Girls' CCS basketball: Ackerman's dominance leads Aptos to redemption, second D-III title in three years
Top-seeded Aptos won its second Central Coast Section Division III crown in the last three years, and the Mariners made it look easy with a 58-37 redemption win over No. 2 South San Francisco on Saturday at Palo Alto High.
On the Lowdown: High school sports continue despite coronavirus scare
*NOTE: This story was written prior to Thursday night’s decision to suspend school athletics.
Make no joke about it. The coronavirus is real and it’s slowly making its way into the Pajaro Valley.
But the big scare hasn’t affected any of the prep sports in the...
20 Athletes in 20 Days: Christian Quintero, Pajaro Valley High
Christian Quintero is Pajaro Valley’s star point guard on the basketball team and part of a boys volleyball team that should compete for a league title this season.
St. Francis alumna Sabrina Bracken takes over girls’ volleyball program
Sabrina Bracken was just a sophomore when she joined the St. Francis High girls’ volleyball team that won a Central Coast Section title in 2008.
The former Sharks star will return to the court, only this time she’ll be holding a clipboard and hopefully resurrecting...
Aptos native Nikki Hiltz punches ticket to 2024 Olympics
Aptos native Nikki Hiltz guaranteed their spot at the upcoming Summer Games following a record-setting performance at last weekend’s U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials.
The 29-year old middle-distance runner won the women’s 1500-meters finals in 3 minutes, 55.33 seconds, setting both a personal-best and...
Ocean Speedway: Bud Kaeding captures victory in Kaeding Classic
Bud Kaeding won the Howard Kaeding Classic 30-lap NARC/King of the West Fujitsu Sprint Car main event Saturday night at Ocean Speedway.
Boys SCCAL Track & Field Championship, 2018: Deep Aptos wins another title
The quartet of team of Jordan Kadlecek, Anthony Cardenas-Ramos, Diego Hammana and Hunter Matys set the track at Trevin Dilfer Field ablaze with a time of 43.98 seconds — a little less than half a second off the school record — and the Mariners’ boys cruised to their fourth Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League championship in the last five years on Saturday.
