Gilroy High School

The Christopher girls basketball team found itself in hole at halftime, a hole that was too keep to get out of.

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If the first turnover was the snowball, then the six others that followed created one giant avalanche that swallowed the Gilroy High football team and left a Monterey High 54-21 victory in its wake on homecoming night Friday in Gilroy.

Winning pitcher Nathan Bonsell threw six innings without allowing an earned run to help Christopher High’s baseball team to a 3-1 victory over El Dorado of Placerville on Wednesday at Gavilan College.

GILROY—Christopher’s Natalie Gutierrez and Cody Oberlander along with Gilroy’s Nicole Holder and Tim Van Horn have been jumping together for along time. The quartet all attended middle school at Ascension Solorsano, where they helped each other develop their respective skills in the high jump.

Gilroy High senior Megan Nebesnick took first place on vault with a score of 9.25 and tied for first on beam with a score of 9.5 during a gymnastics meet Wednesday at Twisters Gymnastics.

It all came down to three points. The Christopher girls golf team upset Robert Louis Stevenson 287-290 at Spyglass Hill Golf Course in Pebble Beach Tuesday. The Cougars improve to a 7-1 record with the win. Nina Velez led Christopher, shooting a 51 and birding on Hole 3. Natalie Gutierrez and Alex Granados were close behind, both shooting a 54.  Christopher will take on the undefeated Santa Catalina at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at home.  Montoya-Valdez returns for the Mustangs After being sidelined with appendicitis in early September, Cierra Montoya-Valdez was final able to get back on the greens for Gilroy Tuesday against Salinas at Gavilan Golf Course. 

Check one. The first-place Christopher High girls varsity basketball team set aside Monterey High 67-31 in Monterey Bay league action Monday night, setting the stage for arguably the biggest game in program history Wednesday night, as it chases down a league title.