Live Oak baseball to open playoffs at San Lorenzo Valley
The Live Oak baseball team will open the Central Coast Section Division II playoffs on the road, traveling to San Lorenzo Valley on Wednesday.
Sobrato to open CCS Division II playoffs against Westmont
On Thursday, the Sobrato softball team got the win it needed to qualify for the playoffs and on Saturday it was rewarded for an 18-7 season with a first-round home game.
Sobrato moves closer to ST title
SAN JOSE—Sobrato’s formula is simple: Win and the Bulldogs clinch at least a share of the Santa Teresa Division title and will receive the automatic berth to the Central Coast Section playoffs.
Guest View: Remembering Coach Guthrie and Live Oak’s first football championship
Fifty Years Ago this spring will mark the beginning of an astounding march towards Live Oak’s very first Football Championship clinched in a dramatic last game of the season mud bowl 13-0 victory over San Lorenzo High School on November, 14th, 1965. While I was hiking last year with my good buddy and old teammate of that team Kim Moreno, we noted the 50 year anniversary would be upon us soon and that our ancient march towards that football championship in 1965 had actually begun 3 years earlier when Dr. Howard Nicholson, Superintendent of our huge rural school district, hired Darrell Guthrie as an English, Math, PE teacher and Head Football Coach. When Coach Guthrie assumed the football helm in 1963, Live Oak played in the Mission Trail Athletic league (MTAL) where the terms used to describe Live Oak Football was “the Live Oak Acorns were the perennial league doormats” winning only one league game for the entire decade of fielding a football team. Morgan Hill, then with a growing population of almost 4000, was the smallest town in the league with the football power houses of the day usually being Carmel, King City, San Lorenzo and Pacific Grove. Even our neighboring town of Gilroy, with our arch rival the Mustangs, was twice the size of Morgan Hill in those days.
JUCO Baseball: Hawks deliver late runs to sweep Gavilan
GILROY—Gavilan’s historic season came to an end Saturday.
Live Oak stumbles in the 6th; eliminated from league title hunt
Heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, Live Oak was cruising to what seemed like an easy win.
Missed opportunities plague Live Oak in 5-3 loss to Westmont
Three times Live Oak brought the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the seventh against Westmont but only got one run to show for it.
Poria finding his swing at Penn
Amay Poria, former Oakwood High School student and golfer, has been having an outstanding freshman season at the Ivy League’s University of Pennsylvania and is ranked fifth as a freshman in the Ivy league and 24th overall.
Pitcher tosses a gem as Acorns kick off key 4-game stretch
Justin Sanders faced a 3-2 count against Pioneer’s leadoff hitter with two outs and a runner on third in the fifth inning. He fooled Sean Rooney with a cutter for a strikeout to end the inning.
