Brendan Holler caught a pair of first half touchdown passes as the Gilroy High football team squeezed by host Everett Alvarez 21-7 on Thursday night in Salinas.
Already down one set to none and trailing by seven midway through the second set, the Christopher High girls volleyball team flipped its collective “On” switch.
Gilroy High field hockey head coach Adam Gemar said recently that his team's defense would play a major role in how the rest of the Mustangs season plays out.
Christopher High's Shelby O'Hara and Gilroy High's Lizabeth Orellana-Rios both said that there was something familiar with their match Tuesday afternoon.
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.
The Christopher High football team trailed host Palma by single digits in the second half, but couldn't get over the hump, losing 28-12 in Salinas on Friday night.
Both Gilroy High and Christopher High head into Saturday's Dig Pink Tournament on a winning note, as both schools knocked off their respective Monterey Bay League opponents Thursday night.