High School Sports

SAN JOSE—Good high school football teams find a way to win—period.

If the Christopher High boys water polo team ends up winning the Monterey Bay League Pacific Division championship this season, it will look back to Thursday’s match against host San Benito as the one that catapulted it to title glory.

San Benito High juniors Elijah Changco and Juan Gutierrez were standout runners in elementary school—Changco at Spring Grove and Gutierrez at Sunnyslope—while Jose Ruiz didn’t try out for the San Benito High cross-country team until his sophomore year.

Kyle Cameron didn’t need to look up to professional athletes growing up—he had exemplary role models in an older brother and dad who were there for him every step of the way.

In recognition of national breast cancer awareness month, San Benito High’s football field will be painted pink for the team’s home game against Salinas on Oct. 3. The Pink Out Game honors breast cancer survivors or someone who has lost their battle with breast cancer.

LOS GATOS —When Los Gatos High running back Joey Wood ended San Benito High’s shutout streak with a 27-yard touchdown run with 1 minute, 54 seconds left in the first quarter, it was the beginning of what would be a long night for the Haybalers defense.

Producing a stellar performance in all three phases of the game, the Anzar High football team rebounded from a humbling season-opening loss.

In one year, the San Benito High girls water polo team has gone from league afterthought to a championship contender.

Last year Chris Blake played in only three games after dislocating his right knee cap on two separate occasions in the first five weeks of the season.

The San Benito High girls volleyball team showed flashes of brilliance in Tuesday night’s non-league loss to Homestead, one of the top teams in the Central Coast Section.