High School Sports

The San Benito High girls soccer team hasn’t won a league championship since the 2013-2014 season—coach Becky Bonner’s second season at the helm. Bonner isn’t one to heap false praise, so take it seriously when she says this year’s team has what it takes...

Coach Anthony Butler and his players all repeated the same theme when asked about their expectations for the 2017-2018 season: they want to make the program competitive again. In the last three years, the Haybalers have gone a combined 6-30 in the Monterey Bay...

After finishing in fourth place in the ultra competitive Monterey Bay League’s Gabilan Division—the best wrestling league in the Central Coast Section—last year, San Benito High expects a rise up the standings this season. It won’t be easy, of course, but Haybalers coach Steven...

In any one game, Eugene McBride could play any one of three positions—nose guard, tackle or end—on the defensive line. The responsibilities are different for every position, but what it takes to play them remain the same: determination, intensity and hard work. McBride, a San...

Stevan Navarro started the season as a fourth-string running back. But the San Benito High junior now finds himself in a starring role in the backfield alongside Jonny Gonzalez. The 5-foot-10, 180-pound Navarro is coming off two huge games: a 16-carry, 146-yard, two touchdown...

Down two games to one to Monta Vista-Cupertino in a Central Coast Section Division I playoff opener last Saturday, the San Benito High girls volleyball team’s season was in serious danger of ending prematurely. “Before the fourth game, I asked the girls if they were...

Barring food poisoning or some mid-race injuries, it was a foregone conclusion the San Benito High girls cross country team was going to win another league title at last Saturday’s Monterey Bay League Championships at Toro Park. The Haybalers’ superiority showed as they ran...

What was setting up to be a monumental showdown turned into a long-awaited coronation for the San Benito High boys water polo team. Playing Monterey High in the championship match of the Monterey Bay League Pacific Division playoffs last Saturday at Aptos High, the...

Early in the fourth quarter of a Oct. 19 match between San Benito High and Monterey High, Casey Matsui found himself in an unenviable position. The Haybalers’ senior goalie was staring down Monterey’s Max Gibbs, who had a 5-meter penalty shot. But Matsui wasn’t...

After an injury slowed her progress last year, Elli Kliewer is back on track this season. The San Benito High senior is rounding into top form heading into Saturday’s Monterey Bay League Championships. Kliewer took second in the MBL’s third Center Meet on Oct....