Senior outside hitter Ella Dueck turned in another stellar outing, and Aptos High’s girls volleyball team swept Santa Cruz 26-24, 25-22, 25-21 in the teams’ tightly contested Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League match Thursday.
Soquel High’s girls volleyball team dropped its first two sets against visiting Carmel, waged a big rally, and narrowly fell in five, 25-17, 25-23, 20-25, 21-25, 15-13, in the teams’ nonleague thriller Thursday.
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.
Pacific Collegiate School junior Leif McArthur started off the boys volleyball season playing setter for the Pumas. He moved to outside hitter midway through the season and took his game to another level.
Carmel High’s boys volleyball team was the top seed in the Central Coast Section Division II playoffs. But it was second-seeded Santa Cruz that was dominant throughout in Saturday’s final.
he No. 4 seed Harbor High’s boys volleyball team — the last public school standing in the prestigious Central Coast Section Open Division playoffs, fell to No. 1 seed Bellarmine 25-14, 25-22, 25-20 in the semifinals on Tuesday night.