For a split second, it appeared the Aragon football team would get one last shot at the end zone when Dylan Kaye seemed to haul in a Daren Randolph pass inside the Hillsdale 20-yard line with under 30 seconds to play.

It wouldn’t be a high school baseball season on the Peninsula without Serra traveling to Burlingame for the annual non-league, Friday night showdown at Washington Park.

Six county teams have an official start date for indoor sports.

It’s a trifecta. Each of the South San Francisco Unified School District’s three new high school diamonds is a hit.

Boys’ lacrosse

Rivalry Games

The Peninsula Athletic League’s football “Rivalry Week” is, usually, about so much more than just the football at the end of the week.

Taylor Hardley seemed like an ordinary kid when she took to the softball pitching circle Tuesday at El Camino.

To put a twist on that old saw: the coldest winter I ever spent was the spring of 2021 on the Peninsula.

With a number of seniors expected to play key roles, the time is now for the Aragon boys’ soccer team. With the Central Coast Section playoffs still tentatively on the schedule, the Dons have a chance at the playoffs for the first time since 2018.

Baseball

Taylor Hardley made history. But it was Kailey O’Connor who stole the show.

Neither Burlingame girls’ head soccer coach Philip DeRosa nor his Carlmont counterpart John Wilkinson knew what to expect when their teams took the field in the Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division opener in Belmont Tuesday.

Patrick Walsh wasn’t willing to kick the can down the road heading into the 10th anniversary of Next Level Sports.

Complete games have become something of an antiquated notion in 2021.

It started with a clutch first-half block and finished with a spirited last-minute dive for the end zone.

It wasn’t the opening day either Cañada or Skyline would have hoped for.

Baseball

If last week’s 12-7 loss to Jefferson was the nadir for the Aragon football team, Friday’s win over Capuchino was the highlight of the last two seasons.

In a football season where there is essentially nothing to play for but pride, it was fitting Burlingame head coach John Philipopoulos was so emotional after his team’s showing of Panther pride.

As a three-sport athlete at Capuchino, Trey Zahursky was known as a jack-of-all-trades in every arena.

There’s no two words more celebrated in the baseball world than “opening day.”

Friday

Baseball

The Sequoia softball team knew exactly how Half Moon Bay felt as the Cougars played their first game in more than a year Wednesday in Redwood City.

Wrangling the 17 teams that comprise the Peninsula Athletic League is taxing enough under normal circumstances. Add in a pandemic and it becomes even more unwieldy.

College of San Mateo transfer Sophie Liao was elated to partake in a pair of San Jose State school relay records in her only Peninsula area competition of the 2021 season Saturday at the Stanford Invitational.

You’ve got to love the glove.

Former Terra Nova baseball left-hander Jared Milch is really rolling at Stony Brook.

Has there been a better back-and-forth football rivalry on the Peninsula in recent years than Serra-St. Francis?

When the Burlingame football team scored on its first possession Friday night against visiting Terra Nova, it snapped a nine-quarter scoreless streak, dating back to the third quarter of the season opener.

Football is a lot of fun when everything is going your way.

Boxing

After a two-year hiatus, the Bay Area’s first major track and field meet is taking place at Stanford on Friday and Saturday. Although much smaller in scope than in past years, the Stanford Invitational will be the lone home meet in 2021 for the Cardinal.

Friday

Not all winless teams are the same. Take the Burlingame football team, for example. The Panthers are 0-3 after opening the season with a gauntlet of the Peninsula Athletic League’s best.

Sisters Jessica and Sianna Houghton had never played against one another in an official indoor volleyball match.

Boys’ water polo

Minutes before the softball season opener for the Woodside Wildcats, disaster struck.

Monday, the Burlingame baseball team banged out 15 hits and scored a school record 16 runs in the second inning of a 19-0 win over Terra Nova.

The all-time baseball classic “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” asks for “peanuts and Cracker Jack.” But for me, nothing says baseball more than sunflower seeds.

It was love on the diamond that took Kaleb Keelean to Oregon Tech.

Like every baseball team in San Mateo County, Mills and Hillsdale had no dress rehearsals before meeting each other in San Mateo Tuesday in the season opener for both squads.

Both Sacred Heart Prep and Mercy-Burlingame have had to shake up the setter position this season.

Girls’ volleyball

It certainly was a great day for baseball as the South City Warriors inaugurated their new field Monday to officially open the 2021 season.

While the Central Coast Section baseball season officially opened Monday, the Serra Padres won’t see official game action until next week.

Menlo junior Sergio Beltran has now quarterbacked 12 straight wins.