Honor roll: The week’s best performances by San Mateo County high school athletes

Mia DeMartini and Lola Jones, Hillsdale softball. The Knights came up short of winning back-to-back CCS titles, but DeMartini and Jones did their jobs. DeMartini was 1 for 3 with a doubles during a 4-2 loss to Alisal in the Division I final. In the semifinals, an 8-4 win over San Mateo, DeMartini went 3 for 4 with two doubles and three RBIs. Jones, a junior pitcher, found her groove at the plate, blasting a two-run homer in the top of the third inning. In the circle, she pitched a complete game, allowing three earned runs on just four hits.

Reid Plamondon, Menlo School baseball. In Menlo’s CCS 2-0 championship victory over Wilcox, the sophomore starter was brilliant on the mound, allowing just two hits in six innings while walking two and striking out nine.  

Case Jacobson, St. Francis; Maxime Morelle, Sacred Heart Prep, boys’ track and field. After finishing one-two in boys’ shot put at the Central Coast Section championships, Jacobson and Morelle did the same in Clovis at the CIF State Track & Field Championships. Jacobson, a Woodside native, claimed the title with a top throw of 60 feet, 11 1/4 inches. Morelle took second place at 60-10. Jacobson also earned a fifth-place medal in discus, spinning a PR of 177-5.

Caroline Zerella, Notre Dame-Belmont softball. The junior pitcher got the starts in all three Central Coast Section playoff games, capping it with a 5-0 shutout win over Branham in the Division IV final. Zerella pitched a complete game, scattering four hits. In the semifinals and championship game, Zerella pitched 12 innings, giving up two runs on 10 hits.

Skylar Loo, Notre Dame-Belmont softball. A four-year varsity player and a member of the 2023 team that advanced to the CCS Division V final, Loo captured her first CCS championship in her senior year. In two games last week, a 14-2 win over King’s Academy and 5-0 over Branham, Loo was a combined 4 for 6 with three doubles, five RBIs and three runs scored. In the title game, Loo went 3 for 3 with two doubles and two RBIs. In the semifinals, she had a bases-clearing, three-run double.

Kiley Lyons, Burlingame softball. The junior went 2 for 4 and drove in two of her team’s three runs during a 10-3 loss to Monterey in the CCS Division II semifinals.

Yuanye Ma, Arki Temsamani and Maximus Chan, Menlo boys’ tennis. The Knights No. 1 single Ma avenged an earlier straight-sets loss to beat Harvard-Westlake’s top-seed Aiden Zadeh in straight sets to win Menlo’s third match of the day and set the stage for Temsamani’s and Chan’s match-clinching win at No.1 doubles, Menlo won its first state championship in the sport’s three-year history.

Kai Kung and Ian Ehrhardt, Half Moon Bay baseball. Kung provided the pitching and Ehrhardt the game-winning hit as the Cougars captured their first-ever Central Coast Section baseball championship, 1-0 over San Mateo in eight innings in the Division V championship game. Kung was dominant in pitching a shutout. He pitched all eight innings, allowing just three hits and at one point retired 12 batters in a row as he threw an economical 80 pitches. Ehrhardt came up with the hit to deliver the victory. With Lane Giannini on third following a lead-off triple in the top of the eighth and Riley Jackson on via intentional walk, Ehrhardt turned on a 1-0 pitch and drilled an RBI double to center field.

Christian Louie, San Mateo baseball. The hard-luck loser in the Division V championship game, the senior gave his team a chance to win. Like Kung, Louie also pitched an eight-inning complete game. He gave up four hits through the first seven innings before Half Moon Bay touched him for three hits in the eighth.

Tres Onyejekwe, Menlo boys’ track and field. The only sophomore in the field took fourth place in the 300-meter hurdles in 37.03 second Saturday at the CIF State Track & Field Championships.