High School Sports

San Lorenzo Valley and Scotts Valley unofficially kicked off the 2024 football season at this past weekend’s Santa Cruz County jamboree at Cabrillo College. Both teams joined Aptos, Harbor, Santa Cruz and Watsonville high schools for an evening full of scrimmages in front of a...

A group of Scotts Valley High seniors will compete in the upcoming 38th Annual Central Coast 2023 All-Star High School Football Game this weekend.  Quinn Turowski, Brady Siechen, James Bullock, Lorenzo Gonzales, Brody Robbins and Chaser Keegan will suit up one last time to represent...

The Scotts Valley High track program is starting to heat up just at the right moment as both the boys’ and girls’ teams head into the final stretch of the 2023-24 track and field campaign. Their most recent success came when the Falcons girls’ 4x800-meters...

On a scale from 1 to 10, San Lorenzo Valley High senior Grady Cloyd was clocking in at a high eight or nine when it came to pain on his strained back during last weekend’s league wrestling championships. The Cougars’ standout athlete still went on...

Scotts Valley High senior Danica Kelley captured her second straight section title after another dominant performance at the Central Coast Section Wrestling Championships this past weekend. The standout Falcons athlete placed first after beating Joseline Hernandez of Alisal High in an 8-0 major decision in...

Prior to the 2024 campaign, Scotts Valley High boys’ tennis coach Scott Goodrich was a little surprised after seeing such a large turnout. This year’s deep roster features 22 players, including 11 seniors, which is the most of any group—boys and girls—since he took over...

The San Lorenzo Valley High softball team continues to dominate the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League after winning eight straight to start league play.  Cheyenne Owen recorded three RBIs and scored three runs for the Cougars in a 16-3 crushing win over Harbor High in...

It’s been somewhat of a rebuilding season for Scotts Valley High sophomore Taylor Wilson and the Falcons softball team. They might be a young squad, but don’t let their youth and inexperience fool you. Wilson has given Scotts Valley some quality at-bats, including a three-run home...

Scotts Valley sophomore Owen Martin delivered one of the biggest hits in his young career Tuesday afternoon, which could potentially help turn around the season moving forward. With the game tied in the bottom of the seventh inning, he smacked the ball for a base...

The Scotts Valley High girls’ lacrosse team had just eight players available to suit up for last week’s Central Coast Section play-in game against Monterey High.  It was a tall task for Falcons co-captain Sofia Niklaus and her teammates, but it wasn’t anything they couldn’t...