Lake Tahoe’s Matt Nolan earned a unanimous decision over Santa Cruz’s Brent Thiebout in their MMA bout at 215 pounds in the main event of Central Coast Fighting Championship 8 — “The Lost Boys” Muay Thai — at The Grove at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk on Saturday.
In the teams’ second meeting this season, and equally grueling, the No. 5 seed Soquel High boys water polo team slipped past No. 4 Los Gatos 12-11 in the Central Coast Section Open Division quarterfinals on Saturday.
Santa Cruz County had five high school water polo teams, two boys and three girls, qualify for the upcoming Central Coast Section playoffs, including four in the prestigious Open Division.