Sports

The Pajaronian sports editor Juan Reyes went to Levi's Stadium to watch Sunday's game between San Francisco 49ers and Atlanta Falcons. He was on assignment to do a story on Watsonville native and St. Francis High alumnus Ty Sambrailo but he was also able...

Aptos, ranked 25th in the state by Maxpreps.com, almost saw its undefeated start to the season come to an end in a 1-1 draw against Santa Cruz, ranked 135th.

Hernandez Marquez was recently named the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League’s Most Valuable Player after leading Aptos to its fourth straight league title.

The thought of retirement for Watsonville High Athletic Director Marcus Northcutt came creeping into his head last year in the summer when he was having a hard time with his health. After five years of dialysis, he received a kidney transplant at the end of...

The Central Coast Section took a huge step backwards and went from 11 to just nine crews made up of five officials for the football season.

Aptos began its Central Coast Section postseason run Friday night as one of the lowest seeded teams entering the Division III field.  In other words, it's all about survival and advancing from here on out.   Senior running back Damian Suchil had a total of three touchdowns,...

SANTA CRUZ—The last time the St. Francis High football team stepped foot on the field it won in a blowout against Harbor High to end the 2019 season on a high note. The Sharks hoped that the momentum from that win would continue into the...

Hartnell College sophomore Daniela Salazar went through a rough patch at the start of the cross country season and got a later start than most of her peers.  The Watsonville High alumna suffered shin splints at the end of last year’s track and field season,...

The No. 1-seeded Sharks dismantled the No. 16-seeded Fresno Christian Eagles 86-56 on Wednesday in the opening round of the California Interscholastic Federation NorCal Division V state playoffs at home in front of a raucous crowd.