Sports

The Aptos girls’ and boys’ basketball teams will hit the road on Tuesday for the first round of the California Interscholastic Federation NorCal playoffs.

Kevin Rincon, Pajaro Valley, (Jr.): Grizzlies’ junior scored five goals in back-to-back wins in PCAL Mission Division play. Rincon scored a pair of goals against Christopher High on Jan. 29, followed by a three-goal performance two days later against Monterey High.  Angelina Cortes, Monte Vista...

While the loss put a damper on the Wildcatz’s league title hopes, they still have a solid shot at earning an automatic berth to the CCS playoffs, as the PCAL-Mission sends its top three finishers to the postseason.

In three years, the Aptos Mariners went from a first-round exit in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League tournament to the program’s first Central Coast Section title in more than 30 years.

The Wildcatz fell from the ranks of the unbeaten on Tuesday evening in a frustrating 2-1 Monterey Bay League Gabilan division loss to the visiting Haybalers.

The postseason run of dreams came to an end in the California Interscholastic Federation NorCal 4-A championship game.

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...

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.