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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.
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.
Watsonville’s Danisha Nunez, Aptos’ Janie Houser wrestle to La Manzanita titles | Local Roundup
Watsonville High’s Danisha Nunez (109 pounds) and Aptos sophomore Janie Houser (124) won titles in their respective weight divisions at the second annual La Manzanita Ladies Classic at Watsonville High on Thursday.
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.
Santa Cruz edges Cupertino, advances to final of Saint Francis’ tournament | Local Roundup
Santa Cruz High’s boys basketball team edged Cupertino 37-35 in the semifinals of the Joe Schram Holiday Basketball Classic at Saint Francis High in Mountain View on Wednesday.
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.
Kaylee Murphy posts another double-double for UCSC, sets up showdown with Whitman | Local Roundup
Junior forward Kaylee Murphy posted her fifth double-double of the season and 26th of her career to help the UC Santa Cruz women’s basketball team open the UCSC December Classic with a win Saturday.
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.
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.
Mariners win Gilroy Tournament; Cameron Saldana named MVP | Local Roundup
Cameron Saldana had 19 points and five steals to help the Aptos High’s boys basketball team beat Lincoln 55-44 in the Bob Hagen Memorial Tournament championship at Gilroy High on Saturday.
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.
Jazmine Castaneda helps Aptos flatten Fremont | Girls soccer
Aptos High soccer talent Jazmine Castaneda saw her streak of 28 regular-season games with a goal come to an end in a rout of North Salinas on Saturday. In a nonleague game against fellow unbeaten Fremont on Tuesday night, Castaneda started anew. She had two goals and an assist in 4-0 blanking of the Firebirds.
Santa Cruz’s Evie Marheineke takes third at Nike Cross California Regional | Local Roundup
Santa Cruz’s Evie Marheineke placed third out of 55 runners in the girls championship at the NXR California Regional at Woodward Park in Fresno on Saturday.
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.
Two Santa Cruzans ace same hole at DeLaveaga | Local Roundup
Two Santa Cruzans aced the same hole, No. 3, at DeLaveaga Golf Course in Santa Cruz on Tuesday.
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.
Cabrillo women’s soccer shut out in Rocklin, eliminated in second round of NorCal playoffs | Local Roundup
The Cabrillo College women’s soccer team suffered a 3-0 loss at Sierra in the second round of the CCCAA NorCal regional playoffs on Tuesday in Rocklin.
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.