High School Sports

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.

SALINAS—Yvette Felix was so disappointed in the moments after her performance in the Division V race of the Central Coast Section Cross-Country Championships last Saturday at Toro Park that she immediately took off her shoes and started speed walking to …

APTOS—The San Benito High girls water polo team rebounded from a tough 2013 campaign, but coach Ronni Gautschi said the 21 wins the team racked up wasn’t the most memorable part of the season.

The San Benito High girls volleyball team was facing its worst-case scenario last Saturday in a Central Coast Section Division I playoff quarterfinal—down two games to none and in danger of getting swept out of the postseason in front of its own fans.