Sports

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.

Playing without a few key players and forced to move their best receiver to quarterback, the Soledad High football team could not generate much offense in a 53-0 loss on Saturday to the undefeated Carmel Padres.

Adrian Lopez allowed three hits in six innings to earn the pitching victory in a 2-0 shutout win over Alisal High by the Soledad Aztec varsity baseball team on April 19 at Hartnell College in Salinas.

A second half implosion by the Soledad Aztecs football team cost them in a 28-27 loss to the visiting North Salinas High Vikings. Soledad led by a 20-0 score but were outscored 28-7 in the second half to fall to 0-2 in Mission Divisional play of the Pacific Coast Athletic League and 0-6 overall.

A pair of San Ardo Boxing Club member came home with split decisions after boxing matches in Sacramento on Saturday.

The football season begins Friday for South County high schools at the South County Jamboree at War Memorial Stadium. The jamboree will kick off at 5 pm with a JV jamboree followed afterwards by the varsity jamboree.

The King City High School football team opened the regular season with a 37-20 setback against the Monte Vista Christian Mustangs last Friday night in Watsonville.

Gilroy Mustangs beat the Soledad Aztecs in three games to win their Cypress Divisional showdown in Gilroy.

Time ran out on Friday for the Soledad Aztec football team and their hopes of defending the Central Coast Section they won last season as they were defeated 24-17 by the Scotts Valley Falcons in the opening round of the CCS Division V playoffs.

The Gonzales High School softball program ended the season with an awards night and banquet last Thursday at the school cafeteria.