Tag: sports

Christopher High's Shelby O'Hara and Gilroy High's Lizabeth Orellana-Rios both said that there was something familiar with their match Tuesday afternoon.

The Morgan Hill Raiders Football and Cheer program was awarded a $7,000 grant by the Intero Foundation Saturday, Oct. 6 at the Morgan Hill Sports Complex. The Intero Foundation is a non-profit organization that has raised more than $2 million to benefit children.

More than 80 local golfers took to the links Wednesday, in the first step to earning a spot in the 2012 Frys.com Open, which kicks off next week.

The Orchard Valley Red Devils, part of Orchard Valley Youth Soccer League made up of Gilroy and Morgan Hill players, finished second during the past weekend’s 2012 Medina Fall Classic in Sunnyvale.

Five turnovers cost the Gavilan football team Saturday in its last game before conference play begins in two weeks. The Rams allowed 43 points in the game’s first two quarters on their way to a 56-21 loss to West Hills Coalinga.

“Everything on the golf range is set up for success. On the golf course, everything is set up to test you,” pro golfer Jim Flick once said.

Many golfers try to do the right thing by hitting a shot short of a water hazard instead of trying a high-risk shot over the water toward the green.

Like the past few years, the Hollister Chute Out bulls, which were gathered from some of the top breeders in country, dominated the dirt ring in Tres Pinos.

The best one-two punch in golf is good chipping and putting. But many times, poor chipping puts too much pressure on your putting so if you Improve your putting, you can relive the pressure of chip shots. A chip swing is an exaggerated putting stroke, so practicing one shot will help the other.

City Council plans to vote on whether or not to accept an added expenditure of $47,800 for construction improvements to the softball diamond at Sunrise Park, west of Santa Teresa in the northwest quad, or downsize the project.