Sports

Gavilan College pitcher Shea Adams said he woke up Monday morning feeling a bit under the weather. After his masterpiece on the bump Monday afternoon, Hartnell College hitters probably wished the right hander had stayed in bed and far, far away from the field.

It wasn't easy, but the Gavilan volleyball team was able to uphold its perfect conference record.

The No. 8 seeded Gilroy softball team pounded 11 hits on their way to a 7-1 victory over Willow Glen in the opening round of the Central Coast Section playoffs Wednesday.

GILROY—While other football players around the state snuggled up in their beds and dreamt of the first day of practice, the Cougars were strapping on their shoulder pads. Not a millisecond of practice time was wasted at Christopher High School. The instant the clock struck midnight on Aug. 14, ending the two-week mandatory “dead period,” the team was on the field to usher in the start of a new year for prep sports.

Travis Moulden scored 20 points to lead Gilroy High’s boys basketball team to a 55-51 victory over visiting Watsonville on Friday night.

When the Gilroy Little League Double-A season ended for the 6-8-year-old age group in the second to last week of May, two of the six managers—Jeff Aguirre and John Bowen—wanted to keep things going.  With no All Star season at the 8U level, it was...