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Nic Aguilar knows what it’s like to have a state championship within his grasp—literally—only to have it slip away. In last year’s 113-pound title match in the CIF State Championships, Aguilar had Jesse Vasquez of St. John Bosco’s on his back only to run...

Christopher HS Boys Basketball (3-0 overall) Recent results: Won 56-31 vs. Cupertino at Westmont; won 60-52 vs. Mountain View; won 67-55 at Westmont Upcoming games: 6:30pm Dec. 12 at Valley Christian; 3pm vs. Piedmont Hills NOTES: Cougars trailed Mountain View after one quarter but rallied to edge...

Gilroy took one more step toward one of those rare seasons thanks to its 34-14 win over Hillsdale Friday. The Mustangs improved to 12-0 overall and advanced to the Central Coast Section Division V title game next week. This will be Gilroy’s first trip to...

Marcela Mantilla couldn’t stop hopping up and down. The Gilroy High sophomore had just won the 100-meter hurdles race in a personal-record (PR) 15.87 seconds in last Friday’s Monterey Bay League Pacific Division Championships, so one couldn’t blame Mantilla for being in such an...

Gena Gonzales was a student at Chico State University when the San Jose Sharks were playing their inaugural season at the Cow Palace in Daly City in 1991-1992. "We were watching the first game on this fuzzy little TV, just sweating," said Gonzales, who with...

Richard Belmonte just couldn't avoid the wrestling bug. After

It wasn't quite the comeback of the year for Christopher High, nor was it a monumental collapse for San Benito High. In a wild Pacific Coast League Gabilan Division game last Friday in Gilroy, it was the Haybalers that prevailed 34-28 over the Cougars...

Christopher went down early to Carmel 6-0 in the first quarter on Saturday, but the game quickly turned into a rout as the Cougars won 41-14.

The Christopher boys’ basketball team has reached the Central Coast Section playoffs the last four years and advanced to the final in three of those seasons.   This year, they are battling through a challenging 2023-24 league season with eyes on more playoff successes. “We have...