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A tight game was decided in the ninth inning as Acorns fell to Leigh 8-5 on Wednesday.

In a tri-meet against Santa Teresa and Leigh Wednesday, Sobrato had some great performances, but it didn’t translate to the wins the Bulldogs have enjoyed.

In response to the March 22 terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium, local transportation authorities are on high alert for any potential threats in Santa Clara County.

Justin Sanders allowed just one run on Friday, but Acorns couldn't get the offense going in a 1-0 defeat to Leland.

A high-speed vehicle chase in north Morgan Hill resulted in the arrest of three suspects from San Jose on suspicion of vehicle theft and other charges, according to police.The evening of March 19, a Morgan Hill police officer attempted to make a traffic stop for an alleged vehicle code violation in the area of Monterey Road and Peebles Avenue, according to a post on the MHPD Facebook page. The driver of the vehicle failed to yield and led the officer on a short pursuit.Other units responded and a “high-risk felony stop” was conducted, according to police. Assisting officers included the city’s K-9 unit, which was on scene to “encourage compliance from the suspects,” police said. All three occupants of the vehicle were arrested without further incident.The vehicle was reported stolen out of San Jose earlier in the day, police said. The three occupants told MHPD officers they had been driving around Santa Clara and San Benito counties throughout the day.Arrested were driver Arturo Urena, 26, Julio Mata, 23, and Teresa Garfias, 21, according to police. Urena and Mata were on probation for vehicle theft, and Garfias was booked on suspicion of vehicle theft.

Downtrodden city officials and landowners vented March 16 about a county commission’s decision to deny their plans for the Southeast Quadrant and properties south of Watsonville Road.Comments at the council meeting reflected deep frustration with the Santa Clara County Local Agency Formation Commission’s March 11 rejection of the city’s push to build athletic fields and preserve farmland in the SEQ. City staff and property owners have been working on the plans for more than 10 years.Councilmember Marilyn Librers said March 16 she was “deeply saddened” by LAFCO’s decision and the fact that public discussion of the SEQ project has “divided our community in many ways.”She added, “People that opposed us and these ideas, I think, really didn’t understand what we were trying to do. Shame on them for not being more educated. What we’re doing is trying to do is preserve the Southeast Quadrant to be ag and some development, not to become sprawl as (opponents) said.”Councilmember Larry Carr wondered what exactly LAFCO had in store for preserving the agricultural land in the SEQ. He wants to know how the county’s effort to use a share of $40 million in statewide cap-and-trade funds for this purpose is going to work.“How much longer (is LAFCO) going to ask our community to wait to hear some more thoughts, or some new thoughts (on ag preservation)?” Carr said.Open space advocates have said they prefer to use the cap-and-trade funds to preserve local farmland with a regional effort, but this money won’t be available until at least 2017 and is not guaranteed for Santa Clara County. The county and the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority are spearheading that plan.Carr added that LAFCO commissioners’ reasons for denying the project “still baffle” him.At the March 16 council meeting, City Manager Steve Rymer repeated the presentation on the SEQ that he gave to LAFCO March 11. Rymer and other proponents were unsuccessful in their bid to convince that body to accept the city’s proposal to bring 229 acres of farmland in the area east of U.S. 101 into the Urban Service Area.“We still truly believe we all have the same goal in mind” when it comes to preserving agriculture, Rymer said.At the March 11 meeting, LAFCO voted 5-2 to block the city’s plan. The commission also voted 4-3 to reject a second annexation proposal for about 70 acres south of Watsonville Road, on the southwest side of town; those parcels included the Morgan Hill Bible Church and a portion of Royal Oaks Mushrooms.The city planned to develop a new commercial Sports-Recreation-Leisure district in the SEQ that would fund the purchase of easements to preserve farmland farther east in the SEQ. It also included the development of a new Catholic high school on about 40 acres in the area of Tennant and Murphy avenues, owned by the San Jose Diocese.LAFCO’s denial put a halt on these plans.Librers also addressed comments about the SEQ on local social media pages. “If any of these social media groups are listening tonight, would you please take the time to call Mr. Rymer, or any of us on the council (to) find out what the truth is before you run your mouth off and go off on these tangents of how we’re just a bunch of crooks trying to ruin South County.”Rymer and others have noted that without an ag preservation plan, SEQ property owners right now can develop their land into five- to 10-acre residential estate lots.“We want to preserve it, but those property owners said that they have waited for 10 years, and they may not wait any longer,” Morgan Hill resident Brian Sullivan told the council.Developer Gordon Jacoby, who sold about 22 acres of farmland in the SEQ to the city for the future use of baseball and softball fields last year, recommended the council wait “about a year” and see what the county and OSA’s plan is for any share of cap-and-trade funds they might receive.Jacoby added it was “very wrong” for LAFCO to suggest the city use existing vacant industrial land for sports uses, but the city might have to concede by asking those property owners if they would be open to such recreational development.

Police have released an image of the getaway vehicle allegedly used by two suspects in a March 14 home invasion in Morgan Hill.The vehicle in the video images is a four-door sedan, dark gray in color.The home invasion was reported about 9:30 a.m. March 14 on Rosemary Circle, according to police. Two suspects entered the home and demanded the residents open their safe.The suspects said they had a weapon, but did not display one, the witnesses told officers. The suspects got away with an undisclosed amount of cash and property taken from the safe.Neither victim was hurt, police said.The victims described the robbers as Hispanic males, police said. One was about five feet, three inches tall and about 140 pounds. He was wearing a black mask which covered the bottom half of his face and spoke with a Spanish accent.The other suspect was described as about five feet, four inches tall and about 150 pounds, police said. He was wearing a black ski mask, a black hoodie and dark pants. He also spoke with a Spanish accent per the victims.The incident is one of three recent property crimes that have prompted police to warn residents about keeping their doors and windows locked.At 9:15 a.m. March 11, a resident on the 400 block of Cascades Court reported a suspect was attempting to break into her residence using a pry tool, according to MHPD. The victim said the suspect ran when she opened up the blinds.The suspect was described as a male, about five feet, seven inches tall with a thin build, according to police. The suspect wore a black beanie with openings for the eyes and mouth, a pair of black or blue jeans and a gray sweatshirt.He was last seen running southbound toward Community Park on West Edmundson Avenue, police said. Morgan Hill officers arrived on scene within minutes and were unable to locate the suspect. A neighbor in the area reported seeing a dark colored SUV in the area around the time of the incident.At 6:35 a.m. March 10, a resident on the 17000 block of Tassajara Circle reported seeing a subject in their backyard, according to police. The subject was a dark-skinned male wearing black and gray clothing.  Morgan Hill officers were unable to locate the subject.Anyone with information about these incidents can contact MHPD Detective Fernando Del Moral (408) 779-2101.  

PG&E crews will be at the site of a ruptured gas line in east Morgan Hill for a few more hours making repairs after a leak resulted in the evacuation of nearby properties.