Sports

WATSONVILLE—The Monte Vista Christian girls’ basketball team surprised a lot of people after it made a deep run in last year’s Central Coast Section playoffs. The Mustangs were eliminated in the Division IV semifinals. Yet, returning players such as senior guard Angelina Cortes are more...

SEASIDE—Monterey Bay F.C. announced Tuesday that the club signed Watsonville native Adrian Rebollar to a two-year contract extension in advance of the 2023 USL Championship campaign, pending league and federation approval.  “There’s no better feeling than knowing that I’ll be coming back next year to...

The Santa Cruz Warriors halted a three-game losing streak on Sunday night with a 131-127 overtime victory over the South Bay Lakers.

WATSONVILLE—The Pacific Coast Athletic League Cypress division will be full of local action with three teams from Watsonville batting against each other for league supremacy this season.   Last year’s runner up, Pajaro Valley High along with St. Francis High and Watsonville High—the newcomers to...

A handful of clutch hits, a gritty pitching performance and a couple of lucky bounces in key moments. That was the winning formula for No. 3 Watsonville in its 5-1 triumph over No. 6 Los Gatos High in the quarterfinals of the CCS Open Division playoffs on Saturday.

Focused on building up her mental toughness and working the inside of the plate, Watsonville High’s star junior pitcher did not put up the gaudy strikeout numbers of a year ago, but the end result was just as good — or maybe even better. The coaches of the Monterey Bay League Gabilan division said as much, naming Rodriguez the division’s top pitcher for the second straight season.

The Cabrillo College men’s soccer team pushed its unbeaten streak to three games with a 2-1 win against West Valley College on Friday in Coast-South Conference action.  The Seahawks continue to roll in October with a 3-1-2 record in conference play. They currently sit in...