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.

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.

Wins over the Gonzales Spartans and Santa Catalina Cougars moved the Soledad Lady Aztecs to a first place tie with co-Mission Trail Athletic League leaders King City and Robert Louis Stevenson at 6-1. Soledad is now in double figures in wins, with a 10-6 overall mark.

The Palma School Athletic Department will host a ceremonial Letter of Intent Signing on Friday, May 5, at 11:45 a.m. in the Steve Clayton Memorial Gym.

For the first time in school history, the Soledad High School frosh-soph girls track and field team won the Mission Trail Athletic League championship.

King City High boys cross country team placed fourth in the Division IV championship race at the California Interscholastic Federation State Meet on Saturday at Woodward Park in Fresno.

IMUA Elite 16 Jason, representing local-based elite travel volleyball club IMUA Volleyball Club, is headed to the USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championships — formerly known as the USA Junior Olympics — this summer.

The Fairview Middle School Wrestling team from Gonzales placed sixth out of 14 teams at Saturday’s David Raptis Wrestling Invitational that was hosted by Washington Middle School.

A sixth straight championship also meant an end of an era for the King City boys track and field team. The Mustangs won the Mission Trail Athletic League in what was the last championship meet for them in the MTAL as next year King City, Gonzales, Greenfield and Soledad will be members of the Pacific Coast Athletic League.

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