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According to former Watsonville baseball coach James Gomez, Rivera is the first player from the program to be drafted since Rene Rascon was selected by the Florida Marlins in the fifth round of the 1995 draft.

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.

No. 2 Mt. Madonna outlasted top-seeded Notre Dame-Salinas 25-16, 11-25, 25-17, 27-29, 15-11 to win the program’s third section crown and first since 2009.

The Watsonville Wildcatz are younger than usual, but the lofty yearly expectations thrusted upon the 11-time Central Coast Section champions haven’t changed.

In six games as a starter, Seymour has accumulated 44 rebounds, 28 points, 18 blocks, five assists and four steals for Cabrillo, who tonight travel to Gilroy to play Gavilan College in a game that could determine the conference championship.

Cabrillo College got a brand new turf field at Carl Conelly Stadium, while the old wooden bleachers inside the gymnasium were replaced with a modern set.

The Watsonville Pony all-star team battled its way through the losers bracket in the NorCal Coast Regional tournament and won a second place medal.

Bud Kaeding won the Howard Kaeding Classic 30-lap NARC/King of the West Fujitsu Sprint Car main event Saturday night at Ocean Speedway.

Pajaro Valley High announced Wednesday that Cesar Padilla is stepping in as the new coach of the girls’ soccer program.