High School Sports

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.

The San Benito boys golf team knew the Tri-County Athletic League Mountain Division title on Monday in Salinas would come down to Palma and the Balers.

Three years after winning the Tri-County Athletic League championship as a then-freshman runner, all senior track and field captain Darian Maroney wanted to do in her final year was to get another championship patch.

Regardless of what happens at the Salinas Golf and Country Club on Monday, the San Benito boys golf team knows what it needs to do at the Tri-County Athletic League championships: Beat Palma.

San Benito senior Kyle Skinner waited nearly four years to experience a team-based tennis playoffs. This year, thanks to a perfect 10-0 record inside the Tri-County Athletic League’s Mountain Division, Skinner and the Balers accomplished that goal.

For the first time this year, the San Benito softball team found out what it’s like to lose a Tri-County Athletic League game. The Balers fell to Salinas 1-0 Tuesday — and now have lost two of their past seven games.

Before his freshman year at Arizona State started, former San Benito alumnus Darin Gillies considered all possibilities entering his first campaign.

At two track and field invitationals over the weekend, the San Benito men’s team didn’t grab a top eight finish, but the girls squad — behind school-record setter Vanessa Estrada — finished in seventh place in both the Central Coast Section Top 8 Classic and the Bill Kearney Invitational.