Sports

GONZALES — Coming into the season, the Gonzales High School girls’ softball team was going to have a hard time replacing a main core of players that graduated last year and had been the soul of the team for the past couple of years. Another...

SALINAS VALLEY — South Monterey County volleyball teams will begin the second half of Pacific Coast Athletic League divisional play this week. King City is currently in fifth place in the Gabilan Division with a 3-5 mark (8-8 overall). Gonzales, Soledad and Greenfield all compete in...

KING CITY — This Saturday, Sept. 13, the King City High School cross country team will host the 2025 King City Cross Country Invitational at San Lorenzo Park. The meet will feature races in the boys’ and girls’ varsity divisions, junior varsity divisions and frosh/soph...

GONZALES — The Gonzales High wrestling team placed ninth out of 43 teams at the Nick Buzolich Classic Wrestling Tournament on Dec. 21 at Lincoln High School in San Jose. Josiah Rosales Garcia placed first in the 215-pound weight class and finished with a record...

SALINAS VALLEY — King City Mustangs will be the only South Monterey County football team playing at home this week. The Mustangs begin the regular season Friday as they host the North Salinas Vikings in a 7:30 p.m. contest. “North Salinas is solid and they are...

SALINAS VALLEY — Soledad and Gonzales boys’ basketball teams were able to get one more game in last Wednesday before the holiday break. After dropping three straight games, the Soledad Aztecs have now won two consecutive matches to improve their record to 6-3 for the...

SALINAS VALLEY — Competing in their last race as junior college runners, Ashley Ochoa of Gonzales and Esteban Deniz of King City earned All-American status for the Hartnell College Panthers cross country team at last Saturday’s Community College State Championships. Ochoa and Deniz led a...

GONZALES — Wrestling season for the Gonzales Spartans is in full affect, as they continue to stay busy entering in two tournaments in back-to-back weekends. The first tournament was the Ed Ferrell Classic at Harbor High School in Santa Cruz. Many Gonzales wrestlers just missed...