San Mateo County local sports roundup

Sacred Heart Prep 39, Menlo School 34

The Gators beat the Knights for the first time in at least four years with the road victory.

SHP (2-5 WBAL Foothill, 12-8 overall) held Menlo (2-5, 13-6) to just 10 first-half points and led 22-10 at the break. The Knights closed to 29-23 after three periods, but the Gators held off their rivals in the fourth quarter.

SHP was led by Grace Florendo and Zoe Zaharias, who both finished with nine points. Megan Norris and Grace Battles each chipped in with six points apiece.

Menlo got a game-high 16 points from Avery Lee. Mallory North finished with six for the Knights.

Girls’ soccer

Half Moon Bay 1, Hillsdale 1

Not only did the Cougars picked up their first point in Peninsula Athletic League Ocean Division play with the tie, they also hurt the Knights’ chances of winning a division title.

Half Moon Bay had lost 10 straight to open PAL Ocean Division, but a second-half, penalty-kick goal off the foot of Morgan Day tied the game at one for the Cougars and they held on for the one point in the standings.

Hillsdale, meanwhile, falls to 6-4-1 in league play, giving the Knights 19 points, leaving them eight points behind first-place Sequoia (9-2, 27 points).

Wrestling

Menlo-Atherton 37, Burlingame 27

This time, the Panthers could not escape defeat. After beating El Camino in the final match Tuesday, Half Moon Bay suffered its first PAL Bay Division loss of the season to the Bears.

M-A got pins from Caleb Prouty and Jack Kouzoujian, while Josh Meyers, Anthony Waller, Garrett Pohlman and Niko Ozden all won by decision.

The loss drops Burlingame one match behind first place and undefeated Half Moon Bay, with a dual meet against the Cougars next Thursday in the regular-season finale.

College baseball

San Mateo 11, Solano 0

Sophomore Jared Milch worked five solid innings and got plenty of help from the Bulldogs offense as they shut down the Falcons

Milch started and worked the first five innings, giving up just one hit and striking out five. Brett Karalius worked the final four innings, allowing just two hits.

Everett Lau, Chris Papapietro and Anthony Flores all drove in a pair of runs for CSM (2-1 overall). Jack McCarthy, Kevin Jordan, Papapietro and Justin Berry all had three hits for the Bulldogs, as they pounded out 18 for the game.

CSM took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first and added three more in the second. The Bulldogs all but put the game away with a four-run sixth.