With a state champion on the other side of town, the 2012 Sobrato wrestling team, led by seniors Zach Zhang, Evan Enright, Thomas Burback and newcomer Albert Newman, expect to shift the spotlight to the Bulldogs this year.
After winning its first Central Coast Section playoff game and finishing in second place in the Blossom Valley’s Mount Hamilton Division, the Sobrato football team was rewarded with 11 all-league selections this week.
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.
After three straight losing season, where the Bulldogs have averaged a little more than four wins, the Sobrato girls basketball team will turn to a little youthful energy in 2012.
In a three-overtime thriller, the Morgan Hill Pop Warner Junior Midgets Raiders survived to play another round of the Division I playoffs by beating the Redwood City Forty Niners 22-14 last Saturday in Woodside.
The Gavilan College football team, which will try to produce its first three-game winning streak in 15 years, plays for first place and the pole position for the stretch run toward a Coast Conference title Saturday night against rival Hartnell in Salinas.