High School Sports

It’s a testament to the Live Oak High girls lacrosse team that it finds itself in prime position to repeat as Blossom Valley Athletic League champions.  The Acorns have dealt with illness and multiple injuries to key players this season, yet they improved to 6-0...

Off to its roughest start in recent memory, the Sobrato High baseball team can still turn things around if their mental approach changes.  “The players’ heads were down, they don’t have the belief they can win yet,” Bulldogs coach James Pozas said after a 15-4,...

The Live Oak and Sobrato softball teams are on track to have solid seasons once again.  The crosstown rivals met for their only regular-season contest this season on March 16, with the Bulldogs prevailing, 8-7. The teams are in different divisions this year, with the...

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...