High School Sports

Hailey Jones is excellence personified on and off the court. On the court, she has helped direct the Sobrato High girls volleyball team to another strong season, as the Bulldogs entered the week at 16-10 overall and 8-5 in the Blossom Valley...

The Oakwood boys basketball team improved its record to 7-1 with a 67-43 win over Gonzales High School.

There’s a reason they play these games. On paper, there was really no reason for the host Oakwood High girls basketball team to beat Redding’s Shasta High Tuesday. After all, Shasta is bigger, better, and more experienced in the tough Central Coast Section playoffs. And that’s why they don’t leave the results to stats alone; because on paper, heart doesn’t show up as a stat.

As the Live Oak High girls basketball team gathered in the locker room after a 46-36 loss to Aptos in the Central Coast Section Division III semifinals on Feb. 27, Acorns guard Adrianne Gomez said you could hear a pin drop. As...

Ryan Gautschi admits he's been blown away by the effort, enthusiasm and play of the Live Oak High boys water polo team this season. Calling it perhaps his most enjoyable year of coaching ever, Gautschi has a roster comprised of seven boys...

Two minutes into the match, Live Oak High’s Karlie Lema outran the Sobrato High defense and unleashed a powerful shot on goal. Even though Bulldogs goalkeeper Holly Rottenborn made a nice save, Lema was only getting started. The sophomore forward struck in...

If you're going to break a record, you might as well do it in style. So it was for Live Oak High senior Adrianne Gomez, who scored a career-high 33 points—including 17 in the decisive third quarter—to lead the Acorns to a...

It’s often said that football is a game of inches. Nowhere was that more apparent than in last Friday’s Blossom Valley League Mount Hamilton Division game between the Live Oak High and Lincoln High football teams. Acorns quarterback Jonathan Singleton dove for...

Kate Marcotullio decided to run cross country last year as a freshman to stay in shape for soccer, the sport she has played since she was 5 or 6 years old. Her expectations were rather muted, as the Oakwood sophomore had never‰-and...

When the Sobrato High football team started the season 0-5—one loss that was later overturned due to a team using an ineligible player—things could’ve easily gone downhill from there. Instead, the opposite happened. After a four-point loss to Andrew Hill on Sept....