Hyram Miskin had 20 points, Jacob Tonascia added 15 more, and the San Benito boys basketball team defeated host Gilroy High 51-37 in Tri-County Athletic League action Friday night.
After three votes Tuesday by the board of managers of the upcoming equity league between the Monterey Bay League and Tri-County Athletic League, San Benito will participate in the league's upper division for football, cross-country and volleyball, the schools' athletic director Tod Thatcher confirmed. A decision on tennis and water polo is still upcoming.
In a season that brought the Balers their first Tri-County Athletic League championship since 2005, and a berth in the Central Coast Section Open Division playoffs, San Benito was awarded with 14 all-league selections - a league-high total.
The 2012 sports season promises to be much different than the past year, as the Tri-County Athletic League and the Monterey Bay League merge to create a new unnamed equity league.
Football coaches from the Monterey Bay Athletic League and the Tri-County Athletic League met earlier this week and voted on the placement of the leagues' teams in next year's equity league.
Nobody will win a trophy Friday at the Salinas Sports Complex. Instead something more important will be on the line - a Tri-County Athletic League championship.