Sports

The Mission Trail Athletic League season opened up last week with the Greenfield Bruins hosting the King City Mustangs and the Soledad Aztecs hosting the defending league champion Gonzales Spartans.

A first place finish at the Jamz Regional Cheer Competition in San Francisco earned the Soledad Warrior Cheerleaders a bid to compete at the Jamz Nationals Cheer Competition that will take place in Las Vegas on Jan. 19-21.

The Soledad High School cross country team gathered on Dec. 11 for an awards presentation and team dinner at the El Michoacano Restaurant in Soledad.

The high school football season may have ended almost a month ago but players from South County are still receiving awards and honors. King City and Soledad high schools recently ended the season with awards nights at their respective school sites.

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

Three of the four boys soccer teams from South County were victorious on the soccer pitch and two girls teams won games in non-league play last week. This is the final week of non-league games for the local teams.

Local girls and boys soccer teams began the second week of non-league play last week in preparation for league play that will start in January.

Soledad High quarterback Robbie SantaAna and King City’s Clay Barbree were selected as major award winners in the Mission Trail Athletic League’s All-League football team.

Sportsmanship basketball games were played last week to kick of the season by the Soledad and Gonzales boys teams and the King City and Greenfield girls teams.

Change is coming next fall for local high school athletic teams as 33 schools that make up the tri-county area will be realigned to form new divisions as part of the Pacific Coast Athletic League (PCAL).