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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.
Knights advance to semifinals with sweep of Saratoga | CCS girls volleyball roundup
The No. 2 seed Soquel High’s girls volleyball team defeated visiting No. 10 Saratoga 25-11, 25-22, 25-17 in the Central Coast Section Division III quarterfinals on Tuesday night. Santa Cruz (D-III) and Harbor (D-IV) also earned wins.
Weather gets best of locals at CCS Girls Golf Championships
The weather was nobody’s friend at the Central Coast Section Girls Golf Championships at Laguna Seca Golf Ranch on Tuesday. Scotts Valley High freshman Ashley Gettleman and senior teammate Elana McGrew attested to that.
Eight county teams qualify for CCS girls volleyball playoffs
Santa Cruz High’s girls volleyball team was awarded the No. 1 seed in Division III for the upcoming Central Coast Section playoffs.
Santa Cruz’s Eli Fitchen-Young a blazing quick success story | High school cross country
Eli Fitchen-Young may only be a sophomore, but he has goals and dreams that he’s chasing. His pursuit of greatness isn’t a vote of confidence for those trying to keep pace with the budding Santa Cruz High star on cross country courses throughout the greater Bay Area.
Harbor suffers narrow loss to Saratoga, drops from unbeaten ranks | High school football roundup
Harbor High’s football team did its best to overcome a slow start on both sides of the ball Saturday night, but it dropped from the unbeaten ranks after suffering a 21-14 loss to Saratoga.
Soquel QB Cole Johnson hopes to win Stump, follow grandpa’s path | High school football
Ken Caldwell, a 1959 Santa Cruz High alum and record-setting starting quarterback for the Cardinals, will be in attendance when his alma mater takes on host Soquel in another physical and passionately played edition of The Stump rivalry game Friday night.
Scotts Valley’s Kain wins two of county’s five titles | CCS Track and Field Championships
The first part of the Central Coast Section Track and Field Championships looked like a Santa Cruz County showcase. Winner from Soquel. Winner from Aptos. Winner from Scotts Valley. Another winner from Scotts Valley.
Aptos’ Shane Garvey, Palma’s Brendan Watson advance to CCS Championships | Boys golf
Santa Cruz County had 14 golfers qualify for the Central Coast Section Regionals, held on a cold and windy Tuesday at Laguna Seca Golf Ranch. Two remain.
Aptos boys win Wildcat Relays; Mariner girls take second | Local Roundup
Aptos High’s boys track and field athletes won six events and claimed the team title at the 49th Wildcat Relays at Watsonville High on Saturday. Aptos senior Elizabeth Churchill was part of five top-three finishes and helped the Mariners take second
Streaking Santa Cruz wins again, rolls into D-I championship | CCS girls soccer
SANTA CRUZ — There’s no substitute for experience and team chemistry. Six players on Santa Cruz High’s unbeaten girls soccer team are in their fourth year together. And a seventh senior, Long Beach State-committed forward Julia Moore, is a third-year player who sat out last season. Oh, and the Cardinals also possess speed, skill, physicality […]
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.