Sports

Santa Cruz Mountain Renegades softball team continued to fire on all cylinders following a championship performance at the All-Stars Tournaments Bownet June Jamz tourney this past weekend. They brought home the Silver Division 12U title by beating Livermore Smoke, 7-0, in the finals at Alden...

Santa Cruz Derby Groms’ Gromshells is an all-female junior roller derby team based out of Scotts Valley. In the past few years, this gritty team of rough-and-tumble athletes have proven their excellence many times over, and this year is shaping up to be no...

Scotts Valley Little League (SVLL) Majors Red Sox capped off a dominant season with a dramatic 7-6 walk-off win over the Blue Jays in the championship game on June 4 at Siltanen Park. Finishing the regular season atop the standings with a 10-2 record, the...

Scotts Valley graduate Taylor Wilson had her eyes set on becoming the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic’s top player for a second consecutive year prior to the start of the 2025 spring season. The feat was never out of the question for the Falcons’ star slugger,...

Scotts Valley graduate Kaleb Wing made it a priority in his final season on the baseball team to take the younger teammates under his wing and groom them for the near future. During that time, he also anticipated having to take care of business as...

The goal for Scotts Valley senior Ava Decleve was to place in the Top 3 at the Central Coast Section Track and Field Championships, which would have been good enough to extend her season for just one more week. The Falcon star runner surpassed those...

A real-life Hallmark movie unfolded for the Scotts Valley-based 10U Banshees recreational girls’ softball team at Siltanen Park last Wednesday evening. After losing their first tournament game in devastating fashion (by giving up a five-run lead in the bottom of the last inning), the Banshees...

After a long regular season, Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley’s softball teams are eager to jump right into the upcoming Central Coast Section playoffs, which are set to begin Saturday. The Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League champion Falcons (21-5-1, 14-1) earned the No. 7...

Scotts Valley senior pitcher Sofie Seese racked up six strikeouts in the Falcons’ 8-2 victory over San Lorenzo Valley in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League action on Monday afternoon. Teammate Natalie Murray-Skalland had three hits, including one home run and two RBIs, while Jazzy Phillips...

San Lorenzo Valley senior James Dahlen capped off his final year on the boys’ golf team by helping them win back-to-back Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League regular season championships during the 2025 spring season.  Going into last week’s end-of-the-season league championship, the Cougars’ top shot...