High School Sports

SALINAS—In the era of prolific, no-huddle spread offenses, defense still wins championships.

If there’s one word to describe what the Anzar High boys basketball team is looking for this year, it’s this: respect.

Brian DeCarli peers at his stopwatch while relaying instructions to a dozen of wrestlers who are working up a serious sweat.

Mike Perez is in his first year as the Anzar High boys’ soccer coach, but he already knows the team well.

Assemblyman Luis Alejo has proposed a bill aiming to ban the use of "Redskins" as a mascot in California public schools.

Balers senior Amy Quinones wrapped up a spectacular season with a 23rd-place finish in the Division I race in last Saturday’s CIF Cross-Country Championships at Fresno’s Woodward Park. Quinones, who completed the 3.0-mile course in 18 minutes, 39 seconds, was the fifth-best placer from the Central Coast Section. There were 199 runners in the field.

SALINAS—It was only fitting Friday’s Central Coast Section Division I playoff semifinal ended with J.J. Melo recording a sack—his third of the contest—in the San Benito High football team’s 26-6 whipping of host Alvarez.

If there is ever a sport where endurance and stamina play a vital role in winning and losing, it’s soccer. Becky Bonner, the third-year San Benito High girls soccer coach, makes sure her players will be in tip-top shape before they play their season-opener at Scotts Valley on Dec. 1.

Mike Baumgartner isn’t shy when it comes to his team’s goals.

Sometimes the scoreboard can lie.