Sports

Despite coming up just short as a team in last weekend’s Central Coast Section championships, four girls from the Scotts Valley High School varsity girls’ wrestling squad had strong showings and advanced to the statewide championship meet.

Boasting a strong core and a seemingly endless source of young talent, the girls’ varsity basketball team at Scotts Valley High School is making it look easy as it runs wild over the competition in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League.

Approximately one-third of the way into the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League season, the varsity girls’ soccer teams at Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley High schools appear to be headed in wildly different directions.

Scotts Valley High School wrestlers are winning tournaments left and right these days.

In their first Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League meetup in the 2014-15 season, the San Lorenzo Valley High School varsity boys defeated the rival Falcons on the road in Scotts Valley Tuesday night.

For the third time in his life, Bruce Barlow hit a hole-in-one at Valley Gardens Golf Course on Jan. 4.

Scotts Valley local Savannah Shaughnessy was recently involved in the WickrX Supersessions multimedia project, an invitational event dedicated to following and celebrating women in the big-wave surfing community.

Two local cross country runners found themselves in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Saturday, Dec. 13 to compete against some of the best middle-school-age runners that the United States has to offer.