Sports

https://soundcloud.com/cover3sports/season-1-episode-4-bringing-home-some-new-ccs-hardware In this week’s episode, sports editors Emanuel Lee and Juan Reyes will recap what happened with some of our local teams in the CCS baseball championships. Then they’ll dive into the CCS Track and Field Finals, find out who came out on top as medalist...

SOQUEL—Aptos High’s Elizabeth Churchill was literally running all over the Central Coast Section Track and Field Championships, setting personal records in three events and standing atop of the podium for two.   The junior standout competed in the long jump, the 100-meter hurdles and took home...

SOQUEL—The Monte Vista Christian 4x400-meter relay team at Saturday’s Central Coast Section Track and Field Finals showed why it belonged with some of the big-name schools from over the hill. The Mustangs—led by Jake Morris, Sage Oliver, Andrew Bachman and Justin Lomeli—finished third in 3...

https://soundcloud.com/cover3sports/season-1-episode-3-coming-down-the-final-stretch In this week’s episode, Emanuel Lee and Juan Reyes will recap what happened with some of the local softball teams in the CCS championships. Then they'll dive into the CCS baseball championships, find out which teams have a chance to bring home a title. And finally,...

This track and field season has been nothing close to what Watsonville High senior Jonathan Arroyo has experienced in years past. He described it as a short and stressful season chock full of surprises. “It was unexpected,” he said. The unexpected season took another surprising turn...

Aptos High junior Elizabeth Churchill will compete in three events—100-meter hurdles, high jump and long jump—at Saturday’s Central Coast Section finals at Soquel High School.   Churchill qualified for the 100 hurdles with the seventh-fastest time of 16.62 seconds at the CCS semifinals last week. She...

SAN JOSE—It’s been more than 40 years since the North Monterey County softball team began competing in the Central Coast Section postseason. But each time they’ve gone to the playoffs, the results were never in their favor.  That changed this year.  The No. 3-seeded Condors brought...

WATSONVILLE—Watsonville High seniors Tea Villalta, Maya Guerrero, Maliyah Sandin and Anastacia Alba have been part of the softball team since 2018. As freshmen, they got a taste of what the Central Coast Section postseason was like.  They also felt the bitter pain of elimination after...

WATSONVILLE—The Watsonville High softball team is going back to the Central Coast Section championship thanks to a late heroic performance by Yaviana Prado and the rest of the ’Catz crew. The junior outfielder hit a two-out, walk-off grand slam that capped a six-run inning to...

APTOS—Anwar Ayyad had the hot hand for the No. 7 seed Aptos High as the Mariners defeated No. 10 Sobrato High, 54-42, in the opening round of the Central Coast Section Division III boys basketball playoffs Saturday night. The senior forward caught fire at the...