Santa Cruz native Luke Rockhold, 39, a former UFC and Strikeforce middleweight champion, earned a third-round knockout of Joe Schilling in the main event of Karate Combat 45 in Dubai on Saturday.
Soquel senior Braylon Noble, an all-Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League talent in football and basketball, continued to prove himself as Santa Cruz County's top all-around athlete. He took second place in the decathlon on Day 2 of the prestigious Arcadia Invitational at Arcadia High on Saturday.
The streaking UC Santa Cruz men's volleyball team beat Dominican 21-25, 31-29, 25-21, 25-18 in River Forest, Illinois, on Friday to push its win streak to five matches.
Forward Donovan Williams scored a game-high 28 points and added nine rebounds in the Santa Cruz Warriors' 122-119 overtime win over the Texas Legends in NBA G League action at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Friday night.