When your team starts the season 4-0 while scoring over 40 points against each of your opponents, your head coach is allowed an LOL moment to start a postgame interview.

It was Homecoming for the Menlo School and its football team as the Knights hosted Mountain View in a rare matinee Friday afternoon in Atherton.

Suffering a loss Saturday in the Bay Area Classic Tournament to host Menlo-Atherton might have been the best thing for the Carlmont volleyball team.

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The Bears are back on top to start the 2025 Peninsula Athletic League cross-country season.

The start of every football season brings a lot of questions and trepidation. But there was one main question that Woodside had yet to answer on the eve of the Wildcats’ season opener Aug. 29: What would the Wildcats be in the post-Evan Usher Era?

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Former South City and San Jose State softball standout Karizma Bergesen has some big dreams.

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The Carlmont flag football team, the defending Peninsula Athletic League champion, has established itself as one of the best in the Central Coast Section.

In 1992, Bruce Springsteen wrote the song, “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)” as sort of a protest against his new television cable programming.

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It’s a busy week for the Sacred Heart Prep boys’ water polo team. The Gators head to Southern California Wednesday afternoon for a showdown Tuesday night with JSerra-Gardena in a warm-up game before taking part in the prestigious South Coast Tournament this weekend.

Overseeing four tournaments over the past two weekends, Hillsdale athletic director James Madison has been a man on the move.

MONDAY

Freshman golfer Irene Hur has got the Mills Vikings thinking big.

Kayla Corcoran, Hillsdale girls’ golf. The reigning Daily Journal Girls’ Golfer of the Year is off and running in 2025. Corcoran shot her best round of the early season last Monday in Hillsdale’s 219-248 loss to Mills at Poplar Creek. The sophomore medaled with a 2-under 33 at Poplar Creek. …

In the world of high school sports, MaxPreps.com is a necessary evil. For those coaches who use it to keep results and statistics, especially for football, it’s great and makes it bearable to deal with the site’s slow response, constant pop-up ads and highlight videos that causes the site to…

TUESDAY

The College of San Mateo Bulldogs played host to Modesto College in a clash of community college football titans.

Carlmont showed off some serious return yards in Saturday’s non-league football matchup. And the legs of junior return man Austin Sotto were almost enough to carry the Scots past Monte Vista Christian-Watsonville.

The Serra Padres made the trip to Bellflower this season for their third matchup in four years with national power St. John Bosco. The Braves, again, rolled to a lopsided win.

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San Mateo head football coach Jeff Scheller was hoping Friday’s game against visiting Aragon would be the game his Bearcats would put it all together.

It had been three years since Terra Nova had defeated Capuchino in head-to-head play. The key for the Tigers proved to be beating Cap at its own game.

Sophomore running back JJ Lange became the third Woodside running back to rush for over 100 yards in a game in 2025 as the Wildcats (3-0) remained unbeaten with a 49-13 win over Castro Valley (0-3) at Bradley Field.

Sequoia’s 5-4 senior Joslin Fiel led a standout defense effort with 26 digs as the Ravens (1-0 PAL Bay, 6-2 overall) held off visiting Burlingame (0-1, 3-7) for a 25-13, 12-25, 11-25, 25-20, 15-9 victory in Redwood City Thursday.

Menlo-Atherton is riding a streak of two straight Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division volleyball championships. If the Bears are going to earn a three-peat, they’re going to have to do it with a vastly different team.

On paper, the San Mateo football team should be the favorite when the Bearcats host crosstown rival Aragon in the Daily Journal’s Game of the Week Friday night at San Mateo.

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After being deadlocked 7-all at halftime, Sacred Heart Prep exploded for 20 third-quarter points and rallied for a 37-27 win in non-league football play Thursday night at Half Moon Bay.

WEDNESDAY

Capuchino flag football head coach Andre Kelley cited a slew of new players, coupled with a slew of new rules, as to why he did not schedule a preseason game ahead of Wednesday’s Peninsula Athletic League opener against San Mateo.

Castro Valley (0-2) at Woodside (2-0), 7 p.m.

When the Peninsula Athletic and Santa Clara Valley Athletic football leagues merged prior to the 2022 season, one of the reasons behind it was to help alleviate some scheduling issues.

TUESDAY

The Aragon and Burlingame girls’ tennis programs have been the in the top half of the Peninsula Athletic League’s Bay Division for the better part of two decades. They are both perennial Bay Division championship contenders and Central Coast Section playoff participants.

MONDAY

Ryan Fitzpatrick is off and running.

Evan Frampton, Woodside football. The senior running back has been hampered by injuries the past couple of seasons and missed the 2025 season opener. But he returned with a vengeance during the Wildcats’ 42-0 win over Mountain View, rushing 24 times for 130 yards and a touchdown.

It’s hard to believe that a former San Mateo High School quarterback joined the Aragon program as a coach and now the Dons have one of the more prolific passing games two weeks into the season.

TUESDAY

Two years ago when De La Salle visited Brady Family Stadium, the Serra Padres recorded an unprecedented shutout against the longtime Northern California powerhouse.

The Bulldogs took care of business in Fresno County, marching to a 24-7 victory Saturday at Reedley College.

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It was a few years back when Hillsdale head football coach Mike Parodi added the “Fighting” to the the Fighting Knights’ name. Parodi’s squad wore that decision really well in Hillsdale’s home opener.

The Aragon football team has already doubled its win total from last season and if the Dons can find some consistency and clean up the sloppy play, it could be a rough ride for the rest of the Peninsula Athletic League’s Ocean Division.

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