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The San Benito High baseball team made two consecutive Central Coast Section championship games, but unfortunately for the Balers, they both ended with the same result: a loss.

For the third time since 2007, the San Benito High softball and baseball teams will play in their Central Coast Section championship in the same year.

The idea of free time has a different meaning for San Benito senior Krystal Alnas. Instead of reading a book, playing video games or watching TV, her idea of free time is working.

Behind Megan Sabbatini’s 12th shutout of the year, the San Benito softball team will play for its seventh-straight Central Coast Section Division I title on Saturday after beating Leland 4-0 at PAL Stadium in San Jose on Thursday.

After winning only their second Tri-County Athletic League championship — going 29-5 in the process — the Balers were decorated with year-end awards inside the TCAL.

San Jose - For the second-straight year, the San Benito baseball team will find itself in the Central Coast Section Division I championship game.

There was the feel of an Olympic venue Friday morning as the seventh annual Gifted Games attracted hundreds of special needs athletes from San Benito and Santa Clara counties.

Jordan Belton, the Balers basketball team’s leading scorer last year and first-team All-Tri-County Athletic League selection, will play college basketball next year at California Maritime Academy after signing a letter of intent with the school last week.

San Benito’s David Kret will be the only Baler to compete in multiple events during the Central Coast Section championship on Friday at Gilroy High.

Throughout the entire year, San Benito softball manager Scott Smith has praised the team’s pitching and offense but questioned its defense. In the quarterfinals of the Central Coast Section playoffs Saturday, San Benito proved defense shouldn’t be an issue.