High School Sports

Tony Rosa knows talent when he sees it.

After taking individual pictures with almost every player on his roster, San Benito High football coach Chris Cameron finally had a moment to reflect on the team’s 14-7 win over Salinas in the Central Coast Section Division I playoff championship game last Friday at Rabobank Stadium.

Balers lineman J.J. Melo was named the MBL Gabilan Division Defensive MVP, capping a year that saw the senior establish the school’s all-time record for career sacks, with 18.

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.