Sports

This week’s edition of the Pajaronian Sports Ticker highlights local prep athletes for their performances during the week of April 24-30.  Coaches and athletic directors are encouraged to submit scores and stats to [email protected]. Follow sports editor Juan Reyes on Twitter @jmreyes831 for scores and...

Watsonville High senior Katelynn Ruiz was trailing the lead runner during last week’s Pacific Coast Athletic League Cross Country Championships until she reached the second hill at Palo Corona Park.  That’s when she saw a chance to pick up her pace and outrun the rest...

This week’s edition of the Pajaronian Sports Ticker highlights local prep athletes for their performances during the week of April 8-14.    Preps of the Week Boys: Aptos High senior Isaiah Work had one double and one RBI to help the Mariners baseball team edge Scotts Valley...

CASTROVILLE—The North Monterey County High golf program doesn’t have a “feeder” system, which means a majority of participants start as raw beginners with little to no experience with the clubs. But since 2012, the Condors’ boys and girls programs have finished no worse than second...

Because of poor air quality in the Bay Area stemming from the ongoing Camp Fire just east of Chico, all of Friday’s football games will take place on Saturday at five sites in the southern portion of the CCS. The CCS Cross Country Championships, too, were pushed back a day and moved to a different location. The section’s top runners will meet at Toro Park in Salinas on Sunday at 10 a.m.

For the first time in five years the St. Francis High girls’ basketball team faced an opportunity to take home a league title. Only this time they weren’t looking to share the pie.  In a back-and-forth game filled with eccentric plays from both sides, the Sharks...