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Pajaro Valley will return to the Pacific Coast Athletic League and have a solid chance to win a league title in a league that features six other teams with losing records from last season.

Senior forward Jason Gallo had 18 points, fellow senior forward Chase Watkins added 22 points, including 12 in the fourth quarter, and St. Francis outlasted Aptos 56-53 on senior night to set up a pivotal Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League showdown with Santa Cruz High on Tuesday night.

Watsonville High freshman Layla Ruiz finished off her impressive first cross country season by taking second in the freshman race of the Foot Locker Cross Country National Championship West Regional, Saturday at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut.

Garcia was named to the Mission Trail Athletic League Coastal division First Team on the boys’ side, and Braga made the league’s first team on the girls’ side.

The Monte Vista Christian boys’ cross country team won the small school varsity yellow race at the ASICS 45th Annual Clovis Invitational at Woodward Park in Fresno on Oct. 12.  The Mustangs finished with a team score of 85 to edge Yosemite (86 points), which...

Pajaro Valley High senior Izaak Ocampo knows the football program has been considered a doormat of the league for quite some time.  In fact, the Grizzlies have recorded just one winning season since the team began competing in 2006. That was long before he was...

With three league games left, Aptos is only two wins away from clinching at least a share of its third league championship in the last four seasons. The Mariners have had a little help along the way — P.C.S. beating Mt. Madonna on Tuesday left them all alone in the league’s top spot — but for the majority of the season, they’ve controlled their own destiny with dramatic comebacks, various lineup changes and a “next-point” mentality.