High School Sports

Sofia Ferrante’s softball career will never be measured in singles or strikeouts, on-base percentage or stolen bases. Instead, years from now the Sobrato High sophomore will be remembered for something statistics cannot measure—the resilience of the human spirit.  Ferrante needed the latter in abundance after...

Lexi Parish will play with her sister Sam after all. And fellow Sobrato High senior Kaitlyn Lyle has also realized her dream of competing for a Division I program in gymnastics. The two have signed athletic scholarships—Parish with Sacramento State and Lyle with UC...

For the local high school spring sports teams, the season has been put on hold—for now. The Gilroy Unified School District, Morgan Hill Unified School District and San Benito High School District last week made the decision to suspend all athletic events until at...

For the longest time, the Oakwood High boys basketball team could walk into a gym against a league foe and know it was going to win, even if it had an off game. That is no longer the case, as the Hawks are in their first season playing in the competitive Mission Trail League.

To get a glimpse into Jacob and Zack Enderle’s relationship, one only has to go back to the Live Oak High football team’s season-opener against Silver Creek. The Acorns had the game well in hand and were running the ball on every play to...

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.

Lindsey Martin, Zain Ahmed and Hailey Freeman all had the goal to play sports for a four-year university upon graduating from Sobrato High this year. The trio will get that opportunity: Martin at Lehigh University, a Division I softball program in Pennsylvania; Ahmed at...

Sobrato High boys soccer coach Jeff Brown remains cautiously optimistic the team could be in the midst of a special season. The Bulldogs had an impressive 7-0-1 record before entering BVAL West Valley Division play, including victories over traditionally strong programs such as Willow...

When Aidan Keenan’s older brother Tyler committed to play baseball at Sacramento State in August 2019, it gave him some added inspiration to start grinding everyday.  From that moment to early 2021, Keenan hit a growth spurt, got in the weight room, gained 40 pounds...

"Incredibly shocked." That's how Noah Lee described the state of the Sobrato boys water polo team's predicament at halftime of last Saturday's Central Coast Section Division II playoff quarterfinal match against Christopher at Santa Teresa High in San Jose. Given that the Bulldogs had...