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St. Francis’ Robert Gomez Jr. earns Offensive POY honor in Mission Division | All-PCAL boys basketball

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St. Francis High junior basketball talent Robert Gomez Jr. took advantage of opponents focusing on drive-and-create wing Nash Horton in 2024-25. His senior season, with Horton graduated and competing in his freshman season of baseball at Pepperdine University, and after seeing Gomez bury 84 3-pointers and average 16.73 points last year, opponents were prepared to […]

St. Francis’ boys, girls move into quarters, joined by Aptos girls | CCS basketball roundup

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Robert Gomez Jr. had a hot hand again, but he wasn’t the only one as the No. 8 seed St. Francis High boys basketball beat unseeded North Valley Baptist 79-52 in the second round of the Central Coast Section Division V playoffs in Watsonville on Saturday.

Pajaro Valley falls to league foe King City in playoffs opener | CCS girls basketball roundup

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Monique Ayala scored all nine of her points in the second half, but the No. 12 seed Pajaro Valley High girls basketball team suffered a 39-24 loss to unseeded King City in the teams’ Central Coast Section Division III play-in game Friday in Watsonville.

SCCAL champ Scotts Valley, runner-up Santa Cruz earn No. 2 seeds, home games to open CCS | Girls basketball

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Scotts Valley High’s girls basketball team — the repeat champion in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League — was placed in Division IV for the Central Coast Section playoffs and given the No. 2 seed behind Notre Dame of Belmont.

No. 3 seed Aptos girls basketball team stuns Santa Cruz, will face No. 1 Scotts Valley in SCCAL Tournament final | Local Roundup

Sophomore guard Isabella Alvarez scored a game-high 35 points, and the No. 3 seed Aptos High’s girls basketball team upset No. 2 Santa Cruz 59-40 in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Tournament semifinals at Scotts Valley High on Wednesday.

Scotts Valley girls storm past Santa Cruz to close in on SCCAL title repeat | High school basketball roundup

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Scotts Valley High girls basketball team wasn’t given the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League championships banner after the Falcons soundly defeated visiting Santa Cruz for the second time this season Wednesday. But everyone on both benches, as well as those who helped fill out the bleachers, knew it was essentially a title-clinching outcome.

Kat Buckley leads PCS girls basketball team to Pescadero Hoop Dreams title | Local Roundup

Junior forward Kat Buckley produced another double-double, and Pacific Collegiate School’s girls basketball team beat Pescadero 43-16 in the championship of the Pescadero Hoop Dreams tournament on Saturday.