Mariners standout guards earn All-SCCAL first team honors | Girls basketball
Aptos High senior guards Jaylen Dang and Jasmine Ackerman earned spots on the all-Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League First Team in a recent vote by the league basketball coaches.
Dang averaged 14.3 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.6 assists for the Mariners (17-10, 6-4), who placed...
Girl's Cross Country Preview: Grizzlies see numbers rise to record highs
The last two seasons, P.V. didn’t have enough girls to place as a team at league finals — at least five runners are required to record a score — but this year Reyes and assistant head coach Christina Guerrero have the tough task of picking a starting seven.
Girls' soccer roundup, 1/25: Castillo scores twice in Grizzlies' PCAL-C tie
Jasmin Castillo scored two goals to help the Pajaro Valley Grizzlies force a Pacific Coast Athletic League Cypress division tie on Wednesday evening.
Watsonville hires former standout Nick Peña to lead wrestling program
Nick Peña, a former Watsonville wrestling standout and Central Coast Section champion, was named the new head coach of the Wildcatz wrestling team for the upcoming 2025-26 winter season.
After taking over as the interim head coach last year, Peña, 44, will return to lead...
AAU girls’ hoops team wins Bay Area tourney
RICHMOND—A local Amateur Athletic Union girls’ basketball team won a competitive tournament in the Bay Area this past weekend.
Athletic Club Santa Cruz beat out teams from Oakland, Richmond and San Francisco to capture the championship that was held at a local gymnasium in Richmond.
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Girls' CCS Basketball: Watsonville earns 1st postseason berth since 2013; Aptos get No. 2 in D-III
The Wildcatz earned the No. 12 seed in Division I, and will host unseeded Milpitas High on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the first round of the bracket.
Girls PCAL Cross Country: Watsonville's Ruiz returns to form, St. Francis wins first team title
After being hampered by a nagging leg injury throughout the year, Ruiz returned to her usual dominant self to cruise to the individual PCAL Cypress division crown, and post the fastest overall time of the day on the 3-mile Toro Park course in Salinas.
