High School Sports

Live Oak HS Football (3-5 overall, 3-1 BVAL Mt. Hamilton Division) Recent results: Won 35-0 vs. Oak Grove; Lost 17-16 in OT at Santa Teresa Upcoming games: 7:15pm Oct. 25 vs. Branham NOTES: Against Santa Teresa, Adrian Leal completed 7-of-13 passes for 54 yards and a nine-yard...

Leading just 7-0 at halftime, the Live Oak High football team knew it wasn’t playing to its potential. The Acorns got right at halftime, as adjustments from the coaching staff and an increased level of intensity from the players resulted in a 35-8 win...

Mike Kiefer has been the Live Oak High girls basketball coach for 17 years, but he doesn’t remember ever having a season in which he’s had only one senior on the team. Such is the case this season and as such Kiefer acknowledges it’s going...

Like a blindside hit, Nathan Williams never saw it coming.  The Live Oak High senior was overwhelmed with emotion when he learned that he would be awarded the Dwight Clark Beyond Extraordinary Award during halftime in the 47th annual Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Football Game on...

They placed a mountain in front of Sobrato softball this year and the Bulldogs are climbing it. A successful 2023 season moved Sobrato up one level in the Blossom Valley Athletic League division hierarchy. But with significant senior graduations, it would be a different...

In a crucial league battle last week, Live Oak senior Izzy Jeffery put on her cape and came to the rescue during the final minutes of overtime.  She banged home the game-winner with just 1:22 remaining in the match to help lift the Acorns field...

One of the best teams at Live Oak High School this year is the girls lacrosse squad. Coach Jordan Evanger’s Acorns are flying high with a 15-1 record, 12-0 in Blossom Valley Athletic League, Mt. Hamilton Division play.  The regular season has just finished and...

Live Oak had a rocky start to the 2024 season. There were three one-sided losses and a painful 20-14 defeat to rival Sobrato.  But under the covers, one notes that those three teams that beat the Acorns decisively (Palma, Los Gatos and Menlo-Atherton), were all...

Sobrato High senior Noah Taylor is knocking down both school rushing records and opposing ball carriers as a two-way star for the Bulldogs’ football team.  The 6-foot-1, 195-pound stud running back ranks first in rushing yards in the Central Coast Section, third in the state...

Kolton McCrossen couldn't take his eyes off the medal he earned for finishing in third place in the 400-meter run in last Friday's Central Coast Section Championships at Gilroy High. For a good three to four minutes, McCrossen held the medal in his hands,...