Sports

After the first six games of the Blossom Valley Athletic League Mount Hamilton Division season, the Live Oak High baseball team was 2-4 and in seventh place out of 10 teams.  A league championship—and a three-peat—seemed a distant reality. Somehow, someway, the Acorns came all...

Katherine Nicole Lim’s latest performance in the Central Coast Section Swimming and Diving Championships is a testament to her will, laser-like focus and athleticism. The Sobrato High junior nearly won the diving final on May 4 at the Santa Clara Swim Center, finishing with 481.95...

The Oakwood High swim program had its best season in team history, having just completed its seventh season as a program.  Co-coaches Jaime Tompkins and Van Weltchek were thrilled with this year’s seven-member group, the largest in school history. In 2022, the Hawks had four...

Barring a rash of unforeseen circumstances, the Sobrato High softball team will win a league championship for the first time in eight years. The upstart Bulldogs can clinch the Blossom Valley Athletic League Santa Teresa East Division title with an expected win May 3 which...

Colby Allen’s day usually involves a combination of a game and practice because he’s playing two sports—baseball and lacrosse—in the same season.  That’s always a juggling act, but Allen has handled it nicely. The Live Oak High senior is a second baseman on the baseball...

When Christian Hauge ran the 100-meter dash in 10.77 seconds in the Lynbrook Invitational on March 25—shattering his previous personal-record (PR) and going sub 11 seconds for the first time ever—the Live Oak High junior was floored.  The 5-foot-9, 160-pound Hauge had always known he...

Even with an injury to one of its top athletes, the Sobrato High track and field program is setting program records and continuing to hit its marks.  “We’re building the program and doing our best to put Sobrato on the map as far as track...

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...

The Bay Area Panthers Indoor Football team rallied for a 47-46 win over the Arizona Rattlers on March 26 in their first home game of the season at SAP Center. Quarterback Dalton Sneed’s 12-yard scramble in the fourth quarter gave the Panthers the lead, and...

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,...