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The Los Gatos High School girls soccer team is looking to make another incredible run to State this season. Coach Jessica Ingram says they’re hoping to improve on last year’s performance, when the squad had just arrived back in Division A. “We made it into CCS,...

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...

The Los Gatos High boys soccer team had just given up three goals in rapid-fire fashion to turn a 2-0 lead into a one-goal deficit heading into halftime in its Central Coast Section Division II playoff semifinal against Menlo School. The Knights’ final two first-half...

By any metric, the inaugural season for the Los Gatos High School girls flag football team was a rousing success. The Wildcats went 24-2 overall and 8-1 in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League, sharing the championship with Milpitas and Santa Clara. Los Gatos...

A year ago, the Los Gatos High girls cross country team exceeded all expectations by winning the Central Coast Section Division I championship.  This season, the Wildcats’ challenge to repeat as section champions will be tougher as they’ve been placed in Division II, meaning they...

Tommy Splaine was on the receiving end of not one but two Gatorade showers in the aftermath of the University of Arizona baseball team’s riveting 4-3 win over USC in the Pac-12 Tournament championship game on May 25 in Scottsdale, Ariz.  Splaine’s one-out single in...

There’s no stopping the Los Gatos National Junior Basketball (NJB) boys program.  For the second consecutive year, two teams from the Los Gatos NJB chapter won the All Net National Tournament. In 2024, the fourth grade and eighth grade boys teams took home titles. In...

Los Gatos High girls water polo coach Don Appleton acknowledged there was a bit of a hangover with the team after it suffered a crushing 15-2 loss to a powerful Soquel High squad in the Central Coast Section Open Division playoff semifinals on Nov....

It’s hard to believe that for the first several years of his career, San Jose Sharks legend Patrick Marleau seemed uncomfortable in front of the media or having any attention heaped his way.  If the Feb. 23-25 festivities surrounding Marleau proved one thing, it was...

Playing in front of a raucous Monte Vista crowd in Danville affected the Los Gatos High girls volleyball team—for the better. The Wildcats fed off the home fans’ energy en route to a thrilling five-set win in a CIF NorCal Division I quarterfinal on...