Miscues and errors ended the season for the 9-10 Little League Hollister American All-Stars in a 7-6 loss to Los Gatos on Thursday in the championship game of the Section 5 tournament in Gonzales.
The San Benito Bath Ruth 14-year-old All-Star team is one win away from clinching a second-straight state title, after starting the Central California state tournament with three-consecutive victories.
July is - as usual - a down time for sports on the national and local scale. It’s more than a month away from the high school sports season and weeks after the end of the NBA and NHL season. It’s the dog days of the summer. It’s nothing new or old. It just is. But in this region, the month of July is certainly a point of pride. With the lack of sports going on and kids home for the summer, Little League, Babe Ruth and - in the case of Morgan Hill - Pony baseball has taken over. And with all of the success of those leagues in the three cities - specifically in Hollister - it’s easy to see why exactly that is.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - On Tuesday night, the lights will come on at Kauffman Stadium, and America's eyes will shift toward Kansas City for baseball's 83rd All-Star Game. It will be a moment to pause and enjoy the easiness of the summer and a night that signals a milepost in many of our lives.
The San Benito 16-18 Babe Ruth All-Star team escaped with a 2-1 win over Ripon on Thursday in the first round of the Central California State Championship tournament in Hollister.
After playing football, basketball and baseball during his freshman year at Palma High, Tanner Carrillo-Zazueta thought as long as he kept up with his grades, he was well on his way to the W.H. “Hank” Muller Outstanding Scholar Athlete Award, an award given to athletes who played sports and recieved good grades through four years of high school.
SAN FRANCISCO - Pablo Sandoval, the fabled "Kung Fu Panda" of recent Giants history, was not here Monday - but he hung like an troubled specter all day.
The softball team will begin its trek for a seventh-straight Central Coast Section title against St. Francis at 12:10 p.m. Saturday at the Salinas Sports Complex.