Sports

Boys and girls basketball were both split into five divisions, boys and girls soccer were split in four divisions and wrestling found its home with three.

APTOS—The Aptos High baseball team went into last week’s pivotal meeting against Santa Cruz High eager to prove itself the best team in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League. Gabe Gaeckle was instrumental in helping the Mariners beat the Cardinals, 9-0, on April 14, responding...

Down seven heading into the fourth quarter, No. 2 Aptos buckled down on defense and made just enough plays on offense to escape No. 15 Marin Catholic, 56-54, and advance to the quarterfinals of the CIF NorCal Division III playoffs.

With his wrestling career on hold until the winter, Slay’s racing career got a major boost on Aug. 1, when the 17-year-old scored his first United States Auto Club Speed2 Western Dirt Midget race win at the Ventura County Fair.

As of Thursday, Aptos was one of four teams in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties that remained alive in the California Interscholastic Federation State boys basketball championships.  The No. 9 seed Mariners play at top seeded The King’s Academy—both representing the Central Coast Section—in the...