High School Sports

This week’s edition of the Press Banner Sports Ticker highlights local prep athletes for their performances during the week of May 6-12    Preps of the Week Boys:  Scotts Valley High senior Quinn Turowski last week was a huge contributor in helping the Falcons baseball team extend...

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...

This week’s edition of the Press Banner Sports Ticker highlights local prep athletes for their performances during the week of April 29-May 5.    Preps of the Week Boys: Scotts Valley High senior Jack Abel had back-to-back solid games for the Falcons baseball team, which is currently...

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...

This week’s edition of the Press Banner Sports Ticker highlights local prep athletes for their performances during the week of April 22-28.    Preps of the Week Boys: Scotts Valley High sophomore Jacob Pauka hit a double that drove in the game-winning run for the Falcons baseball...

This week’s edition of the Press Banner Sports Ticker highlights local prep athletes for their performances during the week of April 15-21.    Preps of the Week Boys: Scotts Valley High starting pitcher Blake LaRiviere recorded 10 strikeouts in six innings for the Falcons in a 3-2...

Never say never. That has been the mantra in 2024 for the San Lorenzo Valley High boys’ golf team, which was on the verge Tuesday of capturing the program’s first-ever Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League championship. The Cougars got the job done following a 179-199 win...

This week’s edition of the Press Banner Sports Ticker highlights local prep athletes for their performances during the week of April 8-14.   Editor's note: There was no Press Banner Sports Ticker for the week of April 1-7 as both Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley...

In a race for control of first place in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League softball standings, it came down to Tuesday’s battle between two of the best hurlers the league has to offer.  On the home side, it was Scotts Valley High’s Sofie Seese...

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...