After making it back to the Central Coast Section playoffs for the first time in three years, the Live Oak baseball team was rewarded with six all-league selections Monday in the Blossom Valley Athletic League’s Santa Teresa Division.
Through nearly a decade of Sobrato football, the Bulldogs never quite experienced anything like Saturday night in the Division III Central Coast Section first round game.
It was a series of bad special teams play - three failed extra point attempts and a missed field goal - that caused Sobrato High School to come up three points short in a 28-25 loss to the Leland Chargers in a Mount Hamilton Division matchup Friday night in San Jose.
The volleyball version of the El Toro Bowl featured a pair of teams searching for consistency inside the Blossom Valley Athletic League. And it came as no surprise that each set came down to the final points.
Hand-held cameras and smartphones pointed toward the stage and floated above the crowd in the raised hands of relatives and friends of Sobrato High School’s class of 2012 as the wind howled across the school’s athletic field and graduating seniors Coryne Turner and Vanessa Guevara sang the “Star Spangled Banner” at the beginning of Friday night’s commencement ceremony.
Samantha Torres fired a two-hit shutout and went 4 for 4 with a triple, and the Sobrato softball team began the second half of league play much like the first, beating Oak Grove 10-0 Monday in Morgan Hill.
If the Top 8 classic lives up to its billing as a preview to the Central Coast Section Finals, expect Ryan Corvese to run with the area’s best next month.
What began as a fun way for a handful of Sobrato’s top senior athletes to enjoy their final semester of high school has turned into a benchmark season for the SHS boys golf team.