Sports

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...

When the Live Oak and Los Gatos football teams clash in Morgan Hill on Friday, they’ll be playing for something far greater than trying to notch another ‘W’ in the win column.  They’ll be a part of the first-ever Coaches Against Cancer football game. Coaches...

With just over a week left in the regular season, the Los Gatos High softball team is in the pole position to win another outright Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division championship.  The Wildcats, who have clinched at least a share of the...

The Los Gatos High girls team and Aydon Stefanopoulos from the boys team qualified for the CIF State Championships after stirring performances in the CCS Championships on Nov. 11.  The girls team placed third in the Division II race with a score of 95, a...

For the last couple of years, the Los Gatos High girls water polo team had an embarrassment of riches at the goalie position with Jackie King and Lucy Holland. The duo have since moved on to play at the Division I level, King to Stanford...

San Jose Earthquakes midfielder Niko Tsakiris, from Saratoga, was recently recruited to the national team to compete at the Concacaf U-20 Championships in Mexico, joining teammate Cruz Medina on the squad. Meanwhile the South Bay pro team’s keeper, Emi Ochoa, was called up to play...

When it comes to the All Star tournament season, Los Gatos Little League knows how to represent.  While the 9-and-under, 10U, 11U and 12U teams entered this week’s play still in contention for a championship, the 13U Intermediate squad already won its District 12 championship...

The loud thump of the ball hitting the cage backstop was sweet music to the Los Gatos High field hockey team’s ears.  That’s because it was Clare Torres’ rocket for a shot that went in to send the top-seed Wildcats to a riveting 2-1 overtime...

The Los Gatos High boys water polo team has good reason to believe its best is yet to come.  That’s because one of the Wildcats’ top players, Lars Schubert, played in his first game of the season in a 19-5 non-league win over Woodside High...

Despite being a Santa Cruz resident, AJ Minyard’s place and role was always with Los Gatos High and its football team.  The senior quarterback was the Wildcats’ ball boy starting when he was 6 or 7 years old and served in that capacity all the...