High School Sports

One moment, Alex Benavides was baffling the Monterey hitters with a wicked slider. The next moment, the Gilroy High senior was making a nifty snag playing first base. The 6-foot-3, 170-pound San Diego State commit has displayed a variety of skills for a Mustangs...

Armed with a three-man rotation that is right up there with the best in the Monterey Bay League’s Gabilan Division, the Christopher High baseball team seems primed for a second-half run and upper-tier finish in the standings. The Cougars entered the week at 6-6-1...

In their final year of high school swimming, Ashley Harding and Katelyn Brolin are making it count. The two, along with Rachell Carnell and Ellie Pickford, make up Gilroy High’s 200-yard freestyle and medley relay teams that are close to hitting Central Coast Section...

The Gilroy High boys volleyball team is still trying to find its identity and cohesiveness on the court. Fortunately for the Mustangs, the players—including senior middle blockers Trevor Lewis and Jacob Dolan—believe a turnaround is imminent. “I feel our team can definitely clean up our...

For Maria Higginbotham and the Christopher High girls swim team, being a part of the squad that helped the program clinch 50 consecutive wins on March 23 against San Benito was all about one person: coach Jeff Ross. Higginbotham, who has hit Central Coast...

Gilroy High softball coach Bria DeLorenzo acknowledges she’s almost in a dream scenario. As the coach of a team filled with talented and hard-working players who have a team-first attitude, DeLorenzo knows this situation doesn’t come around too often. That is why the Mustangs...

For Christopher High boys volleyball coach Kevin Bruce, the team’s quest to win a Monterey Bay League Gabilan Division championship hinges on two things. “We have to improve our passing and serve-receive so we can set up and use our firepower,” he said. Indeed, the Cougars...

For Christopher High’s Keola Sylva and Gilroy High’s Logan Flores, the 2018 track and field season has been one to remember. And the season is only a month old. Sylva, a sophomore, and Flores, a senior, have the top marks in the Central Coast...

Corinne Lombardo lasted all of a minute until she started welling up with tears. It was understandable, as the Gilroy High senior talked about her best friend, Celeste Perales, at the beginning of her signing ceremony to play field hockey at Kean University. In...

Let it rain. Early in the season, that could be one of the mottos for the Christopher High softball team. The Cougars have played through rain on three occasions this season, the last being in a 7-2 win over Oak Grove in San Jose...