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Updated: November 12, 2025 @ 5:00 am
M-A’s Navid Riahi, shown here during a match against Sequoia earlier this season, scored three times in the Bears’ 9-8 win over Homestead in the first round of the CCS Division I bracket last Saturday. The fourth-seeded Bears take on top-seeded Serra in a Division I semifinal at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Gunn High School.
The CCS boys’ and girls’ water polo semifinals are set for Wednesday and Thursday, and four teams are still alive after first-round games Saturday: the Menlo-Atherton, Menlo School, Serra and Sacred Heart Prep boys’ teams and the Lady Gators.
SHP, in search of a 16th straight CCS title and eighth Open Division crown, and Menlo boys’ squads remain on a collision course for a championship game meeting Saturday as the top two seeds advanced out of last Saturday’s first-round matches.
Top-seeded SHP (18-6) had little trouble in knocking off No. 8 Santa Cruz (12-12), 14-7. The Gators will take on No. 5 Soquel (23-4) at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at St. Francis in Mountain View. Soquel got past fourth-seeded Los Gatos (21-4), 12-11.
But second-seeded Menlo (20-7) needed a fourth-quarter comeback to beat seventh-seeded Los Altos (19-9), 11-10.
The Knights looked to be control with a 5-2 lead after the first quarter, but the Eagles, the reigning CCS Division I champ, scored four goals in the second to tie the score at 6-all at halftime. They then took a two-goal lead, 9-7, into the fourth period after outscoring Menlo 7-2 in the second and third quarters.
Menlo came storming back in the fourth, outscoring Los Altos 4-1, scoring the game-winner in the final minute. Hunter Coleman and Calvin Barad each scored hat tricks to lead the Knights offense, with Adam Afar and Avery Kuziemko scoring two goals apiece.
Afar added a team-high four assists, while Lincoln Bott had two assists to go with three steals.
Up next for Menlo is a semifinal meeting with No. 6 St. Francis (19-10) at 7 p.m. Thursday in Mountain View. The Lancers upended fellow West Catholic Athletic League foe and third-seeded Valley Christian, 15-11.
Menlo and St. Francis, along with Sacred Heart Prep, are the only three teams to qualify for the CCS Open Division since its inception in 2017.
San Mateo County is guaranteed at least one team in a CCS championship match as No. 4 Menlo-Atherton (16-9) takes on top-seeded Serra (17-11) at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Gunn High School in Palo Alto.
This is the second straight CCS semifinal the Padres have reached, beating No. 8 Milpitas (21-3), 16-5 last Saturday morning at Sacred Heart Prep. Collin Wright, who has been carrying the Serra offense for the last couple of weeks, had another big game against the Trojans, scoring five goals.
But he not shouldering the entire load. Sully Kinney notched a hat trick and added two assists, while Ryan Coffin and Tyler Krueger each scored two goals apiece, as well.
Serra will be looking for a second consecutive CCS championship game appearance after losing 9-7 to Los Altos in overtime in 2024. Standing in the Padres’ way in Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division champion, fourth-seeded Menlo-Atherton, who slipped past No. 5 Homestead (13-11) last Saturday afternoon, 9-8, at SHP.
The Bears and Homestead were tied a 5-all at halftime and 7-all after three quarters before M-A outscored the Mustangs 3-2 in the fourth to advance to the semifinals.
Evan ten Vaanholt continued his stellar season for M-A, leading the offensive charge withe goals and an assist. Bears’ 2-meter man, Navid Riahi, added a hat trick. M-A goalie Michael Poirier came up big in the cage, making 11 saves.
The PAL’s other two qualifiers, Sequoia and Burlingame, did not make it out of first-round matches. Sequoia (15-10), seeded No. 6 in Division I, fell to No. 3 Bellarmine (8-18), 12-7.
Burlingame (15-10), the No. 7 seed in Division II, was eliminated by No. 2 Pioneer (20-7), 15-9.
The two-time defending Open Division champ, the top-seeded Gators took its first step to a third title in a row, as they eliminated rival and eighth-seeded Menlo School (12-13), 19-2. SHP will host WCAL opponent and fifth-seeded Mitty (19-5) in a semifinal game at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The Monarchs knocked off No. 4 Palo Alto (21-7), 9-7.
But the Gators are the only San Mateo County girls’ team still playing as the PAL’s entrants all fell in first-round games. Menl0-Atherton (13-11), the PAL champion, was eliminated by Leigh (8-8) for the second straight year, as the fifth-seeded Longhorns topped the Bears, 12-10.
Woodside (9-7), which finished second in the Bay Division, was the No. 6 seed in Division I and gave No. 3 Los Gatos (13-13) all kinds of trouble, by Los Gatos held on for a 9-7 win.
Aragon (11-7), which beat Burlingame in a play-in match to earn the PAL’s third automatic CCS berth, was given the eighth seed in Division I and the Dons were dumped by No. 1 Los Altos (21-4), 16-3.
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