Gilroy High School

The Gilroy High girls varsity soccer team took the pitch Monday afternoon for a nonleague match against Palo Alto that was originally scheduled for Jan. 3. The Vikings pocketed the game-winner in the in the 77th minute to down the Mustangs, 2-1.

After losing his second match of Day 1 at last weekend's Mid Cals Invitational, Gilroy High freshman 106-pounder Jesse Vasquez won eight straight encounters - the eighth gave him a third-place showing. Vasquez, currently ranked No. 3 in the Central Coast Section, according to ccsrank.com, backed up that performance, increased his unbeaten streak to 13 with a 5-0 mark and took home one of five individual titles for the Mustangs at the 48th annual Overfelt Classic on Saturday in San Jose.

The Gilroy High boys soccer team snapped a three-game winless streak with a come-from-behind 4-2 victory over Salinas on Friday night.

The Christopher High girls varsity basketball team fended off a pesky North Monterey County squad in a 45-41 Monterey Bay League triumph on Wednesday night in Castroville.

The Christopher High girls soccer team rebounded from its first Monterey Bay League loss last Thursday, shutting out Pajaro Valley 2-0 in MBL action on Tuesday in Gilroy.

Four Gilroy High wrestlers earned individual titles, one took the state’s No. 1-ranked 132-pounder to the brink of upset in the evening’s marquee finale, and the Mustangs won their first team championship since 2008 on another memorable Mid Cals night under the spotlight Saturday.

The Gilroy Mustangs will have five wrestlers vying for a Mid Cals title during tonight’s main event – the 14-match finals at Gilroy High School at 5 p.m.

Christian Goldstein had 13 points, Charles Walker had 12, and the Gilroy boys basketball team earned its first Tri-County Athletic League victory of the season, outlasting Alisal 47-38 on Friday night.

After Day 1 of the 32nd annual Mid Cals, the double-elimination tournament looks to be headed to a wild Day 2 and finals Saturday night. Host Gilroy High has a narrow lead on defending champion Selma at the conclusion of Friday’s all-day action.

It was a rough night all around for Gilroy teams. Aside from the Gilroy High boys soccer team, which tied San Benito 1-1, the local teams were on the wrong ends of the results. The CHS girls basketball and soccer teams suffered their first league losses, while the CHS boys basketball team dipped below .500 in the MBL.