Sports

Live Oak HS Football (0-3 overall) Recent results: Lost 34-0 vs. Palma, lost 20-14 vs. Sobrato, lost 35-6 at Los Gatos Upcoming games: 7pm Sept. 20 at Menlo-Atherton NOTES: LOHS senior quarterback Luke Newell has completed 18-of-40 passes for 228 yards. Sophomore Gage Jones has rushed 36 times...

Sobrato football head coach Joel Rueda, a Bulldog alum, remembers the date well. The last time his school beat city rival Live Oak: Sept. 25, 2009. “Having not won that game in 15 years, it’s a pretty big deal,” Rueda said. “It’s weighed heavily on...

The world watched the 2024 Olympics in Paris this past summer. A Sobrato alum, Jarod Hatch, swam there in the 100 butterfly.  Hatch was a star swimmer as a Bulldog, then moved on to Cal where he swam and graduated with a Business degree. Hatch...

There are many great plays in sports during a year or over many years. Some are exciting, some are superb athletically, and some are crucial to a game’s outcome. Last fall, Live Oak football linebacker Zach Rocha made one of the best plays ever...

Live Oak’s Luke Richey was league MVP in lacrosse and league Defensive Player of the Year in football. With opportunities beckoning in both, Richey chose to continue in football and selected San Jose State over other interested colleges. The Spartans are coming off a...

The 2024 Gilroy Rodeo broke records for highest attendance and the most contestants participating in the event’s seven-year history on Aug. 9-11.  More than 1,000 contestants competed and performed in the local rodeo, which is run entirely by volunteers and returns all of its annual...

Sobrato’s Kaylee Clayton is a six-rotation outside hitter who has made huge contributions to Bulldogs volleyball and in Club games. Clayton graduated and will now play for one of the top NCAA Division III volleyball programs, Cal Lutheran University in southern California’s Thousand Oaks. Over...

Brianna Bouton led Sobrato to superb seasons in basketball and volleyball and will continue with hoops in college, recently signing a National Letter of Intent with CSU Monterey Bay. In her last three years of competition, Bouton and teammates have excelled, with three straight Central...

Gavilan College baseball star Louis Zulaica, a Morgan Hill resident, is on his way up. The Rams’ shortstop was recently named Coast Conference South Division MVP and First Team All-State after a breakout season. In the recently concluded spring campaign, he hit .394, with a...

The Bay Area Panthers, defending champions of the Indoor Football League, ripped Albuquerque’s Duke City Gladiators 50-28 on July 13 at San Jose’s SAP Center.  The win raised the Panthers’ record to 12-3 and clinched the Western Conference’s top seed in the upcoming playoffs. Last...