Sports

The dress rehearsal stage of the 2024-25 season is over for the Aptos girls’ soccer team.  After further review, most of the critics would probably agree they are lined up to be one of the premiere squads in the Central Coast Section. The Mariners are coming...

Watsonville High freshman Layla Ruiz finished off her impressive first cross country season by taking second in the freshman race of the Foot Locker Cross Country National Championship West Regional, Saturday at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut.

Only three players that were signed with Santa Cruz last season return to the team and head coach Casey Hill, who led the franchise to a championship in 2015 and is now the leader of the Agua Caliente Clippers, is also gone, replaced by first-time head coach Aaron Miles in July.

WATSONVILLE—Monte Vista Christian senior Kyle Recotta is on a mission to accomplish some big things for the Mustangs’ football team this upcoming season.  Especially after a challenging year plagued with injuries and going winless in the difficult Pacific Coast Athletic League’s Gabilan Division a year...

APTOS—A return for the Cabrillo College football program looked all but hopeless after it was placed on a two-year probation due to a violation for housing out-of-area players.  But in a turn of events, the school’s governing board elected to reinstate the program in a...

REDWOOD CITY—Pajaro Valley High senior Carlos Mata wasn’t in the starting lineup for their critical Central Coast Section Division I semifinal match against Sequoia High on Wednesday afternoon. In fact, he wasn’t even expecting to see any playing time on the pitch until he got...