Sports

APTOS—The stakes were high for the Cabrillo College women’s soccer team going into Friday night’s season finale.   Not only did the Seahawks have a chance of clinching a Coast Conference South Division title, but they also had a shot of finishing the regular season with...

St. Francis High graduate Aaliysah Gomez had an incident when she was 2 that had doctors saying she would be blind and never able to see out of one eye. Years later, she managed to overcome that obstacle and never let her foot off the...

Watsonville senior Jillian Lerma delivered a walk-off RBI single in the Wildcatz’s 2-1 win over Palma in extra innings in Pacific Coast Athletic League Gabilan Division softball action on May 9. Lerma, who finished with a pair of hits and one RBI, smacked a ball...

The Mount Madonna girls’ volleyball team competed through blood, sweat and tears in this past weekend’s Everett Alvarez High Varsity Volleyball Tournament.   A collision in the first game between two Hawks players resulted in a bloody head injury. But they recovered and helped the team...

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Chavez takes over for Casey Neligh, who stepped down from his coaching and teaching duties in April to return to school for his master’s degree and teacher’s credential. Since Neligh’s resignation, Chavez has served as the interim head coach and run the o

At 3-0 overall and fresh off a 35-14 drubbing of Greenfield High, Watsonville High is off to its best start since 2003. But Friday night’s preseason finale against the Irvington High Vikings will, without a doubt, be the Wildcatz’s biggest test of the season so far.