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Matt Lewis was the manager of the Hollister National 9-and-under All-Star team that won the District 9 championship last year. Because of the team’s makeup, Lewis wondered what the squad could’ve done had there been another round of play (the 9s age division ends with the district tournament).

David Kaplansky was on a recruiting trip when he walked into the Humboldt State University gymnasium in the summer of 1996. The only person there was a man dripping with sweat wearing board shorts and beat-up sneakers. Of course, it was Gene Cotter.

To say the Hollister American 12-and-under All-Star team ran roughshod in the recently completed District 9 tournament would be a vast understatement. Hollister’s 11-1 win over Atlantic of Salinas in the championship game last Sunday capped a scintillating run in which it outscored eight opponents by a combined margin of 109-17.

When the San Benito High boys cross country team made the CIF State Championships two years ago, coaches Ryan Shorey and Leanna Morgan had a feeling the girls team wouldn’t be that far behind. Their intuition proved to be spot on.

To say the Hollister American 12-and-under All-Star team ran roughshod in the recently completed District 9 tournament would be a vast understatement. Hollister’s 11-1 win over Atlantic of Salinas in the championship game last Sunday capped a scintillating run in which it outscored eight opponents by a combined margin of 109-17.

Lydia Ko was tied for 52nd place before the start of Friday’s second round of the U.S. Women’s Open at CordeValle in San Martin. But two rounds later the world’s top-ranked player finds herself in a familiar position: on top of the leaderboard entering the final round of a tournament.

While the world’s top ranked female golfer Lydia Ko made her move back into contention at the 2016 U.S. Women’s Open, a trio of Korean competitors landed in the top three spots of Friday’s second-round leaderboard at Cordevalle Golf Club in San Martin.

The first round of the U.S. Women’s Open went off with the top golfers charging hard out of the gates, with nine players shooting 3-under or better to open things up.

With media credential in tow, I spent a couple of hours walking the golf course at CordeValle on Thursday for the first round of the U.S. Women’s Open. So what’s the spectator experience for a tournament like this? Pretty enjoyable—and that’s an understatement.

The days of high school athletes simply relaxing in the summer are long gone. Take incoming San Benito High sophomore Kami Brewer-Pozzi, for example. She recently attended an intensive five-day junior golf camp at Stanford University. The typical day for Pozzi included three to four hours of hitting balls, walking the course and finishing with non-golf games and activities that lasted until 8 or 9 p.m.