Sports

Watsonville High freshman Layla Ruiz and senior Daniela Salazar finished first and second, respectively, at Thursday’s Monterey Bay League Pacific division Center Meet at Pinto Lake County Park.

Sophomore Mia Totah rolled to a 6-0, 6-0 win over St. Francis High junior Gabi Gutierrez to claim the singles title for the second consecutive year, while twin sisters Lila and Rebecca Sampson, also sophomores, matched her output en route to a repeat title in the doubles, topping St. Francis’ duo of Katherine Casper and Maya Talavera, 6-0, 6-0.

Local tennis trainer Jon Tarr was recently named the USTA NorCal 2018 ACES Award League Volunteer of the Year.

The longtime Monterey Bay League Gabilan division rivals played to an unsatisfying scoreless tie at Emmett M. Geiser Field that left the teams, coaches and dozens of fans wanting more.

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.

Senior Kourosh Safari repeated as the SCCAL singles champ with a grueling 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 win over Santa Cruz High’s Jack Tierney, while the Mariners’ duo of Carter Bond and Jake Kluger breezed through Soquel High’s pair of Lincoln Cooley and Casey Valcarcel, 6-1, 6-3, for the doubles title at the Seascape Sports Club.

The quartet of team of Jordan Kadlecek, Anthony Cardenas-Ramos, Diego Hammana and Hunter Matys set the track at Trevin Dilfer Field ablaze with a time of 43.98 seconds — a little less than half a second off the school record — and the Mariners’ boys cruised to their fourth Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League championship in the last five years on Saturday.

Madrigal is part of the Santa Cruz Breakers FC inaugural Premier Development League (PDL) soccer team, which is set to play its first home match on Saturday at Cabrillo College at 7:30 p.m. against the San Francisco Glens SC.