Sports

The Watsonville High boys’ soccer team received some late-game heroics from an unsung hero in Wednesday night’s non-league match against visiting Salinas High. Senior Alexis Valenzuela scored his first goal of the season to help lift the Wildcatz past the Cowboys, 2-0. Salinas was undefeated going into the...

After a disappointing fifth place finish in last year’s Wharf to Wharf race, Arturs Medveds managed to find some sweet redemption on Sunday morning.  The 25-year-old Latvian won the 53rd running of the event in 27 minutes, 04 seconds, edging defending champion Evert Silva (27:16)...

At 4-0, Pajaro Valley is off to its best start in program history and has shown no signs of slowing. The Grizzlies return all nine players from last year’s squad, which won just four games in total but learned a valuable lesson while taking its lumps.

Aptos will have a shot to win its fourth section title of the decade, a feat only two public school programs have managed to accomplish.

The 32nd annual Nordic Naturals Challenger finals are all set in stone for championship Sunday at the Seascape Sports Club in Aptos.

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...

Playing in its 18th section final and looking for its 12th CCS title, Watsonville constantly peppered Lincoln with long-range attempts at goal but never found the score it needed to walk away as champion.

*NOTE: This story was written prior to Thursday night’s decision to suspend school athletics.  Make no joke about it. The coronavirus is real and it’s slowly making its way into the Pajaro Valley. But the big scare hasn’t affected any of the prep sports in the...