Santa Cruz High came out of Monday’s seeding meeting with a strong chance of reaching the quarterfinals of the Central Coast Section Boys Team Tennis Championships.
The Cardinals, the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League co-champions alongside Aptos, enter the tournament unseeded. They will take on Harker, also unseeded, in the first round Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Santa Clara Tennis Club, a neutral site. The winner will face the lowest-seeded team in the tournament, Gunn, in the second round Friday at 3 p.m. at Gunn.
After that, though, the path gets considerably harder. Top-seeded Menlo will most likely host the winning team in the quarterfinals, scheduled for Monday.
Aptos, which lost the tiebreaker for the automatic CCS berth, was not selected for the tournament.
Nonetheless, the Mariners’ doubles team will compete in the CCS individual championships, slated for May 17-18 at Imperial Courts in Aptos. The unseeded team of Jackson Ward and Carter Bond drew another unseeded opponent in Los Gatos’ Jacob Klatt and Tommy Seaman. The winner will face the victor between unseeded Landers Ngirchemat and Jonathan Liu of Aragon and No. 3 Armit Rao and Dillon Yang of Gunn in the quarterfinals.
In coinciding singles action, Santa Cruz junior Volter Virtanen will take on equally unseeded Drew Davison of Half Moon Bay in the first round. The winner gets either unseeded Conner Soohoo of Crystal Springs or No. 4 Dean Stratakos of Saratoga in the quarters.
For complete brackets, visit cifccs.org.
Boys golf
MBL Championships >> Watsonville’s Maxx Ramirez and Bobby Silva and MVC’s Conner Tran qualified for the upcoming CCS Regionals.
Ramirez shot 76 to lead Wildcatz at the MBL Championships at The Club at Crazy Horse Ranch in Salinas. Silva followed with 78 and Tran shot 80.
Tran’s season-long showing helped him earn Gabilan Division all-league first-team honors. Ramirez and Silva garnered Pacific Division all-league first-team honors.
Palma’s Joey Burlison shot 68 for medalist honors. Teammate Dominick Hoover followed at 71.
The Wildcatz shot 501. Other scorers include Brian Zamora (94), Derick Zaragoza (109) and Isaias Caledon (144).
Other scorers for MVC (475) were Jordan Nelson (85), Dennis Yang (86), Blake Cardoza (109) and Anthony Carpene (115).
High school baseball
Aptos 4, North Salinas 1 >> Forrest Hays took the win by striking out four and allowing one run in six innings and also helped himself at the plate, going 1-for-2 with a run in nonleague action.
Timmy Harris finished 2-for-3 with a run and Zak Pepperdine hit 2-for-4 with an RBI. Jake Keaschall was 1-for-3 with walk, a run and an RBI.
The Mariners (12-9) host Branham on Tuesday at 4 p.m.
College sand volleyball
Cabrillo sends two pairs to state >> Morgan Ehritt and Erin Mitchell when 4-0 at the Northern California Regional Pairs Tournament at West Valley College on Friday to become one of two Seahawks’ duos to qualify for the state pairs championship Saturday and Sunday at Grossmont College.
Ehritt, a former UC Santa Cruz indoor player and coach, and Mitchell, a former Mount Madonna School and Evergreen State College (Olympia, Wash.) standout, swept the competition in straight sets to take the North’s No. 1 seed at the 32-team CCCAA State Pairs Championship. They are 12-0 on the season.
They will be joined by Natalie Picone and Marissa Ottesen, who secured the No. 8 seed. To do so, Picone and Ottesen had to ousting Cabrillo teammates Marcela Frazzoni — the reigning state indoor MVP — and partner Allee Smallwood in the second round.
Boys volleyball
At Scotts Valley 3, SLV 1 >> Erik Bullard had 19 kills as the No. 6 Falcons ended No. 7 San Lorenzo Valley’s season in the first round of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Tournament, 25-19, 23-25, 30-28, 25-22.
Tanner Simonovich added eight kills and two aces, and Collin Jones had five digs for the Falcons (5-10), who play at No. 3 Harbor on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
At Soquel 3, Santa Cruz 1 >> No. 8 Santa Cruz gave the No. 5 Knights a battle, but ultimately lost in the first round of the SCCAL Tournament, 25-20, 21-25, 25-19, 25-22.
Jake Bowles played well for Soquel (6-13), according to coach Jake Haldi.
The Knights next play at No. 4 Pacific Collegiate School on Tuesday at 5 p.m.
High school softball
Valley Christian 8, Scotts Valley 2 >> Scotts Valley committed six errors in the first two innings on the way to a nonleague loss.
Casson Rasmussen took the loss despite giving up four hits and just one earned run while striking out three in two innings. Sarah Arnow pitched two shutout innings, striking out one.
At the plate, Grace Giguiere was 1-for-3 with a double. Nicole Marlow and Arnow both went 1-for-2 with an RBI and Jordan Armstrong was also 1-for-2.
Scotts Valley (15-9-1, 10-1) plays at SLV in an SCCAL game Thursday at 4 p.m.
High school lacrosse
Watsonville 11, Soquel 8 >> Nic Carillo scored four goals, T.J. Lacey added a pair and teammates Richie Quintauna, Artola Paniagua, Carlos Ramirez, Allen Silva and Eiteen Grenn each scored for the Wildcatz in the Mission Trail Athletic League North Division game.
Watsonville goalie Diana Paniagua had 10 saves.
Soquel (3-7) was led by Trent Wann and Hunter Griffith, each with 4 goals, and Blake Brosing with two. Garrett Griffin notched five assists and Nico Airoldi had 10 saves.
The Knights host Aptos on Wednesday at 4 p.m.
Boys swimming
Setting it straight >> Santa Cruz High’s Noah Nagel swam a Central Coast Section-qualifying time in the 500-yard freestyle at the SCCAL Championships at SLV on Saturday with a third-place time of 4 minutes, 57.15 seconds. He was not mentioned among the qualifiers in an article on the event on B1 Sunday.
