Sports

Hayward Field at the University of Oregon is regarded as the nation’s track and field mecca. The venue hosted the 2022 World Athletics Championships and is the most often used site for the U.S. Championships, including this year’s edition July 6-9.  Five athletes competing for...

With one loud thump, the Los Gatos High field hockey team was on its way to another Central Coast Section playoff championship match.  Natasha Evenden’s thunderous goal a minute into the third quarter stood up in a 1-0 win over Christopher High on Wednesday in...

Frank Marotti Jr. had beads of sweat draped on his forehead on a frigid 45-degree night—and he wasn’t even playing.  To say the Los Gatos High boys soccer coach gets into the Wildcats’ games would be an understatement. The players seem to take after his...

It was a year of growing pains for the Los Gatos High baseball team after it graduated 17 seniors from last year’s squad.  That meant there were a lot of new faces across the board playing together in a competitive schedule.  But this group of young...

Mike Vick is making his first and only season of high school soccer well worth it.  The Los Gatos High senior is averaging a goal a game, including the lone tally in the Wildcats’ 1-0 win over Milpitas High on Jan. 26. The victory strengthened...

When the Los Gatos-Campbell Longhorns South 14U Pop Warner football team started the season 1-3, few thought they could turn around their season and finish with a winning record, let alone make a deep playoff run.  But head coach Saul Kennedy knew he had a...

Don Appleton isn’t one to spew hyperbole, so when the longtime Los Gatos High girls water polo coach said this year’s team is one of the fastest and most athletic groups he’s ever coached, that means a lot.  “We have the potential to be great...

After being knocked out in the opening round of the playoffs by a West Catholic Athletic League team in each of the previous two years, the Los Gatos High football team wasn’t about to be denied again. The No. 4 seed Wildcats (9-2) earned an...

In the 2021 season, the Los Gatos High girls volleyball team had what has become the norm for the program: a league championship and deep playoff run.  Expect more of the same this season, Wildcats coach Brynja Thompson said, but with an added bonus.  “People can...

Hunter Bigge was playing chess with a teammate in the locker room when he was summoned to Iowa Cubs Manager Marty Pevey’s office on July 6.   Uh-oh.  “The last time I was told to go to the manager’s office, I was being sent down to Double-A...