HS Football: St. Francis' Kovacs named MTAL-C Defensive Player of the Year
St. Francis High senior linebacker Josh Kovacs was named the Mission Trail Athletic League Coastal division’s Defensive Player of the Year, the league recently announced.
HS Athletes of the Week, 1/18: Elyanna Magdaleno & Diego Padilla
High School Athletes of the Week for the week of Jan. 7-13.
Weeklys Sports Ticker: St. Francis flag football cruises past Seaside
Monte Vista Christian senior Dominic Pierini finished with 400 yards passing and four touchdowns for the Mustangs football team in a 49-28 non-league loss to Piedmont Hills High on Aug. 30.
The star quarterback also had two interceptions and two fumbles lost.
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HS Football, Week 10: Aptos falls short of MBL-G title against Salinas
The Mariners came tantalizingly close to the Monterey Bay League Gabilan division championship on Friday night but the Cowboys were cleaner and more focused when it mattered most, doing just enough to edge Aptos, 31-21, for the program’s first league title since 2014.
G League Basketball: Warriors Cook Clippers to halt 3-game slump
A night after pouring in 43 points and dishing 11 assists, Cook wowed again by recording 33 points, eight assists and four rebounds to help Santa Cruz snap a three-game losing streak with a 118-84 win over the Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario on Saturday night.
Boys' SCCAL Tennis Championships, 2018: Safari repeats in singles; Bond, Kluger victorious in doubles for team champ Aptos
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.
Kokkinakis wins both titles at Nordic Naturals Challenger
Kokkinakis became just the fifth player in the tournament’s history to win both the singles and doubles titles.
Local Roundup, 10/14: Aptos boys, girls sweep dual meet opponents
The Aptos High Mariners boy’s cross country teams picked up Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League dual meet wins over St. Francis High and Scotts Valley High on Thursday at Pinto Lake County Park in Watsonville.
HS Football Preview, Week 9: ‘Catz look to keep rolling vs. Cougars
A win against Christopher (6-2, 2-2) would not only keep Watsonville (5-2, 2-1) alive in the Monterey Bay League Pacific division title chase but it would also boost their chances of earning their first Central Coast Section playoff berth since 2009.
Girls NorCal D-V Volleyball: Mt. Madonna takes Escalon's best shot, keeps ticking to advance
Dasbach-Prisk and the No. 3-seeded Hawks took the No. 11-seeded Cougars’ best shot right on the nose, literally, and they never flinched en route to a 20-25, 25-23, 25-21, 25-14 win to advance to the California Interscholastic Federation Northern California Division V semifinals.