SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO — The Lowell High School baseball team has proven it can pitch with San Francisco’s West Catholic Athletic League teams this season, but it’s not quite up to the task at the plate. After a 1-0 loss to Riordan on Friday, the Cardinals were shut out again by Sacred Heart Cathedral in a 2-0 loss in the Dick Murray tournament championship game Tuesday at Westborough Park.Without using their top pitcher and reigning San Francisco Player of the Year Chris Miguel, three Irish pitchers combined for the shutout.
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The Lowell High School softball team ended last year’s Academic Athletic Association season with a mercy-rule win over Washington and picked up right where it left off in its AAA opener against Lincoln on Monday.
The Cardinals scored seven runs in the first inning and 14 runs in the third en route to a 23-1 three-inning win over the Mustangs at West Sunset Playground.
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In a postseason where so many things have gone as planned for San Francisco high school basketball programs, two teams are crashing the party.
International High School’s girls’ team and Marshall High School’s boys’ team are both seeking their first section titles in school history.
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BELMONT — Mercy of San Francisco High School’s girls’ basketball team may not have played its best offensively against Notre Dame of Belmont in the Central Coast Section Division IV playoffs on Tuesday, but there was no let-up from its defense.
The top-seeded Skippers forced 20 turnovers and allowed the Tigers to shoot just 26 percent from the floor in a 49-30 road win over the defending section champions. Mercy led 33-24 after the third quarter, but held the Tigers (12-15) to just six points in the fourth to pull away steadily.
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While defending Academic Athletic Association baseball champion Washington High School has limped through its first four games, Lowell is looking like the prime candidate to supplant the Eagles.
The Cardinals followed a 13-0 win over International in their opener on Saturday with a 12-3 rout of Stuart Hall in the second round of the Dick Murray tournament on Monday at Silver Terrace Playground.
Lowell (2-0) jumped out to a 10-0 lead after the first three innings, highlighted by a two-run home run into the right-center gap by senior center fielder Nick Tam.
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As the high school basketball season winds down, last season’s stars are making solid contributions to college programs from coast to coast. Here’s a look at what last year’s crop of seniors is doing as college freshmen this season.Johnny Mrlik (St. Ignatius), Vassar College men’s basketball
Last season’s City Player of the Year has shown he can light up the scoreboard in college, too.
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Drew School senior Alexander Massialas has played soccer, basketball and has swam for the school, but what he did on Jan. 19 in Spain transcends high school sports in San Francisco.The 6-foot-2, 17-year-old fencer and San Francisco native finished seventh in the La Coruna Foil World Cup to qualify for the upcoming London Olympic Games as a member of the United States National Team. Massialas, the top-ranked junior and senior foil fencer in the nation, will be the second-youngest athlete to ever compete for the U.S. fencing team in the Olympics.
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The Jewish Community High School of the Bay boys’ basketball team knows exactly how Trinity Christian of Monterey feels.
The Wolves were in the same spot a year ago.
A year after making its first appearance in the Central Coast Section Division V playoffs last season, Jewish Community fell to Trinity 50-49 in the first round of the CCS playoffs on Tuesday at Alma Heights Christian Academy.
The win gives Trinity (17-3) its a win in its first appearance in the tournament.
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The Washington High School baseball team may be the defending Academic Athletic Association champion with a key core of seniors returning, but its first two games of the season have shown it has plenty of room for improvement.
The Eagles were in contention for most of their nonleague game on the road against El Camino and held a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning, but gave up nine unanswered runs in two innings to lose 10-2.
The loss follows another in their season opener on Saturday, a 17-3 rout at the hands of Sonoma Valley in which the Eagles (0-2) committed seven errors.
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The Washington High School baseball team may be the defending Academic Athletic Association champion with a key core of seniors returning, but its first two games of the season have shown it has plenty of room for improvement.
The Eagles were in contention for most of their nonleague game on the road against El Camino and held a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning, but gave up nine unanswered runs in two innings to lose 10-2.
The loss follows another in their season opener on Saturday, a 17-3 rout at the hands of Sonoma Valley in which the Eagles (0-2) committed seven errors.
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It took the Lick-Wilmerding High School boys’ basketball team three games to figure it out, but they finally came up with the formula to beat Urban.The Tigers locked down the paint, denied standout Urban guard Nate Cohen the ball and outrebounded the Blues 36-22 in a 69-58 win in the Bay Counties League West semifinals on Wednesday at Kezar Pavilion.The Lick defense sagged, neutralizing 6-foot-5 Urban forward Julian Matulich, and the Tigers double-teamed Cohen with regularity. Cohen still had a game-high 19 points, but had to work hard getting into scoring positions.
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The Sacred Heart Cathedral boys’ basketball team sleepwalked through the first half against rival St. Ignatius on Tuesday and still took a seven-point lead into the break.
Then the Big Two woke up.
Standout senior forwards Taylor Johns and Joshua Fox scored 14 of Sacred Heart’s 16 points in the third quarter and the Wildcats never challenged again in a 57-45 Irish win in the first round of the West Catholic Athletic League playoffs.
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OAKLAND — With five games scheduled this week in the already-packed NBA schedule, a good week can push the Warriors back into playoff contention and a bad week can bury them.
They’re not back in the playoff mix yet, but they started the week off right with a 106-97 win over the Houston Rockets on Sunday night at Oracle Arena.
The key was a 15-point Houston second quarter in which the Rockets went scoreless for more than five minutes, spurring a 13-0 Golden State run that turned a 29-23 first-quarter deficit into a 48-44 Warriors (10-14) lead at the break.
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For the first time this season, the Sacred Heart Cathedral boys’ basketball team looked rattled on the road against Riordan.
Sacred Heart missed 15 free throws, had 21 turnovers and the Crusaders held standout forwards Taylor Johns and Joshua Fox to a combined 15 points, but the Irish had just enough to outlast Riordan in a 50-41 West Catholic Athletic League win.
“We were flustered and so out of whack mentally and that led to us playing like that,” Sacred Heart coach Darrell Barbour said. “Why did that happen to us tonight? I can’t tell you.”
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The stretch run of the Academic Athletic Association boys’ basketball season is no longer a two-horse race.
With the same five players on the floor for the vast majority of the game, visiting Marshall High School upset Mission 77-71 on Wednesday.
Combined with Lincoln’s win over Balboa on Wednesday, the loss knocks the Bears (17-9, 10-2) out of first place in the AAA’s Lang Division and puts Marshall (11-11, 9-3) a game behind Mission and two games behind the Mustangs.
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