High School Sports

After playing its first six games away from Gilroy, the Christopher High boys varsity basketball team hit the ground running in its home opener with a 71-48 victory over Pacific Collegiate on Tuesday night.

Rayshon Mills said he had been waiting for a night like Friday night - a night where he could just cut loose. And did he ever. Mills scored four times - three in the first half - as the Cougars set the tone and tipped its Monterey Bay League Gabilan Division opener in its favor with a 41-19 victory over Everett Alvarez on Friday night in Gilroy.

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.

Most of the area’s soccer, basketball and wrestling teams either begin, or jump back into league contests this week. Here is what’s on tap:

MORGAN HILL - Macey Dunne and Megan Rauschnot scored on two superb passes by Alissa Pham and Shannon Rauschnot, and Live Oak beat Gilroy 2-0 Tuesday in the undefeated Acorns' first real nonleague test this year.

Both the Gilroy High and San Benito boys soccer teams entered Wednesday's must-win match with the feeling that there was more to be done after a 1-1 draw in the teams' first encounter left each unsatisfied and with business unfinished.

SAN JOSE—What Angel Harper and Melanie Tanaka lack in size, they make up in tenacity.

Gilroy's game against Harbor can be summed up in one word: Dominate.

Everything went the way of the Christopher High varsity field hockey team Thursday afternoon against Stevenson. Even the program's first recorded goal via penalty stroke was smoothly deposited by Emma Morley.

Maddy Cox and Maggie Brinkman led Gilroy to a fourth quarter comeback-win over Westmoor 45-41 in the second round of CCS playoffs.