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With only 10 players available to play, the Sobrato boys soccer team opened its season with a 1-0 loss to Salinas on Saturday during the Homestead Cup.

Sophomore center Justin Mortensen had 22 points, 10 rebounds and two blocked shots to lead Oakwood’s boys basketball team to a 62-39 home win over Waldorf on Friday night.

Local authorities recently raided a large cockfight in progress on Frazier Lake Road and arrested seven suspects, according to the Hollister Police Department.

It has been a wet Friday in South Santa Clara County, but city crews and utility providers did not report any significant damage, flooding or other issues associated with the heavy rain and high winds. 

Oakwood’s boys basketball team improved to 3-0 on Thursday with a 62-22 win over visiting Central Leadership.

Question of the week: Are you concerned about the "fiscal cliff" – the conundrum that the U.S. government will face at the end of 2012, when the terms of the Budget Control Act of 2011 go into effect cutting more than 1,000 government programs while taxes increase for workers and businesses along with a rise in the alternative minimum tax, an end to the tax cuts passed in 2001-2003 and taxes related to President Obama's health care law go into effect?

I lost a great friend and mentor this past month in Hall of Fame golf instructor Jim Flick. He taught golf for more than 50 years and he died of cancer at the age of 82. He was considered as one of the top three best golf instructors of the 20th century.