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Boasting a No. 12 state and No. 38 national ranking, the powerhouse Los Gatos High girls lacrosse team looks to be on a collision course to play St. Ignatius or Sacred Heart Prep—two of the top 10 teams in the nation—in the semifinals of...

Longtime Los Gatos resident Joe Kapp, who played quarterback at Cal and led the Minnesota Vikings to the Super Bowl, died May 8. He was 85.  Multiple media reports confirmed Kapp’s death came after a long battle with dementia. A private service will be held...

The Los Gatos High boys basketball team hangs its hat on defense. Nowhere was that more apparent than late in the third quarter of its Central Coast Section Division I playoff home opener against San Benito High on Friday. The Haybalers needed a score to...

Even though Nicole Dzurko didn’t get to compete in this year’s Paris Olympic Games, she could take satisfaction in knowing that she played a part in the U.S. artistics swimming team’s journey to winning a silver medal. The 24-year-old Monte Sereno native—who still lists the...

Two weeks after breaking the points record in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League Finals, the Los Gatos High wrestling team continued its historic season with a second-place finish in the Central Coast Section Masters Finals Feb. 18 at Watsonville High.  The Wildcats established a...

Henry Reyes has coached the Los Gatos High field hockey program to 17 Central Coast Section championships and five runner-up finishes, over a 32-year run that started in the early 1990s.  The Wildcats are the winningest program and gold standard in the section, having built...

For the first time in a long time, Helm Gym was rocking.  Playing in front of a raucous home crowd for the first time in recent memory, the Los Gatos High boys and girls basketball teams won’t soon forget their Jan. 28 doubleheader. The boys...

When the Los Gatos Longhorns Cheer team didn’t place in a Pop Warner competition at the beginning of the season last September, members of the team weren’t satisfied.  “We were all bummed out about it and that’s when we decided to extend the season,” Longhorns...

When the Los Gatos High girls lacrosse team took a five-goal lead four minutes into the second half, it seemed all but certain the Wildcats were going to advance to the Central Coast Section playoff semifinals.  St. Francis had other ideas. The No. 5 seed...

Despite not getting the desired result in the championship game of its own Lions Club Wildcat Shootout on Dec. 8, the Los Gatos High boys basketball team has plenty of valid reasons for optimism and an opportunity to have a truly special season.  The narrow...