Sports

The beginning of March means baseball and softball teams at local high schools are finishing up non-league games and getting ready to start the league seasons.

Six players scored touchdowns as the King City Mustangs beat Greenfield 50-20 on Friday night at War Memorial Stadium for the final regular season game for both teams. King City improved to 6-4 and Greenfield fell to 3-7 overall after the non-league loss.

The Greenfield Lady Bruin softball team outslugged the visiting King City Lady Mustangs 13-12 on March 28 in a Coastal League contest in Greenfield.

With four games left in the regular season the Soledad High Aztec baseball team is taking aim at first place this week with just one game separating them from the first place Pacific Grove Breakers.

Junior Grace Shepherd finished with 17 kills and senior Megan Flores had 22 assists as the King City Lady Mustangs won their season opener 3-0 over the host Alisal High Trojans last Thursday in the Mustang Gym.

King City High School runner Roman Munoz placed 10th in heat one at the California Interscholastic Federation State Track and Field Championships on Friday at Buchanan High School in Clovis.

The regular season ends this week for local high school volleyball teams as Mission Trail Athletic League games were played on Monday and today. King City has two games remaining and will be seeded on Saturday in the Central Coast Section Division IV Playoffs.

Shotokan Karate students from Soledad, San Luis Obispo and Greenfield took karate exams for the first time ever in Greenfield.

The host Pacific Grove Breakers scored in double digits every quarter to overwhelm the Greenfield Bruins boys basketball 66-40 last Tuesday night on the Monterey Peninsula. The Breakers improved to 3-0 in the Mission Trail Athletic League and the Bruins dropped their third straight league game.

Three wins in four days last week helped the King City Mustangs improve their overall record to 14-7.