LOS GATOS — Some memories don’t fade away.

So it was that Los Gatos High School, on Friday night against Pittsburg, rechristened its traditional “Pink Out” game as the Allan McGurk Memorial Cancer Awareness Game. Because to those at Los Gatos, McGurk’s memory must live on.

“He was our longtime freshman head coach who had battled (colon) cancer prior to coaching,” Los Gatos coach Mark Krail said. “The cancer had a period of remission, and then it came back. And the second time, it took his life.”

McGurk coached the Wildcats’ freshman team for the last time in 2022, then had to step away from coaching to battle lung cancer.

“That’s when he started his second battle, if you will,” Krail said. “He fought hard for a couple years, and then finally…

“Cancer doesn’t slow down all the time. So

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