Sports

Ben Kinczel had every reason to be encouraged after finishing in second place in the USA Powerlifting California High School Open’s 75 kilogram (165 pound) division on Nov. 17 in Hayward.  After all, the 14-year-old Kinczel, a Los Gatos High School freshman, was competing in...

What a difference a year makes. After struggling on the links in 2021, the Los Gatos High girls golf team was voted down to compete in the Santa Clara Valley League’s lower El Camino Division this season.  With added talent and experience for 2022, the...

The Los Gatos High School boys basketball team’s season hasn’t unfolded the way the team expected, but there’s still plenty of time for the squad to accomplish at least some of its goals.  The Wildcats entered the week at 12-5 overall and 3-3 in Santa...

After a 2021 season that saw the Los Gatos High softball team finish as the runner-up in the Santa Clara Valley League’s De Anza Division and an out away from advancing to the Central Coast Section Division I championship game, the Wildcats have two...

Hunter Bigge was playing chess with a teammate in the locker room when he was summoned to Iowa Cubs Manager Marty Pevey’s office on July 6.   Uh-oh.  “The last time I was told to go to the manager’s office, I was being sent down to Double-A...

In the summer of 1984, the Los Gatos Majors 12-and-under All Star team was the feel-good youth sports story of the Bay Area, advancing to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. For the first time since its historic run, the team is having...

The newest members of the Los Gatos High School Athletic Hall of Fame will be honored in an induction ceremony at La Rinconada Country Club on May 3.  The list is a who’s who of former LGHS greats, including Donald Straub (class of 1950), Terrie...

Nine new inductees will be honored in the Los Gatos High School Athletic Hall of Fame 2023 Induction Ceremony at La Rinconada Country Club on May 6.  The Los Gatos Hall of Fame Committee works in conjunction with the high school to assemble each year’s...

Jared Allen, who graduated from Los Gatos High School, has been named a finalist for induction into the NFL Hall of Fame. Allen, who was born in Dallas, was raised on a ranch in Morgan Hill, where he attended Live Oak High School. Allen played...

The Bay Area Fencing Club in Los Gatos has two goals: to bring the sport to the masses and provide a platform for those wishing to advance to the highest level.  In Andy Peng, John Wang, Lisa Posthumus and Bogdan Gurinenko, the new fencing center—located...