Gilroy High School

The Gilroy High girls varsity volleyball team took the court for the first time this weekend and went 3-3 at the two-day Bruin Classic.

For what it’s worth, it was just the first game. And that, really, sums up what happened and didn’t happen for the Gilroy High football team in its 35-21 loss to Live Oak last week.

Three different players registered at least three goals as the Gilroy High field hockey team routed visiting North Salinas 15-0 in an early season nonleague engagement Tuesday.

Early in the first quarter of Friday night's season opener between Live Oak and Gilroy, Acorns quarterback Taylor Turnipseed and wide receiver Dominic Maciel had a 24-yard touchdown connection nullified by penalty. It stung. The drive stalled. Little did they know at the time that they'd have a few more flag-free opportunities. Three, to be exact.

Visiting Harbor upended Gilroy High’s girls varsity water polo team 9-4 in the team’s Monterey Bay League Pacific Division opener Thursday in Gilroy.

For the fourth consecutive year, Live Oak and Gilroy, two schools separated by a short 12 miles, will go head to head and pop the cork on the prep football season.

The Gilroy High varsity field hockey team (1-0) routed host Sobrato 9-0 in nonleague action Thursday in Morgan Hill.

Standing at about the 35-yard line following a scrimmage with San Benito and Christopher last Friday night, first-year Gilroy High School varsity football head coach Brian Boyd improvised a possible motto for the Mustangs in 2012.

Eleven days separate this very moment from the opening bell of the 2012 high school football regular season. Other fall sports will get under way if not one or two days before, then a few days after. Nevertheless, the buzz is getting louder.

Jourdan Soares sprinted his way to a Central Coast Section championship in the 100-meter dash in 2011. He was third in 2012.