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Aptos’ Vito Riccabona named to Cal-Hi Sports’ All-State Football Team | Local Roundup
Aptos High’s Vito Riccabona was honored on Cal-Hi Sports’ All-State Football Team for medium-sized enrollment schools.
Soquel sinks Santa Cruz with goal in stoppage time | Boys soccer
Upstart Santa Cruz High was threatening to derail the Soquel boys soccer team’s quest for the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League title. Neither team had scored as the second half neared conclusion. The match moved into stoppage time, still scoreless.
Kaitlin Imai reaches 1,000-point milestone in Falcons’ win | Local Roundup
Kaitlin Imai reached the 1,000-point milestone in her Scotts Valley High basketball career as the Falcons posted a 70-11 win over Harbor on senior night Tuesday.
SC’s Qwentin Brown, SV’s Nolan Smith receive all-state football honors | Local Roundup
Santa Cruz High’s Qwentin Brown and Scotts Valley’s Nolan Smith were named to Cal-High Sports’ All-State football team for small schools.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Aptos boys basketball team suffers first loss | Local Roundup
Aptos High’s boys basketball team suffered its first loss of the season, 75-61 to Whitney of Rocklin in the Carmel Tournament semifinals on Friday.
Santa Cruz girls soccer blasts PCS in preseason finale | Local Roundup
Sam Wenger scored three goals and the Santa Cruz High girls soccer team beat Pacific Collegiate 9-1 in its nonleague finale Thursday.
Aptos boys basketball tops Wilcox in OT | Local Roundup
Senior guard/forward Cameron Saldana scored 23 points and the Aptos High boys basketball team beat Wilcox 58-55 in overtime Thursday.
Alexa Malaspina, Jana Komposch help MVC girls soccer edge Harbor in Watsonville Tournament | Local Roundup
Goalie Alexa Malaspina made nine saves and the Monte Vista Christian School girls soccer team edged Harbor 1-0 in the third game of the Watsonville Tournament on Wednesday.
Cabrillo women’s volleyball eliminated by Fresno City in second round of CCCAA NorCal playoffs | Local Roundup
The No. 6 seed Cabrillo College women’s volleyball team was eliminated by No. 3 Fresno City 25-22, 25-17, 25-12 in the second round of the CCCAA NorCal playoffs Saturday in Fresno.