Sports

The Scotts Valley Wrestling Academy’s preseason folkstyle team has experienced a surprisingly high turnout with 14 girls on the club thus far.

The San Lorenzo Valley and Scotts Valley high school swim teams are in the hunt again for the coveted Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League title. 

There’s a huge sense of confidence coming from within the Scotts Valley High girls’ soccer team as the regular season nearly comes to an end. In a frantic finish until the final whistle, junior Dillon Fiorita scored a pair of late goals for the Falcons...

Spring break is upon us which in the high school sporting world means a lull in the action as the eight spring sports teams can take a break before getting back in the action. The local teams from San Lorenzo Valley and Scotts Valley high schools have found plenty of spring success as they head into the mid-way point in most of the team schedules.

It’s a beautiful, sunny Tuesday in July, but rather than spending the day at the beach, the San Lorenzo Valley Varsity Football players are lifting weights in the high school gym. It is all part of their training regime. The student athletes are preparing to improve on their 5-5 finish from last season. And while the players have been working hard all summer, the preparation for a successful season goes beyond the weight room. 

Scotts Valley girls volleyball head coach Margaret Anderson has been preaching confidence since the beginning of the new season. It was something extremely important to her, especially in a sport where players can easily lose focus during a match after making a mistake on the...

Tyler Stow connected on a school-record five touchdown passes -- three of them to Carson Spence in second-half explosion -- as Scotts Valley won The Big Game of the Santa Cruz Mountains on Oct. 22, 35-14.The game, played under a bright blue sky before a packed stadium at SLV, was knotted 7-7 at the half.Last year Scotts Valley won 52-51 in a five-overtime thriller, but the excitement this year in the second half was all Falcon.The defensive unit for Scotts Valley held SLV’s power offense scoreless nearly the entire second half, while Stow went to work on the Cougar secondary.Spence would finish with four catches for 101 years, and Stow’s passing total reached 257 yards at game’s end.Elias Avalos had two sacks, and Tanner Gilton, Anthony Locatelli, Josh Eskew and Jason Bucio each had one. Bucio also blocked a field goal attempt.Falcon coach Louie Walters notched his 101st victory against his alma mater where he was a one-time assistant.The game had more on the line than mountain bragging rights, as the winner would be in a good position to secure a spot in the CCS playoffs.SLV travels to Santa Cruz next week, then hosts Aptos, which has won five straight league titles.Scotts Valley came within one touchdown of knocking off Aptos at home.The Falcons host Soquel in an afternoon game at home next weekend, then end their regular season at night at home against Santa Cruz.Kyle Rajala and Ryan Johnston each caught touchdown passes from Stow, who was 11-16.For SLV, Jackson Turner caught a TD pass from Tanner Murray in the first quarter, then Scott Poetzinger, the game’s leading rusher with 84 yards, scored with 8 seconds left in the game.

The members of the Scotts Valley High School varsity football team will be spending the next week seeking contributions of relief supplies to take with them to on their road trip to the wildfire-devastated town of Weed on Oct. 2.

Scotts Valley Little League

The Capitola-Soquel Majors All-Stars team made some history earlier this month following a thrilling win to capture the District 39 championship for the first time in nearly a decade.  Ace pitcher Ryan Huffaker helped add one more chapter in their memorable run after he recorded...