All a basketball coach can ask for early in the season is to see their team make positive strides. To make sure their team is getting better from game to game.

FRIDAY

The Mills girls’ basketball team weathered a Lowell third-quarter rally, while Sacred Heart Prep came out flying against Half Moon Bay as they advanced to the final of the Kelly Shea Gallo Memorial Tournament at Mills.

There is one Peninsula Athletic League football team still alive in the Northern California championship round and, ironically enough, it is the one team that does not reside in San Mateo County.

THURSDAY

The Sacred Heart Prep girls’ basketball team got everything it could want in its opening round game of the KSG Memorial Tournament hosted by Mills.

If you’re a San Francisco 49ers fan and were told, at the beginning of the year, the team would make the playoffs this season, would you have been satisfied?

WEDNESDAY

TUESDAY

I was wearing my meteorologist hat all day Saturday in anticipation of that night’s Central Coast Section Division III championship game between the Peninsula Athletic League’s King’s Academy, the No. 1 seed, and second-seeded Terra Nova at Westmont High School in Campbell.

Menlo School, girls’ cross-country. For the first time in school history, the Lady Knights reached the podium at the CIF State Cross Country Championships Saturday in Fresno. Menlo took second place in the Division IV race, paced by senior Kyra Pretre who took 13th individually with a time o…

TUESDAY

Kyra Pretre was admittedly pretty out of it upon crossing the finish line.

A lot can happen over a 10-week high school football season, as both Terra Nova and King’s Academy can attest.

The College of San Mateo football team must feel like its in the movie “Groundhog Day.”

The Menlo School girls’ cross-country team made quite a statement at the finish line of the Central Coast Section championships.

The fall sports season is all but finished — with only the end of the football and cross-country campaigns yet to wrap up — and there was a strong showing from San Mateo County teams in the Central Coast Section and Northern California playoffs.

Terence Loville, Serra football. The two-way standout may have had a rough day on offense — three catches for 22 yards and two drops — but he was pivotal in affecting a 21-point swing in the Padres’ 27-14 win over Wilcox in the CCS Division I semifinals.

When Lille Tuivailala graduated from Aragon in 2018, she left after helping establish a volleyball team on the rise.

TUESDAY

For the first time in four years, the Lady Knights are back on top.

One of the best defenses in the state just keeps getting better.

When Jason Piccolotti was chosen to replace Tim Adams as the head varsity coach of the Terra Nova football team prior to this season, he thought he would simply continue with the wide-open offense Adams had installed and run for the last decade.

After winning its 10th Central Coast Section title last Saturday, the Sacred Heart Prep girls’ water polo team will go for its first-ever Northern California title this weekend.

There are so many aspects to the Central Coast Section Division III semifinal football matchup between No. 6 Burlingame (6-5) and No. 2 Terra Nova (7-4) at 7 p.m. Friday in Pacifica.

With its 10th Central Coast Section team title since 1997, the Menlo School girls’ tennis team enter the 2019 Northern California tournament Friday as the No. 1.

Aragon head coach Dave Owdom couldn’t have been happier after the ouster of his girls’ tennis doubles team in the Central Coast Section doubles championships quarterfinals Tuesday at Bay Club Courtside.

Terence Loville, Serra football. Loville impacted Saturday’s CCS Division I opener both sides of the ball in Serra’s 42-14 win over Half Moon Bay. On offense, the wide receiver recorded five catches for 104 yards and a touchdown. Just as important as his 24-yard TD reception to tie the game …