High School Sports

Live Oak High coach Mike Gemo has been chosen to coach the South team in the 39th Charlie Wedemeyer High School All-Star Football Game on July 17 at San Jose City College.

The accolades for the Gilroy field hockey team don’t stop just because the season is over.

Justin Hale, Sam Aptekar, Jimmy Lemberger and Makaio Duyao were the go-to guys for their respective teams all season and Wednesday their value was recognized with All-League honors.

Christopher High’s boys soccer team was rewarded for its strong season when coaches recently voted a pair of Cougars to the All-Monterey Bay League Pacific Division First Team.

Two Gilroy High girls soccer players are scheduled to sign with Division I college programs Wednesday in a ceremony at Garcia-Elder Sports Complex.

GILROY—The Christopher volleyball team made the move to the Monterey Bay League’s tough Gabilan Division last season, joining powerhouse teams such as Salinas, San Benito and Notre Dame. The perennial favorites took the top three spots, but the Cougars proved they deserved to be there, too and finished fourth in the division with a 14-18 overall record. Now that it has a year of experience under its belt, Christopher is looking to infiltrate the top three.

As the referee raised Adriana Orozco’s arm in triumph—signaling the second year in a row the Gilroy High senior had won a Central Coast Section championship—Orozco had a torrent of emotions. At that point, Orozco was already welling up with tears, and moments later,...

GILROY—Just hours before his tournament championship game, Nate Schilling was practicing his shooting with his dad. The pointers his dad gave him—keep your elbow straight and get a lot of arch on your shot—resonated through Schilling’s head all game and helped him out his recent shooting funk—not to mention being Oakwood’s leading scorer, too.