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SALINAS VALLEY — Local high school runners and flag football players will be competing this week with championship hopes for cross country, and the chance to play in a season-ending tournament for flag football. FLAG FOOTBALL The 10 teams that competed in the PCAL will be...

KING CITY — After beating the North Salinas Vikings 3-0 at the King City gym on Sept. 10, the King City Lady Mustang volleyball team completed the pre-season schedule last Friday with a 3-0 victory against the host Soledad Aztecs. Hollyn Hearne and Amity Hearne...

KING CITY — King City High football team had some offensive woes in last Friday’s 27-0 Mission Division loss to the host North Salinas Vikings at Rabobank Stadium. North Salinas (6-2 overall, 4-0 in the Mission) took a 10-0 lead with a field goal and...

The San Jose Earthquakes earned an impressive win over Club Deportivo Guadalajara—nicknamed “Chivas”—that went the full distance at Levi’s Stadium on Saturday night. Following a 1-1 draw in regulation, the Quakes outlasted the Chivas, 4-3, via penalty shootout in front of a tournament-record 50,675 fans...

KING CITY — For the past two weeks, the King City Lady Mustangs have been on the road for Gabilan Division contests, and in those four matches they have gone 2-2. On Oct. 15, King City defeated host Hollister by a 3-1 score. Hollyn Hearne...

KING CITY — The volleyball season came to an end for the King City Lady Mustangs last Tuesday night in the quarterfinals of the Central Coast Section Division III playoffs. King City fell in three games (25-22, 25-14, 25-22) to the Capuchino Mustangs of San...

KING CITY — King City Mustangs pulled off an upset victory against the undefeated Greenfield Bruins to clinch second place at last week’s Mission Division wrestling finals. The dual meet was highly contested and came down to the final match of the night between heavyweights...

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 High Mustangs football program completed the 2024 season with a banquet and awards night Nov. 27 at the school cafeteria. Players that finished the season in the varsity and junior varsity divisions were awarded certificates of achievement. Mustang team members...

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...