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High school wrestlers fight for local bragging rights, berths into CCS Regional Feb 03, 2024 | By Jim Seimas

SCOTTS VALLEY — It was a backyard brawl at the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Wrestling Championships at Scotts Valley High on Friday. Santa Cruz’s Fred Bjork had to use more than half of his allotted 5-minute blood time to tend to his bloody nose four times during his valiant effort against Gerardo Trinidad of […]
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Claire Thompson takes control of favored Cardinals | Girls basketball preview Jan 04, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

The girls’ basketball race for the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League title should be tightly contested.
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Aden Cury, Cardinals look for outright title, postseason run | Boys basketball preview Jan 03, 2023 | By Jim Seimas

Led by Aden Cury, the defending Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League MVP, Santa Cruz High’s boys basketball team enters league play as heavy favorites to repeat as champion.
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Jocelyn Travers, Cardinals aiming for title repeat | Girls soccer preview Jan 02, 2023 | By Ray Hacke

Jocelyn Travers is like a rock in a slingshot for Santa Cruz High’s girls’ soccer team.
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Raul Calles, Harbor aim to claim SCCAL title | Boys soccer preview Jan 01, 2023 | By Ray Hacke

Raul Calles is a prolific goal scorer. Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League boys’ soccer coaches recognized that last season, naming the Harbor High striker the league’s Attacker of the Year.
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Unmasking the favorites for league titles | 2022 Girls volleyball preview Sep 05, 2022 | By Gordon Kass

Setter Kayla Rhee-Pizano and outside hitter Jessie Dueck return for Soquel High’s girls volleyball team, the defending Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League champion. But 2021 runner-up Santa Cruz will again provide fierce competition.
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Adan Rivas hoping to be X factor for Wildcatz | Boys track and field preview Mar 16, 2022 | By Ray Hacke

Before misfortune cruelly intervened and deprived him of one full track and field season and part of another, Adan Rivas appeared headed to become an elite sprinter for Watsonville High. Judging by the junior’s performance at last spring’s Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League meet, he still could. He’s just not as far along in his […]
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Cardinals eye SCCAL title repeat | Boys basketball preview Jan 03, 2022 | By Ray Hacke

Boys’ basketball teams in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League will be seeing less of Aden Cury this season. Not the kind of “less” they’d probably prefer, though.
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Aptos, Santa Cruz continue rivalry for SCCAL bragging rights | Girls basketball preview Jan 02, 2022 | By Ray Hacke

As they dueled for league and Central Coast Section supremacy last spring, Aptos and Santa Cruz developed a compelling high school girls’ basketball rivalry.
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Aptos’ Jazmine Castañeda, SC’s Julia Moore head county’s star power | Girls soccer preview Dec 26, 2021 | By Ray Hacke

Now that they’re seniors, they’re well on their way to doing so again – and they’ve carried their respective girls’ soccer teams to unbeaten records in the process.
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