Matt Lawton had three hits with a walk, double, home run, two RBI, and two runs scored, but the Cabrillo College baseball team blew an early lead in their 9-7 loss to Mission in Coast Conference South Division play Thursday.
The best track and field athletes in the Central Coast Section assembled at Los Gatos High on breezy Friday for the 44th annual CCS Top 8 Classic, as the Los Gatos Mountains and cirrus clouds graced a Bob Ross-painted backdrop.
Santa Cruz’s Nat Young advanced to the Round of 32 of Friday at the World Surf League’s Western Australia Margaret River Pro, event No. 5 on the Championship Tour.
Four female athletes from Santa Cruz County — SLV seniors Colleen Murata and Mia Hamilton, Aptos junior Ella Shoemaker, and Mariners senior Lena Manchester — posted top-three finishes in three individual events at the 26-team Soquel Invitational at Soquel High on Saturday.
Scotts Valley junior Ashlyn Boothby took fourth in the 1-mile Invitational race in a school-record 4:47.59 at the Arcadia Invitational at Arcadia High on Saturday.
Scotts Valley High junior Ashlyn Boothby took second place in the 1,600-meter race at the Stanford Invitational on Saturday. She finished in 4 minutes, 52.49 seconds.
Scotts Valley High junior Ashlyn Boothby set school records in both the 1,600 and 3,200-meter races and earned a pair of wins at the Dublin Distance Fiesta at Dublin High on Saturday. Junior Braylon Noble set Soquel’s record in the high jump at the Garlic Classic.
UC Santa Cruz senior forward Kaylee Murphy was named an NCAA Division III Honorable Mention All-American by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association on Thursday.
Sam Freeman joined Scotts Valley High’s track and field program by default two years ago. Lacrosse, his primary sport, was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
UC Santa Cruz senior Shea Wissler qualified for the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships with his first-place finish in the heptathlon at the Midwest Qualifier at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, on Saturday.
Jeremy Kain lost his voice ahead of the 102nd CIF State Track and Field Championships. But, thank goodness, he didn’t lose his stamina and speed after graduating from Scotts Valley High on Thursday.
Three athletes from Santa Cruz County advanced from the prelims at the 102nd CIF State Track and Field Championships on Friday at Veterans Memorial Stadium at Buchanan High in Clovis.
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.
Down goes Frazier. Athletes and fans alike watched in both shock and amazement as shockwaves tore through the towering redwoods surrounding San Lorenzo Valley High’s track at the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Track and Field Championships on Saturday.
Aptos High senior Elizabeth Churchill was dominant in her final Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Championships showing on a windy Saturday at San Lorenzo Valley High.
Scotts Valley High senior Jeremy Kain and Monte Vista Christian senior Clayton King had huge showings at the prestigious CCS Top 8 track and field meet in Los Gatos on Friday.
Elizabeth Churchill posted four of her team’s five wins to lead the Aptos High track and field team to the girls’ title at the 17-team Soquel Invitational on Saturday.
Scotts Valley High senior Jeremy Kain set the school record in the men’s 1-mile run at the prestigious Arcadia Invitational at Arcadia High School on Saturday.
Soquel High’s Jonelle Scott posted the top mark in the Central Coast Section this season in the pole vault at the Leland Quicksilver Invitational on Saturday, while Santa Cruz’s Troy Capela and PCS’s Katharina Guth shined at the Pacific Grove Rotary Invitational.
Taylor Santos, Siena Wong and Ellie Raffo each scored four goals as Scotts Valley High’s girls lacrosse team defeated Monte Vista Christian 16-2 on Thursday.
Scotts Valley High sophomore Ashlyn Boothby took sixth out of 516 runners in the 1,600-meter race at the Dublin Distance Fiesta at Dublin High on Saturday.