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Santa Cruz knocks off Aptos again, gains inside track to SCCAL title | Girls soccer
Santa Cruz High’s girls soccer team was out to prove that its first win over powerful Aptos was no fluke. And it did just that in front of 200-plus fans at Trevin Dilfer Memorial Stadium on Thursday night.
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.
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.
Wrestler Mike Pena leads Santa Cruz at Jim Root Memorial | Local Roundup
Santa Cruz High senior wrestler Mike Pena took third place at 132 pounds, and the Cardinals finished 14th out of 35 teams at the 58th Jim Root Memorial at Prospect High on Saturday.
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.
Watsonville boys basketball moves to 2-0 in Santa Lucia Division | Local Roundup
Karlos Corpus scored 22 points and Watsonville High’s boys basketball team beat host King City 62-48 on Tuesday in the teams’ Pacific 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.
Aptos-SC basketball games rescheduled for Wednesday | Local Roundup
Aptos High’s boys and girls basketball games at Santa Cruz on Tuesday have been rescheduled for Wednesday.
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.
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.
Christian Magana’s buzzer beater lifts Sharks basketball team | Local Roundup
Christian Magana scored a buzzer beating basket to lift St. Francis High’s boys basketball team over visiting Gilroy 43-42 on Tuesday in the teams’ nonleague game.
David Ibarra’s goal helps Wildcatz earn soccer draw with Los Gatos | Local Roundup
Senior David Ibarra scored on a pass from Mateo Arias in the second half and the Watsonville High boys soccer team earned a 1-1 draw with host Los Gatos in pool play for the Homestead Christmas Cup on Thursday night.
Harbor girls soccer rallies past Stevenson | Local Roundup
Senior Camille Dayton had a goal and assist in the final 10 minutes to rally Harbor High’s girls soccer team past Stevenson 3-2 in the teams’ nonleague game in Pebble Beach on Tuesday.
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.