Sports

GONZALES — Last Friday was a return to football for the Gonzales Spartans, but the team came up short against the Pacific Grove Breakers, 34-20. The last time Gonzales played a football game was Nov. 8, 2019. Coming into this season, the Spartans knew they...

KING CITY — After 15 straight league losses, the Gonzales Spartans varsity boys’ basketball team beat their longtime rival, the King City Mustangs, last Thursday for their first league win of the season. Coming into the week, the Mustangs were on a roll winning four...

SALINAS VALLEY — California District 9 Little League Division All-Star Tournament began Tuesday for South Monterey County teams. King City, Greenfield, Soledad and Gonzales are competing in the 11-12-year-old major division and the 8-9-10-year-old division. All four local major teams began the double elimination tournament on...

SALINAS VALLEY — For the first time in over a year, South Monterey County high school football returned Friday night after last year’s fall season was canceled due to Covid-19. This year’s South County Jamboree took place Aug. 20 in Greenfield, where all four local...

GONZALES — It wasn’t long ago that Gonzales High’s football team was winning the Santa Lucia Championships, but after missing a year of play due to Covid, the Spartans’ return to the field wasn’t as expected when they failed to win a game. Last year...

Watsonville native Adrian Rebollar and Monterey Bay FC teammate Carlos Guzmán were both named to the USL Championship Team of the Week for their performances in the Union’s 3-1 victory over the Phoenix Rising FC on March 29.  Rebollar notched his first goal of the...

SOLEDAD — A sense of pressure was felt throughout the gymnasium when the Monte Vista Christian girls’ basketball team visited Soledad High in last week’s battle for first place in the Mission Division. The Mustangs had to win in order just to keep their league...

This sports edition is my last as a writer for New SV Media. Throughout the past 30 years I have been fortunate to have the best seat in the house for hundreds of high school and youth sporting events. While I will miss creating...

Led by three weight class winners, the Gonzales High wrestling team placed sixth overall at the Apple Cider Wrestling Tournament on Saturday in Watsonville.

In an effort to improve the lighting for football and soccer games at Gonzales High School’s Dick Force Stadium, 190 watt LED lights were installed last week just in time for the football season.