Mariners set to make a run in the CCS D-III playoffs | Boys basketball
APTOS—The Aptos High boys’ basketball team might actually get its chance to play a rubber match against league rival Santa Cruz High in the upcoming Central Coast Section postseason.
The Mariners and Cardinals, co-champions of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League, split their regular-season meetings...
CCS Baseball: St. Francis unravels in D-III final against The King's Academy
Chase Watkins plans to study business when he heads to Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo on a baseball scholarship in the fall. But the St. Francis High senior outfielder dipped into his science and history databanks when trying to sum up the Sharks’ disappointing 14-2 loss to The King’s Academy Knights in Saturday’s Central Coast Section Division III championship game.
HS Volleyball: Aptos enjoying winning streak, proving doubters wrong
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.
PV Sports Football Power Rankings, 11/14: Mustangs finish atop with PCAL Mission title
1. M.V.C. (7-2, 5-1): The Mustangs lost a triple-overtime heartbreaker against Seaside High in the regular season finale.
Monte Vista Christian now has to share the Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission division title with the Spartans and Alisal High, which hadn’t won a league title...
HS Athletes of the Week, 1/4: Christian Quintero & Natalia Ackerman
The Register-Pajaronian High School Athletes of the Week for the week of Dec. 24-30.
High School Athletes of the Week, 9/21: Andrew Seymour & Layla Ruiz
The Register-Pajaronian High School Athletes of the Week for the week of Sept. 10-16.
R-P Female Student-Athlete of the Year, 2017-18: Zlatunich ran to greatness in final year
Over the last four school years, Zlatunich kept the Mariners’ cross country team on top of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League and Central Coast Section, while also bringing it back to the top of the mountain at the state level. And on the track, she helped Aptos regain control of the SCCAL and followed in the footsteps of the team’s former stars at CCS.
