High School Sports

Scotts Valley High boys’ soccer coach Adrian Mondragon was faced with a couple of tall tasks during the offseason.  The biggest one: recruit enough players to field a varsity team. The Falcons currently have a total of 15 players in the entire program. That was after...

The Scotts Valley High football team’s newly reconstructed defense had its first challenge in last week’s season opener against Santa Cruz High. Senior defensive back Brady Siechen and Falcons were more than up to task after recording a 17-0 shutout win over the Cardinals in...

San Lorenzo Valley High School varsity and junior varsity cheer squads have been practicing their aerials, basket tosses and roundoffs in the campus’s cafeteria since 1992. The space allows for throwing stunts into the air, storing and laying out the required heavy and expensive...

A group of some of the best prep football players in the area got together one last time to play not just for themselves but for a good cause, as well.  Team Juan Cuevas posted a 17-6 win over Team Louie Walters in the 38th...

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. The race for the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League crown is becoming much tighter for San Lorenzo Valley and Scotts Valley as both teams head into the final stretch of the 2024 season. The Cougars and Falcons were caught in...

The Scotts Valley High cross country program has been the cream of the crop in the Central Coast Section for the past two seasons. For those who doubt it, then perhaps back-to-back Division IV team championships in 2021 and ‘22 for both the boys and...

Scotts Valley High’s baseball season has been a tale as polarized as the glasses worn by many of the players. As solid as the Falcons’ hitting and pitching has been, errors have tanked their record and prevented them from tapping into their potential. They are now...

A trio of Scotts Valley High track and field athletes extended their season after putting on quite the performance at last week’s Central Coast Section Finals at Gilroy High School.    Falcons senior Mason Lantz, junior Ashlyn Boothby and freshman Ava Decleve all qualified for the...

San Lorenzo Valley High sophomore Ollin Bates walked off the mat with a black eye he sustained during a bout at this past weekend’s Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Wrestling Tournament. The minor injury could’ve easily hindered his vision, or even worse, forced him to...

The San Lorenzo Valley High boys’ basketball team was one of the hottest squads going into Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play, which kicked off last week. The Cougars were riding an eight-game winning streak and peaking at the right time, going 11-3 during the...