Sports

SOLEDAD — Soledad Aztec boys’ varsity basketball team has become league co-champs for the first time in 16 years. The last time the Aztecs won a title came back in 2006, when they captured the Mission Trail Athletic League. If they wanted to sit atop...

GONZALES — Gonzales High School hurdler Alen Valdez and high jumper Robert Gutierrez placed second in their specialties at last Saturday’s season opening track and field meet at the Watsonville Time Trials. Valdez, a junior, ran the 110 hurdles in a time of 18.76, and...

Gonzales junior wrestler Robert Ochoa finished with a 1-2 record while competing at the California Interscholastic Federation State Wrestling Championships at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield. Ochoa competed in the 197 pound weight class.

GONZALES — Gonzales Spartans wrestling team competed in the Lynbrook 2nd Man and Ladies Challenge on Jan. 22, placing third as a team among the 45 teams participating in the tournament. Five Spartan wrestlers took home medals: Carlos Alvarez, 285 pounds, second place; Anthony...

Track and field teams from Gonzales, Greenfield, and Soledad High Schools participated in the Alisal Track and Field Invitational on Saturday at Alisal High School in Salinas.

Gonzales football head coach Eddy Ramirez once donned an orange and black football jersey during his playing days in the early 90s, scuffling and battling on what was essentially a dirt field with patches of grass. The former Spartan standout wished farewell to the past...

Track and field athletes from all four South County high schools will be running, throwing, and jumping on Saturday at the Central Coast Section Track and Field Semifinals at Gilroy High School.

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...

SALINAS — Hartnell College softball head coach Natalie Basaldua was named the 2025 Coast Conference Coach of the Year after leading the Panthers to a 23-14 record with a .618 winning percentage. Hartnell placed third in the Coast Conference behind West Valley and San Mateo...