High School Sports

Unlike some coaches who brim with unfounded optimism, Greg Grio knows his team will take its fair share of bumps and bruises this season.

It was a sight no one around the San Benito High boys basketball team wanted to see.

Anzar High is hosting what is believed to be its first-ever alumni basketball game on Dec. 20. The current girls and boys teams will play their alumni counterparts, with the girls game starting at 1 p.m. and the boys slated for tipoff at 2:30.

Coming off a historic season, the San Benito High boys soccer team faces an even greater challenge this year—trying to stay competitive in the Monterey Bay League’s Gabilan Division.

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.