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September 10, 2025

20 Athletes in 20 Days: Lawson Orradre, St. Francis High

St. Francis senior Lawson Orradre will compete in football, basketball and swimming this year.

Boy's MBL Track & Field: MVC 4×400 sets record; 3 other locals win titles

MVC, a team devastated by injuries from the first week of the season until the last, capped off the year with a shining moment of victory at the Monterey Bay League division championships, winning the 4x400 and shattering the school record with a time of

Little League Roundup, 5/25: PVLL playoffs off and running

The Braves bounced back from their opening loss in the Pajaro Valley Little League Majors playoff in a big way on Tuesday, riding a 12-run second inning outburst in their 15-2 four-inning win over the Athletics.

PVUSD opts not to bring back Becky Clark as Watsonville’s athletic director

After spending just one year at the helm, Becky Clark was dismissed from her role as Watsonville High’s athletic director effective at the conclusion of the 2024-25 school year. Clark told The Pajaronian on Tuesday that she received a letter from Pajaro Valley Unified School...

Davis, Joyce homer, A's beat White Sox 3-0

Khris Davis and Matt Joyce homered, Cotton pitched three-hit ball into the sixth inning before leaving with a blister on his right thumb and the Athletics beat the Chicago White Sox 3-0 on Friday night.

Aptos’ Summer Jacob named league’s co-MVP | SCCAL girls soccer

APTOS—It’s typically difficult to identify an MVP-type caliber soccer player when they primarily play in the defensive backfield and it’s the attackers producing all of the highlight reels with the goals and assists. Aptos High senior defensive midfielder Summer Jacob recorded just one goal and...

CIF Cross Country Championships, 2018: Sharks' Kelly leads local quartet at state

Making his fourth and final appearance at the state meet, Kelly completed the 5-kilometer course in 16 minutes, and 51.3 seconds. He passed up 15 runners over the last mile to notch his best finish in Fresno — he was 29th last fall.

Desharnais scores late in OT to lift Oilers over Sharks, 4-3

Desharnais' goal with less than two minutes to go in the first overtime helped the Oilers beat the Sharks 4-3 on Thursday night and push San Jose to the brink of elimination in the NHL playoffs.

HS Sports: Watsonville fills baseball, girls basketball coaching vacancies

James Garza was hired to lead the school’s baseball program, and Zach Cook was tabbed to take over the girls basketball team, Watsonville Athletic Director Mark Northcutt recently told the Register-Pajaronian.

All-R-P Girls Soccer, 2017-18: Aptos' Hernandez Marquez named Player of the Year again

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.