Gatos volleyball team in CCS home stretch
By Dick Sparrer
If one of the Los Gatos volleyball players should win the annual Los Gatos Dammit Run this summer, it would come as no surprise to boys coach Tom Jack.
After all, the run from the high school to Lexington is one the Gatos volleyball players make quite often with team trainer Cheri Anderson, and she's "led the boys on runs up to Lexington so many times that it seems easy to them now."
But Jack is not at all concerned about one of his Wildcats winning the Dammit Run this August. He's more interested in what his volleyball players will be doing this week as they make a bid to win the Central Coast Section (CCS) championship.
Los Gatos opened the playoffs with an easy win over Monterey, then backed that up with a four-game win over Aptos.
The two wins have pushed the Cats into the CCS semifinals this week. Los Gatos, now 35-6, was to take on Mount Madonna (30-4) in a 6 p.m. match on May 14, and the winner will face the Soquel (22-5)-Serra (24-6) winner in the CCS finals on May 16, 7 p.m., at Santa Clara.
The Wildcats whipped Monterey in three straight games 15-3, 15-6, 15-11 and came back to take Aptos 15-4, 9-15, 15-12, 15-8.
"I'm watching the boys turn into men on the court," said Jack. "All the hard work they put in this season--in the gym, in the weight room and on the track--is showing in their games. They are fit and ready to play."
Los Gatos opened CCS play at home and played the role of ungracious host by whipping Monterey in three straight games.
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