Sports

After blowing a 15-point lead in the second half, Cabrillo rallied in the fourth quarter to knock off the three-time defending Coast Conference South division champ, Foothill College, 63-56, and notch their seventh straight victory.

Tuesday night’s 68-49 victory over St. Francis High locked up the program’s first 12-0 Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League season since 1983. It’s also the first time the Mariners’ can call themselves league champions — period — since 2001.

Linton Acliese had 19 points and 11 rebounds, Tynan Velasquez added 16 points, five assists, four rebounds and three steals and the No. 9-seeded Cabrillo College men’s basketball team upset No. 8 Columbia College 60-50 in the second round of the CCCAA NorCal playoffs on Friday night in Sonora.

Watsonville High and North Monterey County High both climbed a spot in the weekly rankings after securing wins last week.

The Cabrillo College Seahawks women’s basketball team halted its two-game losing skid Wednesday defeating the Reedley College Tiger 67-53 in the Adobe palace.

Instead, they were OK with being the worst team in the league this year and the winless start is disappointing but not surprising. They’re trotting out 14 rookies every week and expecting them to learn the game while getting shelled. For some reason, the Niners have been spared the bashing and criticism that the equally bad Cleveland Browns, who are also 0-7, have received.

Behind Monserrat Hernandez Marquez’s hat trick, Aptos High rolled past St. Francis High in a 9-0 Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League victory on Thursday night in Aptos.

Curry played his most minutes since missing nearly six weeks with a knee injury, finishing with 28 points and helping the Golden State Warriors advance to the Western Conference finals for a fourth straight year by dismantling Anthony Davis and the New Orleans Pelicans 113-104 in Game 5 on Tuesday night.

Deleissegues was one of three St. Francis senior student-athletes who took a hold of the mic and gave thanks at Monday’s ceremony on the school’s campus. Chase Watkins and Janiya Sevilla also dished gratitude after signing their letters of intent to Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo and Hope International University, respectively.

Playing in its first-ever CIF NorCal Division II semifinal match, No. 4 Aptos gave top-seeded Amador Valley High everything it could handle in a 25-20, 19-25, 25-13, 23-25, 23-21 loss in Pleasanton.