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Harbor girls water polo tops Pioneer, continues hot start | Local Roundup
Junior Kaylee Gooch and senior Ava Carney each scored two goals and Harbor High’s girls water polo team beat Pioneer 7-4 in the teams’ nonleague game Tuesday in Santa Cruz.
Soquel, Santa Cruz post 42-0 wins over county foes | High school football roundup
Soquel and Santa Cruz both earned 42-0 wins Friday night. SLV won in coach Andrew Milich’s coaching debut.
SC boys, Soquel girls shine at Puma Cross Town Classic | High school cross country roundup
Santa Cruz High junior Jim Ratliff took first place and helped the Cardinals win the eight-team Puma Cross Town Classic at Wilder Ranch on Thursday.
Marilu Pally, Santa Cruz top Soquel in epic, five-set match | SCCAL girls volleyball roundup
The two-hits violation capped an insane, 2 1/2-hour match of nonstop thrills and momentum changes and gave Pally her 39th kill Thursday night, when Santa Cruz earned a rare victory over the Knights, 26-24, 18-25, 28-30, 25-22, 15-13.
Soquel has weapons to repeat as champ | SCCAL girls volleyball preview
Aptos and Mount Madonna won state titles during the last indoor volleyball season two years ago, but they aren’t the favorites this fall. Soquel, Santa Cruz and Harbor are among the favored squads in the competitive Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League race.
Santa Cruz sweeps Scotts Valley in SCCAL volleyball opener | Local Roundup
Santa Cruz High’s girls volleyball team beat visiting Scotts Valley 25-15, 25-16, 25-18 in the teams’ Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League opener Tuesday night.
Jeremy Kain, Falcons have high goals | Boys cross country preview
Jeremy Kain has set some mile-high goals for himself to achieve in cross country this season.
Boothby sisters make Scotts Valley a title frontrunner | Girls cross country preview
As sisters, Ashlyn and Amber Boothby are close.
Not just in terms of the sisterly bond they share, though the Scotts Valley High runners are simultaneously each other’s biggest supporter and chief rival. They’re also close in terms of their cross-country times – and for the rest of the girls’ teams in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League, that spells trouble.
Best friends Hannah Fleming, Marilu Pally set for indoor battle | Girls volleyball
Hannah Fleming and Marilu Pally are beach volleyball teammates, best friends and future Pac-12 rivals seemingly attached at the hip, when they’re not attending their respective high schools.
SC’s Nat Young surfs to third in North Carolina; Autumn Hays takes fifth | Local Roundup
Santa Cruz’s Nat Young was a sliver short of reaching his second straight final in a World Surf League Qualifying Series event Saturday.
Santa Cruz dominates, posts first win over Scotts Valley since 2004 | High school football
Hard to imagine, but even in Santa Cruz High’s glory years of 2007 and ’19 — when the Cardinals won Central Coast Section titles — they didn’t have enough to get past Scotts Valley.
Harbor blasts James Lick, moves to 2-0 | High school football roundup
From the beginning of the 2015 season until the current campaign, Harbor had compiled a 2-51 record. In the last eight days, the Pirates are 2-0.
SC surfers Nat Young, Autumn Hays advance in North Carolina | Local Roundup
Santa Cruz’s Nat Young got off to a hot start at the WRV Outer Banks Pro, a World Surf League Men’s QS 1,000 event in Nags Head, North Carolina, on Friday.
SC’s Autumn Hays advances at WRV Outer Banks Pro | Local Roundup
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.
Watsonville’s Chase Watkins strikes out side in pro baseball debut | Local Roundup
Watsonville native Chase Watkins made his professional baseball debut Monday and threw a scoreless inning of relief in the Arizona Complex League Cubs’ 8-6 loss to the ACL Diamondbacks at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick.