SOCCER: Gilroy, Christopher girls soccer teams seeded into CCS playoffs
Twenty-four hours after scoring its sixth consecutive Tri-County Athletic League title, the Gilroy High girls soccer team was handed the No. 8-seed into the Central Coast Section Division II playoffs. Meanwhile, Christopher High, which finished runner-up in the Monterey Bay League, drew the No. 12-seed in Div. II.
BASKETBALL: Cougars leave no doubt with MBL Tournament championship
WATSONVILLE — It took the Christopher High girls basketball team a little more than three minutes into regulation to snap from its offensive funk. Monte Vista Christian School never seemed to find a way out of its, however.
BASKETBALL: GHS boys drop season finale, 65-56
The 2011-12 season didn't go according to original plan for the Gilroy High boys varsity basketball team. But as the Mustangs have done throughout, they put forth maximum effort against visiting Salinas in the Tri-County Athletic League finale for both teams on Senior Night Friday in Gilroy.
SOCCER: Mustangs topple Cowboys to claim sixth straight league title
No substitutes, no problem. The Gilroy High girls soccer team limped into Friday night's winner-take-all Tri-County Athletic League finale against Salinas without its starting goalkeeper and with no bodies on the bench.
Judge sentences Covian in 2007 stabbing murder
A judge Friday sentenced Jose A. Covian, the Hollister man accused in the 2007 stabbing murder of Alejandro Hurtado, to a prison term of 25 years to life.
Diocese settles suit over claims former Mission priest abused boy
About a year after the allegations went public, the Diocese of Monterey has settled a lawsuit involving suspicions that a former Mission San Juan Bautista priest in 2005 sexually abused a then 14-year-old member of the Madonna Del Sasso parish in Salinas.
GTA releases budget cut recommendations
Just several days after the Gilroy Unified School District released budget cut recommendations for the 2012-13 school year, the Gilroy Teachers Association drafted its own recommendations based on submitted ideas for budget cuts and/or revenue enhancements. The input was gathered via survey sent to all teachers in the district.
BASKETBALL: Anchorpoint closes season with 53-35 victory
With three key players injured for Thursday's regular-season finale, the Oakwood boys basketball team was overmatched against an inspired Anchorpoint club hoping to send coach K.C. Adams out with a victory.
