THURSDAY
Girls’ basketball
Division I
No. 1 Menlo-Atherton 58, No. 4 Los Altos 58
Lead by four after the first quarter, the top-seeded Bears took control of the game by outscoring the Eagles 17-6 in the second as they punched their ticket to the Central Coast Section championship game.
M-A (20-5) will face No. 2 Los Gatos (20-6) in the the finals at 7 p.m. Saturday at Santa Clara High School. The Wildcats held off No. 3 Homestead (21-5) in the other semifinal, 50-46.
Division III
No. 1 Mills 43, No. 4 Notre Dame-SJ 36
The Vikings will defend their 2025 Division III title after knocking off the Regents in a semifinal game.
Mills (13-13) led 21-15 at halftime, but NDSJ (11-15) outscored the Vikings 12-6 in the third to tie the game at 27-all going into the fourth quarter. Mills then outscored the Regents 16-10 in the final eight minutes to advance to the final.
Layla Wong led the way for Mills, scoring seven of her game-high 17 points in the fourth quarter. Amaya Moore and Kelly Ho each added nine points for the Vikings.
Mills will face second-seeded Santa Cruz (18-9) at 3 p.m. Saturday at Santa Clara High School for the Division III title. The Cardinals got past No. 3 Pioneer (15-11), 54-47.
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No. 1 Notre Dame-Belmont (19-4) beat WBAL rival and fourth-seeded Menlo School, 39-31. The Tigers will take on No. 2 Scotts Valley (26-1) at 11 a.m. Saturday at Mission College for the Division IV championship.
No. 3 Sacred Heart Prep (15-8) was beaten by No. 2 Scotts Valley, 58-41.
Boys’ basketball
Division V
No. 2 Priory 86, No. 3 Oakwood-Morgan Hill 67
The Panthers will defend their 2025 Division V title after knocking off the third-seeded Hawks.
Priory (19-6), which went on to capture the CIF Division xx state title last season, scored 20 or more points in each of the four quarters against Oakwood (20-5), scoring a game-high 24 points in the fourth quarter.
The Panthers will face top-seeded Palma (24-2) in the championship game at 1 p.m. Saturday at Santa Clara High School.
The Chieftains hammered fifth-seeded Pinewood in the other semifinal, 73-40.
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Carlmont (15-11), seeded third in Division I, was taken down by No. 2 Los Gatos (21-5), 59-43.
Burlingame (18-9), the No. 5 seed in Division III, fell in the semifinals to No. 1 Willow Glen (23-2), 57-45.
Sacred Heart Prep (15-11), the No. 1 seed in Division IV, got past No. 4 Pacific Grove (13-13), 62-52. The Gators will face No. 2 Half Moon Bay (16-10) in the title game at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mission College in Santa Clara.
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