Sports

Survive and advance. It’s one of the most timeless adages in sports, because it often rings true from the youth to the pro game. For the Los Gatos High boys and girls lacrosse teams, one was able to survive and advance and the other...

After a solid 2021 season, the Los Gatos High girls tennis team has upped its game this year with the goal to win a league championship.  The Wildcats are in contention to capture at least a share of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League El...

On Monday night at the Tech CU Arena in San Jose, Los Gatos High School’s hockey team took down the Pioneer Mustangs 5-3. The Wildcats drew first blood, as Devin De La Rosa put one into the back of the net in the opening period. During...

Three days after winning the program’s first Central Coast Section championship in 40 years, the Los Gatos High girls basketball team delivered an encore performance worthy of a standing ovation.  Which, incidentally, is what they received being they were on their home court Tuesday. As...

In each of the last two years, the Los Gatos High football team has suffered a heartbreaking end to their season against a West Catholic Athletic League school in the Central Coast Section Division I playoffs.  Last year, it was a 29-28 overtime loss to...

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...

Jeff Alzina has come full circle.  After 25 years living in Southern California, the all-time winningest coach in AVP history returned home to Santa Cruz in February 2019 to become the head coach of the Santa Clara University beach volleyball program.  Then, just three months ago,...

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...

Brett Heimlich’s road to winning the Stanley Cup began years ago in Los Gatos. He’d recently graduated from high school and was casting around for a policing or audio/visual job, when he went to a family barbecue at the home of a friend his mom...

Andre Torres won’t be forgetting the marvelous season the Los Gatos Little League Junior All Star team's had this year any time soon. The squad advanced to the NorCal State Tournament for the fourth consecutive season. They also did it as under-11 All Stars, U12 Majors...