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Soquel’s rally comes up short in basketball loss to powerful Palma | Local Roundup
Soquel High boys basketball team battled back with a solid fourth quarter, but suffered a 59-52 loss to host Palma in the semifinals of the Luis & Lucille Scattini Memorial Tournament in Salinas on Friday night.
Emilie Ngo helps UC Santa Cruz rally past UC Merced in OT at KP Arena | Local Roundup
Sophomore guard Emilie Ngo continued her offensive ways, and the UC Santa Cruz women’s basketball team, an NCAA Division III squad, rallied past D-II UC Merced 79-72 at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Tuesday.
High School boys’ basketball: A scoring machine that learned to distribute
Carmel guard Warren Blut named the Monterey Herald’s All-County boys’ basketball Player of the Year
No. 2 seed Aptos boys upset by No. 7 Burlingame in D-III quarterfinals | CCS basketball roundup
Junior guard Isaiah Ackerman scored a team-high 13 points, but the No. 2 Aptos High boys basketball team was upset by No. 7 Burlingame 47-43 in the Central Coast Section Division III quarterfinals on Tuesday night.
SC, Aptos, seven other county teams make CCS playoffs | Boys basketball
Santa Cruz County had nine boys high school basketball teams qualify for the Central Coast Section playoffs, including the top two seeds in Division III, rivals Santa Cruz and Aptos.
Santa Cruz rallies past defending CCS champ Monterey for Dad’s Club title | Boys basketball
Santa Cruz High’s boys basketball looked at home in its impressive 72-52 win over powerful Monterey in Dad’s Club Tournament championship at an off-campus site on Saturday night.
Santa Cruz, Monterey to square off in Dad’s Club Tournament final | Local Roundup
DeMarco Hunter scored 17 points, and Santa Cruz High’s boys basketball team knocked off Central Catholic 53-37 in the Dad’s Club Tournament semifinals on Friday night.
Will Shilling scores 31, but Scotts Valley drops Dad’s Club opener; SC moves into semifinals | Local Roundup
Will Shilling scored 31 points for Scotts Valley High’s boys basketball team, but the Falcons lost 79-71 to Santa Teresa in the teams’ first-round game at the Dad’s Club Tournament at Santa Cruz High on Thursday.
Dad’s Club’s future at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium up in the air | Boys basketball
The long running Emmett Thompson Memorial Dad’s Club Basketball Tournament won’t be held at its usual home, historic Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, this year due to an on-site accident involving one of its basketball hoops.
SLV falls to Crystal Springs in Lady Shark Shootout final | Local Roundup
Junior guard Hannah Morley scored six points, as San Lorenzo Valley High’s girls basketball team lost 59-13 to Crystal Springs Uplands and finished in second place at the Lady Shark Shootout at St. Francis High on Friday.
Santa Cruz edged in OT by Menlo-Atherton; Cardinals see Dad’s Club title streak end at six | Boys basketball
Santa Cruz High’s dominance at the Dad’s Club Basketball Tournament came to end Saturday night.
Defense lifts Santa Cruz into Dad’s Club final | Boys basketball
In the opening minute of the Dad’s Club Tournament semifinals on Friday night, Santa Cruz High guard Mosiah Cumberbatch nearly stole the basketball from a Leigh player, but knocked it out of bounds in the process.
Soquel drops Dad’s Club opener to Pioneer | Boys basketball
Soquel High’s boys basketball team is playing for now and the future, and that takes some of the sting off results like the one it endured Thursday in its Dad’s Club Tournament opener.
Kaitlin Imai scores 35 points in Scotts Valley’s D-IV win over Carmel | CCS basketball roundup
Senior guard Kaitlin Imai made nine 3-pointers and finished with 35 points as the No. 4 seed Scotts Valley High girls basketball team beat the No. 5 Carmel 51-32 in the Central Coast Section Division IV quarterfinals on Tuesday.
Aptos unable to keep pace with Lowell in NorCal Invitational, takes fourth | Boys basketball
Senior center Jack Spinelli had 20 points and 13 rebounds, but the cold-shooting Mariners were unable to keep pace with Lowell of San Francisco and fell 54-33 in the third-place game in the Blue Division at Aptos.
Aptos rolls in tournament opener at Kaiser Permanente Arena | Boys basketball
Limited action cost Spinelli another double-double; he finished with a team-high 19 points and nine rebounds. But if the Mariners showed anything in their tournament opener — and they showed plenty — it was their penchant for sharing the ball.