Sports

Matt Ford-Wellman knows he’s not one of the household names on the talent-laden Los Gatos High School baseball team.  However, the senior pitcher finds other ways to contribute, a fact not lost on Wildcats coach Mike Minkel.  “The ultimate team-first teammate,” Minkel said in a text...

All of 17 years old, Niko Tsakiris has enjoyed an auspicious start to his professional soccer career.  After Tsakiris signed a Homegrown contract with the San Jose Earthquakes in January 2022, the Saratoga native didn’t waste any time making an impact. Last season, Tsakiris appeared...

A Hall of Fame induction ceremony tends to be a significant event for various reasons, but this year’s version of the Los Gatos High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame ceremony has the added layer that it will be the first one since 2019.  The rescheduled...

Since the 2019 season, the Los Gatos High School-Wilcox High School football game has decided the league championship.  The Wildcats entered their Nov. 1 showdown with the Chargers having won five straight in the series, including a resounding 49-14 victory in last year’s Central Coast...

Over the course of her 17-year professional soccer playing career, Jen Beattie has been on her fair share of championship-winning teams.  While the 33-year-old Bay FC defender is still going strong on the pitch, she’s championing another cause: breast cancer awareness. Beattie, who was 29 when...

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...

Longtime Los Gatos High softball coach Randy Frey has told his players that they’re the team to beat in the Santa Clara Valley League’s De Anza Division this season.  “Now we need to go out and do it, so we’ll see what happens,” he said.  The...

The year before Joel Fumia took over the reins of the Los Gatos High School boys soccer program, the Wildcats finished 2-8-1 in the SCVAL De Anza Division, a last-place finish that earned them a demotion to the SCVAL’s lower El Camino Division.  In three...

Given the number of heart-stopping five-set matches that the Los Gatos High girls volleyball team has already played in this season, Wildcats coach Brynja Thompson and a reporter joked that going through all of the riveting and suspenseful moments have taken years off of...

Los Gatos Little League Junior All Star Manager Andre Torres and his assistants know they’re coaching a truly special team.  The majority of the athletes on the team have grown up playing together in LGLL since they were 8-year-olds in the Double-A level. Now, as...