Sports

GONZALES — On Friday night at Dick Force Stadium, Gonzales High senior football player Lawrence “Larry” Bettencourt was honored as one of the San Francisco 49ers’ nominees for the NFL’s Latino Youth Honors program this year. “This is the third year that we have chosen...

SALINAS VALLEY — Using their depth with three starters out, the King City Mustangs football team shut out the Gonzales Spartans, 25-0, last Friday night at Dick Force Stadium in Gonzales. The game was the first football game played on Gonzales High’s new turf field...

SALINAS VALLEY — The regular season began last week for the King City, Greenfield, Soledad and Gonzales high school football teams. While all four teams were on the losing end, there were some good efforts from the South Monterey County schools. KING CITY At War Memorial...

GONZALES — Sixteen players and two coaches from the 1974 Gonzales High School football team entered the Salinas Valley Sports Hall of Fame (SVSHOF) on Saturday at the Storm House in Salinas. The Gonzales football team became the first high school football team from the...

GONZALES — Gonzales High School’s football team of 1974 will become the first Salinas Valley high school football program to enter the acclaimed Salinas Valley Sports Hall of Fame (SVSHOF). The 11th annual SVSHOF event will take place this Saturday, Aug. 23, at the Storm...

SALINAS VALLEY — All four South Monterey County high school football teams will be on the playing fields this Friday, Aug. 22, for the start of the 2025-26 season. Greenfield will travel to Salinas for the Rancho San Juan Jamboree; King City will head to...

GONZALES — A free four-day youth soccer camp took place last week at Gonzales High School’s Dick Force Stadium on the new turf fields. The July 29-Aug. 1 event was a collaboration between the Gonzales High School soccer program and the Salinas Police Athletic League. Gonzales...

SALINAS VALLEY — More than 400 young athletes from across Monterey County took to the fields of the Salinas Regional Soccer Complex on July 12-13, participating in the Chevron Soccer Academy — an event that delivered not just elite soccer training, but inspiration, education...

SEASIDE — Monterey Bay Football Club (Monterey Bay FC) has officially announced a new four-year extension with Montage Health to remain as a prominent partner with the club in an agreement that includes front-of-kit sponsorship through 2029. In addition, Montage Health will continue to support...

GONZALES — Eleven-year-old Izzy Pacheco of Gonzales and the Salad Bowl Boxing Club came home with some hardware last week as she won her fight at 115 pounds during the Ignite the Ring Tournament in Tres Pinos. Pacheco is in her second year of boxing....