Sports

San Benito High boys basketball coach Bo Buller was expecting the Haybalers football team to win a Central Coast Section championship and qualify for a state bowl game. As such, he would be without the services of two of his hoops standouts—Tyler Pacheco and Jayden...

Coming off its first-ever appearance in a Central Coast Section playoff championship game, the San Benito High girls soccer team looks poised to have another strong season.  The Haybalers went 5-5 in the Covid spring season and made it all the way to the Division...

In Karim Yasin, Khader Yasin, Ethan Salcedo, Arthur Parra, Noah Nelson and Derek Sandoval, the San Benito High boys wrestling team has its highest number of section-ranked preseason wrestlers in several years.  Even so, Haybalers coach Steven Salcedo said it’ll be up to the athletes...

Over the years, only a handful of student-athletes from the San Benito High girls volleyball team have been good enough to go straight from high school to a Division I program.  Lauren Sabbatini, a 2018 graduate, is one of them. A redshirt junior at Fresno...

Bolstered by a pipeline of former San Benito High standouts, the Hartnell College women’s soccer team is in the midst of a historic season.  The Panthers (20-2-5) have reached the California Community College State Final Four for the first time in program history and have...

With one of the smallest enrollments in the Central Coast Section and lacking the resources many small private schools possess, Anzar High will always have the uplifting Little Engine That Could-type storyline.  Such was the case with the Hawks girls cross country team this season,...

When the San Benito High football team found out it was the top seed in the Central Coast Section Division II playoffs, it knew it would have a prime opportunity to win the program’s first section title since the 2014 season. It wasn’t meant to...

It seems like an eternity since Jackson Pace made a verbal commitment to play baseball for the University of Southern California (USC). On Nov. 10, the San Benito High senior made things official by signing his national letter of intent in front of family...

If there was one thing missing from the Hollister Haybalers football team in the first half of their Central Coast Section Division II home playoff game against Burlingame High on Nov. 12, it was the relentless energy the Balers had brought to the field...

Depending on one’s point of view, those around the San Benito High football team perhaps breathed a sigh of relief or were disappointed when the Central Coast Section playoff brackets came out on Nov. 7.  The Haybalers (8-1) were either going to be the No....