Sports

Fourteen local players were selected for tonight’s 34th annual Central Coast High School All-Star football game at Rabobank Stadium in Salinas.

Monte Vista Christian last year had five wrestlers place at the Central Coast Section tournament, helping the Mustangs place a team-best fifth.

The Watsonville Wildcatz scored a 3-0 win over host King City on Wednesday night to keep pace with the leaders of the Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission division.

The Register-Pajaronian High School Athletes of the Week for the week of Dec. 31-Jan. 6.

Robert Bishop hit a clutch pull-up jumper with 4.1 seconds left to help Santa Cruz hold off a valiant Aptos upset bid, 59-57, in the first Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League action of the 2019 season on Friday night.

Despite the inexperience, the small K-12 charter school kept it close through two quarters — thanks in no small part to senior point guard Jarrod Garcia.

Reyes this fall pieced together arguably the most impressive football season in the program’s history, breaking at least 14 records and earning league M.V.P. honors while leading Aptos to its fourth Central Coast Section championship of the decade and first-ever regional bowl game berth.

Caroline Sullivan and Sara Thornburg scored two goals apiece, Polina Oglesby made a trio of clutch saves in the second half and Monte Vista Christian thumped St. Francis, 8-2, in a battle of Watsonville private schools Thursday evening.

Over the past 19 seasons Marcopulos has built men’s basketball at Cabrillo College from perennial cellar dweller into a conference powerhouse. In nine of the last 11 years, the Seahawks have been named at least co-champion of the Coast Conference South, and produced five of the last six Conference MVP’s.