Sports

Aptos High’s longtime coach Jamie Townsend was named a Central Coast Section Spring Honor Coach for the 2016-17 season on Friday.

With that infectious love for the game as her guiding light, Hernandez Marquez was the driving force behind Aptos High’s success over the last four seasons. An All-Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League First Team selection as a freshman, the league’s forward of the year her sophomore year and the SCCAL’s Most Valuable Player each of the last two seasons, Hernandez Marquez can now add another accomplishment to her long list.

Watsonville High senior defender Damian Moreno knocked in the game-winning goal for the boys’ soccer team, and the Wildcatz defeated Pajaro Valley, 1-0, in Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission Division action Feb. 9.  With the win, the ‘Catz secured the Mission Division crown for the...

Aptos High recently celebrated six senior student-athletes who officially committed to compete at the collegiate level after signing their National Letter of Intent on Nov. 28. Athletic director Travis Fox said that last month’s event was not just for the students to celebrate, but it...

Aptos senior Logan Brantley won the discus event with a toss of 169-feet, 6 inches in the open division at the prestigious Arcadia Track and Field Invitational on April 11-12. The Mariners’ standout athlete also placed 12th in the discus invitational division with a throw...

SANTA CRUZ–The Watsonville High boys’ basketball team on Tuesday took a short road trip up Highway 1 to square off against crosstown rival Pajaro Valley High. The Wildcatz hosted the Grizzlies in their Pacific Coast Athletic League Cypress Division game at Kaiser Permanente Arena, home of the Santa Cruz...

On a night in which the sophomores were supposed to take center stage, it was the true freshmen that stole the show, as the Cabrillo College men’s basketball team closed out its conference home schedule with a 70-63 victory over the De Anza College Dons on Feb. 15 in the Adobe Palace.