San Mateo County local sports roundup

Hillsdale 5, Burlingame 2

The Knights completed a rare season sweep of the Panthers as they kept alive their hopes of a fourth-place finish in the PAL Bay Division and a spot in the PAL team tournament.

Marcus Cheng, playing at No. 4 singles for Hillsdale, dominated his match, winning in straight sets at love. David Bori won his No. 1 singles match 6-2, 6-1 for the Knights.

Two of the matches went to three sets, with each team winning one. Hillsdale’s No. 2 doubles team of Tyler Stepps and Pascal Rhee dropped the first set 7-5 to Burlingame’s Connor Sheehy and Wesley Larlarb. But Stepps and Rhee rebounded to win the second set 6-2 and then won the match by winning a third-set, super-tiebreaker, 10-7.

Burlingame got one of its wins at No. 1 doubles, where Eric Broman and Luca Iacovone posted a 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4) win over Chaninder Rishi and Zachary Zhang.

Cale Goodman picked up the other win for the Panthers, winning his No. 2 singles match 6-4, 7-5.

Aragon 6, San Mateo 1

The Dons got the better of the Bearcats in this cross-town rivalry.

Aragon (9-4 PAL Bay) won the first three singles matches in straight sets, with Rithik Booreddy posting an impressive 6-1, 6-0 win at No. 3 singles.

San Mateo (6-7) avoided the shutout when Daniel Basman prevailed over Aragon’s Randy Liu at No. 4 singles. Basman cruised to a 6-1 in the first set, but needed a second-set tiebreaker to get past Liu, 13-11.

WEDNESDAY

Baseball

Menlo-Atherton 1, Terra Nova 0

Bears’ pitchers Anthony Waller and Tommy Eisenstat combined for a one-hit shutout in the non-league win over the Tigers.

Tyler Nelson drove in the only run of the game for M-A (8-7-1 overall), while Shawn Mrad had the only hit for Terra Nova (6-8).

Cole Sowyrdra was the hard-luck loser for the Tigers, as he allowed one run on two hits in three innings of work.

Boys’ volleyball

Mills 3, San Mateo 1

The Vikings dominated in the first two sets before the Bearcats could find their footing as Mills went on to post a 25-11, 25-12, 24-26, 26-24 victory in a PAL match.

Jason Wu led San Mateo with six kills while also adding a team-high 20 digs. Griffen Shu also had a strong match for the Bearcats, finishing with 18 digs.

Gunn 3, Sacred Heart Prep 1

The Gators kept it close throughout, but just could not get over the hump in a 25-20, 25-20, 23-25, 25-21 loss to the Titans.

SHP was led by Garrett Pinkston, who finished with 15 kills. Jack Loftus added 12 kills for the Gators. Giorgio Bacchin pumped out 29 assists, while David Macias dug up 11 balls.

Badminton

South City 9, San Mateo 4

Raeka Lin, one of the top singles players in the Central Coast Section, set the tone with a dominating performance at No. 1 girls’ singles in the Warriors win over the Bearcats.

Lin lost only three points in a 21-1, 21-2 shellacking. Victoria Wong, at No. 3 girls’ singles, was equally as impressive for the Warriors, as she won her match 21-3, 21-3.

Cory Chilton, playing at No. 1 boys’ singles for San Mateo, was just as impressive as Lin as he won his match by the same score of 21-1, 21-2.

San Mateo would sweep the three boys’ singles matches, with Charles Xiao and Shinichi Sato both winning in straight sets.