Sports

Boys and girls basketball were both split into five divisions, boys and girls soccer were split in four divisions and wrestling found its home with three.

Watsonville’s Layla Ruiz won the 400-, 1,600- and 3,200-meters in the Wildcatz’s Monterey Bay League Pacific division dual meet win over Gilroy on Thursday.

For being the fearless and consistent heart of the Sharks’ squad, the Register-Pajaronian is naming Gallo our Player of the Year for boys basketball.

Watsonville principal Elaine Legorreta wrote in an email that the program is going in a “direction consistent with our vision for the coaching staff” and that assistant coaches James Carranco and Max Gonzales would take over for the remainder of the season. The Wildcatz also added Watsonville alumnus Daniel Hernandez to the coaching staff as an assistant.

Riland Wagner had 23 kills, 11 assists and four aces to lead the Monte Vista Christian Mustangs over the Watsonville Wildcatz, 17-25, 25-23, 25-21, 20-25, 15-11 on Tuesday night in Monterey Bay League Pacific division play.

Watsonville suspended first-year baseball coach Leroy Dozal indefinitely on Monday, Principal Elaine Legorreta confirmed with this newspaper on Tuesday morning.

Wildcatz’s freshman distance runner Layla Ruiz won the 400- and 3,200-meters at the King City Invitational on Saturday. She moved into seventh in both events in Watsonville’s all-time record book.

St. Francis scored five runs over the final two innings to stun defending Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League champion San Lorenzo Valley, 5-4, and pick up its first league win of the season on Tuesday afternoon at home.