Sports

The loud thump of the ball hitting the cage backstop was sweet music to the Los Gatos High field hockey team’s ears.  That’s because it was Clare Torres’ rocket for a shot that went in to send the top-seed Wildcats to a riveting 2-1 overtime...

After making the Central Coast Section Open Division playoffs last season—signifying it as one of the best eight teams in the CCS—the Los Gatos High boys water polo team knows taking the next step will be its greatest challenge yet.  That’s why the Wildcats enter...

For the last couple of years, the Los Gatos High girls water polo team had an embarrassment of riches at the goalie position with Jackie King and Lucy Holland. The duo have since moved on to play at the Division I level, King to Stanford...

The Leigh High girls soccer team—with seven players on the roster who live in Los Gatos—recently completed a historic season by winning the school’s first-ever CIF NorCal Regional Playoff Championship in any sport.  The Longhorns did it with a 1-0 win over Granite Bay on...

If many of the names on the Los Gatos Little League Intermediate All Star team sound familiar, it’s because the vast majority of them played on the 12U team that advanced to the Northern California Divisional Tournament last year.  Well, the boys aged up a...

Manager Brian Chiala couldn’t have asked for a better group of players or assistant coaches to work with on this year’s Los Gatos Little League 9U All Star team.  The affable Chiala has coached all age divisions from Little League to Pony to the high...

Aydon Stefanopoulos might’ve not gotten the time he wanted in the Woodbridge Classic—one of the largest and most prestigious high school cross country invitationals in the country—but it doesn’t mean the Los Gatos High junior had a terribly disappointing race.  Far from it. Stefanopoulos entered...

Seven touchdowns on 14 plays.  No, that’s not a typo. That’s what the Los Gatos High football team did in its Oct. 28 Santa Clara Valley League De Anza Division game against Mountain View before most of the starters were pulled in the third quarter...

Head coach Mark Krail thought so highly of the players on this year’s Los Gatos High football team that he apologized to them moments after a heartbreaking 29-28 overtime loss to Mitty in the Central Coast Section Division I playoff quarterfinals on Nov. 11.  “I...

For San Jose Sharks’ newest netminder, Los Gatos’ own Devin Cooley, dipping into the philosophical well of existential nihilism is how he’s able to stare-down—and halt—rubber pucks being launched at him like missiles. “As a goalie, the game is so mental, so everyone has to...