Sports

SALINAS VALLEY — Jjey Martinez of the King City High boys’ basketball team helped lead the Mustangs to victory over the Gonzales Spartans in a pair of league games last week. The Mustangs (4-4) defeated the Spartans (1-6) first at Gonzales High on Feb. 3...

SALINAS VALLEY — For the second straight year, the Greenfield Bruins wrestling team is sitting on top of the Cypress Division and will hang another banner in their gym, while the Gonzales Spartans took second place. The Bruins once again dominated the Cypress, having eight...

SOLEDAD — Soledad High sophomore Natalie Ramirez placed first in the 235-pound weight class at the Central Coast Section wrestling championships on Saturday to qualify for the California Interscholastic Federation State Meet. The state finals will begin Thursday, Feb. 27, at Mechanics Bank Arena in...

SALINAS VALLEY — As high schoolers are gathering for the 2023 Central Coast Section (CCS) trials and finals, their college counterparts gathered for the Northern California Community College Track and Field Championships just last week on May 12.  Hartnell College has, and always will be, a school full of...

GONZALES — After losing 6-1 the previous week to the San Benito Haybalers, the Gonzales High girls tennis team improved by one match to fall 5-2 at home against the Hollister team last week. Gonzales took victories in the girls No. 4 singles and in...

SALINAS VALLEY — Giovanni Ochoa of Gonzales and Fabian Serrano of Greenfield ran against the best runners in the State of California at last Saturday’s California Interscholastic Federation Cross Country Championships in Fresno. Ochoa was making a return trip to the State Meet and finished...

SALINAS VALLEY — High school basketball teams across South Monterey County are getting in games before Christmas, and the season is rolling now that they already have a couple matches under their belts. King City Mustangs One of the trends to start this season was that...

SALINAS VALLEY — So far, this basketball season hasn’t been good for the South Monterey County high school boys, as they have a combined league record of 2-17. Coming into the season, winning a title was going to be challenging, and it was already an...

SOLEDAD — Last Thursday, April 18, at North Salinas High School in Salinas, the Soledad High girls’ 4x100 relay team established a new school record in the track event with a time of 53.44. Members of the Aztecs relay team were: juniors Chikamso Elelleh and...

Local girls and boys soccer teams began the second week of non-league play last week in preparation for league play that will start in January.