Sports

High School football teams from Gonzales, Soledad and King City will be competing tonight at Greenfield High in the South County Seven on Seven Passing League.

With the league seasons a month away, local high school basketball teams are traveling near and far to play in non-league contests.

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.

Cross country runners from Gonzales, Greenfield, and King City joined over 70 teams and 2000 plus runners at the Earlybird Invitational Cross Country Meet.

With wins in four events and multiple points in many events the King City High frosh-soph boys track team won their division at the King City Lions’ and Young Farmers’ 74th Invitational Track Meet. Esteban Deniz led the Broncos with wins in the 1600 and 3200.

A nice cloud cover protected the lead runners on Saturday during the Salinas Valley Half Marathon that began at the Soledad Mission and finished 13.1 miles later at Pessagno Winery in Gonzales.

GREENFIELD — Displaying a potent air attack, the St. Francis Sharks sprinted by the host Greenfield Bruins by a 35-18 score Friday night in Greenfield. The Bruins suffered their second Santa Lucia Divisional loss to fall to 3-2 and 3-6 overall. “We had not expected St. Francis to come...

The Greenfield High softball team split their league games as they defeated visiting York and lost to the Gonzales Spartans. The Lady Bruins beat the York Falcons 18-1 on Friday and lost 7-1 earlier in the week to Gonzales.

Maria Hernandez had a double-double in scoring and rebounding to lead the Greenfield High Bruins to a 48-37 victory over visiting Gonzales last Friday night. The win helped the Lady Bruins improve to 3-7 in the Mission Trail Athletic League.

Soledad High varsity thrower Daniel Contawe won the discus and placed second in the shot put at Saturday’s Bill Kearney Track and Field Invitational at Hartnell College in Salinas. Contawe had a winning mark of 148-6 in the discus and finished with a mark