In Monday's league outing, the Aptos Mariners (Aptos, CA) basketball squad beat the visiting Soquel Knights (Soquel, CA), by a count of 52-34.

The Mariners (13-5) will now prepare for their outing against St. Francis (Watsonville, CA). The Sharks go into the Santa Cruz Coast outing with a 16-0 record. In their last outing, St. Francis defeated Scotts Valley (Scotts Valley, CA), 67-48, in a league outing.

The Knights now hold a 1-8 record. They play next when they host San Lorenzo Valley for a Santa Cruz Coast outing on Wednesday, January 21. Soquel will clash with a Cougars squad coming off a 66-57 league loss to Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA). The Cougars record now stands at 8-7.