Up 23-14 in the third game of the Balers volleyball match with Palma on Tuesday, San Benito looked like it was going to take control of the early-season contest.
San Benito knocked Christopher High from the ranks of the early season unbeatens, defeating the Cougars in three sets, 25-17, 25-10, 25-20, in Tri-County Athletic League Valley Division action Thursday night in Gilroy.
Despite missing a majority of its team because of basketball, the boys volleyball team opened the season with a three-game sweep of San Lorenzo Valley.
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.
Anzar High pushed No. 1 seed Woodside Priory to the brink Thursday in its second-round Central Coast Section Division V playoff match, but the Hawks' season ended after falling in five sets.
After finishing its league season 8-4 - good for second place in the Tri-County Athletic League - four players from the San Benito volleyball team were awarded with all-league honors.