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

Tatum Olesen and Aidan Doherty, Menlo-Atherton cross country. The pair of Bears each won their races in the final PAL meet of the season. Running on 3.1-mile course at Bedwell Bayside Park in Menlo Park, Olesen posted a time of 18:55, 28 seconds faster than the second-place finisher. Doherty won the boys’ race in a time of 16:48, bettering second place by eight seconds.

Braeden Kumer, Carlmont football. The senior running back went over 200 rushing for the fifth straight game as the Scots knocked off Fremont-Sunnyvale, 43-33. Kumer carried the ball 29 times against the Firebirds, racking up 238 yards and a score. Kumer now has 1,598 yards on the year with one game remaining in the regular season.

Arielle Bruk and Megan Davis, Woodside volleyball. The Wildcats rode a two-pronged attack to a 25-13, 25-11, 25-7 win over Gilroy in the opening round of the CCS Division II playoffs. Woodside recorded a team hitting percentage of .600, fronted by their outside hitters. Bruk matched the team total with a .600 hitting percentage, scoring a match-high 14 kills. Davis added 11 kills while hitting at a .412 clip, while adding four service aces to tie Ellery Singleton for the match-high.

Mila Mulready, Burlingame girls’ tennis. The Panthers’ No. 1 singles player helped Burlingame punch its ticket to the CCS tournament with a 4-3 win over Menlo-Atherton in the PAL CCS team tournament. Mulready, a senior, outlasted M-A’s Tess Ellingson in a third-set tiebreaker to clinch the win for Burlingame. Mulready had to rally from a set down, however. She dropped the first set 2-6, but came roaring back for a 6-0 win in set No. 2 to set up the third-set, super tiebreaker. She eventually pulled out the victory, posting a 10-8 win in the third.

Allie Bieser, Carlmont volleyball. The junior outside hitter was one of several featured field players in the Lady Scots’ CCS Division I opener, but where she really shined was at the service line. Carlmont swept 25-17, 25-20, 25-14 past Wilcox, but didn’t really hit the throttle until the third set. That’s when Bieser stepped to the line, and fired five aces in the set. Overall, she finished with a season-high seven aces, falling one shy of her career high from a regular-season match against Terra Nova last year.

Erick Waugh, Jack Haywood and Drew Rollozalo, Hillsdale football. The trio had monster games, albeit is in 41-35 losing effort to King’s Academy. Waugh, a senior quarterback, completed 17 of 26 passes for a whopping 432 yards and five touchdowns. He also added 34 yards rushing and had a 47-yard punt. Haywood, a junior receiver caught five passes for 169 yards and three scores, averaging 33.8 yards per catch. Rollozalo, a senior receiver, had four catches for 128 yards and a score, averaging 32 yards a reception.

Mafi Folau, Capuchino football. The Mustangs’ defense had struggled in previous weeks, but that all changed on one play midway through the fourth quarter Friday night at Aragon. Cap had just taken the lead on a 53-yard double-option pass from running back Lucas Zayac to Ricky Arauz, but Aragon quickly went on the offensive and advanced into the red zone. That’s when Folau, a junior defensive end, changed the tide as he exploited a hole through the Aragon line and leveled a perfectly timed hit on the running back just as he was taking the handoff. The ball popped loose and Cap senior Danny Thomas recovered the fumble, helping to preserve a 21-14 win, one that earned the Mustangs a co-PAL Ocean Division championship with the Dons.

Gia Rivera, Notre Dame-Belmont volleyball. Rivera celebrated her first CCS playoff victory with a big showing in NDB’s 25-11, 25-12, 25-13 sweep over Marina in Saturday’s Division IV opener. The sophomore scored a match-high 17 kills and was hyper-efficient to the tune of a .630 hitting percentage, while also scoring five service aces and a solo block.

Darren Miller and Elijah Fields, South City football. The Warriors entered play last Friday owning at least a piece of the PAL Lake Division championship — the program’s first league title since 2012 — but they certainly wanted more than a co-championship. And they played like it in cruising 44-0 past Monta Vista. Miller and Fields both showed off some explosive playmaking abilities in the win. Miller opened the game with a 93-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, then added a 65-yard reception for a score to make it 14-0 midway through the half. Miller’s TD catch was the first of five consecutive plays from scrimmage on which South City scored, a streak Fields closed out by scoring on the first play of three straight possessions. The sophomore broke TD runs of 32, 34 and 60 yards, and finished the night with four carries for 132 yards.