Sports

With only one senior starter, and three freshmen in the team's starting five, the 2011-2012 season for the Anzar boys basketball team started roughly.

With less than a week of practices under their belt - including two double day practices - the San Benito football team is slowly building to the team that it hopes can defend its Tri-County Athletic League title in the new Monterey Bay League this fall.

HERE THEY COME - The Oakland Raiders shook out the kinks in

Nine months removed from a shutout loss to Archbishop Mitty in the first round of the Central Coast Section Open Division playoffs, the San Benito Balers’ 2012 football team is ready to wash away that bad taste from their collective mouths.

Angel Garcia waited. And waited. And waited. Sweat dripping down his face after a grueling run, the Anzar High senior stood near the score post for what seemed like an eternity waiting to see if he had qualified to the CIF State Cross Country Championships for the second straight year.

San Benito High freshmen Annie Breger, Kieley Hoskins, Nicole Andrade, Noel Chavarria and Lauren Sabbatini weren’t even born when the original Fab Five dominated the nation’s sports consciousness—that would be the Chris Webber-led Michigan basketball team in the early 1990s—but they’ll gladly take the moniker.

Approximately 700 players from 10 different area high schools

The San Benito High wrestling team took all of the drama out of Wednesday night’s Monterey Bay League Gabilan Division match against visiting Christopher. The Haybalers won nine of the first 14 individual weight classes en route to a 51-18 victory.

Four of five Hollister teams prevail in Sunnyvale