Sports

With the sun sparkling off the waters of Uvas Reservoir and an endless blue sky as the backdrop, Scott and Susan Francks alternated sentences. The couple’s voices, along with the occasional squirrel scurrying past, broke a serene, peaceful silence of a perfect morning last Friday. Their words sent the mind swirling and offered imagery complimentary to the setting.

Pride of Morgan Hill’s 12-and-under team is holding a yard-sale fundraiser from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at 17622, Belletto Dr., in Morgan Hill.

Having lost five of its last seven outings, the Gavilan College softball team earned the pick-me-up it needed, sending off visiting Mission College 8-0 in six innings Tuesday in Gilroy.

Gavilan pitcher Shea Adams said he woke up Monday morning feeling a bit under the weather. After his masterpiece on the bump Monday afternoon, Hartnell College hitters probably wished the right hander had stayed in bed and far, far away from the field.

Kentucky completed one of the more dominating NCAA Tournament runs in the proud program’s history Monday night by beating Kansas 67-59 to claim its eighth national championship and John Calipari’s first as a coach.

The story goes that seldom-used guard Adolph Rupp asked to hold the ball in one of his Kansas team photos from the early 1920s.

Working through its most trying stretch of the season, Gavilan baseball halted its three-game Coast Conference losing skid with a 3-2 victory over Cabrillo on Thursday in Gilroy.