High School Sports

The Live Oak High boys lacrosse team has been steadily building and is one of the rising programs in the Central Coast Section.  The Acorns barely missed out on making the playoffs last year, but this season they’re intent on not only making the postseason...

Coming off back-to-back league championships—including its third A-league title since joining the Blossom Valley Athletic League in the 2007 season—the Live Oak High baseball team is poised to once again contend for a Mount Hamilton Division championship and make a playoff run.  Coach Matt Brotherton...

A historic 2022-2023 season for the Oakwood High boys basketball team ended with consecutive defeats, something that never happened until the playoffs.  First, it was a 68-45 loss to Woodside Priory in the Central Coast Section Division V championship game Feb. 25 at Santa Clara...

When things get a little helter-skelter for the Oakwood High boys basketball team, their dialogue on the floor and especially during timeouts gets ratched up a notch.  It can seem chaotic at times, but in the end, the Hawks usually put things together and such...

A quarterfinal-round loss in the Central Coast Section playoffs did little to dampen what the Sobrato High boys soccer team accomplished this season. The Bulldogs, who finished 14-3-2, saw their season end to Branham High 3-2 on Feb. 18 in a Division II matchup.  After...

Aden Valencia’s place in Sobrato High wrestling continues to be one for the record books. The junior became the first boys wrestler in Bulldogs’ history to win two Central Coast Section titles when he defeated Gilroy High’s Daniel Zepeda 1-0 in the 132-pound final...

Xavier Catano isn’t left speechless often but when NFL legend Ronnie Lott asked him an impromptu question during the banquet three days before the Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Football Game, the Live Oak High senior was at a loss for words.  “I ain’t gonna lie, he...

Kalvin Chak has endured his share of adversity in his athletic career.  In his sophomore year at Sobrato High, he broke his right arm which sidelined him for the entire basketball season. Last year, in the midst of a breakout season on the varsity, Chak...

A year ago, the Oakwood High boys basketball team saw its season end in a four-point loss to Robert Louis Stevenson in the Central Coast Section Division V playoff semifinals.  It was a rather painful ending as the Hawks had high hopes to reach their...

The Gilroy and Live Oak girls basketball teams have had their fair share of adversity this season.  Both squads have had to navigate injuries and in the Acorns’ situation, they’ve also dealt with a variety of other issues that have prevented them from having their...