Santa Cruz High’s Aliana Merriam and Annika Seasholes each took first place in two individual events, and the Cardinals slipped past Harbor 79-77 in the teams’ Santa Cruz Athletic League opener Wednesday.
Santa Cruz guard Chance McMillian made five 3-pointers and scored a career-high 28 points, and the Warriors held off the Valley Suns to secure a 113-108 victory in NBA G League action at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Monday.
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.
Freshman Juna Diaz scored three times, and the Soquel High girls soccer team beat Cristo Rey 8-0 to win the 10th annual Fremont Firebird Classic title in Sunnyvale on Saturday.
Five talented and successful teams from Santa Cruz County will make history Monday, when they open play in the inaugural Central Coast Section Girls Flag Football playoffs.
Salinas will begin defense of its CCS Division I volleyball title as the No. 3 seed; King City earns No. 2 seed in Division III; Carmel seeded No. 2 in Division IV
Kendric Davis scored a team-high 35 points, but the Santa Cruz Warriors lost to Raptors 905 118-112 in overtime in the teams’ NBA G League game at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Saturday night.
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.
Scotts Valley High star senior wrestler Danica Kelley repeated as champion at the Central Coast Section Masters Finals at Watsonville High on Saturday.
Santa Cruz High’s boys basketball team is back in the Open Division for the Central Coast Section playoffs for the first time since 2016. In total, six boys teams and seven girls teams made the playoffs.
Yssa Santo Domingo’s acrobatic layup with 8.6 seconds left was the sixth and final time the lead changed hands, as No. 21 Wisconsin-Whitewater knocked off No. 19 UC Santa Cruz 61-60 at Kaiser Permanente Arean on Tuesday night.