Sports

KING CITY — King City High School senior quarterback Jonah Mendez shook off two first-quarter miscues to lead the Mustangs to a dominating 58-28 victory over the Carmel High Padres last Saturday on the Monterey Peninsula. Mendez led King City with his passing and as...

With the cross country running season right around the corner, the Gonzales High team joined other local teams to prepare the Toro Park Course in Salinas for the many competitions that will take place on the site.

SALINAS VALLEY — Gonzales High varsity boys’ soccer team opened the pre-season last week with a 4-1 victory over host Pacific Grove, and ended the week on Saturday with a 2-2 tie in Santa Maria against Righetti High School. On Nov. 25 at Pacific Grove,...

KING CITY — With 16 teams participating, the King City Rotary Club’s first Pickleball Tournament on Saturday was a smashing success, according to organizer and Rotary President James Ewart. The Feb. 10 event was held at the Expo Building of the Salinas Valley Fairgrounds in...

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...

KING CITY — Going into their final game of the season, both the King City Mustangs and the Soledad Aztecs were looking to end the year on a high note. Although both the Mustangs and the Aztecs are not going to the postseason, ending the...

SALINAS VALLEY — High school distance aces Giovanni Ochoa of Gonzales and Fabian Serrano of Greenfield placed fourth and ninth, respectively, at the Central Coast Section (CCS) cross country championships to qualify for the State Meet. Ochoa ran in the Division IV boys race and...

KING CITY — King City Arts Magnet School teacher Bret Harrison has once again brought the Winter Olympic Games to students in his classroom. Harrison, who teaches Enrichment and Reading Intervention for all the school’s fourth- and fifth-graders, has been introducing the Winter Olympics to...