Wrestlers Cristian Cruz of Harbor High, Daniel Evert of Santa Cruz and Lucas Zuniga-Marquez of Aptos won their respective weight divisions at the Lynbrook Second Man Challenge in San Jose on Saturday, while Scotts Valley’s Danica Kelley and Kayse Martinovsky, and Harbor’s Amy Gray won titles at the Lynbrook Ladies Challenge.
Santa Cruz High senior wrestler Mike Pena took third place at 132 pounds, and the Cardinals finished 14th out of 35 teams at the 58th Jim Root Memorial at Prospect High on Saturday.
UC Santa Cruz men’s volleyball team opened its season, as well as the UC Slug Slam, with a pair of losses Friday at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Friday, falling 3-1 to Westcliff in the morning and 3-2 to Cal Lutheran in the evening.
Watsonville High’s Vincent Mosqueda was one of four Santa Cruz County wrestlers who placed at the 29-team Apple Cider Classic on Saturday at Watsonville High.
Kaitlin Imai made four of Scotts Valley High’s eight 3-pointers and finished with 25 points, as the Falcons’ girls basketball team beat Watsonville 58-42 in the championship of the Lady Shark Shootout on Thursday at St. Francis High in Watsonville.
Santa Cruz High’s boys basketball team edged Cupertino 37-35 in the semifinals of the Joe Schram Holiday Basketball Classic at Saint Francis High in Mountain View on Wednesday.
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.
Freshman forward Jasmin Castillo, Pajaro Valley High alumna, scored twice to help the Hartnell College women’s soccer team beat Cypress 3-0 and claim its first CCCAA State Championship at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut on Sunday
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.
Santa Cruz’s Nat Young, 30, will wait and see if the 12,500 points he earned in four World Surf League Challenger Series events is enough to return him to the Championship Tour.
The No. 6 seed Cabrillo College women’s volleyball team was eliminated by No. 3 Fresno City 25-22, 25-17, 25-12 in the second round of the CCCAA NorCal playoffs Saturday in Fresno.
Aptos High’s Annika Lee and Madison Phillips, the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League doubles champion, were eliminated in the first round of the Central Coast Section doubles tournament Tuesday.
Santa Cruz County’s two newest section champions — Soquel and Santa Cruz — will open the NorCal Girls Water Polo Championships with home games, the California Interscholastic Federation announced Sunday.
Jazmyn Tubbs had 16 kills and 10 digs, and the Cabrillo College women’s volleyball team beat San Mateo 25-20, 21-25, 25-18, 25-23 to clinch the Coast Conference’s North Division title on Friday.
The Cabrillo College men’s soccer team gave up three goals in the second half of its 4-0 loss to Foothill, the state’s No. 1 ranked team, in Aptos in a rare Sunday game.