ROUNDUP: GHS boys, girls water polo and CHS girls volleyball
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.
SEASON PREVIEW: Christopher High football
Expectations. Three years ago, head coach Tim Pierleoni gathered a bunch of bright-eyed freshmen and sophomores for a meeting at Brownell Middle School and laid out an extensive list of goals. The Christopher High football team's 2011 league championship season – in year three – may have taken everyone on the opposite sideline by surprise. But among the CHS players and coaching staff, it was exactly what was envisioned when the program opened in 2009.
FOOTBALL: Mustangs, Acorns set to raise curtain on 2012
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.
FIELD HOCKEY: GHS wins opener in a rout
The Gilroy High varsity field hockey team (1-0) routed host Sobrato 9-0 in nonleague action Thursday in Morgan Hill.
SEASON PREVIEW: Gilroy High football
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.
League shuffle: Putting teams and leagues in order as the prep fall season approaches
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.
FOOTBALL: Soares gives verbal committment to SJSU
Jourdan Soares sprinted his way to a Central Coast Section championship in the 100-meter dash in 2011. He was third in 2012.
FOOTBALL: Annual Midnight Madness practice kicks off Cougars’ campaign
Jogging in formation, the click of their cleats on the pavement audible as 47 Christopher High varsity football players, hidden under matte black helmets, moved through the darkness of the campus' corridors.
FOOTBALL: Fall season officially here; Mustangs make a switch at QB
It wasn't exactly the start to his first year in charge of the Gilroy High School varsity football team that Brian Boyd envisioned after a productive summer.
On your mark, get set, the fall prep season is here
The calm before the ... Well, that sentence can’t be completed, because the storm that is the start of the high school sports fall season is upon us.
