Sports

The Gavilan College baseball team kicked off Coast Conference play with a 6-5 victory over defending champion Ohlone College in 10 innings in Fremont on Tuesday.

Gavilan softball dipped to 0-2 in Coast Conference South play after an 8-4 setback against visiting Hartnell on Tuesday in Gilroy.

Despite seven scoreless innings on the mound from Brian Ransom, the Christopher High baseball team lost in extra innings, 2-0, against Homestead in its Wilcox Tournament opener Monday in Santa Clara.

Gilroy High wrestling coach Greg Varela said the Mustangs wrestled with an undeniable “x-factor” Friday and Saturday at Independence High. And as the curtain closed on another Central Coast Section Championship meet, that “X” stood for a decade's worth of section supremacy.

In search of its 10th consecutive section championship, Gilroy High (227.5) holds a 98.5-point lead over second-place Palma (122) heading into tonight’s Central Coast Section wrestling finals, which begin at 7 p.m. at Independence High in San Jose.

Gilroy High sits in first place and will have seven wrestlers in the semifinals after the first day of the Central Coast Section Championships on Friday at Independence in San Jose. The Mustangs have 123.5 points, while second place Palma has 86 points. Meanwhile, Christopher High is in 14th with two wrestlers through to the semis.

Willie Fox doesn’t use many words. He succinctly explains himself. The sentences he carefully constructs are to the point. Four or five words long if you’re lucky.

Brian Bradley moved his mound record to 3-0 and the Gavilan College baseball team defeated City College of San Francisco 3-0 on Thursday.