Sports

Sam Groth, Liam Broady, Alexander Bublik and Taylor Fritz all punched their ticket to today’s semifinal round of the 30th annual Nordic Naturals Challenger presented by Santa Cruz County Bank.

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.

Watsonville High and other local football teams this week were in full gear preparing for the upcoming 2024 fall season. The season officially begins Aug. 9 with the first day of practice, but teams were still allowed to wear helmets and shoulder pads starting Monday. After...

The Cabrillo College Seahawks women’s basketball began its season with a 62-60 win over the College of Marin on Saturday night on the road.

She took sixth in the Division III race by completing the 5,000-meter Woodward Park course in Fresno with a time of 18 minutes, 23.7 seconds.

The Watsonville High Wildcatz followed through on a gift from Christopher High on Thursday evening by beating Salinas High, 5-0, at the Salinas Sports Complex to earn a share of the Monterey Bay League Gabilan division title.

Justin Sanders put on an impressive display of driving on Friday night, winning the 30-lap Taco Bravo Sprint Car Main Event at Ocean Speedway in Watsonville.

Cabrillo College halted its losing streak at five games with a 36-20 win over winless Gavilan College on Saturday at Gilroy High in American Golden Coast Conference action.

Togo's High School Athletes of the Week for the week of Feb. 4-10.

After going through the challenging preseason portion of its schedule, Aptos High was primed and ready to make a run at defending last year’s share of the Gabilan Division championship.    The road back to league supremacy became a tad bit harder for the Mariners following...