High School Sports

Hollister High boys basketball coach David Kaplansky is always appreciative of having a bona-fide post player on the roster—and with good reason.  A solid big man allows the team to go inside-out and collapse the defense, opening things up for the perimeter game and dribble-drive...

After a huge week in which it beat its two chief competitors, the Hollister High girls basketball team showed it is the team to beat in the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s Gabilan Division this season. It’s still early, of course, but the Haybalers have put...

It’s still early, but the Hollister High girls soccer team has the early advantage as it pursues a Pacific Coast Athletic League Gabilan Division championship.  The Haybalers, who entered the week in first place by virtue of winning their first three games, also have had...

It’s now or never for the Hollister High boys soccer team.  After losing their league opener to Pacific Coast Athletic League Gabilan Division favorite Alisal High 3-1 on Jan. 5, the Haybalers know they have to start racking up points against other teams in the...

A solid fourth-place showing in last year’s Central Coast Section Wrestling Championships left Art Parra one position short of reaching the CIF State tournament.  That gave Parra plenty of motivation entering the off-season. The Hollister High junior is seeing the fruits of his labor pay...

Despite a rather rough time in the John Araujo Memorial Holiday Tournament to close out 2022, the Hollister High girls basketball team should be considered the co-favorite along with North Salinas to win the Pacific Coast Athletic League Gabilan Division championship. The two teams shared...

The end of 2022 was marked by several Hollister High student-athletes realizing their dreams of signing a letter of intent to play sports in college or committing to a four-year program. Adrian Ruiz, Breyon Chavez, Jaden Mingus and Jocelyn Alexander were honored in a signing...

Hollister High sophomore Chandler Crutcher’s favorite basketball players are Russell Westbrook and the late Kobe Bryant.  That’s quite interesting given the fact that the two NBA all-time greats have been criticized for playing out of control and being ball hogs on occasion. Crutcher? No one...

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...

James Ponzio didn’t get the result he wanted in the Central Coast Section Cross Country Championships at the famed Crystal Springs Course in Belmont on Nov. 12. So, two weeks later in the biggest race of his career in the CIF State Championships at Woodward...