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December 16, 2025

CIF census: Overall participation up; football, wrestling continue to lose student-athletes

Overall, student-athlete participation was at an all-time high for the fifth consecutive year, making a .78 percent leap to 785,357 participants.

Podcast: Trying to stay alive | Cover 3 Sports

https://soundcloud.com/cover3sports/season-2-episode-7-trying-to-stay-alive In this week’s episode, sports editors Emanuel Lee and Juan Reyes will recap the football season with some team updates and their latest Power Poll Rankings. Then they'll have John Devine join them to discuss the game of the week and bring us up to...

HS Football: St. Francis short on numbers, not on talent

Heading into the first day of class, St. Francis, a private school of roughly 250 students, has just 19 players on its roster — 13 seniors and six juniors.

HS football: Anderson named best defensive player in PCAL Cypress division

North Monterey County High senior Riley Anderson was a ball hawk in the defensive backfield throughout the season.  It was all the reason to name the 5-foot-11 defensive back as the Pacific Coast Athletic League Cypress division’s defensive player of the year. Other notable first-team selections...

Nordic Naturals Challenger: Playful Bublik beats Broady for title

Bublik had plenty of fun both on the court and off of it at Sunday’s Nordic Naturals Challenger singles championship. The 20-year-old captured his second Challenger title of the year, beating crowd favorite Liam Broady, 6-2, 6-3, and then hopped into the

G League Basketball: Warriors cruise to second win of season

Quinn Cook had 24 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, Michael Gbinije added 21 points and the Santa Cruz Warriors cruised to a 111-82 win over the Wisconsin Herd on Friday night in front of a sold-out crowd at Kaiser Permanente Arena.

HS Athletes of the Week, 12/28: Jael Leal & Olivia Meier

The Register-Pajaronian High School Athletes of the Week for the week of Dec. 17-23.

Davis homers in 9th to lift A's past Indians 5-3

Davis hit his 25th homer, a two-run shot in the ninth inning that lifted the A's to a 5-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday night.

No obstacle is too large for young Sharks squad | Girls flag football

St. Francis made a name for itself following a tremendous 2023 fall campaign in what was the inaugural official season for girls flag football in California.  Opposing teams who didn’t know it then should probably start paying closer attention now. The Sharks are off to...

Sanchez, Spangenberg hit 3-run homers in Padres' 7-1 win over Giants

Hedges isn't in danger of losing his job, and probably will back behind the plate as soon as Monday night. But Sanchez more than proved his reliability when he hit a three-run homer in the Padres' 7-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday.