Sports

WATSONVILLE—Monte Vista Christian junior goalkeeper Alexa Malespina was named the Pacific Coast Athletic League Mission Division’s Defensive Player of the Year for her stellar performance in front of the net this season. According to the Monterey Bay Preps website, she recorded 76 saves and two...

Ruiz not only cruised to the individual Pacific division title at the Monterey Bay League Championships but finished just four seconds behind the Gabilan division champion, Notre Dame-Salinas sophomore Angela Leavitt, in the league’s overall results.

All but one local boys basketball team will get to unwrap a whole new set of challenges this winter, as six squads were placed into five tiered divisions of the Pacific Coast Athletic League — a 31-school super league made up of the previous members of the Monterey Bay League and Mission Trail Athletic League.

APTOS—The stakes were high for the Aptos High girls' soccer team in last week’s match against league rival Santa Cruz High.  The Mariners needed to secure a win in order to stay alive in the race for the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League title. However, senior...

CASTROVILLE—The North Monterey County High golf program doesn’t have a “feeder” system, which means a majority of participants start as raw beginners with little to no experience with the clubs. But since 2012, the Condors’ boys and girls programs have finished no worse than second...

SOQUEL—Aptos High senior Elizabeth Churchill won four events including a record-setting performance in the high jump at the fifth annual Knights Invite.  Churchill, who is competing next year at UC Davis, jumped a personal-best 5 feet, 08 inches that helped her claim the high jump...

WATSONVILLE—Watsonville High junior Brody Legions was locked in down the stretch during Friday night’s league contest against St. Francis, making sure not to let a defender slip past him for the go-ahead score. The Sharks still had plenty of chances to take the lead, or...

In the moment and in the zone, Rovai and Glynn outlasted Castilleja’s duo of Simran Sandhu and Lexi Bundy, 6-7, 6-2, 6-1, in No. 1 doubles to help the Mariners edge the Gators, 4-3, in the first round of the Central Coast Section team tournament on Monday at the Seascape Sports Club.

Monte Vista Christian announced the addition of two new head coaches for the upcoming 2024-25 prep sports year.  The school’s athletics website posted in June that Juan Diego Alvarez and Al Toney were brought on board to lead the girls’ soccer and boys’ basketball programs,...

The Santa Cruz Red Colt team had to forfeit Sunday's Super Region championship but still advances to the West Zone Tournament, which begins Thursday at P.A.L. Stadium.