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Banana Slugs deliver new men’s basketball coach Matt Malone first win | Local Roundup
Santa Cruz High senior Keanna Miller placed in the top three in two divisions at the Santa Cruz Scholastic Surf Contest No. 2 at Steamer Lane in Saturday.
UCSC’s tenacious defense helps sink Cal Maritime in women’s basketball | Local Roundup
The UC Santa Cruz women’s basketball team forced 24 turnovers in its 83-57 win over Cal Maritime on Friday night at West Field House in Santa Cruz.
Aptos tennis tandem blanked in CCS Doubles Tournament | Local Roundup
Aptos High’s Annika Lee and Madison Phillips, the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League doubles champion, were eliminated in the first round of the Central Coast Section doubles tournament Tuesday.
Knights, Cardinals to play NorCal water polo openers Tuesday at Soquel | Local Roundup
Santa Cruz County’s two newest section champions — Soquel and Santa Cruz — will open the NorCal Girls Water Polo Championships with home games, the California Interscholastic Federation announced Sunday.
Cabrillo women’s volleyball tops San Mateo, wins North Division title | Local Roundup
Jazmyn Tubbs had 16 kills and 10 digs, and the Cabrillo College women’s volleyball team beat San Mateo 25-20, 21-25, 25-18, 25-23 to clinch the Coast Conference’s North Division title on Friday.
Locals make college commitments official on Signing Day
Monte Vista Christian School senior Bella Primavera was one of more than a dozen Santa Cruz County who made their college commitments official Wednesday, NLI Signing Day, the opening day of a signing period that runs through Aug. 1 for most NCAA Division I and II sports.
Cabrillo men’s soccer blanked by state’s top team | Local Roundup
The Cabrillo College men’s soccer team gave up three goals in the second half of its 4-0 loss to Foothill, the state’s No. 1 ranked team, in Aptos in a rare Sunday game.
Five county teams seeded in CCS football playoffs; four open on the road as underdogs | Local Roundup
The good news: Five Santa Cruz County football teams qualified for the upcoming Central Coast Section playoffs. The bad news: Four of them are the lower seed and will play on the road.
UCSC women’s volleyball upset in tournament semifinals | Local Roundup
Samantha Taylor had 15 kills and 15 digs, but the No. 1 seed UC Santa Cruz women’s volleyball team was upset 26-24, 25-23, 26-28, 25-20 by No. 4 seed Salisbury in the Coast-To-Coast Conference Tournament semifinals Friday in Milwaukee.
Santa Cruz sweeps Sacred Heart Cathedral, reaches its first CCS final | Girls volleyball
Senior outside hitter Athena Kazos delivered one huge pancake on defense to extend the play for Santa Cruz High’s girls volleyball team and, a few seconds later, sophomore right side Sadie Jeffreys delivered the match-clinching kill, with extra syrup.
Santa Cruz’s Haley Jones named to Cheryl Miller Award preseason watch list | Local Roundup
Santa Cruz’s Haley Jones, a 6-foot-1 junior for Stanford University’s national champion women’s basketball team, has been named to the preseason watch list for the Cheryl Miller Award, given annually to the nation’s best small forward.