Sports

Watsonville High and other local football teams this week were in full gear preparing for the upcoming 2024 fall season. The season officially begins Aug. 9 with the first day of practice, but teams were still allowed to wear helmets and shoulder pads starting Monday. After...

Watsonville High senior and football junkie Joselyn Gutierrez has been playing competitive flag football since her days of ruling the grass fields at Lakeview Middle School. When she became a freshman, her career was momentarily cut short only because the sport wasn’t an option in...

Cook, a 6-foot-2, 179-pound guard who was twice named a G League All-Star with the Canton Charge, joins rookie forward Chris Boucher as the team’s other two-way player.

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 Wildcatz earned the No. 12 seed in Division I, and will host unseeded Milpitas High on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the first round of the bracket.

With energy to spare and a couple of bounces here and there, No. 2 Mt. Madonna swept the No. 3-seeded St. Francis High Sharks 25-19, 25-22, 25-21 to advance to Friday’s Central Coast Section Division V championship game back at Watsonville High.

The Watsonville, St. Francis and Pajaro Valley boys’ basketball teams will be fighting for the same league title next winter.

Aptos received the No. 5 seed in the CCS Open Division III playoffs, and will travel to No. 4 Terra Nova on Friday for a rematch of last year’s quarterfinals matchup.

It’s now or never for Watsonville High senior Daisy Cornejo as she enters her fourth year with the girls’ volleyball team.  And the same can be said for nine other Wildcatz seniors aiming to leave their mark in what they hope will be a successful...