High School Sports

GILROY—Just hours before his tournament championship game, Nate Schilling was practicing his shooting with his dad. The pointers his dad gave him—keep your elbow straight and get a lot of arch on your shot—resonated through Schilling’s head all game and helped him out his recent shooting funk—not to mention being Oakwood’s leading scorer, too.

Paulina Llamas scored twice to propel Christopher High’s girls soccer team to a 2-1 home win over Salinas on Thursday.

There was little to no doubt that the Gilroy High boys wrestling team was walking away with its 19th consecutive Central Coast Section title at last week’s wrestling championships.  The Mustangs put on another exquisite show Feb. 18-19 that had fans inside the gymnasium at...

Victor Vong, Josh Hernandez and Ryan Cockcroft each won at singles to lift Christopher High’s boys tennis team to a 4-3 victory over visiting Everett Alvarez on Tuesday.

GILROY—As far as Gilroy High is concerned, the last four weeks don’t matter. The Mustangs want to put their preseason struggles behind them and focus on the task at hand: their Monterey Bay League-Pacific Division opponents.

GILROY—“This year, I think we have it all in place,” Christopher field hockey coach Lia Peterson said overlooking the field of around 50 girls who turned up for practice on Aug. 19.

The Cougars baseball team kicked off Monterey Bay League-Gabilan competition with a 4-3 win over Palma at home Tuesday.

Live Oak quarterback Taylor Turnipseed and wide receiver Dominic Maciel have an obvious connection. And for the second week in a row, the duo couldn’t seem to get enough of each other.

GILROY—Interim Cougar coach Aaron Bembry gave his players a challenge at halftime. He told them they could either pack it in or show Palma their true character. They gave him an answer almost immediately and emerged as a different team in the second half. But unfortunately for the home team, it ran out of time and fell 35-14 Friday to the Chieftains.

Coach Nicky Anagnoston predicted that she needed to get the most out of the five members of Christopher High’s gymnastics team if it were to meet the point total necessary to qualify for the Central Coast Section finals next week.