Sports

Upward Sports flag football and cheer program will host its final sign up and football skill assessment days on July 25 and Aug. 1 from 9 to 11 a.m. at Anchor Point School, 2220 Pacheco Pass Rd. The programs are open to athletes in grades K through 8.

GILROY—The 30th Men’s E Garlic Festival Softball Tournament completed action Sunday at Christmas Hill Park when PJ’s Angels upended Breathe for Caley 14-7 to earn the title of the two-day, double-elimination event.

GILROY—Two Gilroy wrestlers are taking on the best in the country at the Asics Vaughn Cadet/Junior National Championships in Fargo, N.D.

GILROY—The Gilroy Junior All Stars team won the Northern California Junior Softball Tournament on July 12 and secured their spot in the Western Regionals Tournament in Tucson, Ariz. 

GILROY—Mario Bonfante Jr. is in the business of proving people wrong.

I don’t normally chime in on politics. In fact, I avoid that subject like the plague. All too often politics is a topic that just causes people to get fired up and argue.

GILROY—The members of the Gilroy Tennis Club team felt like underdogs as they walked on courts at Silverado Country Club in Napa. They were facing the best of the best from Northern California’s elite, private clubs—and they beat them all.

GILROY—The sound of helmets clashing and plays being called echoed through the stadiums and Gilroy and Christopher high schools this week. And that means it’s time for football.

Pacific Point Academy will host three weekly sports camps—all of which will be run by Gavilan coaches.

The Gavilan College football program hosted a skills camp for high school athletes July 11 at the school. Players from Christopher, Sobrato, Monte Vista Christian, Santa Teresa and Salinas high schools all took part in the camp, which Rams head coach Mike Dovenberg called a huge success.