Led by a pair of juniors and a new head coach, the 2011 San Benito girls golf came up just short of a Tri-County Athletic League championship and a berth in the state championship.
Behind a team of juniors and no seniors, the San Benito girls tennis team surprised the Tri-County Athletic League and finished in second place last fall. A year later, in the Gabilan Division of the new Monterey Bay League, expectations are sky high for the Balers.
With a crushing 47-12 defeat at the hands of Potter Valley last Saturday, the Anzar Hawks will once again head on the road Friday to face King’s Christian in Lemoore at 7 p.m.
Only a day after Christopher High’s girls volleyball head coach Tom Shatz stepped down, the Cougars were no match for a streaking Anzar team Wednesday in San Juan Bautista.
Facing a Soquel team that has won its water polo league every year since 1995, the San Benito boys team struggled to find any consistency during Thursday's season opener.
Behind two seniors, the 2011 Anzar Hawks volleyball team had its best season since its 2002 Central Coast Section Division V championship, going 20-10 and earning a berth in the CCS quarterfinals.
Coming off a successful jamboree last week, Hawks’ head coach Luis Espinoza expects to see a much better start to the Anzar football season in its second year Saturday.
Coming off a second-place finish last fall in the final year of the Tri-County Athletic League, the San Benito High girls volleyball team brings seven returning seniors and high expectations into the new year in the Monterey Bay League.
Playing in the Tri-County Athletic League B Division a year ago, the San Benito boys water polo team believed they were undervalued and undeservedly placed in a lower-tier league. After finishing with a 12-2 record inside the TCAL, and clinching the league championship with a goal in the closing seconds over Palma, the Balers won’t be underappreciated in 2012 when their season starts on Aug. 30 at Soquel.