Soquel High’s baseball team, enjoying one of the finest seasons in Santa Cruz County history, gave powerhouse Valley Christian all it could handle in the first round of the Central Coast Section Division I playoffs Saturday.
Aptos High’s football team produced one of its trademark Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League blowouts in its Pacific Coast Athletic League opener Saturday in front of 1,200-plus fans at Trevin Dilfer Memorial Field.
Left-hander Oscar Knapp, right-hander Nick Lindroth, left-hander Nick Bogomilsky each threw two innings and right-hander Nico Hilger closed out the Cardinals’ 6-0 win Friday.
There has been a lot of talk about Aptos High’s stellar starting rotation, which features a pair of future Division I pitchers in UC Santa Barbara-committed senior Reed Moring and UCLA-committed junior Gabe Gaeckle.
Josh Bendix had Santa Cruz High’s lone field goal in the fourth quarter, as the Cardinals held on for a 52-44 win over Monterey in the Dad’s Club semifinals at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on Friday night.
The Cardinals (9-0) became the program’s first team since 1993 to finish the regular season unbeaten, won the Stump rivalry trophy for a third straight season and locked up the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s Mission Division title in one fell swoop.