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It won’t take San Benito boys volleyball head coach Emily Tonascia much time to admit, the Balers – on their way to a 15-1 record inside the Tri-County Athletic League – haven’t faced the toughest league schedule.

For the first time this year, the San Benito softball team found out what it’s like to lose a Tri-County Athletic League game. The Balers fell to Salinas 1-0 Tuesday — and now have lost two of their past seven games.

After a Tri-County Athletic season that came almost too easy for the San Benito swim teams, Friday’s meet against Salinas represented the closest and toughest meet of the year.

As a lead up to their showdown with Salinas on Friday, the San Benito boys and girls swim teams dispatched Christopher easily Wednesday.

After San Benito’s 7-1 loss to Valley Christian on Saturday, San Benito softball coach Scott Smith knew he needed to do something different with his six-time Central Coast Section champions.

Despite a 10-game winning streak inside the Tri-County Athletic League and an overall record of 18-3, the San Benito boys volleyball team looked at its early-season 3-0 loss to Gilroy as the season’s glaring weakness.

Behind 12 kills from Isaiah Acfalle and Carlos Gutierrez, the San Benito boys volleyball team cruised to a 3-0 victory over Gonzales in Hollister on Tuesday.

In two separate invitational over the weekend, the Balers showcased their high-end talent and their overall depth.

San Benito No. 1 tennis player Kyle Skinner spent all of Tuesday not feeling his greatest — he wasn’t sick, but he was worried.