THURSDAY
Menlo School 6, Sacred Heart Prep 1
The Knights completed another undefeated WBAL campaign to capture its 36th division title.
Izzy Klugman was dominant for Menlo (8-0 WBAL), winning her No. 4 singles match at love. Elise Chen dropped only one game in a 6-1, 6-0 win at No. 2 singles, while Emily Li lost only one game per set in a 6-1, 6-1 victory.
SHP (4-2, 10-6) picked up its win at No. 1 doubles, where Shannon Bennitt and Thalia Stavropoulos posted a 6-1, 6-4 win.
The Scots (14-0 PAL Bay ) have captured their first PAL Division Tennis title since 2013 when they shared the honor. Menlo Atherton had won the last eight titles, but this was the girls first ever outright PAL Division title. Chloe Khachadourian, Megan Bence and Ujala Chauhan all shined for the Scots and Tessa Folan got the Ravens (5-9) on the board in singles but Carlmont would go onto sweep doubles.
Burlingame (10-4 PAL Bay) took care of Woodside (2-12) on Thursday namely on the singles side where they swept all four matches. Annabelle Bechtel and Madeline Lee would get the Wildcats on the board in doubles, but the third-placed Panthers would take the last two doubles matches of the game lead by Lyra Sheng and Ella Wang.
Menlo Atherton 5, Aragon 2
Eva Chow and Yara Abelsorour set the tone early in singles for the Bears (12-2 PAL Bay) with thorough victories over the Dons (8-6). Jessalyn Williams and Kat Russell for Aragon responded with a complete 4-6, 6-4, 10-4 doubles win but Marissa Hou and Hailey Hintze; and Sophia Jobst and Nia Sadrzadh would shut the door emphatically for the Bears with doubles wins of their own.
The Fighting Knights (3-11 PAL Bay) got off to a quick start on Thursday by taking all four singles matches over the Bearcats (2-12) highlighted by Gurkiran Sohal and Kellyn Murphy. The Bearcats would take two of three doubles matches lead by Tatum Fritts and Lauren Hong who dominated their day, but it was too little and too late for San Mateo.
Capuchino 5, Terra Nova 2
The Mustangs (7-6 PAL Ocean) started off hot on Thursday sweeping the singles competition despite falling 2-1 in doubles to the Tigers (2-12). Kayle Shum, Maddie Ciardella, Apolline Amato and Clare O’Shea set the tone in singles going 4-0 and outscoring the Tigers 48-6.
The second-place Vikings (12-2 PAL Ocean) were perfect in their defeat of Oceana (3-8) on Thursday. Kylie Huynh and Kaylee Chang lost just three games combined on their singles day while the Watabiki sisters, Ayana and Reina, cleanly swept their doubles match 6-0, 6-0. Oceana also took down El Camino 4-3 resuming their match from October 10 that ended abruptly due to darkness.
After Clarise Wu and Shannon Mercado won the first two singles matches of the day for Westmoor (8-6 PAL Ocean), the Colts (8-4) would go on to win the next five matches to earn the victory. The resilienicy of the Colts was on full display Thursday with three doubles victories despite dropping the first game in two of them lead by duo Ally Tunque and Eva Tamayo, and Madison Woo and Zayna Juhar.
Aragon 226, Hillsdale 235
The Dons clinched the PAL’s second automatic team berth into the Central Coast Section tournament by beating the rival Knights in the PAL CCS play-in match at Poplar Creek.
All six Aragon golfers shot rounds in the 40s, led by Kate Chong’s 6-over 41. Autumn Ogawa carded a 45 for the Dons, while Bridget Stewart came in with a 46. Hannah Liu and Addison Padian each added 47s to round out the scoring for Aragon.
Hillsdale was led by Ashyln Johnson, who posted the low round of the day with a 3-over 38.
Menlo School 14, St. Ignatius 7; Menlo School 14, St. Ignatius 0
Playing their fifth and sixth games of the week, the Knights improved to 14-1 with a sweep of the Wildcats.
Menlo has won 14 straight since a season-opening loss to Sacred Heart Prep.
In the first game, Menlo’s freshman quarterback Ava Allen threw a touchdown pass to Kylie Jones to cut the SI lead to 7-6 at halftime.
In the second half, Allen scored on a quarterback keeper for what turned out to be the game winner. Her pass to Sophie Housser for a 2-point conversion was the final margin of victory.
In Game 2, Mary Mahe connected with Ellie Knoll for a touchdown.
Sacred Heart Prep 13, Miramonte-Orinda 12
In a non-league battle of state heavyweights, the Gators came away with the one-goal win over the Matadors.
