Harbor High's sophomore-led girls volleyball team was competitive with crosstown rival Santa Cruz last season, when the Pirates stunned the Cardinals in five sets in the teams' first meeting but dropped their next two meetings.
Monte Vista Christian School sophomore cross country runners Conor Gilliam and Gavin Beckmen finished second and third, respectively, at the PCAL Mission Center Meet No. 1 on Thursday. Watsonville junior Katelynn Ruiz took first in the first in the girls race.
Home plate umpire Bill Miller, a Harbor High alum, talks with San Francisco Giants announcer Dave Flemming, working as a bat boy, during the Tampa Bay Rays' game against the host Giants in the third inning at Oracle Park on Monday night. (Nhat V. Meyer - Bay Area News Group)