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APTOS—The Aptos High baseball team finished the regular season with a Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League championship banner for the first time in a decade.  Yet, they had some unfinished business before they were able to call themselves the outright champ. Senior ace pitcher Reed Moring...

APTOS—Another season is underway for an Aptos High baseball team that has reigned as the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League champion for the past two years. However, the Mariners took a major blow after losing integral pieces in NCAA Division I pitching prospects Reed Moring...

Only three players that were signed with Santa Cruz last season return to the team and head coach Casey Hill, who led the franchise to a championship in 2015 and is now the leader of the Agua Caliente Clippers, is also gone, replaced by first-time head coach Aaron Miles in July.

SANTA CRUZ—Santa Cruz Warriors forward Lester Quinones recorded a game-high 24 points in a 122-118 loss to the G League Ignite at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Friday night.   Quinones added five rebounds and fellow teammate Gui Santos followed closely with 18 points. Santa Cruz center Trevion...

The No. 3-seeded Sharks swept the scrappy No. 6-seeded Summit Shasta Black Bears 26-24, 25-18, 25-18 to advance to the CCS Division V semifinals and notch their first postseason victory since the 2009 season.

No. 2 Aptos will play top-seeded Monterey for the Central Coast Section Division III championship at Palo Alto High on Saturday at 4 p.m.

St. Francis High senior Alicia Mendez and sophomore Aaliysah Gomez are quietly turning into the 1-2 punch in the circle for the Sharks softball team.   Both pitchers combined for seven strikeouts in four innings of work in their 17-0 win against Trinity Christian High in...

After missing out on qualifying for the California Interscholastic Federation State Meet by a few feet as a sophomore and a junior, Rasmussen is back and ready for his final hoorah.

Mother Nature hasn’t been too kind for Aptos High, which has yet to begin the 2024 softball season because of cancellations due to last month’s rainy weather.   But a little bit of rain hasn’t deterred a young, and very hungry, Mariners squad, which continues to...

After losing a heartbreaker to the Watsonville High Wildcatz a week ago, the St. Francis Sharks decided to avenge the win that slipped away by producing an impressive rushing performance of their own on Friday.