High School Sports

Live Oak HS baseball (5-6 overall, 5-1 BVAL Santa Teresa East) Recent results: Won 9-0 at Piedmont Hills; won 5-3 vs. Piedmont Hills; won 5-3 at Evergreen Valley Upcoming games:4pm April 3 at Lincoln NOTES: Thomas Guenet tossed seven innings against PH, allowing just four hits and...

After graduating nine seniors off last year’s team, Live Oak High boys basketball coach Randy Bartholomew knows this season will have a lot of growing pains.  But the fourth-year Acorns coach also sees an opportunity for the players to learn, grow and develop into a...

The Live Oak softball team ran the table in league play and competed with the best in the Central Coast Section during a landmark season. The Acorns put together a 24-3 year, the top mark in school history. The squad was a brilliant 16-0 in...

In the last couple of years, the Live Oak and Sobrato girls soccer teams have been regular participants in the Central Coast Section playoffs, which is a testament to the amount of talent in Morgan Hill. Although the Acorns and Bulldogs are both having...

Sobrato volleyball in 2024 dealt with graduations of last year’s seniors, a challenging non-conference schedule and loaded league competition. The Bulldogs nonetheless extended their playoff streak to five consecutive non-Covid years, and notched a postseason victory for only the second time in that span,...

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...

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...

The Live Oak and Sobrato baseball teams entered their two-game set last week both in desperate need of a sweep to put themselves in prime position for a top-four finish in the Blossom Valley League’s Mount Hamilton Division, which carries automatic berths into the...

A track meet broke out between the Sobrato High and Saratoga High boys basketball teams on Tuesday night.  Turns out, a fast, up and down game fits right into the Bulldogs’ wheelhouse. Sobrato’s highly entertaining 78-74 win means it has advanced to the semifinals for...

In 2025, Live Oak football took a giant step up to the elite level of local football, where they usually reside. After a rare stumble last year when the Acorns were just 3-8, this year’s squad went 9-3 and reached the Central Coast Section...