High School Sports

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.

If there's one thing to be said about the Gilroy girls basketball team, it's that it knows how to battle. 

In 2017, the Live Oak and Christopher football teams needed double overtime to decide the outcome. Friday night, the teams’ latest game was no less thrilling. Jonathan Singleton connected with Elijah Fernandez on a 9-yard touchdown with 28.9 seconds remaining, and Caleb Ojeda sealed...

Even after winning the Monterey Bay League Pacific Division Cross Country championship last year, Monica Ruelas didn’t feel victorious as she crossed the finish line. But after repeating as Pacific Division champion Oct. 31 at Toro Park in Salinas, the Gilroy High junior was elated.

Gilroy-area water polo teams made a splash in the Monterey Bay All-League awards.

Christopher High's 2011 football season will be classified as nothing less than historic. Taking most by surprise, and catching the rest off guard – themselves excluded – the third-year program, equipped with its first senior class, stingy defense and balanced offense, earned a share of the Monterey Bay League title and its first playoff win last week.

Gilroy is being well represented at the Monterey Bay League Girls Tennis Finals.   Christopher's Emily Barham and Adena Chen as well as Gilroy High's doubles team of Yesenia Mendez and Sinead Jernigan have advanced to the second day of play at the finals after picking up...

For the Christopher High girls soccer program, the 2017-2018 season might be just the beginning of what could be a historic two- or three-year stretch—or something even beyond. Even though the Cougars saw their season come to an end last Saturday in the form...

GILROY—Just a few weeks ago Christopher was winless. Now, the Cougars are eyeing a postseason berth.

Wednesday’s match featured Team Co-Captain Sam Vogel leading her squad to another victory to finish off Christopher’s perfect league run with a 100-stroke win over Watsonville. “I feel this season I got a lot of experience. I was able to learn how to become...