Salinas is headed back to the CCS Division I volleyball finals after beating No. 2 seed Branham. Palma falls in the Division V semifinals to No. 2 seed Crystal Springs Upland.
Salinas will begin defense of its CCS Division I volleyball title as the No. 3 seed; King City earns No. 2 seed in Division III; Carmel seeded No. 2 in Division IV
Mark Climaco defeated Victor Dias by unanimous decision to win the main event at Legacy Fighting Alliance 192 at Kaiser Permanente Arena in Santa Cruz on Friday.
Pacific Collegiate School senior volleyball talent Finn Pommerenke was named the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s Mission Division Offensive Player of the Year.
Three local high school girls volleyball players, Watsonville’s Daisy Cornejo, Pacific Collegiate’s Jade Hausmann, and Pajaro Valley’s Kalia Maravilla, were honored as all-Pacific Coast Athletic League first-team selections.
Two Santa Cruz athletes, Sae Ackerstein and Madalyn “Munchie” Price, have been selected to represent the United States as part of the Youth National Team at the International Surf Rescue Challenge at South Padre Island, Texas, on Sept 17-24.
Pacific Collegiate School senior outside hitter Nolan Crane was a second-team selection in voting for the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s all-Gabilan Division boys volleyball team, and Pajaro Valley junior libero Cin Chavez was a second-team selection in the Mission Division.
Kirby School girls volleyball player Anna Shelton, a 5-foot-9 senior setter/outside hitter, was named co-MVP of the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s Santa Lucia Division with Greenfield senior setter Ariana Villagomez.
Santa Cruz’s Autumn Hays won her opening heat at the World Surf League’s WRV Outer Banks Pro, a QS1,000 event on Thursday in Nags Head, North Carolina.