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KING CITY — Five first-quarter touchdowns gave the host Palma Chieftains a commanding lead in Saturday’s 48-20 victory over the King City Mustangs at Rabobank Stadium. Three turnovers by the Mustangs contributed to three of the Palma scores. The Mustangs played better in the second...

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...

SALINAS VALLEY — High school basketball teams across South Monterey County are getting in games before Christmas, and the season is rolling now that they already have a couple matches under their belts. King City Mustangs One of the trends to start this season was that...

SALINAS VALLEY — Soledad and King City are working to keep pace in the Mission Division volleyball standings behind Robert Louis Stevenson and Alisal. King City is 6-2 behind the Pirates and Trojans with 3-0 wins over North County and Watsonville, and Soledad is 5-3...

KING CITY — King City High School’s inaugural beach volleyball team made school history by capturing the 2026 SCCAL league championship with an undefeated league record in its first season of competition. The Mustangs capped the season with a strong showing at the league’s end-of-season...

KING CITY — King City High School Athletics Program has selected senior student-athletes Sage Flores and Israel Limosnero as the 2023 Athletes of the Year. An event celebrating their accomplishments as Mustangs took place May 22 at the school’s Robert Stanton Theatre. Flores was a three-sport...

SALINAS VALLEY — All four South Monterey County high schools participated in last weekend’s Glenn Cooper Frosh-Soph Boys Basketball Tournament at the Roger Fernando Gym in Gonzales.  The tournament featured eight teams and is named after former teacher and head basketball coach Glenn Cooper. Salinas was...

SALINAS VALLEY — As the softball season hits the halfway mark, both King City and Gonzales find themselves atop the Cypress Division, as the teams prepared to play game two of their season series earlier this week. In what has been an impressive year for...

Delaney Carroll and Alyssa Richardson scored in double figures to lead the King City Lady Mustang basketball to a 46-34 win over Gonzales High in the varsity game of the King City Christmas Classic.

SALINAS VALLEY — Early in the week when it was announced that three South Monterey County softball teams made it to the Central Coast Section playoffs, there was reason to celebrate as that has never happened before. But after their Saturday games, all three...