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A nice cloud cover protected the lead runners on Saturday during the Salinas Valley Half Marathon that began at the Soledad Mission and finished 13.1 miles later at Pessagno Winery in Gonzales.

For the second straight year, the Shield Bearers Booster Club for Gonzales High School football is sponsoring a flag football program for local youth.

The Fairview Middle School Warrior Wrestling team completed the season by participating in the Coastal Counties League Championship on Saturday at El Sausal Middle School in Salinas.

Senior wrestler Robert Ochoa of Gonzales High School finished with a 5-1 record and qualified for the California Interscholastic Federation State Wrestling Championships after placing third at Saturday’s Central Coast Section Championships that were held at Independence High School in San Jose.

The Fairview Middle School Wrestling team from Gonzales placed sixth out of 14 teams at Saturday’s David Raptis Wrestling Invitational that was hosted by Washington Middle School.

At the end of his sixth game as Gonzales head football coach, Arthur Berlanga was raised off the ground by Pablo Ayala in a bear hug to celebrate the Spartans first victory of the year and first of the Berlanga era.

Eight wrestlers from the Fairview Middle School Warrior wrestling team from Gonzales won medals at Saturday’s Eye of the Tiger Wrestling Tournament at San Benito High School in Hollister.

With eight wrestlers winning individual weight classes the Gonzales High School wrestling team won the school’s 20th Mission Trail Athletic League Championship on Thursday at Pacific Grove High School.

Overcoming obstacles and pursuing goals have just been something Rudy Guevara has always done. The 1973 Gonzales High graduate and wrestling standout returned to his alma mater on Saturday to offer words of encouragement to Spartan student-athletes at the Roger Fernando Gym just days before the start of the school year.

Telemundo 23 news anchor and producer Stephanie Magallon was the keynote speaker and special guest of the Gonzales High School girl’s tennis team Nov. 17 for the team awards night at the Toots Vosti Recreation Center in Gonzales.