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Watsonville’s boys soccer team hands nationally ranked Alisal first loss | Local Roundup
Watsonville High’s boys soccer team received goals from two unlikely sources and stunned nationally ranked Alisal 2-0 in the teams’ Pacific Coast Athletic League Gabilan Division match Tuesday night in Salinas.
Makena Bedolla helps Sharks’ soccer team blast Greenfield | Local Roundup
Makena Bedolla scored three goals and St. Francis High’s girls soccer team beat Greenfield 5-0 in its Pacific Coast Athletic League game at Depot Park in Santa Cruz on Monday.
Austin James leads Cabrillo men’s basketball team past MPC | Local Roundup
Sophomore guard Austin James scored a game-high 26 points, and the Cabrillo College men’s basketball team beat Monterey Peninsula College 64-54 in the teams’ Coast Conference South Division game Friday night.
Back at full strength, Santa Cruz holds off Scotts Valley in girls basketball | Local Roundup
Senior Bella Stevens saw her first real action of the season, and Santa Cruz High’s girls basketball team knocked off Scotts Valley 51-44 in the teams’ make-up Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League game Thursday.
Sarah Eichhorn named MVC’s swim coach | Local Roundup
Sarah Eichhorn had been named swim coach at her high school alma mater, Monte Vista Christian School.
Kaitlin Imai helps Scotts Valley’s girls basketball team beat Mariners for first time since 2017 | Local Roundup
Senior guard Kaitlin Imai scored 19 points and Scotts Valley High’s girls basketball team beat Aptos 45-36 to snap an 11-game losing streak to the Mariners in the Falcons’ league opener Tuesday.
SCCAL basketball tournaments canceled as league releases revised schedule
The Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League this week released revised boys and girls basketball schedules for the 2021-22 season. They’ll allow member schools that have endured postponed contests while following COVID-19 protocol to play a complete, 10-game season.
Soquel boys soccer blanks SC, moves to 2-0 in SCCAL | Local Roundup
Senior Luis Carrasco had a goal and assist to help Soquel High’s boys soccer team beat host Santa Cruz 3-0 in the teams’ Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League match Thursday night.
Julia Moore scores five goals in Cardinals’ rout of Soquel | Girls soccer
Clearly, Julia Moore took his message to heart. The senior made the move from midfielder to forward and scored five goals in a 6-1 win over the Knights in the teams’ Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League game.
Central Coast All-Star Football Game set for Friday in Salinas | High school football
Football players from Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito counties will compete in the 36th annual Central Coast 2021 All-Star High School Football Game at Rabobank Stadium in Salinas on Friday at 7 p.m.
Jasmin Nguyen, Santa Cruz use injury time to hand Aptos its first loss | Girls soccer roundup
Jasmin Nguyen’s second goal off a free kick sent Santa Cruz High’s girls soccer team past previously unbeaten Aptos 3-2 in the teams’ Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League game.
Rise in COVID-19 cases forces handful of postponements
A surge in COVID-19 cases forced Scotts Valley High to postpone its athletic contests on Tuesday and Thursday. The pandemic forced a minimum of five games to be postponed county-wide Tuesday, including UC Santa Cruz’s men’s basketball game and Soquel at Aptos girls soccer.
Cardinals eye SCCAL title repeat | Boys basketball preview
Boys’ basketball teams in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League will be seeing less of Aden Cury this season. Not the kind of “less” they’d probably prefer, though.
Aptos, Santa Cruz continue rivalry for SCCAL bragging rights | Girls basketball preview
As they dueled for league and Central Coast Section supremacy last spring, Aptos and Santa Cruz developed a compelling high school girls’ basketball rivalry.
Sports Newsmakers 2021 | Pandemic didn’t limit massive accomplishments
Santa Cruz County produced dozens of magnificent sports feats in ’21, and it’s no surprise that surfing was among the sports that dominated headlines. The following is a recap of some of the most memorable feats of the year.
Aptos unable to keep pace with Lowell in NorCal Invitational, takes fourth | Boys basketball
Senior center Jack Spinelli had 20 points and 13 rebounds, but the cold-shooting Mariners were unable to keep pace with Lowell of San Francisco and fell 54-33 in the third-place game in the Blue Division at Aptos.
Mariners basketball team falls to Pioneer in NorCal Invitational semifinals | Local Roundup
Jack Spinelli posted a double-double in Aptos High’s 41-35 basketball loss to Pioneer of San Jose in the Blue Division semifinals at the 8th annual Aptos High/Santa Cruz Warriors NorCal Invitational on Tuesday.
Aptos rolls in tournament opener at Kaiser Permanente Arena | Boys basketball
Limited action cost Spinelli another double-double; he finished with a team-high 19 points and nine rebounds. But if the Mariners showed anything in their tournament opener — and they showed plenty — it was their penchant for sharing the ball.
Diving into the season | Boys soccer preview
The Wildcatz are back in the PCAL’s elite Gabilan Division this season with a squad that’s loaded with seniors.
Aptos’ Jazmine Castañeda, SC’s Julia Moore head county’s star power | Girls soccer preview
Now that they’re seniors, they’re well on their way to doing so again – and they’ve carried their respective girls’ soccer teams to unbeaten records in the process.
Soquel’s Kelsey Matthies named CCS Player of the Year | Girls water polo
Soquel High senior water polo star Kelsey Matthies was selected as the All-Central Coast Section Player of the Year by a panel of coaches following the section playoffs.
Watsonville’s Lucky McHenry takes second at Pat Lovell Holiday Wrestling Classic
Watsonville High’s Lucky McHenry took second place at 285 pounds at the 53rd Pat Lovell Holiday Wrestling Classic at Aptos High on Wednesday. He was the county’s lone finalist.
Soquel’s Cooper Wiens named SCCAL MVP | Boys water polo
Soquel High senior water polo standout Cooper Wiens was named MVP of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League and senior teammate Wyatt Beymer was named Goalie of the Year.
Five local wrestlers advance to semifinals at Pat Lovell Holiday Classic | Local Roundup
Five athletes from Santa Cruz County went unbeaten on the opening day of the Pat Lovell Holiday Wrestling Classic at Aptos High on Tuesday.
Soquel standout Kelsey Matthies repeats as SCCAL MVP | Girls Water Polo
Much like the lopsided outcomes Soquel High’s girls water polo administered in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play, the naming of league MVP was not a shock. Senior water polo talent Kelsey Matthies repeated with top honors after helping lead the Knights to a historic season.