Menlo’s playmakers were on display under the lights crosstown adversary Menlo-Atherton.

What a difference a week makes.

The Summit Shasta Black Bears (7-0 PSAL, 19-5 overall), in the midst of their fifth straight undefeated volleyball season in the small-school Private School Athletic League, hit a milestone Thursday with a 25-7, 25-12, 25-13 sweep on their home court against Pacific Bay Christian (2-5, 9-10)…

THURSDAY

THURSDAY

THURSDAY

Despite being 1-4 and mired in a four-game losing streak, Carlmont head football coach Eric Rado believed his team was only a couple plays away from the Scots record being completely different.

FRIDAY

The game of the year in community college football Saturday afternoon features two unbeatens: Diablo Valley College at state and nationally top-ranked College of San Mateo in the Bay 6 League opener.

The Menlo-Atherton boys’ and girls’ cross country teams won both team events at the Peninsula Athletic League’s Race #2 at Crystal Springs Cross Country Course in Belmont Wednesday.

WEDNESDAY

The Menlo-Atherton flag football program, now in its second year, is a year behind many of the teams in the Peninsula Athletic League’s Bay Division, with the inaugural season kicking off for the 2023 season.

Carlmont head football coach Eric Rado understands how records can look. He understands it’s often not as bad — or as good — as it looks.

THURSDAY

Seems the recency-bias machine is in top gear when it comes the San Francisco 49ers quarterback situation.

TUESDAY

With a blazing right-side kill off the hand of Katerina Karkazis, a new era of Burlingame volleyball was born.

An argument can be made that the Menlo-Atherton-Woodside water polo matchup — on both the boys’ and girls’ sides — is the best rivalry in San Mateo County right now.

MONDAY

Everyone who played baseball for Bob Milano at Burlingame High School remembers the legendary coach’s hand on their shoulder.

Since I don’t pay to have the NFL Sunday Ticket to have access to all the NFL games, I can only watch whichever games are on the national broadcasts. Sunday, that was Raiders-Colts and Broncos-Eagles.

When Sequoia walked into Half Moon Bay for Friday night’s Peninsula Athletic League Ocean Division opener, Ravens head coach Frank Mems was surprised to see No. 44 for the Cougars taking snaps.

Elaina Foley, Burlingame girls’ golf. The junior helped lead the Ocean Division-leading Panthers to a pair of wins last week, 169-201 over El Camino and 169-189 over Sequoia. And Foley did it with an even-par 27 at Mariners Point Golf Complex in Foster City, breaking her own mark for lowest …

The Woodside Wildcats have been waiting for sophomore Kiefer Schultz to break out on the cross country course.

Iziah Singleton enjoyed a career day to lead the Serra Padres (2-0 WCAL, 2-3 overall) to their second straight win Saturday to open West Catholic Athletic League play, throttling to a 45-10 victory over St. Ignatius-SF (0-2, 1-4) at Freitas Field.

FRIDAY

Leave it to a football coach to find a silver lining in a loss. That is exactly what El Camino head coach Rustin Mayorga took away from last week’s 43-21 loss to Jefferson.

Half Moon Bay’s triple-option offense has been adept at cycling in scores of new quarterbacks over the years without missing a beat. None of those quarterbacks, however, were thrust into action as suddenly as sophomore Brandon Melo was Friday night.

Aragon cross country enjoyed quite a haul of hardware last Saturday.

Sophomores Emilia Kunkel and Poppy McKenzie wear the Aragon-Hillsdale rivalry well.

THURSDAY

Nick Lobao, a 2003 Terra Nova graduate, has been a teacher at Mills for the last five years. After beginning his coaching career in the Terra Nova program during the Bill Gray and Tim Adams regimes, Lobao took a couple years off as he started a family.

FRIDAY

With all the volleyball firepower Capuchino has on the court, junior outside hitter Maya Canas might just be the spark plug that makes it all go.

WEDNESDAY

TUESDAY

As the Peninsula Athletic League’s Bay Division boys’ water polo schedule reaches the halfway point, there has been little separation among the top teams.

The high school football season is at the halfway point and with the bulk of San Mateo County schools on byes this week, I figured it’s a good time to see who is in position to make a run at division and league titles.

Mitty senior McKenna Woliczko will be following in the footsteps of a legend.

After winning its second straight Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division title in 2022, the Burlingame girls’ water polo program experienced a bit of a free fall, dropping into the Ocean Division the last two seasons.

MONDAY

In a strange, roundabout sort of way, an exodus from the Burlingame pool is the best thing that has happened to the school’s water polo program in recent memory.

Bianca Flores, Summit Shasta volleyball. The senior served her way into the Summit Shasta record books last Tuesday. With the Black Bears’ sweep of KIPP Collegiate, Flores tied the program record with 10 service aces, matching a mark shared by Madison Aranda (2023) and Cecilia Chow (2024). F…

It was an eventful weekend that spilled into Monday when looking at the larger sports landscape.

The 43rd Annual Ram Invitational opened with what Westmoor cross country coach Ron DiMaggio Sr. called an old-school Kodak moment.

Sacred Heart Prep ran the double-reverse so well, even the coach who called it wasn’t immune to its deception.

It took the Serra Padres one quarter of play to get the offense going in their West Catholic Athletic League football opener. Once they did, they never stopped. And the defense soon got into the act too.

The stage is set for the Bay 6 Conference football opener.

For the second straight year, Nueva senior Ryan Fitzpatrick was the fastest boys’ cross country runner at the Ram Invitational.