Sports

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...

SALINAS VALLEY — The 2022-23 high school wrestling season kicked off Nov. 19 at Gonzales High School, which hosted the Pacific Coast Athletic League Girls Wrestling Jamboree. More than 90 girls from across Monterey County, including King City and Soledad, participated in the season opener...

KING CITY — King City High School cross country runner Israel Limosnero and Gonzales High School standout Giovanni Ochoa qualified for the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Meet by placing eighth and 11th, respectively, at last Saturday’s Central Coast Section Division IV Championship. Limosnero, a...

KING CITY — Among the King City Mustang senior football players who were honored for the final time Friday night was quarterback Jjey Martinez, who found his last game to be his most memorable as he broke a 39-year passing record. “I was shocked after...

KING CITY — Soledad Aztecs are one win away from taking home their first-ever Cypress Division championship in football after they beat their South Monterey County rival, the King City Mustangs, 33-6, last Friday. Earlier in the season, when Soledad lost on Aug. 26 to...

KING CITY — King City High School varsity girls’ volleyball team was on the brink of postseason elimination going into last Tuesday night’s pivotal match against Monte Vista Christian. But with the game on the line, sophomore Amity Hearne delivered on four straight serves that...

KING CITY — When the season started, many football fans around South Monterey County thought the Cypress Division would come down between King City and Soledad; however, entering tonight's game, the Soledad Aztecs are chasing their first-ever Cypress title, while the King City Mustangs...

SALINAS VALLEY — Three of the four South Monterey County high school football teams are still in the hunt for league titles. Greenfield Bruins Last Saturday, the Greenfield Bruins traveled to Pebble Beach to face the Stevenson Pirates for first place in the Santa Lucia Division....

SALINAS VALLEY — Gonzales is only one game away from winning a high school volleyball title this year, while Greenfield, King City and Soledad are trying to clinch playoff spots. Gonzales Spartans Gonzales Spartans (9-2) have done it again, as they are on pace to win...

KING CITY — Down 26-7 at halftime, the King City Mustangs were watching their title hopes and playoffs slip away for the second straight year, but head coach Mac Villanueva knew if his team communicated better, they would have a chance to get back...