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It was a long wait for the Hillsdale and Burlingame boys’ basketball teams to finally take the court for their f…
It was a long wait for the Hillsdale and Burlingame boys’ basketball teams to finally take the court for their first-round game of the 48th an…
Nathan Mollat Daily Journal staff
Sports Editor
It was a long wait for the Hillsdale and Burlingame boys’ basketball teams to finally take the court for their first-round game of the 48th annual Burlingame Lions Club Invitation tournament.
The Sequoia Ravens defense was getting peppered with corner kicks all day long against Sacred Heart Prep. The Gators added more and more pressure in last Friday’s non-league matchup in Redwood City, totaling as many as seven corners in the second half alone.
Jordan Lavulo, Menlo-Atherton football. The Bears had their hands full with the El Cerrito defense Saturday night in a 20-16 loss in CIF Northern California Division 4-A regional finals. The Gauchos’ reputation preceded them, entering into play having given up just 117 points through 13 prev…
Peninsula basketball fans: tired of driving all over the Bay Area to see good basketball games? Well, I’ve got good news for you. You can see eight quality teams tip it off this week at the 48th annual Burlingame Lions Club tournament, hosted by Burlingame High School.
The Menlo-Atherton Bears were an unlikely team to survive the 2025 season as San Mateo County’s last team standing.
Along the fence of College Heights Stadium, the home of the College of San Mateo Bulldogs, is a poster showcasing the team’s championship wins.
STOCKTON — The sum-of-their-parts Serra Padres nearly pulled off a miracle on the CIF Northern California regional championship stage. Then, in one quick strike by the dynamic pass attack of St. Mary’s-Stockton, Serra’s dream of Nor Cal glory was gone.
Maybe if the Mills girls’ basketball team took on North High School of Torrance on another night, later in the season, it might be a different result.
It seems only appropriate that the last Northern California team the College of San Mateo football team will face in the Nor Cal regional championship game is a rematch of a non-conference matchup from earlier this season.
It has been several years since Menlo-Atherton or Serra appeared in the CIF Northern California regional football finals.
For good high school soccer programs, those who expect to challenge for division and league titles and postseason berths, the early part of the schedule can be problematic.
When a team wins a section title, Bay Area coaches take notice.
The last time I ran into Rich Forslund — the former boys’ varsity basketball head coach at Lowell, Burlingame, Riordan and Half Moon Bay, who won more than 200 games and four Central Coast Section titles — it was in the early stages of the 2022-23 season and he was in his first season as an …
It’s been a whirlwind couple of years for the San Mateo girls’ basketball. First, the Bearcats broke a 51-game PAL divisional losing streak during the 2023-24 season, which culminated in an undefeated 8-0 run to the Peninsula Athletic League Lake Division title.
The press corps covering Serra’s 28-21 victory over Los Gatos in the Central Coast Section Division I football championship game got quite the object lesson while tracking down postgame interviews.
Ryan Fitzpatrick, Nueva School boys’ cross country. The county’s top individual placer in any race at the 38th CIF State Cross Country Championships, Fitzpatrick claimed third place in the boys’ Division V race with a time of 15 minutes, 8.3 seconds. The senior’s podium spot, in his last off…
SAN JOSE — As Central Coast Section champions for the first time since 2018, the Menlo-Atherton Bears proved it ain’t how you start, it’s how you finish.
Led by a fifth-place finish from senior Anna Salter, the Crystal Gryphons are back on top of the CIF Division V state girls’ cross country world.
For the sixth year in a row, the College of San Mateo Bulldogs will return to the California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) Northern California Championships.
The fifth-seeded Colts punched their ticket to the California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) final four after eliminating Fresno in penalty kicks in Redwood City Saturday afternoon.
SAN JOSE — If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. And the Serra running game certainly wasn’t broke Friday night on the Central Coast Section championship stage.
With the expansion of the California community college regional playoffs this season, growing from four teams to six, it allowed College of San Mateo something it’s never had — a first-round bye.
The Serra Padres are enjoying the cozy confines of Freitas Field during this week’s practice slate. The elementary kids from the neighboring Carey School were lined up along the fence in the recess yard during Wednesday’s practice, singing chants of: “Let’s go Padres!” Then, after Thursday’s…
When Menlo-Atherton head football coach Chris Saunders puts together the non-league portion of his schedule, he always looks for a team that can emulate the ground-and-pound offensive attack of Wilcox, a team the Bears face every year in the Peninsula Athletic League’s Bay Division.
There are common goals most high school football teams set prior to each year: strive to win a league and section championships.
The terms “rebounds” and “putbacks” are not usually associated with soccer. But it was a basketball play that catapulted the Cañada men’s soccer team into the 3C2A Northern California regional semifinals for the second year in a row.
Clay Carrington, Gates Gamble and Oliver Marcin, Sacred Heart Prep boys’ water polo. The Gators’ “Big Three” lived up the moniker as the trio helped SHP to its fourth straight Northern California Division I championship. During a three-game stretch, during which the Gators scored 36 goals, t…
The football season, the last fall sport still being played, is coming down to the final weeks of the season, with three teams — Serra (Division I), and Menlo-Atherton and San Mateo (Division III) — still playing for CCS titles and spots in a Northern California championship bowl game.
ORANGE — Because of Sequoia’s knack for Nor Cal tournament comebacks, it never felt like the Ravens were out of their season finale CIF Division III state volleyball championship game.
When the final second ticked off the clock, Sacred Heart Prep boys’ water polo head coach Brian Kreutzkamp was the first person in the pool to celebrate the Gators’ fourth-straight Northern California Division I championship.
For the first time in his 22 years at the helm of the San Mateo Bearcats, head coach Jeff Scheller will coach in a Central Coast Section championship game.
Skyline men’s soccer into final eight in Northern California
SAN JOSE — Merely stepping onto the field for Friday’s CCS championship showdown at Jaguar Stadium, with the San Jose City College field adorned in purple and gold, it was apparent this was meant to be Riordan’s year.
Four weeks into the season and the Menlo-Atherton football team was 0-4. Even worse, the Bears didn’t have a lot to show for it as they managed only 23 points in those four losses.
Both the Sacred Heart Prep boys’ and girl’ water polo teams will get a chance to defend their Northern California Division I regional titles after a pair of one-goal, semifinal wins Thurday night in Atherton.
The Tuipulotu rope-a-dope has served the Sequoia Ravens well through their CIF Division III volleyball run.
For the second weekend in a row, there are regular-season rematches in the Central Coast Section football playoffs.
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