The road for a seventh-straight Central Coast Section Division I championship is set for the Balers softball team, and manager Scott Smith likes his team’s chances.
Committing four errors and allowing a five-run inning won’t win many baseball games. And Tuesday, with a chance to clinch their seventh-straight Tri-County Athletic League championship, the San Benito baseball team proved it.
Despite being one win short of wrapping up a third-straight Tri-County Athletic League title, the Balers softball team’s late-season struggles again reared its head Thursday against Notre Dame.
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.
Draped in upper-right wall of Mattson Gym, the boys league-championship banner lists only two titles under volleyball. With the Balers 3-0 victory over Watsonville on Tuesday, the boys volleyball team positioned itself one win away from adding a third.
The San Benito boys golf team clinched a berth in the Central Coast Section playoffs Tuesday, beating Christopher 206-228 in a Tri-County Athletic League two-team playoff at Laguna Seca Golf Raunch in Monterey.
How do you solve a problem like San Benito? The Gilroy High softball team has been baffled in finding an answer to that conundrum since March 21, 2006. And the Mustangs' quest will continue as the Balers again squeaked past GHS 2-0 on Tuesday in Gilroy.