Sports

There are many great plays in sports during a year or over many years. Some are exciting, some are superb athletically, and some are crucial to a game’s outcome. Last fall, Live Oak football linebacker Zach Rocha made one of the best plays ever...

Live Oak’s Luke Richey was league MVP in lacrosse and league Defensive Player of the Year in football. With opportunities beckoning in both, Richey chose to continue in football and selected San Jose State over other interested colleges. The Spartans are coming off a...

The 2024 Gilroy Rodeo broke records for highest attendance and the most contestants participating in the event’s seven-year history on Aug. 9-11.  More than 1,000 contestants competed and performed in the local rodeo, which is run entirely by volunteers and returns all of its annual...

Sobrato’s Kaylee Clayton is a six-rotation outside hitter who has made huge contributions to Bulldogs volleyball and in Club games. Clayton graduated and will now play for one of the top NCAA Division III volleyball programs, Cal Lutheran University in southern California’s Thousand Oaks. Over...

Brianna Bouton led Sobrato to superb seasons in basketball and volleyball and will continue with hoops in college, recently signing a National Letter of Intent with CSU Monterey Bay. In her last three years of competition, Bouton and teammates have excelled, with three straight Central...

Gavilan College baseball star Louis Zulaica, a Morgan Hill resident, is on his way up. The Rams’ shortstop was recently named Coast Conference South Division MVP and First Team All-State after a breakout season. In the recently concluded spring campaign, he hit .394, with a...

The Bay Area Panthers, defending champions of the Indoor Football League, ripped Albuquerque’s Duke City Gladiators 50-28 on July 13 at San Jose’s SAP Center.  The win raised the Panthers’ record to 12-3 and clinched the Western Conference’s top seed in the upcoming playoffs. Last...

Gilroy native Dustin Wolf, whose family lived in Morgan Hill during his early years and whose extended family includes many Live Oak alumni, has starred in the American Hockey League and competed in 18 games for the National Hockey League’s Calgary Flames. Wolf has twice...

Both Sobrato and Live Oak had track and field standouts this spring. The most prominent accomplishment came from the Bulldogs, as their boys and girls teams both won league titles. Each went 5-0 in Blossom Valley Athletic League, Almaden Valley Division dual meets. Live Oak’s...

It’s been a busy few weeks in Morgan Hill. There were spectacular performances aplenty on the track, in the pool and on the field. The first championship event to take place was the Central Coast Section swimming and diving championships. Diving was held on April...