SHP led 6-4 at halftime before the teams combined for 10 third-quarter goals, with Miramonte forging a 10-10 tie going into the fourth period.
Nelson Harris paced the offense for SHP, scoring four goals. Oliver Marcin and Clay Carrington each netted hat tricks for the Gators. Carrington and Tyler Hogan each had three assists for SHP.
Hillsdale 17, Carlmont 15
The Knights held off the Scots in the regular-season finale and will now face Ocean Division champion Burlingame in the PAL CCS play-in game next Wednesday.
Josiah Yeager led the Hillsdale attack, scoring seven times and coming up with two steals. Isaiah Yeager had five assists, while Nathan Sprowls scored twice and assisted on three more goals.
Menlo-Atherton 16, Aragon 7
The Bears wrapped up a PAL Bay Division co-championship with the win over the Dons.
Both M-A and Woodside finished the regular season tied 10-2. Woodside earns the No. 1 seed out of the Bay for CCS seeding purposes, while M-A will get the division’s second of three automatic qualifiers.
Menlo-Atherton 7, Aragon 4
The Bears wrapped up their regular season and the outright Bay Division championship with the win over the Dons.
Abby Ko scored three goals to lead M-A, while Aragon got a match-high four goals from Daryn Schell.
Burlingame 3, San Mateo 0
The Panthers (11-2 PAL Bay, 18-5 overall) recovered nicely from their hard-fought 3-2 loss to first place Menlo Atherton on Wednesday with a clean sweep of the Bearcats (4-9, 16-12): 25-20, 25-21, 25-11. The loss for the Bearcats is their fourth straight in straight sets as they’ll look to rebound against Half Moon Bay to end the season.
Menlo Atherton 3, Carlmont 1
The Bears (13-0 PAL Bay) clinched the Bay Division title on Thursday after defeating the Scots (5-8, 13-14) by the score of 25-21, 25-22, 20-25, 25-19. For M-A, Meki Maile had nine aces and 28 assists while her junior counterpart Dani Eline had 17 kills and 16 digs. Maile’s assist total now grows to a team-high 480 on the season, 433 above second-place on the team.
While the Dons (10-3 PAL Bay, 17-11 overall) and the Ravens (3-10, 9-13) might find themselves on opposite sides of the standings, both teams combined for a thriller on Thursday with a score of 20-25, 27-29, 25-12, 25-16, 15-6. The win marks the third in a row for Aragon while the Ravens have now dropped their last four.
Hillsdale 3, Half Moon Bay 0
The Knights (4-9 PAL Bay, 8-16 overall) topped the Cougars (8-16, 2-11) in straight sets on Thursday, 25-23, 25-18, 25-18. Junior Natasha Abbaszadeh lead the way again for Hillsdale with 16 kills on the afternoon.
Terra Nova 3, Jefferson 0
The Tigers (7-6 PAL Ocean, 8-15) improved to 5-4 at home with a straight-set victory over the Grizzlies (1-12, 1-15), 25-14, 25-14, 25-5. Juniors Madison Williams and Emma Long had 13 and eight kills respectively.
The Colts (12-1 PAL Ocean, 20-5 overall) had little trouble taking down the Rams (1-12, 2-24) in straight sets, 25-14, 25-15, 25-10. El Camino now heads into the final week of PAL play tied with Woodside for the Ocean lead.
Capuchino 3, South San Francisco 0
The Mustangs (8-5 PAL Ocean, 9-6 overall) also handled their business in straight sets on Thursday with a victory over the Warriors (3-10, 8-19), 25-7, 27-25, 25-11. Junior Audrina Lopez for the Warriors had 32 digs and 28 received serves in the losing effort.
The fourth-placed Vikings (8-5 PAL Ocean, 8-17 overall) tested the first-place Wildcats (12-1, 16-8) impressively in their home loss on Thursday with a scoreline of 25-21, 20-25, 25-21, 15-25, 15-2. The Wildcats go on the road to Terra Nova to end the PAL season next week in hopes of a victory and an El Camino loss to win the Ocean title.
The Bulldogs swept the visiting Trojans, 25-16, 25-16, 25-19 Wednesday to improve to 3-0 in Coast South play.
Faith Crouch led the CSM offense with eight kills. Aniyah Hall and Olivia Harrision each had seven kills while Emeli Muagututia had 20 assists.
Shasta Grett had a match-high 10 kills to lead Skyline.
Since CSM head coach Katie Goldhahn started the program in 2015, the Bulldogs have yet to lose a set to Skyline.
CSM will host co-division leader West Valley Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
