Sports

When Aptos High junior Gabi Dow showed up to the first day of flag football tryouts, she wasn’t sure how big of a squad they’d have for the program’s inaugural season.  Especially since a large chunk of freshmen didn't partake in summer practices.  “When people started...

Fort not only repeated as the SCCAL champion and earned the league’s lone Central Coast Section qualifying spot but she did it with a surprisingly impressive final nine holes to card a career-best 10-over par 80.

Fresh off a dream-like cross country season, Aptos junior distance runner Marea Zlatunich is running with confidence and setting lofty goals.

TOKYO—Showing off a new wave of aerial acrobatics and risky board-flipping tricks, an international field of skateboarders outshined the Americans in the sport’s final Olympic event, continuing the two-week demonstration of the skateboarding’s worldwide reach. The United States struggled to find the medal stand in...

Watsonville freshman Isabella Alvarez was crowned the Most Valuable Player at this past weekend’s Watsonville Girls Basketball Tournament.   She averaged 15 points and seven steals per game in three games for the Wildcatz who beat Christopher, DCP El Primero and Sobrato for the 3-0 sweep.   Alvarez...

WATSONVILLE—The Watsonville High softball team continued its quest for an undefeated season with another blowout victory in its final home game.  The Wildcatz defeated the Soquel High Knights, 11-2, in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play on Tuesday, improving to 15-0 overall and capturing their...

Unity is typically a key ingredient for any successful season whether it’s a winning record or a championship run in the postseason. It’s a trait that Pajaro Valley High senior Neo Moreno is trying to instill into the football team for the upcoming 2023 season. So...

It was a defensive gridlock matchup last week between Watsonville and San Lorenzo Valley high schools as neither team allowed a single point until the fourth quarter. Seemingly every four plays the defense would force a punt, going back and forth like a ping pong...