Sports

There are more than just changes at the head coaching position for the girls basketball team entering the new season.

The 2012 sports season promises to be much different than the past year, as the Tri-County Athletic League and the Monterey Bay League merge to create a new unnamed equity league.

Anzar High pushed No. 1 seed Woodside Priory to the brink Thursday in its second-round Central Coast Section Division V playoff match, but the Hawks' season ended after falling in five sets.

San Benito's Jacob De Leon saw a hole on the second play of Friday's first-round playoff game against Archbishop Mitty and turned up field. It wasn't until 45 yards later when he was finally pulled to the ground. But lying on the field was a yellow flag, bringing back the large Baler gain. San Benito could never respond from there.

Gavilan College basketball player Billy Heard - Andrel Gaines' teammate - who was driving the car when back-to-back car wrecks sent six people to the hospital, was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the accidents, according to a toxicology report obtained Monday by the Gilroy Dispatch.

San Benito's Jacob De Leon saw a hole on the second play of Friday's first-round playoff game against Archbishop Mitty and turned up field. It wasn't until 45 yards later when he was finally pulled down.

To come away with a victory in San Benito's first game in the Central Coast Section Open Division playoffs over Archbishop Mitty, the Balers (7-2-1) have to do something they've done all year - stop the run.

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Football coaches from the Monterey Bay Athletic League and the Tri-County Athletic League met earlier this week and voted on the placement of the leagues' teams in next year's equity league.

After finishing its league season 8-4 - good for second place in the Tri-County Athletic League - four players from the San Benito volleyball team were awarded with all-league honors.