Sports

SOLEDAD — Last month the Soledad Aztecs boys’ basketball team said “Aloha” to Honolulu, Hawaii, and participated in the Punahou Invitational. Not all students during their high school career get the opportunity to travel to Hawaii, let alone be able to play basketball, while their...

SALINAS — Soledad High School alum Arthur Berlanga has been named the new head football coach at Hartnell College. Berlanga, a former Panthers player, has not coached in Monterey County in four years after serving as an assistant football coach at Hollister High School for...

At the end of his sixth game as Gonzales head football coach, Arthur Berlanga was raised off the ground by Pablo Ayala in a bear hug to celebrate the Spartans first victory of the year and first of the Berlanga era.

SOLEDAD — It wasn’t long ago that the Soledad Aztecs baseball team won 11 straight games, but in their last five matchups, they have gone 2-3. With a dominant win over Alisal, however, they remain in the mix for the Mission Division title. Coming into...

GONZALES — Gonzales Spartans came up short against the Soquel Knights, 14-6, in their first game of league play. The young Spartans didn’t have their offense clicking that Friday night, Sept. 24, producing only six points. “Our guys played hard and as a team from beginning...

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 — Season two of the high school sports season placed the baseball teams at King City and Soledad high schools in the same division with former Mission Trail Athletic League rivals Carmel, Pacific Grove and Palma. Last week the two Peninsula teams, Carmel...

GONZALES — Gonzales High School Athletic Director Margie Daniels was honored with a plaque for Excellence in Coaching last Wednesday night at the annual coaches meeting that took place in the school cafeteria. While Daniels had organized the event to prepare her fellow coaches for...