High School Sports

After a rough start to the season, the Hollister High girls volleyball team hopes the adversity it went through will serve it well going forward.  Coach Lisa Becerra said a combination of illnesses and injuries in the opening weeks meant she had to juggle personnel...

In Becky Bonner’s decade-long tenure as the Hollister High girls soccer coach, she’s never carried more than three freshmen on the team in a given year.  Until now. The Haybalers have eight freshmen and seven seniors to go along with sophomores and juniors filling out...

Friday’s much-anticipated game between the San Benito High and Aptos High football teams has been cancelled due to a number of San Benito High varsity football players being unavailable to play due to Covid protocols, a press release from the San Benito High School...

In a showdown game between two teams regardless of sport, the outcome often comes down to whichever squad has superior poise and execution, especially in the fourth quarter.  The San Benito High boys basketball team knows it was lacking on both those fronts in a...

Four high school baseball teams in the Weeklys South Valley coverage area—Christopher, Live Oak, San Benito and Sobrato—found out where they were placed after the Central Coast Section seeding meeting on May 18.  All opening round/quarterfinal games take place Saturday. Live Oak (18-8), the Blossom...

In the last couple of years, San Benito High softball coach Andrew Barragan has purposely scheduled ultra-tough non-league competition to put the Haybalers in the best position to win a league and section championship. Sometimes the players react well to it, and sometimes—as was the...

Hollister has never been a tennis town, but San Benito High boys tennis coach Rick Espino is looking to make it more tennis-friendly. Espino, who is also the longtime assistant girls tennis coach at the school, has plenty of coaching experience and the wherewithal to model what makes a thriving tennis community click: A program that allows players to compete year-round.

It was a little closer than expected, but the San Benito High girls cross country team accomplished what it set out to do Oct. 30 at Toro Park in Salinas—win the Pacific Coast League Finals to complete a “perfect” league season.  In edging Alisal High...

If there was one moment that synopsized what the San Benito High girls volleyball team was about this season, it came in the third to last point of its Central Coast Section Division I playoff quarterfinal match against Los Altos High on Nov. 2.  Down...

After a solid junior season that ended with the San Benito High softball team hoisting the Central Coast Section championship trophy, Seryna Esparza entered the off-season with a renewed purpose and focus.  “Coming into senior year, I knew that came with a responsibility,” she said....