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GILROY - West Valley hosts the Gavilan Rams Saturday at 5:30pm

Gilroy women’s mixed martial artist Brianna Van Buren will fight as part of the Xtreme Fighting Championships card XFC 23: Louisville Slugfest on Friday night at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Ky.

Standing at about the 35-yard line following a scrimmage with San Benito and Christopher last Friday night, first-year Gilroy High School varsity football head coach Brian Boyd improvised a possible motto for the Mustangs in 2012.

GILROY—When it comes to Christopher and Santa Catalina, eight is the magic number.

39-2 — That's the margin the Christopher girls soccer team has outscored its opponents by through seven game. A perfect record and, most recently, a Burlingame Tournament Championship have made the Cougars season even sweeter.

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.

It was early October, and there was a distinct possibility Gilroy High would have to do the unthinkable: cancel the varsity girls basketball season. Without a coach, some of the returning seniors on the Mustangs program had thoughts of transferring so they could play...

BAKERSFIELD—Gilroy High’s Alex Felix is proof that the future is bright for the Mustangs.

Gilroy High’s boys basketball team will visit Christopher in a California Interscholastic Federation Central Coast Section Division III first-round playoff game at 7 p.m. Tuesday, the CCS announced Sunday.