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San Lorenzo Valley High senior quarterback Jack Dagan tossed four touchdowns for the Cougars football team in a 39-14 non-league victory over South San Francisco High on Aug. 31.  “This was a big win for our program,” SLV head coach Dave Grant said in a...

Maisey Chard shot a 24 for the Scotts Valley High girls’ golf team in their Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League win over the Harbor Pirates on the front six at DeLaveaga Golf Course in Santa Cruz on Sept. 19. The Falcons won with a score...

Boulder Creek native Jennifer Serbin punched her ticket to the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship following a solid performance during the qualifiers two weeks ago. The Scotts Valley High alumna shot 3-under-par 67 behind top finisher Momo Kamiya (66) of Japan at La Rinconada Country Club...

The Monterey Bay Football Club announced Aug. 5 it hired Jordan Stewart on a multi-year deal to become the club’s permanent head coach.  Stewart—a former San Jose Earthquakes standout—is set to establish a new era for the Union, who currently sit eighth with a 7-9-6...

For the first time in what seems like a very long time, this weekend’s 52nd running of the Wharf to Wharf Race is back to its normal capacity limit.   The six-mile race from the Santa Cruz to Capitola wharves will feature 16,000 participants after it...

Throughout his high school football career, San Lorenzo Valley senior Jack Dagan had never beaten rival Scotts Valley.  That all changed this past weekend as the Cougars’ starting quarterback marched his team down the field en route to a 14-7 victory against the Falcons on...

Aptos High last week announced that Johnny Velez was named the new head coach for both the boys’ and girls’ wrestling teams. The 31-year-old Aptos High alum is replacing long time coach Rudy Guzman who retired at the end of the 2023-24 season. Guzman was an...

For the past three years, Dominic Pierini has experienced just one winning season as the starting quarterback for the Monte Vista Christian football program.   It came in 2023 when the 6-foot-3,195-pound slinger led them to a 6-4 overall record and on the brink of qualifying...

The San Jose Earthquakes earned an impressive win over Club Deportivo Guadalajara—nicknamed “Chivas”—that went the full distance at Levi’s Stadium on Saturday night. Following a 1-1 draw in regulation, the Quakes outlasted the Chivas, 4-3, via penalty shootout in front of a tournament-record 50,675 fans...

Haley Batten placed ninth in the women’s mountain bike event three years ago at the Tokyo Olympics. One would figure that’s already quite the accomplishment itself just being able to get to that point. Instead, she departed the “Land of the Rising Sun” feeling as...