High School Sports

GILROY — Christopher’s head football coach Tim Pierleoni has been to the Silicon Valley Youth Classic before, but only as an assistant.

Gilroy's Justin Hale went the distance and helped his team its first win of he season at home Tuesday. 

GILROY—Kairo Barrosa’s prayers were answered last season. After two years of missing the cut, the then-junior at Gilroy High received word that he would be competing in the Central Coast Section cross country tournament and he found out while sitting in church of all places.

The Christopher High girls soccer team closed out the Monterey Bay League regular season with a 0-0 draw at Pajaro Valley on Thursday night.

GILROY—Thursday’s regular season finale didn’t go the way the Cougars had planned.

The Christopher High girls soccer team kept pace with first-place Watsonville and upped its Monterey Bay League record to 7-1-1 with a 3-1 road triumph over Monterey High on Tuesday.

Allison Foster won the 300-meter hurdles and placed in two other events to help Christopher High’s girls track and field team tie for fifth place in the K-Bell Invitational on Saturday at Los Gatos High.

GILROY—Christopher and Gilroy came out swinging to start Friday’s crosstown clash at Gilroy High.

Five medalists, including one champion, helped lift the Christopher High wrestling team to a third-place showing out of 44 teams at the El Camino Colt Invitational on Saturday in South San Francisco. The team bronze is the Cougars', who are ranked No. 7 in the Central Coast Section, second-best placing at a tournament this season.

It took the Mustangs about 10 minutes to find their groove against Greenfield and once they did, they were practically unstoppable.