Gavilan College

The Gavilan College softball team dropped a nonconference tilt to visiting College of Sequoias 13-8 on Tuesday.

The Gavilan College Rams softball team had the bats working overtime Tuesday, racking up a combined 22 runs in a doubleheader sweep of visiting West Hills College.

Behind Scott Taylor and Derek Jensen's timely, sharp shooting, the Gavilan College men's basketball team orchestrated a second-half comeback from down by 13 with 12 minutes left to up by two and on the verge of Coast Conference victory No. 1 against visiting Hartnell on Friday night. However, an unfathomable 3-pointer and a pair of Panthers free throws carried Hartnell to a 76-73 win over the Rams.

The Gavilan College baseball team took the diamond for its season debut with a three-game set against visiting College of the Siskiyous on Friday and Saturday and took two out of the three tilts.

The Gavilan College softball team opened the 2012 season hosting a doubleheader Saturday. The Rams split the day's action, first defeating Porterville College 3-2 before falling in the nightcap, 4-1, to De Anza College.

In the second half of Friday night's game against visiting Monterey Peninsula College, the Gavilan men's basketball team chipped away at an 11-point deficit, sculpting a manageable four-point dilemma with plenty of time to spare. In workman-like fashion, the Rams again pulled themselves to the surface with another four-point climb ahead after the Lobos had stretched their lead back to 10 midway through.

One of the best attributes of this job is watching – game after game, season after season. No two games are alike. With each season comes a fair share of surprises. And every year is filled with memorable moments.

As if hosting defending state champion City College of San Francisco wasn't tough enough, the Gavilan College men's basketball team did it without two of its starting guards, Derek Jensen and Austin Vojvoda on Wednesday.

The Gavilan College men's soccer season ended Nov. 11, but the signs left behind tell of a turnaround campaign that included the most wins in program history. Led by first-year head coach Justin Johnson, the Rams finished 2011 with an 11-8-1 record - 7-7 in the Coast Conference - and received four selections to the postseason all-conference list.

Jordan Ramirez and Andrew Belonia each posted season-high point totals, but a 13-2 burst by Columbia College aided the visitors in separating themselves down the stretch of a 71-57 defeat of Gavilan College on Wednesday in Gilroy.