Sports

The Hollister football team continued 2025’s late-season momentum with a superb performance in the Aug. 28 season opener, drilling Soledad 17-6.  The Balers dominated on offense behind new quarterback Eli Lovejoy and a trio of wide receivers and the defense shined all night. Additional credit...

Hollister football’s star linebacker Tripp Felice was a dominant force and leader for the Balers. He closed his four-year career as a First-Team All-Leaguer whose 102 tackles were the most in the ultra-competitive Pacific Coast Athletic League, Gabilan Division.  Highlights were many, from scoring a...

Hollister football alum Joey Fernandez, who spent the last two years at Monterey Peninsula College, has signed with NCAA Division I San Jose State University.  Fernandez, an elite kicker and punter, owns the Baler field goal distance record and was a huge scoring weapon in...

Many Hollister High student-athletes graduate and compete in sports in college. But few have made major contributions as fast as Baler alum Golda Demby, who just completed her freshman year at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.  In just one season in college, Demby, a four-time...

Nobody picked the Hollister softball team to win the Gabilan Division this year. Perhaps third place or fourth. But they finished first. Nobody tabbed them to be in the Central Coast Section Open Division playoffs. Perhaps a lower division. But the Balers were in...

The Hollister softball team is back in the elite of the Central Coast Section and headed into the NorCal playoffs.  After a 20-6 regular season and a Gabilan title, the Balers won their opener in the CCS Open Division playoffs by beating Valley Christian 2-1....

Hollister’s softball and baseball teams both won exciting, tight games in Central Coast Section playoff openers.  Concurrently, the league champ Baler track and field team saw five athletes and one four-person relay team compete in the CCS Finals in Gilroy. The Balers track team won the...

Hollister High captured both boys and girls competitions in the Pacific Coast Athletic League, Gabilan Division championships. The team titles, both over second-place Palma, came with strength in sprints, distances, relays and field events. The star for the Balers in the May 1 meet was...

New coaches. Nearly entirely a new roster. It was reboot time for Hollister boys volleyball this spring.  Additionally, Hollister was not particularly tall, in a sport that values height. But the Balers bonded, tightened the defense and finished the season strongly. The early season was...

The sports program at Hollister with the biggest improvement since last year is probably Brett Davis’s lacrosse unit. After two years of major struggles, these Balers are really rolling. Hollister is 8-6 overall, 4-5 in league play and right in the middle of the standings....