A 56-yard touchdown run by junior Eric Redwood late in the fourth quarter broke a tie as Serra ended years of futility Saturday with a 42-21 victory over Menlo-Atherton to claim its first Central Coast Section Division I championship since 1990. “Being the favorite, there’s a lot of pressure and I didn’t think we were playing our style of football,” Serra coach Pat Walsh said. “All I told those guys in the second half was ‘If we’re going to go out, we’re going to go out fast.’” Read More

City College of San Francisco has been known for its high level football and basketball programs, but the depth of the sports program goes deeper than that. This weekend, the men’s and women’s soccer teams take center stage at the California Community College Association Championships, which will be played at Consumes River College. On the men’s side, they advanced to the Final Four with a 3-0 victory over Foothill College on Saturday. Read More

Every team wants to have control over its own fate going into the last few games of the season, and that’s the position the Hillsdale girls’ volleyball team is in. “Second to none is not an option,” Hillsdale coach Richard Villareal said. “If you have an opportunity to play for first, so be it.” Read More

For the Burlingame girls’ tennis team, high expectations are not unusual — they are ingrained in school culture. “It permeates through the school,” Burlingame coach Bill Smith said. “If they’re at De La Salle [Concord], [the players] read the articles; they know [what the expectations are]. Continued excellence of a program brings that continued achievement.” Read More