Sports

Competition at the USA Water Polo Junior Olympics had a fast start this week, as teams from around the nation descended on the Bay Area, including Felton, to compete in the 2012 competition.

Scotts Valley High sophomore Dominique Parrish took second in the California Interscholastic Federation Championship in Lemoore this past weekend — the highest finish for a female wrestler in the school’s history.

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...

San Lorenzo Valley senior Jessica Stoelting notched her sixth goal of the season to help lift the Cougar girls’ soccer team past Harbor for a 1-0 victory in Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League play Tuesday afternoon. Fellow teammate sophomore Danielle Stiles was credited with the...

A group of high school senior girls from both Santa Cruz and Monterey counties are set to compete in the inaugural Central Coast Flag Football All-Star Game this weekend. Jazzy Doubek, Claire Skinner, Soraya Westlund and Taylor Wilson will represent Scotts Valley—the reigning Santa Cruz...

The Hawks, a local U10 youth soccer team, remain undefeated this season in the Scotts Valley/San Lorenzo Valley Soccer Club Bronze League. This group of kids has been playing together for three-plus years under head coach Jessica Holbrook. The Hawks earned first place at the Halloween...

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...

Torch passes throughScottsValley

After coming off back-to-back wins to begin Coast Conference play, the Cabrillo men’s soccer team was beaming with confidence going into Tuesday’s match against West Valley. But the Seahawks got themselves into an early quagmire of playing catch-up the entire evening in a 3-1 defeat...

Everlyn Kemboi glanced behind her shoulder once moments just before covering her face as she came storming down Cliff Drive in Capitola to win Sunday morning’s Wharf to Wharf women’s division race.  The 24-year-old American crossed the finish line first in 30 minutes, 29 seconds,...