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Sayers unexpectedly tumbled to the dirt while running out a foul ball, but quickly rose to her feet, dusted herself off and started the Mariners’ game-sealing push with an RBI triple in the seventh inning of Thursday evening’s 7-3 Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League win over host St. Francis High.

The Aptos High dance team shimmied and grooved their way to a successful 2024 season that was capped off with a strong outing at last month’s USA Dance Nationals in Southern California.  Bella Garvey, a senior, took seventh in the Solo Champion division, while Zoey...

The coaches within the Pacific Coast Athletic League announced the boys’ all-league soccer teams for the 2024-25 season.  Watsonville senior Tlaloc Ledesma-Peña and junior Alexis Castillo along with Pajaro Valley senior Luis Tellez-Mejia earned first team honors in the Mission Division.  Castillo led the Wildcatz with...

SALINAS—Watsonville High freshman Katelynn Ruiz was the first runner to cross the finish line to help lead the Wildcatz to a team win in the Pacific Coast Athletic League Cypress Division Center Meet No. 3 on Wednesday. Ruiz won the 3-mile race in 19 minutes,...

With their backs against the wall versus the top team in Northern California, the No. 8-seeded Vikings (17-9) hit harder, moved faster and played with an uninhibited confidence resembling that of the two-time state champion Seahawks (26-3).

Senior Kourosh Safari repeated as the SCCAL singles champ with a grueling 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 win over Santa Cruz High’s Jack Tierney, while the Mariners’ duo of Carter Bond and Jake Kluger breezed through Soquel High’s pair of Lincoln Cooley and Casey Valcarcel, 6-1, 6-3, for the doubles title at the Seascape Sports Club.

Aptos High senior Lena Manchester wasn’t too concerned about rankings or what lane she had to run in prior to her 100 meters hurdles race at last week’s Central Coast Section Finals. In fact, she tends to push herself a lot harder knowing there’s always...

The Pacific Coast Athletic League, a 33-school super league that will merge the members of the current Mission Trail Athletic League, Monterey Bay League and St. Francis next school year, recently released its division placings for the 2018 fall sports season.

WATSONVILLE—A pair of student-athletes out of St. Francis High are ready to take their talents to the next level.  Seniors Audrey Hernandez and Josh Hernandez both signed their National Letter of Intent during a ceremony held at campus on Friday. Both will continue their athletic...

His participation in track and field is somewhat of an act of defiance — internally and externally. He wants to push his limits as an athlete and person, and he also wants to challenge his peer’s beliefs of people with disabilities. Because of his condition, he uses a wheelchair, he has a speech impediment and his motor skills are disorganized at times. But he doesn’t want his cerebral palsy to define him. A straight-A student with a gigantic personality, Vasquez wants to break down barriers one shot toss at a time.