Sports

After a five-year stretch which resulted in multiple league championships and berths in the CIF State Meet, the Los Gatos High School boys and girls cross country teams are in a rebuilding phase this season.  Both squads were hit hard by graduation, especially on the...

By earning a spot in the Central Coast Section Open Division playoff tournament, the Los Gatos High girls water polo team has proved it’s one of the very elite programs in the area.  The No. 5 seed Wildcats (25-2) play No. 4 St. Francis (16-9)...

Los Gatos High didn’t have a girls tennis coach just days before the start of the season four weeks ago. In stepped Pablo Cueto—an on-campus teacher—to fill the void.  “It was crazy,” he said. “The other coach had to leave so they needed someone right...

Despite a hard-fought effort, the Los Gatos High boys basketball team absorbed a 63-55 loss to Bellarmine in the Central Coast Section Division I playoff championship game Feb. 25 at Santa Clara High. Their CCS title goal denied, the Wildcats still have a season left...

If championships and consistency are the hallmarks for greatness, the Los Gatos High field hockey team can lay claim as being the best sports team—fall, winter or spring—in the entire Central Coast Section.  The Wildcats won their 17th—count ’em, 17th—CCS title after a 1-0 win...

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...

A 6-0 loss to a powerhouse St. Francis side on Dec. 4 showed the Los Gatos High girls soccer team is still learning to mesh with each other on the field and figuring things out. However, the Wildcats are confident the talent on the...

One of sport’s great axioms is this: It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.  But it’s sure nice to be sitting in a tie for first place with October just around the corner. That’s exactly the situation the Los Gatos High girls volleyball...

Greg Varela is entering his third full season as the Los Gatos High wrestling coach, and he said this year’s squad could be his best one yet.  The Wildcats open the season on Dec. 3 in the Chukchansi Invitational at Madera South High, the first...

It’s hard to believe the Los Gatos High baseball team started the season 2-4. That’s because the Wildcats are resembling a squad that seemingly has everything it takes to win a Central Coast Section Division I championship.  After an impressive two-game sweep of Los Altos...