High School Sports

GILROY—The sound of helmets clashing and plays being called echoed through the stadiums and Gilroy and Christopher high schools this week. And that means it’s time for football.

Monterey Bay League realignments for the 2015 Spring sports season were announced July 16 with very few shifts for Gilroy-area teams.

The Christopher swim team wasted no time at the Monterey Bay League’s Pacific Division finals Friday pulling away from its competition in the pool with relative ease.

GILROY—“We’re on a mission this year,” Gilroy coach Brian Boyd said while looking out at the field full of players practicing during spring football session. “We’ve headed in the right direction, we’re going up and that’s the plan. We just want to get to the playoffs. We don’t care what our record is, we just want to get to the playoffs.”

Taylor Slattery scored on an assist from Morgan Rogers to help Gilroy High’s girls soccer team to a 1-1 tie against visiting San Benito on Friday night at Garcia Elder Sports Complex.

GILROY—Several factors were working against the Cougars Monday. They entered the game drained from an intense weekend at the Stinky Rose tournament with several players saying they’re coming down with the flu. Then there were the clocks.

SARATOGA—Before the season, Christopher wasn’t sure how things would pan out. It had lost 12 players to graduation, but had a slew of young talent eager to learn the game. The question marks quickly started to fade as the Cougars came together and picked up lopsided wins all season long, ultimately leading to their third Central Coast Section appearance in three years.

Both Gilroy water polo teams made a splash on Tuesday.

Christopher did plenty offensively to beat Monte Vista Christian.