Sports

Adrian Lopez, a senior infielder and pitcher for the Soledad High baseball team was chosen as the Mission Trail Athletic League Player of the Year in a meeting of league head coaches.

A sixth inning rally by the Greenfield Bruin baseball team helped the host team defeated the Robert Louis Stevenson Pirates 8-6 on Friday at Hartnell College in Salinas.

Mustang soccer great and 1987 King City graduate Ramon Bravo was selected by the King City High School Athletic Hall of Fame Committee last week. Bravo was an outstanding soccer player for the Mustangs.

The Greenfield boys cross country team placed second in the Central Coast Division III championships on Saturday to earn a trip to the State Meet.

In a battle for first place in the Mission Trail Athletic League, the Greenfield Lady Bruin soccer gained half a game on front running Pacific Collegiate as the teams finished in a 1-1 tie in last Thursday’s game in Greenfield.

Hartnell distance runner and Greenfield resident Jaime Garcia edged 15-year-old Luis Martinez to be crowned the overall winner of the 2017 Harvest Run Sunday morning in Greenfield.

Led by the double-digit performances in kills and assists by Grace Shepherd and Megan Flores, the King City Lady Mustang volleyball team defeated the North Salinas Vikings and Seaside Spartans to improve to 3-0 at the start of non-league play.

King City senior distance runner Roman Munoz scored 30 points in three events to lead the Mustang to a fifth straight Mission Trail Athletic League championship on Saturday at Pacific Grove High School.

Three local high school football teams will be in action on Friday at the start of the non-league schedule and one high school will be off to observe a bye week.

The high school football season began last Friday at Dick Force Stadium in Gonzales with the South County Football Jamboree.