Sports

When Jason White started playing lacrosse for the first time in his freshman year, he made it a goal to land an athletic scholarship. White, a San Benito High senior, has made that goal a reality after making a verbal commitment to play lacrosse...

At 5-foot-5, Matt Ramon has always had a height disadvantage in his athletic career. The San Benito High senior grew up playing baseball and soccer before eventually taking up football and wrestling in his freshman year. Whatever sport Ramon played, he thrived, especially in...

When Vanessa Garcia took the field on Jan. 10 against Christopher High, it proved to be a milestone moment. The San Benito High junior was appearing in a game for the first time this season after suffering a broken right leg on Sept. 2...

The San Benito High boys soccer team won a Central Coast Section playoff game for the first time in program history last season. The Haybalers are showing that was no fluke, as they have looked downright impressive in posting a record of 6-1-6 overall...

Girls wrestling is one of the fastest rising sports in the country, and no where is that more apparent than in Hollister. San Benito High has 10 girls on its roster, a healthy number that Haybalers coach Steven Salcedo expects to grow in the...

When Johnny Gonzalez showed up for the first practice on Jan. 5 in preparation for the 33rd Annual Central Coast All-Star Football game, he thought it was going to be a walk-through. Of course, when you put a bunch of competitive high school football...

Since Mitch Burley became the San Benito High girls basketball coach seven years ago, he’s only had two freshmen start the season on the varsity squad. The first was Alyssa Ito, who is the team’s junior point guard. The second is freshman forward Kaiya...

In the last three to four weeks of the first semester, San Benito High sophomore Adam Lemke was hardly around campus. The aspiring pro race car driver was in places like Indianapolis, North Carolina and South Carolina doing what he does best: racing. The 2017...

During her sophomore year, Berenice Martinez remembers all of the people who had only negative things to say to her. “There were some people at school trying to put me down,” the San Benito High senior guard said. “They told me I couldn’t do this...

Jacob Burley and Matt Campo grew up playing a lot of 1-on-1 basketball against each other, developing a close bond in the process. Now the San Benito High juniors are key cogs for a Haybalers team that is looking to rebound from a tough...