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High School football: Hollister forfeits the remainder of its season
“We determined that the number of available student-athletes was not sufficient to safely field a team for the rest of the year.”
High School football: Hollister forfeits game with Alisal
Hollister High has forfeited Thursday’s game with Alisal for undisclosed reasons
Four county teams qualify for CCS boys volleyball playoffs
Four Santa Cruz County boys volleyball teams learned their division placement and first-round opponents at the Central Coast Section seeding meeting on Saturday.
Vera Bentley, Onyx Escobar, and Kira Demma wrestle to titles at Ladies Coast Classic | Local Roundup
Santa Cruz High wrestlers Vera Bentley and Onyx Escobar, and Harbor’s Kira Demma took first place in their respective weight classes at the sixth annual Ladies Coast Classic at Santa Cruz High on Saturday.
Aptos boys basketball team finishes fourth at its own tournament | Local Roundup
Senior Gio Garduno-Martin scored 16 points, and Half Moon Bay’s boys basketball team beat Aptos 55-37 for third place at the 12th annual Aptos High/Santa Cruz Warriors NorCal Invitational at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Wednesday.
Cardinals’ Conn is on: Santa Cruz steals win from Los Altos on junior’s late basket | Local Roundup
Junior guard/forward Mila Conn drained the winning basket in the game’s waning seconds, and Santa Cruz High’s girls basketball team stunned Los Altos 45-44 in the teams’ opener at the 12th annual Aptos High/Santa Cruz Warriors NorCal Invitational at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Monday.
As football season begins, UCSF announces study aiming to diagnose CTE in living people
Currently, the only way to diagnose CTE is posthumously, by taking a slice of brain tissue and dying it to identify the tau protein associated with the neurodegenerative disease.
County’s top track and field athletes turn in stellar marks at Arcadia Invitational | Local Roundup
Some of Santa Cruz County’s top high school track and field athletes turned in stellar performances at the 2025 Arcadia Invitational, held Friday and Saturday at Arcadia High.
St. Francis baseball earns walk-off win over Aptos | Local Roundup
Nicholas Fantl had a hit and two RBI, and Javier Fonseca also drove in two runs to help St. Francis High’s baseball team edge visiting Aptos 5-3 for its second walk-off win Wednesday in nonleague play.
Four county wrestlers win tournament titles | Local Roundup
Aptos High sophomore wrestler Dominic Cabot, senior teammate Lucas Zuniga, and San Lorenzo Valley senior Grady Cloyd took first place in their respective weight classes at the 60th Overfelt Classic in San Jose on Saturday. … St. Francis senior Johnny Croghan took first at the 61st Jim Root Memorial in Saratoga.
Nareni Carre Martinez scores twice in Cardinals’ win over PCS | Local Roundup
Sophomore Nareni Carre Martinez scored twice for Santa Cruz High’s girls soccer team, and the Cardinals edged crosstown foe Pacific Collegiate 2-1 in the teams’ physical nonleague match Wednesday.
Aptos’ Cruz Contreras takes second at Pat Lovell Holiday Classic | High school wrestling roundup
Aptos High’s Cruz Contreras (132 pounds) took second place in his weight division at the 60-team Pat Lovell Holiday Classic at Aptos High on Saturday.
CCS DII football finals: Big second half carries Wilcox past Palma
Outscored 21-0 during one stretch of the third quarter, Palma falls 35-26 to top seed Wilcox in the Central Coast Section Division II title game
CCS Division II football finals: Palma, Wilcox look to control game on the ground
After scrimmaging each other for 20 years between 1990-2010, Palma and Wilcox will meet for the first time on Saturday at 7 p.m. in the CCS Division II finals at San Jose City College
CCS playoff football breakdown
CCS divisional finals football breakdown: Aptos-Carmel; Palma-Wilcox
UPDATE: After edging Menlo, Palma heads to San Jose to face Wilcox in title game
Palma will play for a section title for the second straight year after beating Menlo 24-23 in the CCS Division II semifinals
High School football: CCS playoff brackets
Central Coast Section Divisional football postseason brackets
SC basketball talent Jack Busenhart commits to Benedictine | Local Roundup
Former Santa Cruz High basketball talent Jack Busenhart has committed to Benedictine University, an NAIA school in Mesa, Arizona.
Aptos girls surge past Soquel in SCCAL swim meet | Local Roundup
Natalie Allen, Adelaide Friedley, and Alexia Fajardo each won two individual events for Aptos High’s girls swim team in a 93-79 win over host Soquel in the teams’ Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League meet Wednesday.
Aptos boys basketball rallies, but falls short against Wilcox | Local Roundup
Isaiah Ackerman scored 25 points, but Aptos High’s boys basketball team lost 65-58 to visiting Wilcox in a nonleague game Monday night.
Lester Quinones scores 35 points in Warriors’ loss to Ontario | Local Roundup
Golden State Warriors two-way guard Lester Quinones had 35 points, eight rebounds, and four assists, but the Santa Cruz Warriors fell 119-109 to host Ontario in NBA G League action at Toyota Arena on Tuesday night.
Banana Slugs win their opener at UCSC Thanksgiving Classic at KP Arena | Local Roundup
The Cabrillo College women’s volleyball team had three players, all sophomores, named to the 2023 All-Coast Conference North Division first team.
SC baseball topples Wilcox with six-run eighth inning | Local Roundup
Oscar Knapp had three hits, three RBI, and a run scored, and Santa Cruz High’s baseball team scored six runs in the eighth inning to pull out a 9-3 win over host Wilcox in Santa Clara on Monday.
Santa Cruz, Harbor move into regional quarterfinals | CIF NorCal girls volleyball
Santa Cruz put it all together and ran away to an exciting victory in front of its loud home crowd.
Soquel joins Harbor, Santa Cruz in D-III field | CIF NorCal girls volleyball
Soquel High’s girls volleyball team has new life. The Knights received an at-large bid to the CIF NorCal Regional playoffs and will join Santa Cruz County foes Santa Cruz and Harbor in Division III.