Sports

SALINAS VALLEY — All eight South Monterey County boys’ and girls’ soccer teams are ready for the preseason to start this upcoming week, with games either at home or on the road. BOYS’ SOCCER Last year the King City High School boys’ team finished the season...

SALINAS VALLEY — In a South Monterey County rivalry, the Soledad girls’ soccer team defeated host Gonzales by a 2-1 score last Friday night at Dick Force Stadium. The Lady Aztecs’ Jeannette Valdez scored the winning goal off an assist by Nichole Gonzalez late in...

SALINAS VALLEY — Track and field teams from South Monterey County will be competing this Saturday at the Pacific Coast Athletic League Masters Meet at Pacific Grove High School. The top competitors will qualify for the Central Coast Section semi-finals that will take place Saturday,...

An outstanding junior season earned King City Lady Mustang volleyball player Grace Shepherd the Co-Most Valuable Player of the Mission Trail Athletic League that she shares with McKinley Fox of Santa Catalina. Shepherd was joined on the MTAL first-team by teammate and setter senior Megan Flores. Zeni Silva was the last Lady Mustang to be a co-MVP in the league.

SALINAS VALLEY — As league play continues, three of the four South Monterey County high school girls’ volleyball teams are in first place currently, and are the favorites to hang up a championship banner in their respective gyms. Gonzales Spartans Last season the Lady Spartans won...

A 19-4 third quarter run by Soledad High changed the momentum of a close game against King City and earned the visiting Aztecs a 59-42 victory.

All four South County track and field high school teams drove to the Monterey Peninsula for meets at Pebble Beach and at Carmel High School.

Grace Shepherd hammered down 40 kills in two games to lead the King City Lady Mustangs into tonight’s Central Coast Section Division IV semifinals at Scotts Valley High School.

KING CITY — The inability to get into the end zone in the second half cost the King City Mustangs football team any chance they had to stay in the game last Friday against the Rancho Cotate Cougars. The visitors kept the Mustangs off the...