High School Sports

Last year, the Anzar High football team experienced a series of firsts, including the school’s first score and win. In the program’s second year, head coach Luis Espinoza is expecting a leap forward for his team of 27 players.

With less than a week of practices under their belt - including two double day practices - the San Benito football team is slowly building to the team that it hopes can defend its Tri-County Athletic League title in the new Monterey Bay League this fall.

For the second time in three years, a possible large budget deficit at San Benito High might be lethal to the school’s athletic department, as athletic director Tod Thatcher and school leaders prepare for the results of November’s school bond proposals by the state.

It’s a new year for the San Benito cross-country team but after coming off a pair of perfect Tri-Count Athletic League records last year, expectations - again - are deservedly high.

One year ago, this was not supposed to happen.

Trailing by three points with less than 10 second left in regulation San Benito High’s Hyram Miskin had control of the ball. Playing for the Seaside’s Finest under-16 Amateur Athletic Union basketball team in the AAU West Coast National Championship game Sunday in Las Vegas, the game fell on Miskin’s shoulders.

A little more than a year after he left the San Benito High basketball team for a job overseas, Tracy Carpenter returned to the San Benito sports’ scene last week as a co-Athletic Director at Anzar High.

After nearly a six-month search looking for a new athletic director at Anzar High, the Hawks’ athletic department officially has new leadership entering the 2012 season.

A little more than two months after the San Benito High softball team clinched a seventh-consecutive Central Coast Section title, starting pitcher Megan Sabbatini was named to ESPN RISE Cal-Hi Sports Second Team All-State team as a pitcher.