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After a bad hop on a ground ball turned into a 3-run Scotts Valley double and a lost Hollister lead in Saturday’s first round Section 5 tournament game in Los Gatos, All-Star manager Dave Marquez turned to six players with tournament experience.

The difficulty of a shot and the stress to perform well has huge impacts on our ability to successfully hit certain shots. It’s easier to blame our clubs, swing and the yardage marker than accepting the fact that we are the reason for a bad shot.

Ryan Bernal sure does know how to make an impact. Less than a year after winning his first United States Auto Club race, Bernal is quickly becoming a racing fixture in tracks in California and throughout the United States.

July is - as usual - a down time for sports on the national and local scale. It’s more than a month away from the high school sports season and weeks after the end of the NBA and NHL season. It’s the dog days of the summer. It’s nothing new or old. It just is. But in this region, the month of July is certainly a point of pride. With the lack of sports going on and kids home for the summer, Little League, Babe Ruth and - in the case of Morgan Hill - Pony baseball has taken over. And with all of the success of those leagues in the three cities - specifically in Hollister - it’s easy to see why exactly that is.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Making his first public comments since he was temporarily suspended by NASCAR last weekend for failing a random drug test, Sprint Cup Series driver A.J. Allmendinger - a former Hollister resident - said he would "never knowingly take a prohibited drug."

Many religions feature pilgrimage as an aspect of practicing the faith.  For example, one of the “five pillars of Islam” is to make the “haj,” a ritual visit to Mecca, once during one’s lifetime. In Christianity, pilgrimage has been called a “symbol in action,” representing the journey of the Christian’s life from earth to heaven.