyball star Kelsee Montagna named coach at Fresno Pacific | Local Roundup Feb 15, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

Former Cabrillo College volleyball standout-turned-coach Kelsee Montagna was named women’s volleyball coach at NCAA Division II Fresno Pacific University on Thursday.

St. Francis beats PCS, finishes unbeaten in PCAL’s Cypress Division | Local Roundup Feb 13, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

Freshman Maya Calfee scored 26 points, and St. Francis High’s girls basketball team beat visiting Pacific Collegiate 62-45 to finish unbeaten in Pacific Coast Athletic League Cypress Division play Tuesday.

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Aptos girls, SC boys win SCCAL Basketball Tournament titles | Local Roundup Feb 11, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

Aptos High’s girls basketball team avenged a pair of regular-season losses to rival Santa Cruz with its 46-36 win in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Tournament Championship at Cabrillo College on Saturday.

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Aptos’ boys, girls teams prevail in overtime in SCCAL Tournament semis | Local Roundup Feb 09, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

Freshman guard Gabby Wickham scored nine of her season-high 35 points in overtime, as Aptos High’s girls basketball team beat host Scotts Valley 62-53 in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Tournament semifinals on Thursday.

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Scotts Valley boys basketball edges SLV in triple OT thriller to open SCCAL Tournament | Local Roundup Feb 06, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

Kit Deforest’s steal and and-one basket helped the No. 4 seed Scotts Valley High boys basketball team edge No. 5 San Lorenzo Valley 70-68 in triple overtime in the first round of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Tournament on Tuesday.

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Donovan Williams buries winning 3 in SC Warriors’ OT win | Local Roundup Feb 03, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

Forward Donovan Williams scored a game-high 28 points and added nine rebounds in the Santa Cruz Warriors’ 122-119 overtime win over the Texas Legends in NBA G League action at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Friday night.

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Aptos girls soccer shuts out Soquel, repeats as SCCAL champion | Local Roundup Feb 01, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

Izabella Hartnett and Anahi Macias each had a goal and an assist, and the Aptos High girls soccer team beat visiting Soquel 4-0 to repeat as the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League champion Thursday night.

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Aptos’ unbeaten girls soccer team inches closer to SCCAL title repeat | Local Roundup Jan 31, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

Alexa Castaneda had a goal and two assists to help Aptos High’s girls soccer team beat San Lorenzo Valley 5-0 and stay unbeaten in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play Tuesday.

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Aptos’ Lucas Zuniga, MVC’s Rykin Resureccion pin down wrestling titles | Local Roundup Jan 27, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

Aptos High junior wrestler Lucas Zuniga won the heavyweight division title at the 59th annual Overfelt Classic at Overfelt High in San Jose on Saturday.

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Rain Li scores 30 points in Kirby’s win over York | Local Roundup Jan 27, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

Rain Li made five 3-pointers and scored a season-high 30 points, and the Kirby School’s boys basketball team beat York 54-50 in the teams’ Pacific Coast Athletic League Santa Lucia Division game Friday at Enterprise Sports Club in Scotts Valley.

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Kendric Davis paces Santa Cruz in win over Long Island in MLK Day matinee | Local Roundup Jan 15, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

Guard Kendric Davis scored a team-high 23 points and the Santa Cruz Warriors knocked off the Long Island Nets 98-90 in the teams’ NBA G League game at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Monday.

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Aptos girls soccer blanks Christopher for fifth shutout | Local Roundup Jan 03, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

Scarlet Statler scored on a pass from Alexa Castaneda in the 54th minute, and the Aptos High girls soccer team knocked off visiting Christopher 1-0 in nonleague action Wednesday.

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Michael Mitchell, Tyler LaTorre will be honored at Hot Stove of Santa Clara Valley baseball banquet | Local Roundup Jan 01, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

Baseball talents Michael Mitchell and Tyler LaTorre will be honored at the 38th annual Hot Stove of Santa Clara Valley banquet at Villa Ragusa in Campbell on Jan. 9 at 5 p.m. The event is sold out, as more than 600 people with be in attendance.

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Cabrillo women’s basketball falls to Redwoods | Local Roundup Dec 19, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

Freshman guard Jade Crum made three 3-pointers and finished with a game-high 15 points, but the Cabrillo College women’s basketball team lost 60-37 to visiting Redwoods on Tuesday.

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SLV boys basketball holds off St. Francis to open Watsonville Tournament | Local Roundup Dec 07, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

Junior Noah Steiger scored 15 points, and San Lorenzo Valley High’s boys basketball team beat St Francis 63-59 in the first round of the Watsonville Tournament on Wednesday.

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UCSC runner Eric Jackson earns All-American status at NCAA Championships | Local Roundup Nov 20, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

Senior cross country runner Eric Jackson became UC Santa Cruz’s first All-American in over 40 years with his finish at the 2023 Division III Championships on Saturday at Big Spring High in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

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Heat draws released for O’Neill Cold Water Classic | Local Roundup Nov 14, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

The World Surf League released the heat draw for the O’Neill Cold Water Classic, which opens Wednesday at iconic Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz.

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Cabrillo men’s water polo takes third at conference championships | Local Roundup Nov 05, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

The Cabrillo College men’s water polo team took third place at the Coast Conference Championships at Merced College over the weekend.

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St. Francis football shuts out visiting Santa Cruz | Local Roundup Oct 07, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

St. Francis High junior quarterback Javier Fonseca passed for three touchdowns in the first half, and the Sharks knocked off visiting Santa Cruz 39-0 in the teams’ Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission North Division game Saturday.

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Sophomore Ava Decleve leads Scotts Valley runners in Daly City | Local Roundup Oct 01, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

Scotts Valley High sophomore Ava Decleve took second out of 83 runners in the girls’ varsity race No. 1 at the Westmoor Ram Invitational in Daly City on Saturday.

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Five Cabrillo women’s soccer players commit to D-II programs | Local Roundup May 22, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

Star forward Aubree Westjohn and four other Cabrillo College women’s soccer players committed to NCAA Division II programs in a signing ceremony held in the Seahawks’ gymnasium on Friday evening.

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Aptos alum Aidan Niklaus to play in World Lacrosse Men’s Championship | Local Roundup May 19, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

Aptos High alum Aidan Niklaus, a 6-foot-3 attacker, will play for the Swiss National Team at the 2023 World Lacrosse Men’s Championship in San Diego on June 21 through July 1.

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Cabrillo softball talent Dillyn Vasconcellos named JC All-American | Local Roundup May 17, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

Cabrillo College softball player Dillyn Vasconcellos was named to the NFCA California JC All-America team on May 10.

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SC boys volleyball seeded No. 6 in Open Division; Harbor is No. 5 in D-II | Local Roundup May 06, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

Santa Cruz High’s boys volleyball team, the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League’s regular season and tournament champion, was awarded the No. 6 seed in the prestigious Open Division for the Central Coast Section at the seeding meeting on Saturday.

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Scotts Valley runs to pair of 4×800 relay titles at SCCAL Prelims | Local Roundup May 04, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

Scotts Valley High’s (Ashlyn Boothby, Diana Alivov, Ava Decleve, and Rafaela Putnam) won the 4×800-meter relay title in 9:37.34 at the SCCAL Prelims at Santa Cruz High on Wednesday. Scotts Valley (Aiden Boothby, Spencer George, Ben George, and Mason Lantz) won the boys’ 4×800-meter relay title in 8:06.75.

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