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Pajaro Valley junior guard Juanito Montiel finished with a team-best 16 points but it wasn’t enough as the Grizzlies boys’ basketball team fell to Kirby School, 49-44, in a battle for first place of the Pacific Coast Athletic League Santa Lucia Division on Wednesday...

Aptos High came into last week’s game against newly formed rival Palma High with a league record of 1-1 and major playoff implications. As expected, the game was offensively fueled with back and forth scoring as neither team had a clear edge heading into the...

St. Francis split its opening series of Pacific Coast Athletic League Gabilan division action against Salinas.

Aptos senior Isaiah Ackerman and Santa Cruz junior DeMarco Hunter were named the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League’s co-Most Valuable Players for the 2024-25 boys’ basketball season. According to statistics on the Max Preps website, Ackerman had an average of 20.3 points, 9.0 rebounds and...

Only three players that were signed with Santa Cruz last season return to the team and head coach Casey Hill, who led the franchise to a championship in 2015 and is now the leader of the Agua Caliente Clippers, is also gone, replaced by first-time head coach Aaron Miles in July.

Over the past 19 seasons Marcopulos has built men’s basketball at Cabrillo College from perennial cellar dweller into a conference powerhouse. In nine of the last 11 years, the Seahawks have been named at least co-champion of the Coast Conference South, and produced five of the last six Conference MVP’s.

The 2024 fall season for Scotts Valley junior Hayden Smith and the Falcons girls’ volleyball team just got underway. So far, so good. Smith finished with a team-best nine kills and seven digs in Tuesday’s non-league victory over Monterey High in three sets (25-12, 25-23, 25-20). “I...

Watsonville High senior Rylee Gomez once again lit up the scoreboard with just one crack of the bat for the Wildcatz softball team.  The nifty short stop launched a two-run home run in Monday’s 9-5 victory against North Salinas High in Pacific Coast Athletic League...