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KING CITY — King City Mustangs’ softball team played three games last week, winning 11-10 on the road against Robert Louis Stevenson, falling 9-2 at Atascadero in a non-league game and ending the week with a 17-0 shutout of Pajaro Valley. At Pebble Beach against...

KING CITY — Hard work is paying off for the King City Mustangs baseball team as they opened Cypress Divisional play with two wins against the Pajaro Valley Grizzlies. In road and home games, the Mustangs scored 34 combined runs while limiting the Grizzles to...

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...

KING CITY — Alizah Carrillo earned the pitching win as the King City softball team defeated the visiting North Monterey County Condors 9-3 on March 20. Carrillo finished the game with six strikeouts.  The Mustangs banged out three doubles against the Condors by Carrillo, Avery Munoz...

SALINAS VALLEY — Pacific Coast Athletic League has announced the athletes that were selected to the boys’ and girls’ soccer and basketball All-League teams for the 2024-25 season. Players were chosen by league coaches at divisional meetings. Following are the student-athletes from South Monterey County...

KING CITY — King City High School’s Amity Hearne has received the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s Central Coast Section (CCS) Scholar-Athlete Award for 2025. Hearne, the 18-year-old daughter of Jim and Trina Hearne, was chosen as the female winner of the award, while Anthony Toriz...

SEASIDE — The United Soccer League (USL) Championship has officially unveiled the full 2025 schedule, which includes the debut of the Championship’s league-wide participation in the USL Jägermeister Cup — marking the beginning of a groundbreaking interleague competition. Monterey Bay Football Club (Monterey Bay F.C.)...

SOLEDAD — Soledad High sophomore Natalie Ramirez placed first in the 235-pound weight class at the Central Coast Section wrestling championships on Saturday to qualify for the California Interscholastic Federation State Meet. The state finals will begin Thursday, Feb. 27, at Mechanics Bank Arena in...

SALINAS VALLEY — With a win in the second round of the Central Coast Section Division III playoffs, the Soledad girls’ basketball team was the only local team to reach the quarterfinals. The Aztecs earned the No. 5 seed and beat No. 12 seed North...

SALINAS VALLEY — With wins last Saturday, the Gonzales and Greenfield boys’ soccer teams will be playing Wednesday night in the Central Coast Section Division IV semifinals. In the first round of Division IV playoffs, the Spartans defeated South Monterey County rival King City by...