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

Rallin Covey and Kyle Sweeney, Sacred Heart Prep baseball. The Gators’ one-two pitching punch helped carry SHP to the top of the PAL Ocean Division standings following a sweep of San Mateo. Covey didn’t get the decision in a 1-0, 11-inning win Tuesday. But Covey worked into the ninth inning, giving up two hits while striking out a dozen. Sweeney then pitched the Gators to a 5-0 series-ending win, going the distance while scattering six hits, while striking out five and walking none.

Yuanye Ma and Arki Temsamani, Menlo School boys’ tennis. The pair of seniors won the West Bay Athletic League doubles title 7-5(6), 6-4, beating freshman teammates Mile Burnett and Maxiums Chan in an all-Menlo final.

Leo Rhein, St. Ignatius baseball. St. Ignatius’ road trip last Friday to Frisella Stadium proved quite the dichotomy, as this year’s Wildcats feature more players from the city of San Mateo than Serra. Rhein is a former San Mateo American Little League hero who lives within walking distance of Serra, who has emerged as St. Ignatius’ best pitcher this season. And he sure looked like it in the Wildcats’ 4-3 comeback victory over the Padres, turning in a career-high 6 1/3 innings to earn the win, improving his record to 5-1. The junior right-hander scuffled early, but righted the ship, at one point spanning five innings without surrendering a hit. Then, after trailing 3-0, St. Ignatius rewarded Rhein when Atticus Gibson hit a go-ahead solo home run in the seventh that put the hurler in line for the decision.

Lucas Rowe, Carlmont boys’ tennis. The sophomore completed a perfect run through PAL play by capturing the PAL singles title in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2, to top teammate Aaron Zhang. Rowe, a transfer from Pinewood who is playing his first season of high school tennis, went a perfect 19-0 against PAL competition, losing just one set.

Alexandra Farrell, Katelyn Elliott, Daniela Cuardros and Isabella Schuett, Carlmont girls’ track and field. The Scots’ quartet captured the 4x800 relay on the first day of the Peninsula Athletic League championships, setting a new PAL record in the process. Their time of 9:28.27 smashed the former record of 9:35.75 set last year, a relay team that featured Elliott and Cuardros.

Emerson Barajas, Carlmont girls’ track and field. Another Scots athlete set another PAL record while winning the PAL long jump championship. Her leap of 18-1 1/2 was an inch farther than the previous best of 18-0 1/2, set in 2005 by Sequoia’s Mercedes Marchbanks.

Ryan Kelly and Ryan Attard, Carlmont baseball. Another walk-off win under the lights at Oracle Park, the Scots rallied for a 3-2 win Saturday night over Hillsdale on the home field of the San Francisco Giants. Kelly and Attard were unlikely heroes in the nine-inning marathon. Kelly, who entered the day with just 2 1/3 innings pitched in one previous outing this year, worked three scoreless frames to earn the first win of his varsity career. It was his battery mate Attard who delivered win, as Carlmont’s catcher continued his red-hot tear at the plate with an infield single to drive home Connor Chow with the game-winning run.

Jordan Lee and Lucas Kuo, Woodside boys’ tennis. The Wildcats’ No. 2 and No. 3 singles players, after playing doubles together last year, reunited to capture the PAL doubles championship. The fifth-seeded team, Lee and Kuo knocked off the No. 1 seed from Burlingame in the semifinals and then needed a third-set super tiebreaker to beat the second-seeded team from Menlo-Atherton 6-4, 2-6, 11-9.

Charlie Cheng, Burlingame baseball. It’s an unlikely sight in this day and age, seeing small ball rule a major league diamond. But that’s precisely how Burlingame brought home a 2-1 win over Capuchino last Friday at Oracle Park. The Panthers totaled five sacrifice bunts in the game — two from senior Jean-Luc Uharriet, one from senior Grayson Howard, and another from senior slugger Drew Gall — but none loomed larger than Cheng’s in the top of the seventh inning, as the junior broke a 1-1 tie by executing a suicide squeeze to score senior Liam Philibosian with what proved to be the game-winning run.

Charlotte Kell, Mercy-Burlingame softball. The sophomore right-hander fired her second no-hitter of the year against El Camino, working five innings to front an abbreviated 19-1 mercy-rule victory. Kell allowed one unearned run, but no hits, while matching her career-high of 12 strikeouts. She previous threw a three-inning no-hitter March 11 against El Camino. Her recent no-no extends her current hitless streak to 10 innings, including the final two innings of an 11-1 win over Lowell, and three innings in the Bears’ 5-1 win over Half Moon Bay.

Santiago Smirnoff, Aragon boys’ volleyball. The senior helped the Dons snag a piece of the PAL Bay Division championship as he filled the stat sheet in a 25-18, 25-18, 23-25, 25-21 win over Hillsdale in the regular-season finale Friday. Smirnoff led Aragon with 15 kills, added two service aces, had six blocks, 14 digs and 26 assists. Aragon finished the regular season by winning their final five Bay Division matches.

Riley Jackson, Half Moon Bay baseball. The junior is living the dream on the heels of Half Moon Bay’s 3-2 extra-inning win Saturday over Sequoia under the bright lights of Oracle Park. The Cougars’ game started in the daylight at 4:30 p.m., but lasted three-and-a-half hours as the teams battled into extras. Jackson emerged as the hero. Not only did he fire three scoreless innings of relief to earn the win, he delivered the game-winning hit in the bottom of the ninth, batting with the bases loaded to line a single toward Triples Alley to drive home Lane Giannini to set off the walk-off celebration.