Sports

Residents of Morgan Hill had a chance to meet the 2023 Indoor Football League Champion Bay Area Panthers March 23 at City Hall.  The team’s players and coaching staff led a brief presentation and answered questions to preview the 2024 IFL season, which starts with...

Sobrato High School football star Noah Taylor has decided on his college path, choosing to attend Southern Oregon University. The Bulldogs running back and linebacker rushed for 2,548 yards and 27 touchdowns on 213 carries for the 2023 season, leading Sobrato to a 6-4...

The Oakwood boys basketball team won the Central Coast Section Division V title for the Morgan Hill school’s first section championship in any sport. And it did not come easily.  After smashing Nueva 84-43 and Thomas More 75-51 in the first two rounds of the...

Sobrato High tweaked the defenses and utilized offensive bursts from Vince Madriaga and Trey Miller to rally past Lynbrook 53-48 in a Central Coast Section Division II opener Feb. 16. The victory prompted a big celebration from the Bulldogs’ bench in the final seconds...

After three rough losses to open the season, Live Oak High School girls soccer regrouped and got rolling. The Acorns were basically in every game, even against powers like Valley Christian and Gilroy. Yet it was a bit of an up and down campaign. “Overall...

Gilroy native and professional ice hockey goalie Dustin Wolf was selected to his second straight American Hockey League All-Star team.  All-star events took place in early February and were particularly special for Wolf as the host city was San Jose, with the Skills Competition and...

Football, fun, rain and more competition than usual in an all-star game. That was the story for many local gridiron seniors on Feb. 3, in the 49th annual Charlie Wedemeyer Game at Los Gatos High.  Athletes from Gilroy, Christopher, Live Oak and Sobrato filled out...

A year ago, the Britton Middle School seventh-grade boys basketball team was denied a storybook ending, suffering its first and only loss of the season in the East Side Athletic League playoff championship game.  With many of those same players grading a year up and...

Stanford University women's basketball head coach Tara VanDerveer etched herself into the record books this past weekend by becoming the all-time NCAA’s leader in wins for either men or women’s basketball.   VanDerveer surpassed former Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski with her 1,203rd career victory at...

Sobrato boys basketball coach Sean Tate is looking for his team to put together four great consecutive quarters.  It’s happening more and more often, yet sometimes they’ll still need at least four-and-a-half good quarters to get the job done. The Bulldogs played a complete game to...