Sports

The Greenfield Lady Bruin softball team is in first place in the Coastal League with less than two weeks left in the regular season.

The King City, Soledad and Gonzales High School volleyball teams began non-league games this week to kick off the season.

The competition was tough for local high school cross country runners at the 23rd Annual North Monterey County Earlybird Invitational Cross Country Meet at Toro Park on Saturday.

The Greenfield Bruins baseball team concluded the season with convincing wins over the Marina Mariners. Greenfield finished the Mission Trail Athletic League with a 9-9 record and were 12-14 overall.

The Greenfield High boys basketball is 0-10 in the Mission Trail Athletic League as they lost three games last week to Soledad, Pacific Grove and Oakwood.

Leads of five to 12 points kept disappearing on the host King City Mustangs in their 59-58 win against Greenfield on Feb. 14.

The King City Mustangs are just two games out of first in the Mission Trail Athletic League and trail the second place Soledad Aztecs by just one game.

Wins over Greenfield and Anzar gave the King City Lady Mustangs a 10-4 league record and in a first-place tie with the Lady Bruins in the Coastal League standings.

Three South County high school runners were awarded scholarships for their accomplishments as runners and their work in the classroom by the Monterey Bay Wednesday Night Laundry Runners (WNLR).

Gonzales High School placed seven football players on the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s Santa Lucia Division All-League first-team, while Greenfield High Bruins had three players chosen first-team offense and one player voted first-team for defense.