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November 28, 2025

Basketball | King City Mustangs beat Gonzales Spartans twice

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...

Wrestling | Greenfield wins Cypress title again as Gonzales comes in second

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...

Wrestling | Soledad’s Ramirez sole qualifier from South Monterey County for State Meet

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 athletes represent at college track finals

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...

Tennis | Gonzales Spartans lose to Haybalers

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...

Cross Country | South Monterey County runners compete at State

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...

Basketball | Season gets rolling for South Monterey County teams

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...

Boys’ Basketball | South Monterey County teams suffer combined 17 losses

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...

Track and Field | Soledad girls’ relay team sets record

Soledad Aztecs track
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...

South County soccer teams prep for league play

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.

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Soledad Unified School District

Soledad Unified School District honored with 2025 Golden Bell Award for...

SOLEDAD — California School Boards Association (CSBA) has announced that the Soledad Unified School District was selected as a 2025 Golden Bell Award recipient...