Hannah Walker, Woodside softball. The Wildcats played three games in as many days last week, winning all three as they sit alone in first place atop the Bay Division standings. Walker got the win in the circle in all three. She opened with a complete-game win in a 3-2 decision over Carlmont. She allowed two earned runs while scattering nine hits. In a 13-5 win over the King’s Academy, she gave up one earned in six innings of work. She capped her week with a four innings of scoreless relief in a 9-5 win over Burlingame. Overall, She allowed four walks and struck out 13. She also had a good week at the plate, hitting .416 (5 for 12) with four RBIs and three runs scored.
Keiya Wada, Aragon boys’ tennis. The senior had spent his first three-and-a-half years playing as part of the Dons’ No. 1 doubles team. But midway through this season, head coach Dave Owdom inserted Wada into the No. 4 singles spot. He is now 6-0 playing singles. Wada picked up a straight-sets 6-4, 6-4 decision in Aragon’s 5-2 win over Menlo-Atherton. He then picked up the clinching fourth point in a 6-1 win over Burlingame. Wada blitzed his opponent 6-0 in the first set, but dropped the second 4-6 before prevailing 10-8 in the third super tiebreaker as the Dons moved into sole possession of first place in the PAL Bay Division with one match left to play.
Sophia Flores, Hillsdale girls’ track and field. Flores gave Hillsdale a fourth school record at the Top 8 Invitational. She finished third in the high jump with a height of 5 feet, 2 inches, which set a new school record. It was the second time she went 5 feet or higher last week, hitting the 5-0 mark during a dual meet with San Mateo.
Sineth Andrabadu, Hillsdale boys’ track. The senior sprinter is rounding back into form after helping the Knights’ soccer team to a Central Coast Section championship and a spot in the Nor Cal finals. He competed in three events, setting school records in each one. At the Top 8 Invitational hosted by Los Gatos, he captured the 100 meters in a time of 10.65, breaking his previous record of 10.69 set last year. Andrabadu now has the second-fastest 1oo time in CCS this season. He set a new school record by finishing second in the 200, with his time of 21.51 breaking the mark of 22.04 set by Reggie Rogers in 1981. He then teamed with Noah Nues, Kingston Hua and Jonas Bell to finish third in the 4x100 relay, setting another school record by finishing third in a time of 42.32.
Jackson Flanagan, Menlo School baseball. The junior right-hander has been dominating dating back to the final day of March. Flanagan has strung together three scoreless outings, most recently firing a two-hit shutout last Wednesday in a 6-0 win at Terra Nova. Flanagan has now fired 20 straight shutout innings, dropping his season ERA to 1.63, while the Knights, after starting the year with a 3-7 overall record, have now won seven straight, and are currently sitting in first place in the PAL Ocean Division.
Avery Boyse, Burlingame girls’ track and field. Earlier in the season, Boyse recorded the best pole vault of the season in CCS competition, reeling off a height of 12 feet, 6 inches March 8 at the Willow Glen Track Invitational. The senior is proving her only, best competition in CCS this season, and showed it Saturday at the CCS Top 8 Invite at Los Gatos High School, winning first place by matching her CCS-best 12-6.
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Reilly Sutton and Branden Hom, Design Tech baseball. The pitching duo made quite a splash last Tuesday in the Dragons’ 10-0 mercy-rule win over North Salinas Baptist at the Belmont Sports Complex. With the game going six innings, Sutton and Hom combined on a perfect game, retiring all 18 batters they faced. Sutton got the start and worked once through the order, striking out seven. Hom took over in relief and overcame several three-ball counts to go nine up and nine down, including eight by way of strikeout.
Declan Mendel, Capuchino baseball. For the second straight week, the senior right-hander fired a three-hit shutout in a pivotal game. His first one, two weeks ago, was a 1-0 win over Burlingame on the big stage at Oracle Park. Mendel returned to the more familiar confines at Capuchino last Friday, but turned in a similar result, this time blanking a first-place Menlo-Atherton team hitting .289 on the season in a 4-0 Mustangs win. Mendel is now 4-0 on the year with a 0.32 ERA, and has gone 28 innings without giving up an earned run, including 14 straight shutout innings.
Star Gutierrez, Capuchino softball. The freshman outfielder is having an outstanding first season of high school ball as she helped the Mustangs to a pair of lopsided wins. She hit a grand slam, tying her for the team lead in homers with three, in an 11-4 win over Aragon. She came back two days later in an 11-1 win over Carlmont and went 2 for 3 with a double, triple and five RBIs.
Peter Chriss, Menlo-Atherton boys’ volleyball. The senior setter shined in three phases of the game last Friday in a 25-14, 25-17, 25-23 sweep at San Mateo. Chriss recorded a triple-double with 14 kills, 14 digs and 23 assists. While he’s recorded seven double-doubles this season, this is his first career triple-double.
Hailey Pedroza, Mills softball. After not taking the circle since March 26, Pedroza has been outright dominant since making her return last week. Pedroza’s most recent outing was a five-hit shutout in Mills’ 11-0 win via five-inning mercy-rule last Thursday against Mercy-Burlingame. But her pitching return was the highlight, as she fired a five-inning no-hitter last Tuesday in the Lady Vikings’ 10-0 win over Gunn-Palo Alto.
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