Aptos’ Anahi Macias selected as league’s top player | All-SCCAL girls soccer
Aptos senior Anahi Macias was named the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League’s Player of the Year for the 2024-25 girls soccer season. The Mariners’ team co-captain finished with five goals and one assist.
Macias, the SCCAL’s reigning Defender of the Year, made the switch to...
MBL-G Softball: Watsonville suffers 1st loss of season to defending league champ
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.
MBL-G Softball: Watsonville searching for answers after tough loss to San Benito
Watsonville once again came heartbreakingly close to knocking off powerhouse San Benito High — a 10-time Central Coast Section Champion — on Thursday, falling 3-1 in eight innings to the Haybalers in Monterey Bay League Gabilan division action on Senior N
Aptos hires alum Johnny Velez to lead wrestling program
Aptos High last week announced that Johnny Velez was named the new head coach for both the boys’ and girls’ wrestling teams.
The 31-year-old Aptos High alum is replacing long time coach Rudy Guzman who retired at the end of the 2023-24 season.
Guzman was an...
HS Volleyball: WHS coach steps down after probe in neighboring county
Tom Schatz, an embattled former teacher and volleyball coach who recently resigned from Rancho San Justo Middle School in Hollister, has stepped down from his head coaching positions with the Watsonville High girls and boys volleyball programs, Watsonville Athletic Director Marcus Northcutt told this newspaper on Wednesday.
Local Roundup, 10/3: Cabrillo volleyball suffers first loss, bounces back
The Cabrillo College women’s volleyball team won its first Coast Conference North match on Friday night and split a pair of matches at the Foothill Classic on Saturday.
Sharks on course for program’s first ever league title | Boys soccer
A plan was set in place this season for St. Francis High senior Eilias Garcia and his fellow teammates on the boys’ soccer team.
Since the start of the winter season, they’ve been learning step by step how to execute that plan, and slowly enough...
JC roundup, 1/18: Cabrillo women score another blowout conference victory
After Wednesday night’s 74-56 drubbing of the Gavilan College Rams (4-10, 1-3) in the Adobe Palace, and the 43-point beat down in Salinas over Hartnell College on Jan. 11, the Seahawks (11-3, 4-0) look like they are starting to find their groove just in time for the heart of conference play.
HS football roundup, 10/20: Condors’ comeback cut short by Cardinals
SANTA CRUZ — North Monterey County High was one of the hottest teams in the area going into Friday night’s Pacific Coast Athletic League Cypress game against Santa Cruz High.
The Condors were looking to extend their five-game win streak but the Cardinals swooped in,...
